#bipoc owned

[nudeaurora]

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[umber-cinders]

Title:  𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛 🌕❄

Chapter 25: Family Matters

Chapter Summary: The plot thickens on the council's possible betrayal. M'Baku is determined to protect his family from outside forces looking to destroy what he worked so hard to gain. Meanwhile, Inyanga is dead set on protecting her family from within. You would think that would put them on the same page. It's never that easy.

Warnings:  MATURE, EXPLICIT 🔞 ‼🚨READ THE TAGS🚨‼ Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Rape/Non-con Elements, Dubious Consent, Extremely Dubious Consent, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Recreational Drug Use, Blood and Violence, Smut, Forced Bonding, Claiming Bites, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Knotting, Breeding Kink, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Wakanda AU, Dark AU

❥Chapter Index ❥

“So they are doing things out of the ordinary, but nothing within the realm of real suspicion.” M’Baku concluded.

Across from his desk, M’Bele leaned against the wall near a bookshelf. He could sit down—of course—but the tension in his limbs was wound too tightly. The moment Bosede called and confirmed that N’Gamo and his ill-tempered father had been meeting important people in discrete locations, it had confirmed every suspicion he’d had about the incident during court the other day. They couldn’t be trusted. He had never been particularly fond of N’Gamo or the way the other alpha always tried to find ways to undermine him. When the position of pack leader became unobtainable for him, he’d set his eyes on the next best thing.

M’Bele scoffed to himself. As if he would ever let a duplicitous knot-rider like N’Gamo outdo him. Keeping him in his place had become a part-time job of sorts. That was just how much he liked testing the shark-infested waters of pack hierarchy.

❥Read The Rest On Ao3 ❥

[himbopunk]

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[theecolococorner]

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[adelacreations]

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[cupiidzbow]

oh….. sorry am i interrupting something ( sona uses he/him!! )

bonus 👍🏽

[dykedvonte]

If Ulysses has a million haters, then I'm one of them. If Ulysses has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Ulysses has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is with Ulysses than I’m against the world.

[savoryangel]

when ur pretend gfbf invites you to come over to his place and turns into a sleepover (>_o) ~ ⭐️

[amorremanet]

disclaimer: blah blah blah, this post is just one person’s opinion, blah blah blah, I’m basing said opinion on my own observations but there are no doubt pieces of the story that I’m missing and my opinions should not be treated as fact, something something, DO NOT harass the volunteers at AO3 support or anyone else over any of this, if you harass anyone over this then you are the asshole, period. not a debate, just a fact.

SO, LIKE. I honestly don’t have anything of actual significance to add to the current round of AO3 Discourse because all of my complicated feelings on it have already been said better by other people

(e.g., axing “all media types” tags was a bad idea; some fans may not like them but they are too broadly helpful to be done away with entirely; this is a complex issue, there is likely no way to make literally everyone happy; there should’ve been more transparency and AO3 upset people more by rolling the change out with little to no warning; lumping former “all media types” works into a specific fandom silo was all but guaranteed to piss people off; the Archive userbase being hair-trigger makes a lot of sense after some of AO3’s very high-profile fuck ups in the past few years; however, the three (3) volunteers handling the support tickets are not the people who made the decision and it’s garbage that they’re the ones who are left dealing with so much of the vitriol from upset fans; etc. etc. etc.)

My big question in all of this is: if the people on the tag-wrangling committee who made this decision actually thought that getting rid of the “All Media Types” tag was going to be a broadly popular decision with a lot of support from users, then why didn’t AO3 do more to announce this change to users before it started being implemented?

If we are supposed to believe the version of the story that has come out from AO3’s people, the one where they really did believe that it was in the best interests of the majority of AO3 users to get rid of “All Media Types” tags, then why doesn’t their behavior about the decision reflect that? Why didn’t they post more to let Archive users know that this was coming? Why didn’t they talk up what a great change this was going to be and how many people and fandoms would allegedly benefit from it?

Why is it that most users (readers and authors alike) seem to have found out about this from popular posts on reddit, tumblr, or twitter, all made by aggrieved fans whose fandoms have been negatively impacted by the decision? Because as far as I can tell, there was a single solitary post on the official AO3 tumblr about this, which went up AFTER the change had started rolling out and got its reblogs turned off because of all the backlash?

Not to treat “say that shit with your chest” as uniformly useful advice, but……… Come on, AO3. If you really stood behind the decision to get rid of “All Media Types” tags as much you’re claiming—if you really, truly believed that it was in the best interests of the Archive as a whole and that the majority of Archive users would support you in it—then why didn’t you say that shit with your chest?

