#especially the non white ones

[brown-little-robin]

okay, I'm crowdsourcing advice for a minute, so bear with me and please lend some words if you have any:

I want to get out of the house more. Like, on a regular basis. Weekly, maybe. Preferably, I would like to be interacting with people—the same people—every time, for... like... accountability, but also because I am hoping to put myself out there as the 21st century's most neurotic platonic Casanova. Uh. Making a friend or more out of this would be desirable. But I think if I go out with the intention of making a friend, I will be disappointed.

So. I want to go do something, for that something's own sake. I don't want to go be fake once a week hoping to get a friend out of it.

However, the beautiful state of Iowa is a bit cultureless, and I am too introverted and easily overwhelmed for this world (e.g. going to bars is probably not gonna be my thing). So.... I guess.... any suggestions? opinions? thoughts on making friends in general, or finding good activities as an introverted adult, in general?

oh yeah, also: I am poor. that's a factor. so. signing up a class or similar is not a great option right now.

what the heck, I'll add a silly poll for fun:

[eternal-moss]

When people continually whitewash my favourite characters.

[ID: A black and white, rough digital drawing of someone sitting at a desk and clutching their head in their hands. End ID.]

^thank you @describe-things

[hxmoerotic]

Wyll and Shadowheart can both make the same choice as part of their personal quests (letting their parents die for their own wellbeing) yet despite it being the same, everyone is very sympathetic to shart but everyone treats wyll like he's personally responsible for his father's death (including shart) and generally treat wyll like shit.....I Wonder Why That Is

[kingshai69]

i need ppl to leave the whole aqun-athlok term behind as a gotcha to discredit taashs story bcs they're missing the pointttttt. just like how some nb ppl consider themself trans n use that label, as well as nb, n some dont, taash clearly dont feel like its a label that describes them.

i know the literal translation of aqun-athlok is "one who is born as one gender but lives like another" which yes i guess could be interpreted as any other gender, but from my understanding of the qun n how jobs/roles r very binary n gender associated, for taash that would just mean they would have the social role/gender of a man instead of a woman.

screenshot from the wiki of how aqun-athlok isnt rlly equal to our term of transgender or non-binary, as its also used to refer to women in the antaam since the role of a soldier is male, socially under the qun, the soldier in question would then be recognized n treated as a man. i know not everyone has played origins, but we literally went over this w sten n a female warden n how he doesnt understand that she is both a warrior n a woman, bcs under the qun she would not be considered a woman anymore, but a warrior, n therefore a man (i dont remember the exact phrasing it has been years since i played it last, but i recall it going something like that)

anyway, that is ... not how taash feels. maybe its phrased different depending on ur rook, my rook is nb as well, but this is how the conversation went w my rook.

like i dont see them talking abt how they wanna be seen as a man instead of a woman, i see them saying that they dont feel like theyre either

shathann isnt evil bcs she doesnt understand, she is clearly trying to understand taash through her own lens, n she clearly loves her child n shes trying in the way that she knows of. its just not what taashs means or what they need, n considering their entire relationship w her, they understandably get upset. like theyre not upset just bcs of this one thing, have none of u ever had ur frustration build up until u reached a limit? especially w a parent?

also there isnt a "right" way to be non-binary. i dont relate to most of their journey but it doesnt make it a bad one, just a different one from mine.

anyway this is just my thoughts as a nb person who love taash n can see parts of my own experiences in taashs story as well as parts of my own mom in shathann

[overclockedopossum]

I did a tumblr search for 'british miku' since @thanook has been spamming my dash with brazilian mikus and found the following:

A handful of poorly-drawn but sincere efforts

An absolute torrent of jingoistic anglophobia from people with no self-awareness

Two weird tradposts that reflect zero understanding of actual british history

Exactly one (1) good post

[thebookishwallflower]

I need a grindr but it's just for finding punks in my area. Just so we can hang out. I don't like putting where I live anywhere but fresh hell I need to find some new people-

[notaclassicist]

i. struggle to believe that hot blonde blue-eyed men exist in real life. at least personally i have never caught sight of one outside of a screen

[jellogram]

Also it's insane that anyone got mad at Jordan Peele for saying he wasn't interested in casting white people. "But what if a white person said this about black people???" Tim Burton pretty much straight up said that and then continued to direct disney remakes and netflix shows so maybe shut the fuck up???

[the-casbah-way]

i get that the word "unalived" gets slack for sounding so clunky and goofy but the actual idea of using euphemisms to talk about death is not weird or stupid. people say "passed away" or "moved on" or "lost" and those are completely fine and acceptable as they should be because death can be a difficult subject and if people want to change their language when they talk about it then i don't really understand why they can't

[beepbeepmfkr]

Tumblr is the moral purity site so I say with extreme hesitance that we gotta be real careful we don't wrap back around into the other end of this like this site likes to do :/

Imma talk more in the tags so it's easy to ignore but as someone who's watched people squirm my whole life as they danced around saying anything that might be perceived to be shitty - and effectively Othering me more completely than if they had just come out with the damn slur, we've gotta be careful about the moral OCD fish hook here.

Without fail

[justaholeinmysoul]

Me speaking English as a second language terrified of messing up trying to pronounce words in the best possible way

Kpop idols in public with native speakers and in songs : the gibberish will do

[sapphicides]

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[redseabluemoon]

I dislike this.

If anything, ALL OF THEM should be darker, have these animators never been near the sea?? Refracted light!! Everyone is getting blasted by UV rays! Freckles abound! Tans darken! Pasty ass white people burn and peel like lizards! GIVE THEM THEIR MELANIN BACK.

made a chart of the straw hats' skin tones with the colors being screencapped directly from the episodes, to show how much they've lightened. this is more than just an "artstyle change" or "design evolution" or "just the timeskip" this is blatant racism/colorism. it's fucking ridiculous and i don't understand how toei is continuously getting away with it please reblog btw, i think this is something people should see

[spider-xan]

Annoyed at both US and Canadian liberals acting like Canada is an oppressed Global South country that is under the boot of US imperialism and full of progressive revolutionaries when it's actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world and an enthusiastic ally of the US in its imperialism most of the time, and when it isn't, it has its own imperialist and colonialist projects, especially mining, both in the Global South and on stolen Indigenous land within so called Canada - don't even get me started on how reactionary Canadian settlers are either, and it's not just the white ones born here bc a lot of non-white diaspora and immigrants are just as nationalistic and hate both Indigenous peoples and the Global South, even if their families are originally from the latter.

[mageless]

!!!

tell me in the tags either the worse drink you've ever had or what you do to alcohol to make it palatable

[the-little-crab-in-your-pocket]

An interesting observation that I have made is that I live in a red state in a predominately conservative area, but the only time I’ve ever noticed a lack of ��people of color” (I hate that term) was when I went to the far more progressive city. Like I’ve see more diversity on my average trip to the grocery store than I ever did in the entire two weeks there. Lol.