#n8v stuff

[dogfishmonger]

do not forget about reservations.

do not forget about the people on reservations.

when you are making and reading posts about dire predictions for quality of life, do not forget about reservations.

we already have issues accessing clean water. we already experience devastation from climate change. we are already going missing for our race. we are already being murdered for our culture.

it will only get worse.

it’s possible to live through. every single person indigenous to north america has a chance to live through this. i’m not trying to fear monger; i’m trying to remind you.

please do not forget about us when you assure people that “everything will be okay; people are living under far worse circumstances in other countries”.

people are living under far worse circumstances here. and it can get worse. and it will get worse. and we need you to remember that we’re here when it happens.

[dogfishmonger]

Northern Cheyenne / Tsitsistas

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Maori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[ohmygillygoshoppler]

Let's hear them secret scientist headcannons, Ma. Pretty please 🙏🥺

huehuheuheuhwlhbsjhbclah~ y’all know what it is, mostly rambling I wrote most of this waiting for the dentist lol

Drew (Audrey do not call her that omg Saturday)

Mama’s albino. Isee it with my eyes and just feel it in my bones. She’s pale, her hair is pale, I she even had baby blues in TGIS so, yeah. 

Drew isn’t a huge fan of chocolate, opposites since Mom Monday had a thing for cocoa. Maybe she doesn’t have a thing for sweets in general? Like I can see Drew as more of a FoodSnack person rather than SweetSnack person. She’ll be like, “I want a snack,” And spend like 2 hours prepping the stuff for a food item that will be gone in 20 minutes and somehow, she’ll find a way to convince Doc to “help” with the cleanup after.

She always wanted a big family, But only managed to have Zak. She loves her family regardless, it's just not the way she thought they'd be. I mean, come on; Her and Doc are so romantic all the time, like there’s no way they woulda stopped at just one. If she could have given Zak a sibling, she would have, but it wasn’t in the cards. So, adoption, lmao.

My girl is a mystic through and through but she is not mystically inclined. She could tear out her hair and make a deal with the devil, and still not be able to conjure her own magic at all, but she is so well versed in it, you’d think she was a sorcerer or something. (Maybe she could, oh I dunno, help her magical buddies out with that know-how, huh?)

Doc “Solomon” Saturday

My guy has some serious PTSD and OCD issues that he hasn’t quite sorted out, and I’ll bet he’s scared to go into it given all the times he’s started talking about it, only to immediately shut himself up about it.

Like, seriously, my man needs a therapist.

I’m laughing and wringing my hands together like Argost himself thinking about all the fun times we’re gonna have with mr. Magic Doesn’t Exist now that he’s gotta help his new Angel Daughter find her friends. Sorry Solomon, but you’re gonna have an aneurysm.

Doyle Blackwell  **Professional Uncle

Such a cool dude, he can’t drink alcohol because he’s too cool to get buzzed (he's allergic to alcohol and will turn beet red after one drink help this poor man)

I get a lot of, “I dont deserve an apartment,” vibes from this guy so I say he needs more ��Chillin at home with the fam,” And less “Shitty hostels wherever the cheapest.” Also man needs a gf (or bf, ffs nobody want him fr!!11!)

He's bi, and I know cuz he told me lmao

Paul Cheechoo (Uncle Bear!👏🏼 Uncle Bear! 👏🏼Uncle Bear!👏🏼)

Okokokokok, so I am super super projecting here because Cheechoo deadass reminds me of an uncle who is A.) also native af, we’re not Inuit but were fuckin n8v; and B.) also a fuckin geologist lesgoooooo

So guys got a big family, huge actually. Lots of cousins and nieces and nephews and aunties and uncles and such- making it a bit hard and a bit sad keeping the whole Secret Scientist thing away from his family. Especially after the Weird world incident when he became withdrawn from them, fearing Argost might do something horrible to his kin. So, he kept mostly to himself, confiding only in his fellow scientists.

I feel like his sarcasm and friendly demeanor is so sweet and endearing, especially for someone so friggin big, I mean good god- Look at this man. The friendly giant trope always gets me, so what? BUT! That being said, I’d like to think that sometimes my guy forgets how big he is… Like, we’ve seen how this guy gets tossed around like a ragdoll, maybe he also forgets he’s a brick shithouse, given all the times he’s gotten his ass whooped.

