#black intervention

[furiosophie]

[afterthelambs]

if i had a nickel for every ship between rivals where one of them dies on a boat by sacrificing himself while saying "hurry up and go" i would have two nickels

which isnt a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[uhhlifeig]

Hog's Head - Nov. 14 - word count: 324 - @wolfstarmicrofic

The party pulsed with energy, the common room glowing warmly from the fire and the twinkling fairy lights draped across the ceiling. 

The air was thick with the scent of firewhiskey sourced from the Hog’s Head, as well as Butterbeer and some food from the kitchens. 

Remus Lupin leaned against the wall, taking small sips from his cup to keep himself busy. 

Across the room, Sirius Black lounged on the couch, a familiar cocky grin on his face as he threw an arm around Oliver, his new boyfriend. 

The dirty-blonde boy felt a tightness in his chest at the sight. How did he move on so fast? It’s only been two weeks.

A second later, Emily, his new girlfriend, walked up and slipped her hand into Remus’s, fingers intertwining with his. 

She was vibrant and captivating, with a mischievous smile and hair as dark as the night. In the right light, she could have been Sirius’s twin, and Remus hated that he noticed. 

Emily leaned close to him. “You’re staring again,” she teased. 

“Just distracted,” the scarred boy muttered, tearing his gaze away from the couch. But it was too late; Sirius had caught him looking. 

Their eyes locked, and his ex-best-friend's grin faltered for a moment before he masked it again. He turned back to his new boyfriend, saying something that made him laugh. 

Remus swallowed hard. He felt Emily shift beside him, her fingers tightening around his. He looked at her, at her bright eyes and confident smile, and saw the shadow of who he wished she could be. 

It wasn’t fair to her. 

It wasn’t fair to any of them. 

“You don’t look very happy to be here, Lupin,” Sirius suddenly called out over the noise. 

The werewolf clenched his jaw. “Maybe I just don’t find you as entertaining as I used to, Black.”

Sirius just stared for a moment before finally turning away, leaving Remus alone with his many regrets.

@estellethewriter

pt 1, pt 2

[rudamaruda520]

Sirius: *enters the dormitory*

[James, Remus, Peter, Lily, Mary, Marlene, Emmeline, Regulus, Dorcas, Pandora, Evan, Barty and Minerva already waiting inside]

Sirius: I can't believe my eyes, you remembered about my birthday?! 🥹

Peter: What the heck Padfoot?

Regulus: Your birthday is in six months.

Minerva: Sirius- this is an intervention.

James: Mate- a whole damn banner with INTERVENTION on it hanging over our heads didn't gave it away?!

[karokawwo]

"it's not the immigrants he wants to get rid of, it's the illegals!" I hope you realize all immigrants are illegal to a xenophobe's eyes

[warningsine]

LCU: Lyonne Cinematic Universe

[hnnnwhytho]

My favorite Batfam fics are just B walking in one day with a feral child under one arm like an old football. Sets it down and it immediately starts chewing on furniture or smthin and he’s just like “man I wonder how long this one will take to find the bat-copter keys”

Meanwhile Alfred has already gone through his daily dose of the 7 stages of grief and prepped a new room before Bruce was even halfway up the driveway

[gabbertrapmix]

LIBERAL POKEMON BLACK AND WHITE:

OshaWOKE

GAYlurk

EelekTRANS

VanilLEFTIST

Bisharp

SHE/HERlipede

DrilBERNIE SANDERS

[jacqcrisis]

The post game idea I had for Ronan and Astarion is after a few years of adventuring and looking for a solution to vampirism, they get a proposition from a mutual high-level adventurer they've had dealings with before. She's a dragonborn warlock needing someone to moonlight as her husband on a trip back to Tymanther to make nice with her clan to get a hold of some relic or artifact or WHATEVER. DOESNT MATTER.

What matters is that she asks Astarion to be her 'husband' for the trip since her clan won't let her back into their home without one, hes overdramatic enough naturally to pass for a dragonborn, and since he doesnt know shit about the culture, he can be molded easier into passing for someone of a higher ranking clan than a lowborn weirdo like Ronan who would give the game away within ten minutes of opening his mouth. Astarion will be changed under True Polymorph for the time into a living dragonborn and, once she has her macguffin and they return to Fae'run, she'll use the same spell to change him into the living version of himself permanently. Simple as.

It takes some thinking for both Ronan and Astarion to come to a decision. The trip will be long, months to even a year, and all that time, they wont be making much of an income on top of being half a world away from home. Ronan isnt too keen on returning to his country of origin and Astarion certainly isnt too happy about having to spend so damn long as a lizard. There's a lot of debating, arguing, but this warlock is the only person that they can trust they've found capable and willing to cast the spell and the closest they've gotten to a solution to vampirism that seemingly has no downsides, so they agree.

