#idk if i have to specify but i will anyways

[creatingblackcharacters]

Salutations! I hope you’re doing well and having a lovely day/night. I’ve been ruminating on this for a while and thought it would help to get some outside perspectives:

I’m writing a couple stories set in a distant future version of Earth, wherein portals have collapsed the concept of borders and colonial nations no longer exist. In the stories themselves, culture will be conveyed through context clues (knowledge, names, perspectives) and character design (details such as hair and clothes), but I want to specify characters’ ethnicities in separate character reference sheets.

For Black American characters, would it be better to clarify that they come from Turtle Island, as “America” no longer exists*?

*not on Earth, anyway; one human-alien space society has ascribed some national titles to the asteroids on which they live

Likewise, for African characters, is it better to refer to their nationality or tribe (I plan to do the latter, but would both be preferable?) when describing their ethnicity?

I’ve encountered similar questions with regards to every other character, as well as how some locations will be named/conveyed. At the end of the day I’m just not sure if I should approach this more informative aspect (external, yet adjacent, to these stories) through the lens of this future world or our present one. I don’t think there’s a single, or simple, answer, but I welcome numerous perspectives!!

Thank you so much for your time, and for all the work and love you put into this blog💚

Well, as I've learned, not every indigenous group calls this place "Turtle Island"! It depends on where those Black people are living, and who they are in community with, to determine what they would call the landmass once known as America. By denoting what they call it, we would be able to know what general area (or even what Indigenous community they are in) they're talking about. (And me personally, if readers are like "idk where that is" then they need to look it up!) So they would just be Black from "such and such" community.

If that's the pattern you're going by, then yeah you should also refer to African peoples by their community (I feel weird hearing "tribe" from white folk because like... It's not technically wrong but it's like... Mmmm). If you say that this person is Igbo, we know where they're from and how they identify (and again, if your readers don't know, look it up!).

[synthstruck]

*drops my oc doodles and runs away*

[sleepy-edits]

[kirby-the-gorb]

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[ID in alt text]

happy pride month to the objectums ❤️

[icicledream]

"so many things using the term ai feels like deliberate obfuscation" i hate to tell u this but we have been using the term ai for video game npcs and scientific models and automated tools and generative tools for many decades.

like if this was a more recent acronym yeah it'd feel deliberate but all of those things are, in fact, forms of artificial intelligence

and sure they're trying to buzzword it bc of the genai craze but that shouldn't take away from the fact that we've been using that acronym for decades

[vibrantstarfire]

my range to sing something well is rly limited to high sopranos who want to haunt someone. thus eerie soprano. however i am also capable of singing badly in any other range.

[sams-candles]

Do any robotkins/aikins and such with tourettes think of their tics as glitches?

[waywardsalt]

back to thinking abt linebeck enjoying wearing dresses

[skeletalheartattack]

i haven't played minecraft in years, but with the armadillo winning the vote, i think about how wolves don't really have much going on in terms of their utility. like anytime i tame a wolf, i end up just kinda keeping them sitting at home.

i think if mojang really does feel like wolves are deserving of armour, with the addition of armadillos, they really need to update wolves to be more useful as companion mobs, because personally... i never feel the urge to bring a wolf with me when im going out to do things, especially if it involves combat.

like, what do dogs do best? fetching stuff and digging, right? like i wish that i could just mill about with a wolf and they track a scent or something and start digging into the dirt and then proceed to bring you that item. like it could range from rarely digging up iron nuggets to digging up vegetables or whatever, yknow. combine the fetching stuff with combat and you wouldn't have to manually pick up stray arrows or items from mobs your wolf kills.

the only other thing i wish you could do with wolves is automate their health in some way, like give more utility to the bowl item so you can place it down for them to eat from so you don't have to constantly manage their health by looking at their tail. just minor quality of life stuff i guess.

idk, that's just my thoughts. i do like wolves in minecraft, they just feel rather lacking with the way some new mobs have so much going on, like the sniffer and allay and so on.

[chatdae]

The Great Gatsby (1974) au where Gatsby doesn't die and instead Nick takes on the no-paying job of trying to get Jay to move on from Daisy.

Bad ending is Gatsby never does & he and the Buchanans become a never-ending shitshow. Good ending is Jay moves on. Super special bonus ending is Jay and Nick fall in love (toxicity optional)

[zaggyzoo]

bad day all around 👎🏻

[stunie]

a really cool sounding song played when i followed someone back & it kept getting louder and louder so i got spooked & exited out of their page and came back n no more music ?!?!

[campbyler]

i need to have words w whoever put kiss me slowly on mikes playlist. what were u thinking i have not been normal in DAYS

hi! since none of the acswy-verse playlists have kiss me slowly on it i’m assuming you mean this playlist (?) that i made for another fic in which case hello!! hey! that would be me!! if it’s not about this playlist or if you were thinking about another song by the same name then totally disregard this entire thing that would be so embarrassing lol but kiss me slowly by parachute is SUCHHHH a pining yearning longing mike wheeler song to ME!!!! GRBBENENBRBRNRN!!!!! i am so glad someone else has become as abnormal about it as i have been for the past year i’m so serious when i tell you i have had this song on the brain for so longgggg it has been on my Longing Pining Yearning playlist for years (my own personal one) and it’s just so. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 mike wheeler 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[glitchven]

EVERYBODY SHUT UP!!

The relationship between Solus and Coco is gonna make me cry :((((((

Im replaying nexomon extinction rn and i got to the part where solus has to go into the haunted forest and-

The way coco decides to go with solus without a second thought!!!!!!!

Look I KNOW THAT it was probably just bc in canon Solus is mute and needs someone to talk for them or whatever but COME ON!!!!!

THEYRE BESTIES YOUR HONOR 😭😭😭