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me pretending to be surprised to witness widely famous and adored european/euro-descended multi-millionaires be morally problematic
#this is about argentina nt being racist#but also the ‘gibraltar es español’ drunk chanting from several of the spain nt players at the parade last night lmao#like y��all aren’t slick#colonizers are gonna colonize#:P#but this is also a reminder that we can still enjoy sports while holding people in these professions accountable lol#otherwise we would never be able to enjoy anything bc bigots are everywhere#in literally every form of entertainment 💀
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"...Will you go home?" — "Well, it's not like I have much of a home to go back to. I've never really...belonged anywhere."
Pocahontas (1995)
#i think about this moment daily#pocahontas (1995)#pocahontas x john smith#pocajohn#disney's pocahontas#diseny pocahontas#disney john smith#pocahontas#john smith#pocahontasedit#disneyedit#pocahontasgif#disneygif#fyeahpocahontas#disneyfeverdaily#disney animation#queso*gif#queso*edit#gonna try not to be completely delusional but like#the original romantic narrative for pocahontas is an allegory for colonization right?#usually it ends with pocahontas's conversion to christianity and assimilation to english society (via marriage to john rolfe)#that's the 300 year old romance fiction that most people were familiar with before this movie y'know?#but right here we have a pocahontas who not only rejects colonization#but actually tries to assimilate her european lover into HER culture and society#and if john hadn't gotten shot i 100% think she would have succeeded#talk about flipping a fucking script if i'm not just seeing too much into this#also just ughuhghguh the lil stab in the heart i get when he says he doesn't actually have a home#and then she just....offers him one. no hesitation.
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Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.
Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now
Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.
Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!
Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.
#its like youre unable to root for her in any form. which is annoying bc shes actually awesome actually#also having her say “actually im the good guy fuck you'' w/o any actual deep analysis of her psyche or whatever while doing these things#doesnt count as development or showing shes 3 dimensional. its just having 2 dimensional waller say shes right when everyone is obviously#supposed to believe shes wrong#anyways i want real waller back please i miss herrrrrrrr#anyways hope mr john ridley has read secret origins no 14. i know its from 1987 but please guys please. my only hope#also it was a few months ago but i think they tried to push certain elements of a diff backstory in dream team and sorry but fuck that. and#any mention of another waller background like my eyes are closed sry. im a preboot truther#actually im just ignorant of most squad comics outside the original series. im gonna do a readthrough and become knowledgeable on other#stuff i just need to find time. so if im wrong then sorry if its smth factual and if you disagree with my opinion then uh sorry for ur loss#anyways shoutout to the time i had a nerd night w my one friend and she was asking me abt dc and said my favorite villains and i said waller#and silver swan. and she had a “yuck WHY” to waller and a ???? to silver swan. love shouting out my faves and explaining them to the less#informed. didnt say a number 3 but would probably be parallax ig. idk hes kind of slay. or maybe someone else honestly i like hal but waller#and nessie are blorbo level for me i could think abt them for hours#or maybe it wouldnt be parallax actually idk who my 3 would be. hes definitely up there but way below the other 2. maybe the cheetah#interpretation that i personally have. v different from the popular cheetah interpretation esp rucka vers actually. much closer to the pérez#and esp develops some subtext there surrounding barbara and the exploitation and theft of sacred cultural artifacts and pieces but also#like british colonization a lil bit#but i actually despise the cheetah that lives in my head but think shed be interesting to use narratively and see diana fight#vs the other guys who i find interesting and sympathetic and like for themselves#whereas my fave interpretation of cheetah can rot in hell#i got off topic here#blah#swishy rant#also disclaimer that w the main character ik dreamer is the main character of dream team. im talking more in general and that amanda should#always have a huge role as shes the main character of the squad and yet is treated like its villain and not its protag#sui sq
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forming a thought here about the guys that the guys of the Veilguard bring with them. don't try to convince me Spite is a trustworthy fellow, it's in the name.
you can also swap out "trustworthy" with "guy other people can actually see and hear"
#iirc Corrine Busche described Manfred as a wisp#Assan Dragon Age#Manfred Dragon Age#Spite Dragon Age#Dragon Age The Veilguard#Dragon Age: The Veilguard#(it's gonna kill me everyone else seems to use no colon but I use a colon)#DATV spoilers#DATV things#Dragon Age#Veilguard
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happy indigenous peoples day ^-^ a year ago i found out my family is half indigenous, so ive made it a personal duty to try and reconnect in order to honor those ancestors and histories. it's not my fault that I may never know my tribal affiliation (we know they lived around Popocatépetl), but it is my responsibility to do my best to honor them. since starting grad school, i've made an effort to talk about my indigenous roots more often, and to be honest about the fact that i do consider myself mixed indigenous. I also talk about this taking into account that I have white privilege, and how this has complicated my relationship to indiginiety.
