#like *i* am a white usamerican
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i have this idea of xigbar moving into a replica body and it having features from both his original body and braig's body (since a replica takes the form of the heart inside it), so the left is what that would look like (based on my own luxu design)
the right is just black canon xigbar for fun smile
#i cant believe i actually like. started and finished a piece in a single day!!#i think maybe he doesnt have any use in the right eye--he can move it around but not see out of it#the main thing. is that he can wink again. and thats what matters to him#as usual--if there is anything about this design or the way ive rendered it that is out of line i would appreciate feedback :]#although i referenced photos for many things & also intentionally took some artistic liberties#(e.g. im pretty sure his hairstyle is a lot denser than it would be irl)#i am a white usamerican and have my blind spots#kh#kingdom hearts#xigbar#luxu
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it fucking kills me that i have seen NO ONE talking about the reaction jess jordan, kendall roy’s assistant, has. because it is jess, and rava and sophie roy, who have the reactions that twitter and reddit and all the succession lovers are looking for in shiv, for some goddamn reason. it’s jess who not so subtly pleads with greg to delay calling the election, who is blown off dismissively and ignorantly by greg who cannot understand or even SEE how strong of a panic reaction she is havjng. to him, and every other roy and tom and everyone else at their level, this is just another crazy day with literally zero consequences. a fascist dictator president will literally not change the quality of their lives as rich white people. but it will change jess’ life, as a biracial woman. it will change rava and sophie roy’s lives, in spite of kendall’s money and protection. and the show purposefully cuts off their reactions — jess blinking fast and breathing hard and about to have a panic attack meltdown in the hallway, rava and sophie scared in the back of an SUV — because the show isn’t about them. the show is about the roys, who do not care about the consequences of their actions, partially because they never have to SEE the consequences of their actions. greg does not see jess freaking out; even when she is clearly panicked in front of her he cannot see her pain and if he could, he wouldn’t care. it’s only when he turns his back on her that she starts to break down, which is a great if painful blocking choice. not only is it realistic — she can’t lose face in her workplace, she can’t react negatively when she works for the guy who owns the Devil Right Wing Fascist TV Network, and she most certainly can’t react any way people don’t like because she is one of the few, if not the only, black women in the building and working for the roys. while greg sighs and laughs about this day being crazy, she is having a meltdown as she fears what this election result means to her. if rava, a wealthy woman of color with a powerful ex husband, is scared, how much more scared is jess? is everyone else under jess?
but the show cuts off her reaction and takes us back to shiv because this show is from the roy’s pov, and this episode is largely from shiv’s pov. shiv “cares about democracy” and the country to an extent, because democracy only effects her to an extent. she knows on paper this election is bad news. she also knows it’s not going to change her life directly because she’s rich. like her brothers, who do not care at all who is President, who only care about which candidate will give them what they want, shiv is more upset because this election means she isn’t getting what she wants. she’s going to lose her power in the potential matsson deal. because that is how the roys chose who would be president: they chose the candidate they could buy and who could sell them control over their interests for the lowest number, and meincken outbid jimenez by a landslide. tldr the reaction people are looking for in shiv and in the roys were there, but in jess and rava. and even rava and jess aren’t progressives, aren’t “feminist icons”, they’re also complicit and victimized all at once, like shiv is, but with far less say and power. it’s almost like… the show about face eating leopards… is making a point that if you get in a cage with a hungry leopard, at some point you will run out of steaks to throw at it and it, too, will eat your face off. huh.
#succession#succession spoilers#this is a ramble but my god i am getting heated now#so many gifs and essay posts about the roys… zero about rava and Jess…. who are actually used as surrogates for the audience and marginalize#*d and even they HAVE HIGHER AMOUNTS OF POWER AND CONTROL AND AGENCY than the average person and woman of color#like. idk y’all I know the succession fan base is overwhelmingly white and therefore has a white USAmerican pov etc etc etc but my god I am#seeing greg levels of missing the point and not recognizing the pain in characters other than the Roy’s lol#and like I get it’ they’re the main characters#but also like. idk. jesse armstrong has a p strong vision and uses his characters effectively so like#maybe let’s look at some of those minor characters reactions here to paint a less insular picture yknow
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forgive me on possible poor wording on this post (suggestions and discussion are welcome and open) i'm really not feeling well right now and i struggle with articulating myself because of brainfog.
tumblr is an echo chamber but if you say that you're accused of being a fascist or whatever when it's just plainly and simply true. it's genuinely wonderful to have an online space dominated by autistic people and leftists but the disadvantages of such a space rear their head quite quickly when you think about it for more than five seconds.