Man is Golden Retriever coded, and I wanna eat him alive for it./pos

Arthur Fuckin Beeman

My man! *kills him again and again and again and again an-*

Also, I love how we all saw this man, we all looked at each other, and we all said, “Yeah, he's autistic af.” Like, it's very clear that this man’s brain works… differently from others.

My brother once said, Liaos from Dungeon Meshi if he didn’t want to eat the aliens he just wanted to hang out and honestly…. Werk.

Does this man deserve an arc? Not really, but do I wanna put him in a few fucked up situations? Hang him upside down and shake him till all his tokens fall out? Maybe. Maybe Zak’ll help me, too. Shit…

Miranda Grey (Big Grey)

Ooooooohohohohohohohohoooo~ We hardly got anything with you, Doctor. Which means I can do whatever, and I both hate and love that-

I know you love your sister~ I know you’re sad about her betrayal~~ I know you’re hurting, girly, I know your devastated inside and you can’t do anything about it because so much shit is falling apart around you and now your sister fucked over the only people you can call friends, fuck you Miranda! Eat shit and die! ILY!!

I reeeeeeaaaaly think she’s guilty about what she’s done to the Saturdays, especially Zak, so maybe she might try and say or do something to try and make amends, but how? Thats a good question… I wanna know too, lmao.

Abbey Grey (Little Grey)

Ooooooooooooooooh~~~

I have plans for you, stupid bitch……

Agent Ex husband

The scariest mfer in all existence, most stifled man in all existence, omg. If War were ever made a fucking human, Epsilon would be his fate, and holy fuck- Yeah. Stoic? Check. Bound by a strict code of ethics/honor? Check. Big As Shit? Check. Scary????? Umm, yeah. My mans a Horseman.

Wants to be loved. Wants to rest. Wants to have a cigarette for the first time in years. Wants some coffee with extra cream and sugar. Does he deserve it? No,not really. But he does need it. His soul needs a good kneading, like dough.

However, he is fucked up for the way he raised Francis and how he’s always shutting hom down and telling him how his thoughts don’t matter like, damn, just tell the boy he aint shit why dont you-

I feel like, if I give Francis an arc, Epsilon should have one too. I wanna know more about him- surprise surprise- and what makes him tick. We see in the show that there is some care for Francis, we see as much when he gets so mad at Francis for not quickly following his instructions, but that begs the question; does he actually care, or is he protecting his interests, so to speak? Lots to learn, lots to pick apart.

[vaebun]

Hi y’all! No fanart stuff from me this week, but I do have a Book Recommendation which revolves around the supernatural:

“Mongrels” by N8V Author Stephen Graham Jones. Published in 2016

It’s a werewolf story!! which revolves around Native implied characters;I love the way Jones explores this element while not falling into stereotypes that I unfortunately experienced while growing up, addressing experiences of harsh poverty, and effects of colonialism among the disenfranchised.

[peacefulworld2003feelthegroove]

Ugh I wish more people tagged stuff / warned for not safe for n8v content. Every day. I get triggered. By that damn name. Tired of it.

[dogfishmonger]

hannah montana being the winning option here is 1000% part of my villain origin story

anyway i associate montana most w my tribe (northern cheyenne) aho represent n all that

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US

[wiihtigo]

BENNY FROM FALLOUT funny

First impression

my first impression was that fucking post with the audio clip of him saying oh no baby NOT THAT not crucifixion! and i thought it was so fucking funny i thought it was the funniest thing in the world. my second impression was that <have sex with benny> wasteland spaghetti grabbers post which i found equally funny. also it made me really want to <have sex with benny> which i had to install a mod and also buy fallout new vegas for

Impression now

its amazing how benny has retained the same level of gleeful amusement throughout the whole time ive known him everything he says and does is so funny hes a little guy i put in a bug jar and shake around

Favorite moment

WHEN YOU <HAVE SEX WITH BENNY> AND HE GETS INCREASINGLY MORE FREAKED OUT BECAUSE HES LIKE "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM I SHOT YOU IN THE HEAD WHY DO YOU WANT TO HAVE *SEX WITH ME*" IT WAS MAKING ME LAUGH SO HARD