anyway, i went to an ipd event outside of boston today and was so happy!! i had to leave early for a health emergency (thank u random uti) but it was so fun and i experienced and learned a lot. loved the mexica dance group who danced for Huitzilopochtli (i love you Huitzilopochtli he was pulled for me during a tarot reading and he told me to be fucking strong!!!!), and i especially loved experiencing the seven sacred directions where the entire crowd moved as one. i talked to some lovely indigenous people and they gave me so much guidance and love! it made me feel so happy...I wish I was able to stay longer, but I enjoyed being in a space where I was so welcomed.
if you're detribalized like me or trying your best to reconnect, never be ashamed of the fact that you were forcibly removed from your tribal affiliation. never be ashamed of how you look like either! there were so many "white passing" indigenous folks there embracing and celebrating with those in full regalia, and so many people of many appearances joined in for ceremonial dance. even if you're 10% or 3% indigenous, I still think you deserve to know your ancestor's culture and history! i still think you deserve to honor those parts of you! they wanted us to forget about our indigenous roots for a reason, and i refuse to colonize my mind any longer. opening yourself up to indigineity, even if you don't know your affiliation or "how much" is in you, is far better than never learning a damn thing about indigenous folks.
i hope everyone had a lovely indigenous peoples day ^-^
#muerto writes#indigenous peoples day#detribalized#there were a lot of cool redrum bikers too#i also met a bunch of cool taino people#and talk to some cool afro indigenous people about being a mutt haha#i was telling her I was reconnecting but wasnt sure what affiliation i am and she laughed and was like well. we're all mutts!#life is worth living when u are standing in a field with people in various regalia and there are cute lil kids running around#and some of these cute lil kids are wearing headdresses#explodes bro#im definitel gonna get annoying people after posting this but idc im living life and indigenous people irl are not assholes#like oh boy the community most affected by colonization is actually in support of people learning about their own colonized pasts???#bought some cool necklaces too :3#yays!!!
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leaked emails from last year's hugo awards organizers show they actively tried to single out authors and their submissions from being considered for the awards because of Chinese censorship laws. As in, it wasn't the censors who did it, they just were so scared of running into the law that they essentially did the censor's work for them in anticipation and talked among themselves which candidates shouldn't be nominated. One notable email singled out author Neseem Jamnia for being "queer, nonbinary, trans" and frequently writing about gender and being nonbinary as being potentially problematic for censorship.
worldcon organizers volunteering information to each other about which of the authors they know are queer so they can disqualify them. stay classy hugos.
#off topic#hugo awards 2023#hugo awards#worldcon#i mean#if i was asked to organize worldcon and i was a hwite living in an anglophone country#i would just.#weaponize that colonizer privilege#let the awards play out??#better to ask forgiveness than permission type of deal?#by the time the CCP was done with investigations i'd be long out of the country type of deal?#what are they gonna do#extradite me?#rip to them but im different
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I feel like a lot of people just chalk Katara's backstory up to "her mom died” and nothing else and it really bothers me. Katara's mom, Kya, wasn't just a casualty of war, Kya died because she saved her daughter from being a victim of ethnic cleansing.
The water benders of the Southern Water Tribe didn't just disappear for no reason, they were targeted by the Fire Nation, forcibly removed from their homes to either be imprisoned or killed. Katara is the soul survivor of ethnic cleansing.