(there is NOTHING inherently wrong with the way autistic people think vs allistic people think, merely i think a lot of us struggle with the same issues that can sometimes inhibit our understanding of the world around us and experiences different from our own)
autism being the norm is fun and cool until you try to explain the nuances of like, for example, online behavior. because i think a lot of us struggle with black or white thinking that goes unquestioned and it can lead to really unhealthy habits. like yeah terfs are shitty people and we should reject their ideas, but spending your spare time sending random people on the internet gore is really weird, is giving them more attention than they deserve, and is overall a waste of time that can't be good for your mental health. and if you explained to anyone offline that one of your hobbies is sending gore or suicide baiting people on the internet, even with those people being bigots, they will be weirded out. it's not healthy to put that much emotional energy into your oppressor. it's just weird. go for a walk or something, girl. i can't watch this.
(creating public campaigns against specific terfs just gives them more of a platform and a weird victim complex. most importantly, you're putting your transfem friends and mutuals in danger by exposing them to this shit and giving transmisogynists a way to find them!)
(i don't say any of this to be shitty about autistic people i just think our brains are wired or whatever to make it really easy to fall down weird pipelines. hence why 4chan was filled with a lot of autistic white dudes. a lot of us are fairly susceptible to rhetoric if it goes unquestioned and aligns with our personal unchallenged world views.)
another example, if you say the r slur in real life everybody is just going to think you're saying the r slur. the average person (who also is chill with the r slur and probably uses it themselves) will be like haha yeah. and the average autistic or intellectually disabled person will be like oh good god i need to stay away from them. but for some reason people on here think they can reclaim the r slur by using it as a slur online (especially when they themselves are NOT intellectually disabled and have ZERO right to reclaim that term). you've all been infected by 4chan brain and you don't even see it because you've convinced yourself being a coldhearted edgy bully is cool and that being shitty to, for example, people with social anxiety is funny and aligns perfectly with your progressive persona (you reblog posts about social justice but you're a dick to everyone you've ever met and you have no friends because you're a negative person who is genuinely unpleasant to be around)
image credit goes to: @batmanreturnsnineteenninetytwo
and did you know that randomly deciding to make asexuals or polyamorous people (people who deviate from the norm) the butt of your jokes and calling them freaks and shit is actually progressive? everyone has just been slowly and slowly becoming more mask off disgusting and it's wild to me. on tumblr.com, you people are being shitty to anyone who deviates from the norm? i mean. who am i kidding. this website hates trans women and people from the global south more than anything so i haven't believed tumblr was a truly "forward-thinking" space since i was a naïve young teenager.
people who lose their shit about tankies. people who clutch their pearls about misandry and "transandrophobia"... people who accuse all palestinians of being scammers. people who send suicide bait and debate with bigots they should really be ignoring. people who make fun of people with a complicated relationship with sex or with social anxiety. you freaks are everywhere and you're all ridiculously reactionary, you just dress it up as progressivism and how to be cool on the internet or whatever. i'm SOOOOOOOO tired...
100% a line of thinking inspired by this very spot-on post, as well as the interaction that had in the comments with @deepseasmetro - thank you!
tumblr is a flimsy ego-boosting platform that's filled with bullies who hide behind their politics and relationship with oppression meanwhile they don't give a fuck about anyone who has less than them, who has it worse than them. it's all about the oppression olympics, looking cool, and punching down. obviously most of us with a head on our shoulders know this already but it truly never ceases to astound me tbh 😐
it's the same people posting inspiring poetry & textposts about kindness and love and small animals that are out here telling teenagers to kill themselves!