Idea for a story

i havent looked at the companion benny mod yet but i have ideas forming on what hed be like as a companion and also i have many thoughts and ideas and visions ofnative benny stuff bcuz he reads so easily as a n8v american to me its insane

Unpopular opinion

i dont think hes actually bi i think hes gay. maybe a bifag. i dont know. i have trouble picturing him genuinely with a WOMAN i think hes super closeted withuot the help of a mod shooting gay genes into him

Favorite relationship

benny x my courier is literally chowder and panini it makes me laugh so hard

Favorite headcanon

natve american real real real also idk he looks like hes average height but i always pictured him as a short king maybe like 5'3

[noangelsavedme]

Sorely tempted to open an Etsy specifically for Idigipunk/Satanist stuff, like. I literally have never met another n8v punk satanist.

[cripplepunk-sylveon]

@ the people who unfollow me when I post n8v stuff.

I see you.

I feel bad for you.

[dogfishmonger]

adding on for people who want to have “accurate” last names

(sorta gonna doxx myself here but i’m an adult, i’m doing it knowingly, my full names on my tiktok, it’s whatever)

my last name is spang. we’re a very large and well known family on my reservation. i’m mixed, but my last name is not from the white side of my family.

“spang” is a german name.

because of the (ongoing) effects of colonization, coerced assimilation, and plenty of other shit, plenty of indigenous people have “white” surnames, even if they’re not mixed at all.

so honestly it’s probably less elusive and potentially disrespectful to give your character the name “johnson” than trying to come up with a “native” name or (Do Not Do This !!!) researching family names and ripping one.

disclaimer: i’m also plains indian, northern cheyenne specifically. so i can’t speak to lenape language or culture either. but i know for a fact colonized/european names are common across the entire continent.

but yeah in the future, google stuff *sourced from indigenous people* before asking someone else to do it for you, because it wouldn’t be super hard to find an indigenous source stating that our naming conventions are very often private and not shared with non tribal members.

and also if you do end up asking someone, they should preferably be from the same tribe (in this case Lenape) and at the very least from the same region (in this case, eastern woodlands).

asking a plains native about Lenape-specific info is like asking someone from Bulgaria about Belarus. not only do they probably not have that context, but it puts them into an uncomfortable position where they either have to justify themselves not knowing, or potentially risk misrepresenting a tribe they have nothing to do with.

Hey there, quick question. Do you have any suggestions on good, accurate sources for native American names? I'm writing a story and one of the characters friends is native, they live in Jersey. I have been trying to find Lanape names that fit her and are also actaully of the langauge and cultural background. Everytime I search though it's few and far between. Any resources if you have any would be appreciated, if not, sorry for the bother! Thank you

There is not a magical source for "accurate" NAMES, CLOTHES, OR CULTURAL PRACTICES!!!/

Even if there was I wouldn’t share it, naming conventions are totally different than English ones! Firstly you can’t have a name someone else has unless they give permission, and another thing don’t go around using irl people’s names and last names that’s crazy. Another thing how do I know anything about lanape people? I’m a plains Indian 😭I have no idea what the naming conventions are over there. I hope the other people asking for convenient sources see this because no researching is not convenient even for me.

How people would do this irl for films and book they hire a cultural consultant. That cultural consultant goes on to ask elders for names or firstly permission for the tribe to be even in these movies and books. A lot of this stuff is PROTECTED LAWFULLY. Like if someone wanted to they could totally sue you for misrepresenting their tribe it’s just like a lot of money and hard to prove for damages, and the whole tribe has to vote on it.

I’m very excited you are interested in indigenous people but I can’t say the same for your projects and having to holding your hand through it to get it right. I might as well write my own story, world, and characters at that point. 😭

[princessnijireiki]

I’m still… incredibly annoyed & do not forgive a certain n8v rph on here for deciding latinidad like just does not matter lol!!! it’s ~just~ an ethnicity, not a race, so you can use a latinx name/backstory on ANYONE… as if that’s not erasure & whitewashing lol while OFC… Fully taking part in the new rp Trend™ of “if you don’t match characters’ & their fcs’ & all relatives’ dna to percentages with each other, it’s Raciste®” leaving like mixed ppl Thoroughly Fucked…

and tbh same goes for the latinx rph who I’m mutually blocked by who decided to say latinx indigenous ppl are magically inappropriate for north american native roles when like fun factoid!!! folks are a-ok with like booboo & chaske & julia jones & martin sensmeier & marisa quinn (aka marisa quintanilla bee tee dubs!!!) all playing like fuckin athabascan yupik seminole what have you bc… some non-latinx n8vs stay border patrolling out here like fuckin’ i.c.e. & non-n8v Everybody Loves to gatekeep ndns like they’re the fucking bia bqpd