Before the trip even starts, Astarion is changed in order to get him used to both living and a new body as they make the long trek to Tymanther. He takes to it as well as one would expect: doing just fine while also finding as many reasons to complain about it as he can. It's an adjustment getting used to just the sensation of his heart beating again, the general ebb and flow of biological processes, being warm all on his own, and the dysmorphia when he looks in the mirror to see a dragonborn instead of what he expects, but it's so much more comfortable and right in comparison to undeath.

Now, since Astarion needs to be her husband, one of the stipulations from the warlock is that he and Ronan are not together in any respect for the trip. Ronan is Astarion's bodyguard for this journey and anything closer than that could jeopardize the whole plot given they'll be surrounded by judging scrutinizing vultures looking for any cracks in the warlock's tale and an excuse to kick her to the curb and exile her from the macguffin she needs. Normally this wouldn't be an issue for Astarion, but there's a curious new problem that crops up when his heart is beating once more.

Love and attraction are very numb emotions when one's body is mostly dead. While he knows he loves Ronan mentally, it is not a physical feeling for him. Until he's breathing again and all of a sudden he's got butterflies in his gut when Ronan's around, he's warm when the cleric looks at him, sweating, flushed, shivering when there's a brush of a hand on him, and just thinking about speaking to him makes him smile like a moron despite himself.

Astarion can't stop looking at him. Can't stop wanting Ronan near him. Burning for him in a way he didn't before and its like he's falling in love both again and for the first time. And oh boy, does he hate that considering he can't do anything about it lest he lose his chance to get back to being himself.

That's the setup. Astarion's first taste of being not a vampire comes with being forced into a body that isn't his as he plays mental chess with a bunch of dragonborn to earn his living body back and while he's fighting with Love and Yearning in a physical sense for the first time. Theres a lot of politics, and weird magic mutants, and making googly eyes at each other over dinner, and eventually, Ronan and Astarion break and have a night together, fucking everything up. But then they get the macguffin anyways through their own means and escape and Astarion gets to be a real elf boy again.

Oh and Gale is there too. Because you gotta take your wizard on a walk every now and then to a fucked up displaced lizard continent or he'll start clawing at the walls and doing magical environmental terrorism.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

In a muggle au Regulus would be one of those high school/college students who do Adderall to help him get through doing all his school work plus any extracurriculars like the academic overachiever he would be

[hiseverywish]

watching twitter fandom be pissed over devil’s minion this week has been nothing but a clusterfuck. i will get into this when i have the energy to pull over my keyboard because i have thoughts and they are LENGTHY. i will be BACK. ARMANDANIEL NATION, WE NEED TO TALK.

[just-a-little-radish]

These articles are both from today, April 7, 2023. I’ve combined different quotes from both articles below for a fuller picture of this case.

Two weeks ago, Dallas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson opted for a home birth for their newborn daughter, Mila, with licensed midwife Cheryl Edinbyrd.

Shortly after Mila’s birth last month, upon taking her to see their pediatrician, they learned she had developed a case of jaundice—a highly common condition in newborns resulting in the yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes, which typically goes away without treatment within one to two weeks.

Temecia and her husband, Rodney Jackson, said they were following their midwife's care protocol for their baby's jaundice.

Dr. Anand Bhatt said the case was severe enough that they should take her to the hospital for phototherapy treatment, but the Jacksons opted to do the same phototherapy treatment for Mila in their home under Edinbyrd’s guidance.

Within days, the Jacksons say Dallas police officers and CPS agents arrived at their doorstep at around 5 a.m., informing the family that their pediatrician had reported them and demanding that they turn her over. The officers eventually left their home when the Jacksons refused—only to return hours later and tell the family that Mila was legally in the custody of Dallas CPS. The Jacksons again refused to turn over their newborn and instead reached out to their midwife for help. “Our midwife then reached out to the pediatrician, just letting him know that he had traumatized us, that we were woken up by police banging our door at 4 a.m., 5 a.m. Then after she gave him all the credentials he’d requested from her, he pretty much said he was going to leave our care and our midwife teams,” Temecia said at a Thursday press conference organized by the Afiya Center.

Over the next few days, everything seemed fine. But last Tuesday, as Rodney was walking the family’s dog outside their house, the police returned. He refused to surrender the baby when they confronted him, so they placed him under arrest, seized his keys, and used them to enter his home. There, officers took Mila from Temecia while she was alone.

"When they came in and took her from me, I requested that I needed to see the paperwork. They insisted, 'No, give her first, give her first,'" Temecia Jackson said at the press conference. "So they took her from my arms and they gave me paperwork. When they left, I looked at the paperwork and the paperwork had another mother's name on it."

Temecia claims the warrant that the Desoto Police Department and CPS agents used to take Mila didn’t even list her own name, instead listing [Mila’s] mother as another woman who’s previously had run-ins with CPS. The Jacksons still don’t even have Mila’s birth certificate because she wasn’t born in a hospital.

