#black continent

[stingray-art]

Black Whale, 12.5x12"

I tried quilting for the first time! It was super fun and I learned a lot. It's nowhere near perfect but I'm really proud of it!

Originally submitted for a mini event in @greedislandchallenge <3

[gleichschenklig]

Africa.-

[blackfilmmakers]

There is literally nothing racist about dunmeshi at all, ryoko kui has a vast amount of characters with different body types and skin tones, and yet you’re here calling it “dnd” as if it’s not its own thing. Admit it, you’re just mad she doesn’t add black characters in a medieval European setting where they shouldn’t even exist.

[pulsingvoid]

not negating anybody's experience i know black sails is outstanding regardless of how or when or how quickly you watch it. but also, as a gay person who watched it in real time, you really had to be there. they introduce anne bonny and you know your pirate history so you KNOW she's a girlliker. she has a moment with max but youre not sure where it's gonna go. because it's 2014. you wait over a year for 2x01 and she and max fucking obliterate you with the sword drop kiss scene. all anybody is talking about in the tags is vaneeleanor. a few weeks later 2.05 drops and flint is not only textually gay and kissing a man but he is waging war on england, on all of civilization for taking away his male lover. you find this out after investing fourteen hours on this show that have spanned over a year and a half in your real life. not to mention the miranda stuff and silver's arc and mr scott and madi and the death march that seasons 3 and 4 feel like when you have no inkling of how it's gonna end. but you stick with it regardless because it's good and besides it's 2014-2017 and the only genre show with gay people in it is fucking... the 100? lol anyway. more gay people flock to black sails between seasons and the tag becomes more about the gay shit than vaneeleanor, thank fucking god, finally. you all dread the last season. you brace yourselves for the worst. you thank the stars this show airs weekly because watching even just two episodes together is too overwhelming. 4.08 airs. you cry. 4.09 airs. you cry. 4.10 airs. your life will never be the same. you cry so hard you catch a fever and have to stay in bed all week to recuperate. you know this was a once in a lifetime experience never to be repeated again but you can't help but hold every other show to this impossible standard.

[spookygibberish]

Dogstock are typical of what are often deemed the ‘evil’ races in many other fantasy works. They were created by some higher force to be slaves, they are carnivorous by nature, they resemble animals other than human in dentition and build. They growl and bite and walk behind.

The Uhasr (a dogstock culture) are descendants of such slave-infantry that was abandoned when the empire that used them to capture the steppes decided the land wasn’t so profitable after all, and more pressing matters drew their attention elsewhere. Like tools left spent on the ground, the unneeded, excess dogstock were left to survive on their own in Hochkiskuph. The native peoples, of course, did not welcome them any more, or see them any less as oppressors when the hand released the lead. To the Hochkiskuph peoples, the Uhasr are a predatory ghost, an echo that consumes them even in absentia. To the Uhasr, one human is much like another, differing in number and equipment, but never in essence. Uhasr are a species of wild animal with a human face. Humans are prey on two legs. Humans smoke and poison uncovered dens on principle, Uhasr abduct and consume men and women and children all the same.

A common trend I have noticed in media which aims to humanize monsters, is that it often relies on passivity. Humanity is contingent upon kindness. The monster that is A Person only so long as they are a harmless thing at heart, something which can be understood and befriended. Their violence is reluctant, their hearts noble. Grace is a concession to the dominated. Only the toothless beast, declawed and pinioned and caged, is one which has earned its personhood. The ontological enemy supersedes the ontological man.

[jpegsthatmove]

While I’m here I also just want to say that I think it’s fucked that the dwarves in dragon age haven’t invented trains yet

[snowberry-pie]

had to read this one like three times over because there’s no way in hell you people are saying DRAGON AGE is free from edgelord tropes relishing in bigotry

[nico-di-genova]

Love seeing Charles absolutely white boy wasted in Monaco last night. Sloshed walking around with a flag over his head like he’s Harry Potter with the damn invisibility cloak. Lights are on but no one’s home. He might just say fuck it and jump in the harbor again because he’s feeling girlypop.

[anticanonhearts]

confrontation

[without-ado]

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[wardrobeoftime]

The Witcher + Costumes

Keira Metz's brownish black & golden dress in Season 03, Episode 05.

// requested by @nasyanastya

[tamaruaart]

Wait.. you're European? : ( I'm sorry but I can't like your blog anymore. It's obvious you're racist but I was trying to give u the benefit of the doubt. maybe you were a poc or American! Maybe that's why there's no black rep in your art.... or why your asian Lego monkie oc's do Not look Chinese. And I'm not on Tumblr to follow some cishet white girl :P please change

My brother in christ what

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

What if I said Regulus purposely burnt Sirius off the family tapestry?

Just imagine this happens following an argument between Regulus and Walburga, she still holds some hope that her son will come to his senses and come back home, Regulus knows his brother won't come back, he's tired and he's bitter and he still loves his brother but he doesn't even want to hear his name be spoken for the ache in his chest every time it is...so he just burns him off, and it still hurts, not a flicker of ache was relived the way he wanted it to be, but now he hopes his mother will get the memo

[ask-thearchivists]

Earth is a terrestrial planet, despite 70% of it's surface being covered in water. It has a molten iron core, and has existed for about 4.5 billion years. It's the third planet out from it's star (a yellow dwarf).

The Cartologist: Oooh, interesting, is there more?

The Cartologist: Oh, is that what the song about cheese comes from?

The Coordinator: Yes, mortal planets that have had life for a long time do tend to experience multiple extinction events, which is one of the reasons it is important we tend to our duties.

[vendettasfanfictioning]

the final hisoillu battle needs to happen in a church-esque/official looking building. the spiders, save for kalluto, are all dead and dumped on benches. there is dramatic pink lighting. hisoka says, "I do," while pinned under illumi and it makes him STOP. they end up kissing while they're all bloody and bruised and AAAAAA

[riamistria]

we’re living the suite life now 🎵🎶🎵