BUT I will say I LA-A-AUGHED when I saw culprit #1’s indigenous fc guide bc like literally not only did they prove my point like I was looking to see if there were any choctaw fcs they had before saying “lol fuck it” (just like ndn hollywood does lmao) & just wing my shit— they had literally two, one of which is the fc I’m already using, and actually did not have brenda schad, who is my fc choice for her mom— but they also listed jara courson, who I’ve literally actually met… who is also choctaw… and was not listed as such on their pg At All

so basically all self-designated ethnic gatekeepers are fucking morons lol!!! ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

[flauntpage]

Kobe Bryant Fans Not Happy With LeBron

A portion of Lakers “fans,” if you want to call them that, aren’t thrilled with LeBron James.

Last night LeBron missed a pair of free throws in overtime that resulted in the Spurs knocking down a go-ahead bucket on the other end of the floor and ultimately winning the game, sending the Lakers to a third-straight loss to begin the season. I now believe I should have bet the under on total wins for a Los Angeles team that cannot defend.

If you stumbled into the deepest and darkest crevices of social media overnight or this morning, you probably came across the same outrageous stuff I did regarding LeBron, who apparently is not as good as Kobe Bryant and never will be.

Behold:

Trade LeBron now when he still has market value, get us a superstar who is going to play hard and close out games. 3 straight games LeBron has let us down.

— Die Hard Lakers (@DieHardLALfan) October 23, 2018

I agree. They must trade LeBron while he still has market value.

No Cap bro I just wish Lebron never came to LA his heart not here it’s on making movies and shit .. if I was the GM I’d trade this MF while I can his heart not here idc what nobody say

— SNAPCHAT: thatboydantee1 (@thatboydantee) October 23, 2018

It’s true, he’s focused on making movies and shit, which explains why he only dropped 32, 8, and 14 last night.

DONT EVER SAY LEBRON IS BETTER THAN KOBE

— Bandit TNB (@BanditGangO) October 23, 2018

He’s better than Kobe.

More lunacy after the jump:

DO NOT EVER COMPARE LEBRON TO KOBE AGAIN. Period

— N8V (@justinLAtive) October 23, 2018

I will.

You can’t trade Lonzo. He’s the best player on the team. You can trade LeBron before you can trade Lonzo.

— Jared Pine (@JaredPine) October 23, 2018

You can’t trade Lonzo? Bruh.

This game ended the Kobe vs LeBron Debate FOREVER #Kobe

— KEVAIN (@_KVain) October 23, 2018

No it didn’t.

They need to trade Lebron now if they are truly serious about competing for a championship. Get players more in line with the timeline of the young core.

— morpheus (@pd5179) October 23, 2018

Agreed. Trade LeBron. To the Sixers for a first round draft pick.

Trade Lebron and get Hart some help @lakers

— Kobe Bryant (@BigBallerSZN) October 23, 2018

A sentence I never thought I’d read.

Obviously, Kobe wouldn't have missed those two free throws to ice the game late in overtime.

— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) October 23, 2018

Lakers needed one more guy tonight. And that guy is Kobe Bryant.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) October 23, 2018

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[ahhnutbunnies]

I googled it but I think it's important to mention but Ms. Cox is Menominee

I’m not seeing anyone talk about the fact that Marvel just cast Alaqua Cox - a deaf Native American actress - to play Echo in the Hawkeye series, so...