“Instantly, I felt like they had stolen my baby as I had a home birth and they are trying to say that my baby belonged to this other woman,” the mom continued, holding back tears. “I did not know where to turn. They had taken my husband from me and then took my daughter from me and I was left by myself.”

Temecia Jackson says her husband was not initially listed on the warrant. Later, she says the document was updated to list Rodney Jackson as the “alleged father."

Mila remains in Dallas CPS custody and under the care of a foster family. The couple's hearing with the Dallas County's juvenile board was originally scheduled for April 6. That morning, the couple says the hearing was abruptly postponed until April 20.

The Jacksons say they have been allowed only a few supervised visits with their daughter, which they say have taken place at CPS offices and in the presence of police officers.

During the press conference, the couple said they "feel like criminals" during their visits, and claim their attempts to deliver breast milk to their newborn daughter have been denied.

The couple told reporters that at their latest visit on Wednesday, they noticed Mila had developed some irritation in and around her genitals. When they raised this to CPS workers, they were told the foster family would handle this, and they weren’t permitted to take Mila to get care. “With the foster parents is where this build-up and irritation [in Mila’s genitals] occurred, and yet you’re sending her back to the same foster family. We just feel helpless in this situation as we wait,” Temecia said. She and Rodney are already missing a critical postpartum period for parental bonding—now, they also have to worry about whether she’s safe in the care of strangers.

According to one 2016 academic study, 53% of Black children experience child welfare investigations before their 18th birthday, compared to 28% of white children. Once in custody, research shows Black children are less likely than white children to be placed with a family member or ever returned to their families.

From 2019 to 2020, more people of color chose to give birth outside a hospital setting, according to a 2022 report released by the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), a nonpartisan and nonprofit advocacy organization that works on public policies and education about women and families.

The increase was greatest among Black parents (30%), followed by Indigenous (26%) and Latinx (24%) parents — likely a response to "the higher risk of maternal mortality and morbidity they face and the impact of discrimination and structural racism in hospitals that result in lower-quality care," the report said.

Black people are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Texas, at least 118 women died and nearly 200 children were left without a mother in 2019, according the state's 2022 Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee's biennial report.

Discrimination contributed to 12% of pregnancy-related deaths in 2019, according to the same report.

As of Thursday, the infant remains in the custody of Dallas Child Protective Services in what the Jacksons and their advocates at the Dallas-based, Black-women-led birth and reproductive justice organization The Afiya Center have likened to a “kidnapping.”

"What did happen was misogyny. What did happen is white patriarchy. The intentional denial of Dr. Cheryl's ability to birth — that happened," Jones said. "The same thing that happened last week happened after Reconstruction with Black granny midwives — that happened. The removal of Black people's ability to take care of Black people — that happened."

D’Adra Willis, a birth justice coordinator at the Afiya Center, told Jezebel that the Jacksons’ experience is part of a broader issue with the racist over-policing of Black families by law enforcement and child welfare system. “It’s a prime example of over-policing of Black children, Black families, Black women, Black community workers, and also the Black midwife, who’s not being trusted of what she’s capable of doing when she’s licensed and certified to do so,” Willis said.

“It would not be going this way if they were a white family,” Qiana Lewis-Arnold, a birth justice associate at Afiya, told Jezebel. “Police have always been a threat to Black families. And that includes CPS, which is the family police. They treat Black people as just guilty or wrong, without an investigation, and they’ll just take action and figure it out later while we suffer through the process.”

Edinbyrd, the Jacksons’ midwife, was also present at the Jacksons’ Thursday press conference and has continued to support the family as they await their rescheduled hearing in two weeks. “This child was being nurtured. This child was being supported. And this child was being loved. And this child was kidnapped,” Edinbyrd said. “Mila needs to be returned home.”

I cannot imagine the pain and trauma Temecia must be experiencing, and the fear she feels not knowing what is happening with her daughter and when she will be returned to her.

And now the hearing to decide if this abducted baby will be returned has been pushed back to April 20th, at which time Mila, who was taken at only a few days old, will have spent the majority of her life being kept from her family.

[edwardallenpoe]

i almost feel bad for all the conscious white Tumblr users for the normal white Tumblr users making an absolute fool of themselves talking about rap. What do you mean you think rap is inherently sexual and violent and you get uncomfortable so you put on Thrash Metal instead. What do you mean you think Hamilton Counts. Like I'm not one for lumping people together and generalizing because I know that white people aren't a monolith but. This is ur crew? That's Y'ALL'S people? The one saying that say they worship Taylor Swift and that rap is all about sex and guns and violence? Get a grip

[octarinespill]

Hunter & Gatti - Laßt Blumen Sprechen, 2022

Photograph intervened by the artists

[grape-v1nes]

sirius had a crust-punk phase

he didn’t understand the politics, he just was rich and hated his parents and liked the idea of wearing the same pair of pants everyday

[killyourkind]

do u think they kjss........ smoochie smoochies.....