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chlobody · 5 months ago

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the swimming hole

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bixels · 4 months ago

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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

#personal #delete later #no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together #seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy #say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices #in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony #redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation #(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite #if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc #if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same #if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same #while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level #a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you #i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics #and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with #if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter #i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures #(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years #i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing #classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)

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wolfsteax · 2 months ago

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old town halloween

#my art #my character #ocs #oc #halloween #vintage halloween #nostalgia #porch #porch light #new england #east coast #furry #wolf #cow #halloween costumes #trick or treat #trick or treating #the spooky season #concept art

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arc-hus · 2 months ago

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The Veil House, Taiwan - Paperfarm

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etherealyearning · 3 months ago

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East Sussex

#nature #flowers #light academia #flower garden #botanical garden #gardens #east sussex #autumn #english garden #english countryside #country living #countryside #cozy #cottagecore #english cottage #dark academia #fall aesthetic #fall vibes

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robocop1906 · 4 months ago

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Just going to the store for some milk

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enkays-den · 4 months ago

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Some captures from yesterday's stream ✨

#impy #impulsesv #light of my life #arizona is the east and the dot above the i is actually the sun #screenies

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tea-tuesday · 11 months ago

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stopped by niconeco zakkaya in the east village!

#such a cute little shop #im ngl tho everything is so overpriced.. pretty sure i could get the same stuff for a fraction of a price from korea/japan #tea-tuesday #mine #studyblr #study inspiration #nyc #new york city #east village #niconeco zakkaya #stationery #stationery freaks #light academia

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toyastales · 3 months ago

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Brickell Neighborhood, Miami, Florida

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emaadsidiki · 2 months ago

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Big Apple 🍎🗽

#New York #City Lights #Brooklyn #Nightlife #Manhattan #Skyscrapers #Dusk #Skyline #River #Pier #Cityscape #East River #Cloudy Sky #Night Lights #Brooklyn Bridge Park #New York City

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jadafitch · 21 days ago

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LIGHTHOUSES OF MAINE Together at last. This poster features an illustration of all 66 Maine lighthouses. From Whaleback Light in Kittery, East to Quoddy Head, and all the lights in between, every lighthouse has stories. Families that kept the lamps lit through blizzards, life-saving dogs, puffins brought back from the brink of extinction, even cows in row boats. All under the watch of Maine's iconic and historic towers. Each illustration depicts a bit of that lighthouse's history, past and present. Individually numbered, with the corresponding name at the bottom of the poster. -18 X 24 in (46.5 X 61 cm) -Signed -Matte finish BUY THE POSTER

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thisaintourhome · 1 year ago

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one the spookiest sets of photos i've ever taken in a single night

east vancouver, bc. november 2022.

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rebellum · 8 months ago

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Full on saying "sex based oppression isn't real, that's a radfem talking point" seems like way too much to me. Like, it IS real. Every single person who was assigned female at birth, or who is considered to be female bodied in any way (so, including eg trans fems who may be considered female bodied due to surgery, intersex people who were maybe assigned as female later on in life), is oppressed because of that. That's an inarguable fact.

But that doesn't mean every single person who was assigned male at birth oppresses every single person assigned female at birth through the axis of sex. Like, obviously trans people who were amab don't have more social privilege as a group than cis gender conforming women.

Both things can be true at once.

#im tired so im not putting this comparison in the body of the text in case it doesnt make sense #but its like skin colour?#in that around the world people with light skin tones are treated better #there is colourism within every race ethnicity country etc #but acting like that means a light skinned east asian person or a white-passing Indigenous person isnt oppressed on the basis of race + ethn #ethnicity would be laughable

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haxanbroker · 1 month ago

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