(you can totally reblog this)

[princessnijireiki]

Could you maybe share some of those thoughts on jewishness as related to conditional vs. Functional whiteness??

in the FB post I was mainly like "those are just. different things" tbhbut like "conditional whiteness" is the "white passing" stuff, white ENOUGH to be "white-ish" in xyz locations•situations•peer groups, BUT it can be revoked at any time if you're TOO non-white (here being like gentile/anglo white) in a way that gets picked up on, and never really WHITE-white unless you actively + successfully conceal your "Other"-nessso like william shatner is more "gentile-looking" than leonard nimoy ever was, despite both being 1st gen (shatner canadian, nimoy american) ukrainian ashkenazim, and as far as trek goes, one is considered very blond haired blue eyed white, and the other is a Vaguely Ethnic alien.or like how historically, jewish immigrants to the us, regardless of nationality, were classed as racially "oriental"/"asiatic," until it was petitioned to re-classify them once the ban on asian immigration kicked in; and this went on until shortly before WW2, iirc.FUNCTIONAL whiteness is sort of a battling thing between how the privileges of that conditional whiteness are doled out & leveraged (including in like where people are found in a hierarchy of racial/ethnic privilege— which ofc intersects with class, gender, appearance policing, etc.— and if they actively "use" that privilege in a way that harms others, or even if that privilege in itself is inherently harmful bc it's a part of a system that like… just hurts others in general), vs. "yeah I'm still constantly at risk of harm bc of who & what I am, was raised with that & my own history in mind, and/or may have to face direct invalidation & erasure & assimilation to be 'allowed' to exist here— bc I can't be 'white' if I'm too xyz, but I'm TOO 'white' to fit among other Othered groups, outside of my own ethnic community."all of which is complicated shit to navigate!!so like example: as immigrants not indigenous to the americas nor among settler-conqueror white populations, would jewish americans (in contrast with n8v groups here) be considered displaced indigenous peoples, refugees, or "regular" immigrant populations on occupied/stolen/etc. land? and does that change if they're "white" or not, or if they don't "look white"?and like how do you navigate that conversation vs. conversations of sovereignty in gaza & have that conversation without being antisemitic, and is it INHERENTLY antisemitic to critique the state of israel, or to draw equivalencies between american indigenous groups & either/both israelis or palestinians? how do you have that conversation as a jewish person without feeling attacked, while staying safe (even if that means keeping quiet OR speaking up, or whatever!!), and without invalidating your own or others' identities in that conversation?or even like… I've lived in a lot of racist places. so your standard sort of lightskin "oh damn I overheard some foul shit I g2g rn immediately before folks realize I'm Not Really White," or being REAL nervous bc skinheads, bikers, and hippies all lean on the same fashion elements a lot, and I'm in the south, so is that a Benign Confederate Flag, or should I indulge this fight or flight reflex rn?stuff like, someone may be perceived as "white" in public 90% of the time, but seeing nazi magneto & a nazi punisher (who is now being played by jon bernthal, so like… imo it'd be weird if the character is still catholic tbh but w/e) is still SUPER personal, or you gotta articulate why shit like harry potter is mad uncomfortable, to people who might otherwise have your back, but don't GET it. casual christian holiday or jesus references & saying something is equally/more uncomfortable than just dealing with being told jesus loves you.a lot of microaggressions in there butting up against very real life or death stuff that, despite all of that, IS still a bundle package with privileges over more "Othered" people lower on the social ethnic ladder than you, even if you stand to lose those (or get killed) just for existing "out of line" at the wrong place & time.which is also where like… it becomes super apparent that when italian americans & irish americans etc. decry "reverse racism," it's not the same thing as antisemitism AT ALL. hebrew schools get attacked all over the place BECAUSE people are jewish, and were never "really white" in the first place. italian americans don't have to worry about getting out of a room alive if they see too many iron crosses or pepe the frog pins, ykwim?so it's not "true" whiteness in that sense, and that's why a LOT of even like SUPER DUPER gentile passing ashkenazim get defensive about getting called white. bc whiteness is really often also used as a way to classify "who needs to worry about getting their asses kicked by their 'betters'" vs. "who gets to kick their 'lessers'' asses with impunity," like it's a label with connotations of hierarchy that shift based on where you are standing… and to feel like you're being grouped in with the same people who hurt you or scare you or silence you when THEY won't let you forget you're "not with them" is an upsetting thing.which is like a digression, but I know if I don't point this out, some frank grillo asshole will point out being brunet in a room full of scandinavians sucks, too… and if you respond, "Okay, But Did You Die????" you look like a real asshole & ppl don't want to hear you bc jewish people legit do die or get run out of towns & shit over this, but they think that's a challenge to google some one off fucking murder from the 1800s or something. so it's easier to nip that in the bud well in advance.ALL OF WHICH OFC functions separately from nationality, xenophobia issues, colorism and eurocentric (anglo-nordic) beauty standards, [political zionism re: the state of israel & how it is run] vs. [philosophical/ideological zionism (that the jewish people need a self governed & defended state)] vs. ["antizionism" that is actually just antisemitism in a coke zero can instead of a diet coke can] as like… the same loaded ass word with VERY different meanings, AND, tbh, how people SELF identify, including converted jews, non observant jews, ppl with diff interpretations of cultural/ethnic secular jewishness, jewish atheists, etc.but a lot of ppl outside of jewish communities and/or outside of that kind of identity/historical scholarship I think want an easier answer than that and when like. they don't get one bc they're just NOT gonna get one, bc it's not a simple subjectthey tend to want to make one up on their ownwhen like "white" can be a loaded/complicated word, too.