#cw death#tw death#cw ethnic cleansing#tw ethnic cleansing#if i see one more person laugh about how katara always brings up her mother's death#(something she does less than 10 times in the entire series btw)#in a show about a world war and colonization#i'm gonna start throwing things#katara is literally 14 years old#atla#avatar#avatar the last airbender#katara
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I insist that the wildest thing in this whole anime is that this little boy died thinking he was white
#toonami#ninja kamui#I mean if I wanted to I could connect this to how the ninja organization became Americanized#and capitalism#and colonization#but for the most part they decided NO ONES GONNA LOOK FOR A WHITE COUNTRY FAMILY IN CONNITTICUT OR WHEVER THE FUCK THEY ARE
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something something ah shit here we go again
#if there was one thing i knew the netflix atla was gonna do#it was gonna reignite atla's dumbass ship wars#i ship zutara and i have for over a decade#but kataang is canon even if i dont think it should have been#why are kataang shippers still petty to zutara shippers 😭#like you have canon?? im pretty sure a lot of us are okay with that??#dont even get me started on people calling it a colinizer ship again#as a woc of a colonized culture#kindly stfu#people: oh zuko has the best redemption arc in fiction but dont you dare ship zutara or else#anyway#this also isn't welcoming to aang bashing#aang bashing is illegal and i will find your ass#aang bashing ≠ saying aang has flaws btw#he was 12 he's gonna act 12#zutara#kataang#not anti kataang but pro zutara
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I decided to do a little redesign of my main wizard, Stefania Crow (Original post here with art by @chacerider). They're currently in Novus and would really like to kick everyone out(it is now the sole property of the Scion of Bartleby no squatters allowed except Dasein they are cool), find their best friend and then leave. Alternatively, they could just annoy the colonizers until they leave. That sounds like a great idea.
#wizard101#art#wizzy101#w101#wiz101#wizard101 art#wizard101 fandom#myth wizard#really happy with how the eyes turned out#dasein get in we're gonna annoy some colonizers#my friend has decided my new spell is called space whale#digital art#my art
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(Okay I wasnt going to post this but im actually pissed off.)
((TW INFERTILITY))
Dear Bridgerton fans who are unreasonably angry at Michael being Micheala in the new season,
You still have the book.
Let me bring up points that I've seen in arguments online:
1- "But her story is about infertility! Putting her with a woman changes everything!"
Queer women struggle with infertility too, in fact it can be very difficult for lesbians who wish to start families of their own as not everyone is able to adopt or find a sperm donor, and even if a sperm donor is found THEY CAN STILL HAVE INFERTILITY ISSUES.
Let me list off romance books that deal with cishet women and their infertility issues below-
Untamed Rose, Scandalous Mistress by Bronwyn Scott
The Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt
What's Left of Me by Kristen Granata
Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen (this one is regency too)
A Secret Sorrow by Karen Van Der Zees
And many more if you google I just dont have all day.
(Extra point, in many of these books the women do not stay infertile and have a miracle baby...not only do many cishet women never get their miracle baby but lesbian couples literally cannot concieve)
And now let me list of books that deal with Lesbian women and their fertility issues-
.....
OH WAIT I COULDNT FIND A SINGLE ONE!!
This leads me to my next point.
2- Bridgerton is a love letter to minorities in romance.
As someone who is south asian myself, I have seen how western beauty standards and racism has treated women in our culture, literally go online and search up "which race would you not date" its disgusting.
I grew up only seeing white women be the desirable one in romances as did many others, you know what changed this for me?
Kate Sharma.
The international audience for Bridgerton especially with brown women of South Asian descent grew TREMENDOUSLY. We had a woman like us portrayed positively and seen as desirable, you guys genuinely do not understand how many brown women watch this show because of season 2.
If we had Kate, WHY should Lesbians struggling with infertility and Black Lesbians not have Francesca and Micheala.
3- "It should have been Eloise and Cressida!"
Why? Because Eloise is a loud mouthed feminist and Cressida is a mean blonde and they shared an understanding? Because theyre both white?
While I do want Eloise to be queer as well just think about that for a moment, while lesbian representation is scarce these days it is even scarcer for Lesbians who do not fit the norm...the mostly white, neurotypical, skinny, cis norm.
Genuinely think about how many times ypu have seen these tropes in wlw fiction, like sit and think about it.
Such as Black lesbians for example, you all are aware they exist right?
I want to reccomend this video by a sunny book nook which talks about how lesbians in a VAST MAJORITY of lesbian romance novels arent really...allowed to be complex characters and it would be some FANTASTIC insight for some of yall
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In conclusion, you are allowed to miss Michael, but don't you dare say this takes away from her story, as it ties into the very aim of the show.
Thank you for reading.
