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as an immigrant settler on turtle island, i too am complicit in the ongoing dispossession, oppression, and genocide of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. the same system that fucked up my country and forced millions of my people, including my family to leave for “another life” is still very much reinforcing itself today—still waging wars on those within their own borders, and those across in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. it is such a shame seeing so many other immigrant settlers in kkkanada praise and celebrate a state built on a legacy of blood. western capitalism meets western saviourism and all that etc etc we work and raise families on these Lands without knowing anything about it—and this is intentionally done so to keep us apart from learning the dark side of the place we are actually in.

and yknow what, while I’m here

July 1 2024 is 101 years since the Chinese Immigration Act that, like its U.S. adjacent legislature, was a culmination to the first and only major federal law to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.

No pride in genocide. No celebration for colonialism, enslavement, racism, violence, extraction, exploitation.

Romanticization of the “cowboy times” obscures the fact that frontiersmen and those that “went West” to populate the rest of southwestern United States were complicit in settler colonial violence; that the original Indigenous and Mexican-Spanish cultures of riding and ranching were co-opted and appropriated for later mid-20th century media; that historically, “cowboys” included many former enslaved peoples, Indigenous, Mexican, and “non-whites”

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Hoofnotes by SolarByte

Hoofnotes by SolarByte https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33759418/ © characters belong to their respective owners #furry #sketch #drawing #furryfandom #art #furries #fuzzy #paws #furryart #furryartist #FurryHeavenUnlimited

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jay. 26. asian. they/them. pan-aroace.

hi! this is a space for me to nurture a personal project of mine: a fictional story set in a world inspired by the 1880s amerikan “west”.

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as I adore fantasy/outlaw adventures, and misfit friendship tropes, I’m interested in incorporating elements of low-fantasy + gothic fiction + real material drawn from this time period.

I’m a big nerd for research and write a lot of non-fiction stuff offline. I’ve never written anything creative for anyone before so this is me having a go because why not! my offline life works with histories of Other-ness and legacies of imperialism. with this lil’ project of mine, I’d like to challenge: 1) the domination of cis, white, heterosexual, machismo in the “western” genre; 2) the romanticization of the “cowboy era” that overlooks slavery, genocide, racism, dispossession. “Taming the wild frontiers” literally required the dehumanization and extermination of Indigenous peoples from those Lands; the oppression and exploitation of racialized labour to build towns, railways, businesses… etc. I am keen on working this reality into my fictional world—subtle dark humour as commentary? main plot points? idk yet we are workshopping

that said!! I indulge in writing random “cowboy”-themed writing/drawing prompts from time to time (see tags below) the fictional concept of a cowboy in the popular imagination is so camp lol like a pirate

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“cowboy” is a gender neutral on this blog

I am taking up this corner of the internet to build a safe and creative space for myself. in these parts: we are for the total liberation for palestine; we are anti-zionist, anti-racist; we support land defenders and indigenous struggle for sovereignty; we support armed resistance of all oppressed peoples. don’t agree? keep it moving. i’ve no tolerance for bigotry or hate. get off tumblr and read a book.

there is no nsfw content (i.e. explicit nudity, sex, violence, gore) here. I will not engage in conversation or posts with nsfw content. blog warning for guns, knives, animals (horses), and themes of death and religion. I have a potty mouth and use it frequently.

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characters, meet the cast

the story, shorts and other scribbles

updates, mapping my chaotic imagination

things to check out while you're here:

yeehaw prompts / cool cowboy stuff / gothic west / more stuffs

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emma d’arcy brainrot hours

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10. housekeeping, taglist

ughhh I am over the buggy search bar on blogs for tags, so this here entry is for me when I go on mobile. don't mind me here !

— posts ;

#hoofnote / footnotes ramblings from yours truly

#*hat tip* / cowboy content from other creators

#pony mail / asks & replies

#mp3 / sweet country tunes

#media / cowboy films, games, and shows

#yeehawgust / for Tumblr's annual cowboy month

#prompts / writing or visual prompts

#photography / historical or old-timey photographs

#🦇⛪ / gothic and occult western aesthetics

— references ;

#ref: research / resources and information

#ref: indigenous history / I said

#ref: poc history / what I said

#ref: black history / tamisha iman

#ref: queer history / is coming

#ref: womxn history / for you

— story stuff

#ref: visuals / self explanatory hehe

#ref: scenery / also self-explanatory

#ref: costume / also also self explanatory

#ref: design / and yes self explanatory

#ref: char / posts that describe my characters

#ocs / stuffs about my original characters

#vibes / things that generally inspire my project

#update / story developments through blog entries