[princessnijireiki]

Re: shitty vegetarians. I'm veg because I have what I call "just a lot of feelings" when I think about animals, and I hate the ppl ur describing. When ppl try to act like there's no human exploitation within the ag industry (or call a veg*n diet a "harm/exploitation-free diet) I just wanna scream. One of my areas of study in grad school was the ethics around food and I left because we were literally all middle or upper class white people talking about exploitation without doing ANYTHING to fixit

feelings are fine & great!!! it's just sth ppl do need to acknowledge is subjective and highly personal at best… like I know lots of americans weirded out about people eating horses or dog meat farms but they'll eat gators, which don't really hurt anybody unless you fuck with them first (Chill Florida Dinosaurs™), or they'll eat veal & lamb chops (ahhh!!!), but not goat. people will eat foie gras and caviar (which is so weird!!!), but turn up their nose at spam and make racist jokes about "mystery meat" in chinese food.and like I know, for example, I'd feel really awful if I ran sth like an emu farm or kept cows or sheep and I needed to slaughter any, bc you get attached… but so many people would rather stay detached because they KNOW sth had to die, but doing it themselves is what makes them feel bad, not the inherent ethics or lack thereof in eating animals.but then you like get PETA & the ASPCA running campaigns against whale and seal hunts when it's VERY much subsistence hunting in a real way for n8v communities in alaska/canada, and farmer's markets & chicken aren't exactly an option… and better solutions for those communities NEED rights & access to hunt in that way + possibly a local mass food storage or exchange system rather than $12 milk shipped in every week. but those orgs attack that kind of hunting more publicly and with more zeal than like anti shark finning mov'ts., bc sharks aren't "cute," even though on a PLANETARY scale finning is fucking disastrous, big business ocean fisheries & trawling is disastrous and tbh when you talk about oil spills or fukushima or mass coral bleaching/die-off phenoms, no one is talking about reducing their carbon footprint and not taking the trip to the bahamas or mexico or the south pacific.it ends up such a self centered (and by extension ethnocentric) concept of "morality" that's really a policing of social norms for folks' own comfort & peace of mind above all else that like… beyond basics like "where is the boundary between humane/inhumane conditions" for both animals & humans, it's a sort of functionally useless and paternalistic argument. and the ways that that snowballs into really aggressively & violently imperialist action, so long as that peace of mind is preserved (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil), are a direct function of that self-centered morality from the jump.so it's just… odd to me how like SO MANY people, especially in academia!!! treat this stuff as a philosophy argument that you can end on "It Really Makes You Think," bc the whole exercise becomes a function of dissecting shit like white guilt complexes and then soothing them by essentially ticking off that "it's complicated" relationship box on facebook, when that was never the point!!! the system is broken. and??? what is step two???but yeah shit like that is why like… people get weirded out when I say, "no, globalization is a bad thing," esp. bc since I'm ~exotic & mixed, I should support global exchange or Whatever the Fuck— but that's not what globalization is or ever was or how it works. folks treat "globalization" as a means to extend their pantry, like it's amazon prime 24/7/365, ignoring how the toll of that gets shoved onto others' backs without a shred of irony in like full bleached cotton head to toe (a VERY heavy water-use crop) eating like dragonfruit kiwi açai mango cherry smoothies year round, and then will say the people facilitating that, and the diasporas with ties to those cultures, are savages for like eating balut or bone marrow or fish eyes. they'll wear the silk and call folks backwards for eating the silkworms who had to die to extract the thread.like if somebody says, "I need to eat this animal to survive," the next question should not be "have you tried pb&j?" but "what is the most humane way that this can happen for you & for the animal, big picture + as individuals?" PETA doesn't need to send people pamphlets bitching and moaning about kosher and halal slaughter practices; that shit is racist and patronizing and chick tract level fucking weird on top of not being helpful. but it's also super weird that they don't have anything to say about animals ploughing fields and children working 18hr days on literal massacre sites to facilitate quinoa & tofu nugget tuesday in the dead of winter.and they could come up with plans of action if they wanted to, but they don't; bc what they actually want is the world to appease them by conforming to their own ideals… or to just suffer less quietly out of sight & out of mind (so long as they aren't directly blamed, and therefore can't be the ones held responsible), so that they feel less bad about things overall.it's exhausting, and those arguments turn circular, and never end bc folks want a paradoxical answer of feeling empowered to be able to change things, guiltless & with the moral high ground, but also to get a free pass once it's time to put the work in, bc "there's nothing you could have done." :P