anyway. while you're here please donate to hamada and mohammed and heba and her father bakr ⭐️
#sorry for using the word progressive so much i genuinely can't think of a better word i am so sorry#by correct me or make suggestions i'm referring to like. the way i speak about the global south and palestine#because i am white and usamerican#not 'i was in this post and i don't like it' or some liberal bullshit#if the fundraiser links at the end seem random they are there because#i refuse to make a point in a post using palestine as an example without including a fundraiser#this is very rambling but it's okay if you reblog#my posts#palestine#donations#tumblr#actually autistic
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if i see/hear one more white usamerican claim to be from a country they're not just because that country may or may not pop up on a dna test they could take i will implode/hj
#like *i* am a white usamerican#i used to be the stereotypical bitch that would yap about being french#but at least i never yapped about french culture and claiming it as my own#since i was born raised and currently live in the united states#it's annoying i'm gonna be honest#esp if it's mentioned like in a conversation about horrendous shit from history#like ppl talking about ww2 and a usamerican who claims to have german blood starts talking like they're an expert#no you're not. you're a usamerican with a dna test that says german on it#i mean i can see where it comes from#ppl REALLY wanting to belong somewhere other than being from the united states#since the usa doesn't exactly have its own culture it has a bunch of them#but the one surrounding white usamericans can be really nasty sometimes like yk southern culture being stereotyped as hateful and ignorant#and whatever blah blah blah#ppl are weird#still don't understand humanity sigh
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Oh also anyone who says “We don’t deserve dogs” you just know hates kids and calls them crotch goblins
#rambling#that phrase pisses me off already and its always the same type of person#who posts about how much they hate seeings kids in the grocery store#like one is a human and one is a dog. i think one deserved to be in the grocery store more than the other#sorry i keep going in about this shit but every time i go looking at post tags#theres always some white usamerican self proclaimed dog mom or something#idk. i had too many drinks i think and am getting pissed at mundane shit
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LEAVE DAVRIN ALONE
#tbd#fandom wank#anti da fandom#i am so tired#he even named his griffon a Dalish word like if he hated his culture so much why that then?#wanting adventure doesn't mean he hates his own culture i hate you all so much#also why are you all so ugly when the poc characters don't conform to whatever stereotypes you think they should all follow#there is like zero evidence of davrin 'hating his culture'#full offence but can ppl with usamerican brainrot just stfu#it's genuinely so irritating and i'm tired of keeping quiet about the frankly racist way y'all treat poc chars.#you're judging him before you even know him.#he's allowed to leave his fucking clan he doesn't have to be married to it and it doesn't mean he hates his clan if he wants#to go out there and have some adventure fuck off#like instead of asking bioware to 'be normal' before you played the fucking game#how about you be normal and stop pigeonholing Dalish characters#again there's literally zero evidence#that he hates his clan or has internalised racism or whatever#also i'm not white so don't @ me.
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Very little people talk about the odd experience of having parents or one parent from a particular country/culture, but you grew up largely disconnected from it.
Like, on one hand, it is a part of you. You might even have the opportunity to visit said country occasionally and see extended family. But on the other hand, your communication is limited because you understand the language only a little bit or not at all. Usual cultural norms you know you should share, you can not connect to. A part of you can't help feeling guilty as if you have purposely allowed something to become lost (even though this isn't actually the case).
#obviously there is a lot of nuance with this experience#I can only speak as someone who is white with a white argentinian mom and white usamerican dad#I love argentina a lot and I love having the opportunity to visit it more in recent years but it sucks the disconnection#and feeling like a part of it is my fault for not trying hard enough#I admit feeling awkward when I meet other half argentinian ppl and they have a better handle of the language and culture than I ever could#nonetheless I am aware this is also a common experience with poc#and those situations have the added baggage of ppl being made to feel like an outsider in BOTH cultures which sucks#I can't speak to that directly for obvious reasons but I have sm sympathy it sucks feeling alienated and it is for some reason your fault#squack
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some people really do act like gay marriage wasn't only legalized in the US 9 years ago.
#dook dook#11 years ago in the uk and 7 years ago in aus. and so on and so forth#like..i know a lot of kweers on tiktok werent fkn born yet but i am also talking about 30 somethings#i mention us specifically in my post because i mostly only see usamericans talk abt stupid shit like this but it is not just us#it is also other major white & english speaking countries
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You are right on every account in that tiktk reblog tags, except for one thing. Putin maybe didn't veto humanitarian corridors, but he sure did shell them. Several times.
Oh. I knew he'd sabotaged them somehow but I forgot how. Hard to keep track of all his war crimes. I didn't mean to imply that he was better for allowing one, just that he knew how to play the optics better, which is what I meant by "how is Biden WORSE at spinning a narrative than Putin". I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was giving him any credit whatsoever.