Because to me, failing to announce the change ahead of time—and then only doing the bare minimum to let users know—looks like moves to try and hide what’s happening, which does not make me, personally, inclined to believe the “We really thought that this would be a popular decision with broad user support” story

I do not have any explanations for what could’ve happened instead of the official story. Moreover, I’m don’t actually want to speculate on that beyond saying “The way this was publicly handled makes me personally feel disinclined to believe the official story” because conspiratorial bullshit thinking like that doesn’t help anybody (it’s way more likely to cause unnecessary harm, especially by spreading ideas that may sound true enough but are probably not gonna be based in reality, when you get down to brass tacks about it)

But the way that this whole change was handled publicly makes me personally feel disinclined to believe the story as put forth by the official post from AO3, and as a longtime Archive user with millions of words of fic posted on the site, who donates to AO3 and the OTW when I can? I really don’t enjoy feeling like I have even more reason than before to distrust Archive staff :/

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

i come from a pretty alternative family (my mom is a hippie (dw, we are indigenous amazigh, we're not white people playing dressup lol) my dad is a metalhead and im a goth metalhead, every time Taylor Swift is on tv or on radio all the family roll our eyes, i swear the jokes we make about that woman are top tier lmao 😭 my mom says she's going to pray to all the deities she knows so she doesn't come to our country

you have to come back with the jokes next time you gotta share them!!! don’t be shy

[gloopytits-chaosmod]

I GOT DADDY ISSUES MOMMY ISSUES BAD WITH DRINKING PILL POPPING ISSUE BUT LET ME TELL YOU, I AM CLEARHEADED ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT MAKING OUT AN EXTINCT RUSSOCENTRIC FAILED STATE OR THE OLIGARCHY LEADING THE WORLDS SECOND LARGEST CAPITALIST ECONOMY TO BE THE ANSWERS TO OUR MALADIES IS INSANE COPE AND SPEAKS MORE TO THE AUTHORS NEED FOR PARENTAL GUIDANCE THAN ANY POLITICAL INSIGHT

THE SAD CHILDHOOD INTO THE OBSESSION WITH SIGNS OF VICTORY PERVADES BOTH THE BRAIN OF THE FASCIST AND THE RED FASCIST.

THERE IS NO ARGUING FACTS WITH SOMEONE WHO HAVE DELUDED THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING LIES. IF THE MAOISTS WISH TO DIE FOR THEIR SINOPHILIA, LET THEM. IF THE STALINISTS WISH TO FOLLOW THEIR LEADERS TO OLD AGE AND INTERNAL COLLAPSE, LET THEM.

THESE ARE NOT REASONABLE PEOPLE. REASONABLE PEOPLE DO NOT WORSHIP THE IDEA OF A PEOPLE, THEY WORSHIP THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM. LOVE FOR A SIGN IS AUTOFELLATIO. LOVE FOR A SIGN IS LOVE FOR YOUR IDEA OF WHAT IT REPRESENTS.

LOVE FOR HUMANITY IS LOVE WHERE YOU ARE. NOT ONE PLACE ABROAD. NOT IN THE PAST. WE WILL NOT FIX THIS WORLD BY VYING FOR ADORATION OF FASCISTS WHOSE LANGUAGE WE DO NOT SPEAK.

THESE ARE NOT REASONABLE PEOPLE. PSYCHOLOGICALLY THEY ARE FASCISTS OUT OF A DESPERATE NEED FOR HOPE. DESPERATION FOR TRUTH WHERE THERE IS NONE CREATES SHORTCUTS. SHORTCUTS CREATES ADORATION FOR EMPIRE.

WE DO NOT WORSHIP EMPIRE. THERE IS NO ARGUING FACTS WITH SOMEONE WHO HAVE DELUDED THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING LIES.

ESPECIALLY IF THOSE LIES FILL A GAP IN THEIR SOUL,

O SORROWFUL CHILD,

MAY YOU FIND YOUR DOUBT,

AND JOIN US IN HEAVEN

[umber-cinders]

Can I get a reblog/comment train of Black writers that are on Ao3?

There are a lot of them on here but with the state of tumblr rn I'd like to know where is everybody on Ao3?? Where are the Black writers on Ao3 with Black OCs and stories with Black readers and OTPs?!

Like I'll go first if you want

Cause of course I love a good story no matter the writer's ethnicity or race but I really want to see more from people that look like me.

WHERE Y'ALL AT? 😔

[wastedventi]

◇ i'd take the "am I gay" quiz, but it'd just tell me im not fooling anyone ◇

this guy is my avatar/persona, and he does have legs. i just dunno how to draw em.

Name: Wasted Venti (Venti)

Pronouns: He/him

Sign: Aries

Personality type: idk anything about that stuff lol I'm an extrovert

Fun Fact: The hat is from hot topic, my fav store 🔥

[yaqamole]

The Empress

UPRIGHT: Femininity, Beauty, nature, nurturing, abundance

REVERSED: Creative block, dependence on others

[spocks-husband]

Me, waking up and looking at myself in the mirror, remembering I'm biracial: Holy shit you guys this is actually a star trek reference because in the episode Plato's Stepchildren which aired November 22nd 1968--