#bridgerton#francesca bridgerton#micheala stirling#kate sharma#bridgerton season 3#michael sterling#if youre gonna be in the tags or replies spouting racism or crying and screaming after this just get out#the only thing im upset about is them downplaying frannies love for John honestly#But then again#theyre probably going the compet fran route#wlw#lesbian#Youtube#nicola coughlan#luke newton#benedict bridgerton#that being said I hope Sophie is a trans woc just to piss off all the racists and queerphobes#the story would still be a cinderella retelling i would just cry while watching it#Not to mention MICHAEL IS A LITERAL COLONIZER IN THE BOOKS#MF will not shut up about india i wish to THROW HIM#i keep adding tags because im mad not to mention Sophie and Benedict in the books has a disgusting power imbalance like.....#This is a pattern with the male leads why do you not want some stufd changed???#when he was wicked
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btw i'm palestinian. i've said it before but i'll say it again. anyone who expresses support towards israel in any way can fuck right off my blog. there is no "both sides"-ing this shit. my people have been suffering for almost 80 years, getting ethnically cleansed and oppressed. there is NO "both sides". israelis do not get an ounce of sympathy from me. and anyone who disagrees with what i just said can leave. i will not respect you if you actively support the ongoing genocide of my people.
#i've been posting like crazy on my main about this#and i've barely been posting on here#guys my family literally got bombed right in the middle of a phone call with them#i have 0 sympathy for settler colonizers#the propaganda and everything they're saying about palestinians now is fake#and hey. if you're gonna take this opportunity to be antisemitic#get the fuck off my blog too#this blog is a safe place for jewish people#jewish palestinian solidarity <3#oil.
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"The forced migration of African slaves" motherfucker you mean the genocide of West Africans. Twelve and half million people forced out of their homeland or died before they ever left it. That is a goddamn Holocaust.
Genocide isn't just systematic killing, it's one group deliberately causing the death and displacement of another. It's why colonization and slavery is genocide. It doesn't hinge on whether or not they actually manage to get rid of everybody. We need to start punching assholes who'd rather split hairs and compare numbers instead of using the word.
#'yeah but the slavers didn't WANT to kill them they only died during the process' I'm gonna come to your house and feed you your own teeth#'yeah but they didn't want to kill them they just didn't care if they did' literally you need to die#african holocaust#black genocide#african genocide#trans atlantic slave trade#black history#slavery#enslavement#genocide#colonization#european colonization#black lives matter#anti blackness#knee of huss
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Hey chat
Anyways the inspo for this was this one archer Ozai art I saw I don’t remember the artist but I fell in love with the concept
The reference I used vvvv
#ozai#atla ozai#atla#avatar the last airbender#If the anatomy is weird pls ignore I’m too tired to care#also if y’all reblog making comments idk how to respond but I appreciate those comments <3#I’m lowkey a Tumblr noob idk#on another note#ozai is colonizing my mind#he’s all over my school work my teachers prob hate me#anyways bye byeeee I’m gonna disappear now (lurk in the background)#my art
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back with more odd discoveries
mfers will lift up zenos' juicy couture garlean armor to find out he was caked up the whole time.
#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#zenos galvus#zenos yae galvus#zenos#zenos viator galvus#he has too many tags#'well you dont have to use all of them' i want to force everyone to look at his cheeks#if not for information but to bully the shit out of him#getting on stilts and pinning colonizer to the wall chest down#i remembered where i would canonically stand given im 5'5 and got really distraught all of a sudden.#gonna take a shower.#need those stilts
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i’ve really been hoping that g3 Venus would be Indigenous bc venus flytraps the actual plant are exclusively indigenous to coastal areas in north & south carolina usa so it would make sense & be cool to see venus be part of an Indigenous nation in the same area. it’s looking like in this gen she’s going to be black/black coded but afroindigenous ppl exist so maybe i’m still holding out hope lmao
#if anyone says that they must b scottish/irish bc of their surname y’all know that’s bullshit 😐#a lot of native americans have european surnames due to colonization so they can have an ‘mc’ name & still b native#also venus flytraps are simultaneously male & female meaning venus could very much be an intersex & nonbinary character#which if they were indigenous would make them two-spirit which is such an underrepresented identity & would be a HUGE win for diversity#idk i respect their decisions but to me it feels pretty obvious w a quick google search on the plant to realize that they should b native#like it just makes the most sense? so ig i’m gonna feel p disappointed if venus isn’t indigenous in g3#ig it doesn’t rlly matter#also they turn black in their dormant period so they should become goth in the winter😭😭#i like venus’ leaked design so far but i know damn well she will b impossible to get😭😭#monster high#mh#monster high dolls#monster high gen 1#monster high gen 3#venus mcflytrap
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