Also I started out by saying that the previous Israeli governments colluded with the US and conceded to ceasefires so that they could pick civilians off one by one while the US played up their PR by playing the mediator. I meant that context to be carried into Putin's actions too but I realize that wasn't obvious. The man only tries to look like he's playing ball if it serves his agenda better.
Imperialists are all like that tbh. If you want to know the difference between a fascist and an imperialist, it's that the fascist thinks too small.
#also i am so sorry for having to hear the constant comparisons to ukraine#from so much of the pro-palestine left#yes victims tend to be humanized more if they're white#but it overlooks the fact that it would still not have mattered if putin wasnt an enemy of the west#that's what separates ukraine from palestinians. y'all happened to become victims to the political interests of opposing imperialists#none of these people give one good goddamn about what happens to the countries themselves and the people in them#y'all are all just pawns in these fuckers expansionist colonial agendas and their sympathies are all just as fake#it breaks my heart to see people who are suffering the same way under the same power structures to be pitted against each other#as though there's only so much empathy and moral conscience to go around#i really hope the blowback against the biden administration for palestine doesnt sabotage the single good cause the US has backed since WWII#it's like usamericans think the only two choices are imperialism or apathy#asks#wintersmitth#war in ukraine#putin#free palestine#imperialism#knee of huss
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sometimes you read a post and you think to yourself holy fucking shit do usamericans really live like this????????? honestly the insane behaviours I learn from posts saying stuff like "this [thing] [that the post talks about like it's normalized/common] is fucked up" is absolutely nuts
#i am obviously not going to mention this in the original post in any way. but this is because#i just read that post about how 'peoples reaction to seeing a person walking with a white cane is either fearful or agressive'#and obviously i am noone to say anything about the topic. seeing as i dont use nor am close to anyone who uses a white cane.#but. i have seen plenty of people using white canes out in the streets in my life. and a few i see/saw quite frequently#like both of us walking on the same street regularly for a while#which of course doesnt make me anyone with enough information to have an opinion about that post i read#but never in ky fucking life have i seen *anyone* react the way that post described to someone walking with a white cane#and i seriously think its just because usa is so fucked up and usamericans have so many hang ups about people with disabilities#the whole 'but are you REALLY disabled or are you just faking it' bullshit theyre obsessed with#but seriously. people here see someone walking down the street with a white cane and they just. move out of the way#theyre not 'eithr scared or agressive'#ive seen people who're in a hurry get impatient‚ hell im pretty sure ive been that person once. but they just fucking wait#or find a way to walk around them. or something.#ive seen kids get curious about it qnd i remember when I was a kid and cueious the first time i saw someone w a white cane#walking to school and i asked my dad about it. i also remember being a kid and not getting out of the way fast enough and#lightly bumping into a person w a white cane#anyways my point is. im not saying theres no people who're shitty about it here i al sure there are#and i know for a fact that blind people do suffer from discrimination here and ut fucking sucks#but. nothing at all like that post describes. im pretty sure thats just. usamerican bs. or not bs but. sucking really bad. or smth#mine#me#personal
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#this all happened within like a minute i was short circuiting#if you are a white usamerican in their twenties who unironically calls themselves a huge weeb i think you should be exploded#i think white anime fans should die in general actually#yes this includes me i am promoting white on white violence i go down with this ship#sorry this interaction has been haunting me#leave me alone please like read a book or smth idk man#mine
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! rant dont mind me !
#it's so clear to me that most modern usamericans have no idea of how censorship actually works#i am saying this because of a post i just saw regarding 911#“they should've made buddie canon by the mid season finale!! now we dont know if they'll be able to under trump!!”#honey... if the trump administration decides to ban “woke” content on network tv it's not just buddie we would be going without#you think a government so badly set on silencing the “abnormal” that they'd actively censor commercial media would just...#let a show with black lesbians and bisexual white men and less-than-perfect marital dynamics and unconventional family units KEEP AIRING??#yeah... that's a no#like if that actually happens (which eh... i doubt it) they're not cancelling buddie - they're cancelling the show PERIOD
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Ppl posting tgcf discourse are getting blocked. I don’t care about this shit I wanna see pretty art
#for all clarity discourse is like weird rehashed sex scene discourse or top/bottom discourse#not talking about the racism/colorism in the work or anything along those lines#that’s just discussing the text. I am just over annoying discourse#though I could have something more to say about the greater context of censorship of gay media#but I am a white usamerican and would like a Chinese person who knows the in-depth censorship laws and general discussion around that#in thier country. rather then some white guy trying to make sweeping generalizations about a culture he doesn’t know#cause that’s how you get weird gay racists claiming shit about china that doesn’t happen
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WAIT YEAH people from the church i was raised in believed that too (though it wasn't like, an Official Belief that was regularly preached about like the rest of the post was), and i had forgotten about it until you reminded me.
it just occurred to me
do people who didn't grow up in conservative hellzones even KNOW that many groups of evangelicals actually WANT the rapture to happen?
and that one of the reasons why many republicans support israel is because it plays a role in the "prophesy" of the apocalypse in the book of revelations
cuz that sounds like such a batshit and cartoonishly evil worldview to be semi mainstream, and it's prolly something that sounds like a prank if you don't have the experience of like. being 14 and listening to an old man at the pulpit rave about armageddon while you zone out and count the ceiling tiles and fidget to try (in vain) to keep your ass from going numb from the pews
#i am not joking when i say many branches of conservative white usamerican evangelicalism are a fucking racist death cult#and yet! it's a fucking common mainstream religion around here that holds actual political sway#and while it's certainly not the SOLE reason that america's foreign policy supports israel's colonization of palestine#it plays a nonzero part#...i feel like this post needs content warnings but idk where to start here#sidenote: this post was made a year ago before the latest string of bombings and the issue being back in the forefront of american news#so the post is focussing more on the rapture thing and the experience of growing up evangelical#rather than the victims in palestine#than it woukd be if it was written today
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#people are always like#‘’ummm not everyone lives in the us guys!!!!’’#whenever usamericans make posts#and yeah sometimes we’re annoying and self centered#but also do you specify the country you live in in every single post you make???#do you think about every other country in the world first???#no#a lot of the time you just post as if the only people who will see it are other people who live in your country#when you talk to people irl you’re mostly talking to people who live in your country#so why would posting online suddenly change how you think??#i am more sympathetic to people who don’t live in the us canada or europe#or australia and other white english speaking countries#white westerners tend not to think of people outside our sphere#but i know damn well that white europeans are only thinking of other europeans when they talk about stuff not applying to ‘other countries’#just hate when (western) europeans insult the us#don't act like most of you really care about anything east of germany#maybe poland on a good day#like we’re a kettle#and you’re a pot#don’t get so cocky#(western europeans just irk me so often)#(especially the english)#me
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USAmerican Christians and anti-Christians alike need to get something in their heads: White male Christians are in the minority.
And I'm not even talking about people who claim to be Christian but I believe are "bad" christians. I mean out of people that claim the religion, white men are in the minority. In the States? It's black people, and in particular black women (can confirm just from experience as a black person btw). Followed closely by Latinos.
As of now, the title of "most Christian" continent is Africa, with Latin America next, and finally Europe (tho I am suspicious of this last one).
"In terms of population distribution, Christianity will be chiefly a religion of Africa and the African diaspora, which will, in a sense, be the heartland of Christianity.” - Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom.
As such, truly devout Christians have more in common with someone we would consider "inconceivably poor" than with someone from your own location, economic status, and political party who does not believe in Jesus.
And this is all very important. To quote Dr Gina A. Zurlo, "We have a lot to learn from people who live in greater religious diversity (Asia , I’m looking at you); from Christians who have lived and worked among Muslim populations for generations (sub-Saharan Africa, that’s you); from Christians who deal with the negative consequences of climate change most acutely (yep, Oceania, that’s you); and, well, Latin America, we have a lot to learn from you, too (especially your neighbor, the USA!)."
The multi-ethnic family of God/humanity is the entire story of the bible. Understanding that is crucial. Please for the love of God do not diminish your thoughts on Christianity to some fundamentalist baptist from the American South. This is the most diverse religion in the world, we ought to start acting like it.
Tl;dr: your conviction that Christianity is a white man's religion is racist and Euro-American centric. Christianity was born in the Middle East and went to Africa before it ever reached Greece or Rome.
#christianity#jesus#something to meditate on#keep the faith#faith in jesus#bible scripture#faith#jesus christ#bible#christian#progressive christian#progressive christianity#christblr#christian faith#bible study#christian life#christian tumblr#christian bible
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