[princessnijireiki]

☮

send me a ☮ for me to describe an amazing rp experience.

I’m going to limit this to like a specific moment bc tbh aside from baby’s first rp (which We Don’t Talk About Unless We Get A Message Asking), my experiences have been mostly good... or at least there’s been more good I took away from the experiences than bad!

so since it’s ME & it’s sort of topical atm, considering, you KNOW I gotta use one of the moments I got to slaughter a racist & eat his heart in the marketplace in front of god and everybody. I had to do it to ‘em !!!

(it’s a long one though, so it’s under the cut.)

backstory: I consider my baby daughter aria māhealani parish-hargrave to be my Real First RP & a sort of re-christening moment™, but one of my bad moments was being lowkey hounded by this one indie rper who like... was just really sketchy & made me super uncomfortable like as a n8v woman bc she was just very very gross about her writing, but used my same fc, and outside of like, the pocahontas rp scene & master/slave rps (ICK), q’orianka’s underused in the rpc. and then I found out she was also REALLY antiblack, like the DAY george zimmerman was acquitted was saying how ppl upset by that were “overly sensitive,” that kind of shit.

fast forward!! two indies & two closed rps later, my BESTIE @sesquipedalianfightclub asked me to audition for an rp that had used to be based on ahs:coven, but was in the process of revamping, cutting ties with the show’s canon, and rebooting with nearly-all ocs as a supernatural/horror rp. I joined as sophie claveaud, a stepdaughter to marie laveau, but who had been actually snatched, her parents murdered, and her brother sacrificed by marie as a baby; and sophie’d secretly known that for a few years and was Not Really Sure what to do with that information. in the game at that moment, since there was (obvs) still ahs stuff going on, the voodoo witches who followed marie had been decimated by some like supe/witch hunters, and were forced to room with the white witches in like the fucked up murder house or whatever that they live in in the show??? idk, I only watched the pilot, and we only had like three canon chars in the game.

but do you know what I DO know is... I got family in nola... I got people displaced by katrina... and I literally. FORGOT. until like a few weeks into gameplay. that like o k the fc was antonia thomas!!! who I love!!! but I was playing like, “what am I forgetting?? I’m forgetting something. What am I Forgetting...” and the GAG was I forgot that my middle name is antonia literally after my haitian great grandma antonia in this game where because I Take My Writing Content Seriously I was like already neck deep in vodoun research bc you know what I WASN’T going to do... was play into hoodoo-stereotype demonization of the afrodiaspora & religious traditions that are very much alive, like!!! holla!!!

(tho I’ll be honest I kept wanting to say “orixas” instead of “loa” and had to correct myself a lot bc shout out to my afrolatinx / indigenous diasporas too)

and also. part of the reason I joined was because.

this one guy kept harassing mcjack!!!

like she was using a q’orianka fc character (who was like besties/practically sisters with my character!!! so yk I got ic & ooc reasons for my ulterior motives here) as one of the voodoo “coven” & this fucking white boy with his mega super duper crispy mozzarella-white fc from the “salem coven” (which... look, I’ll admit I never visited salem not once in my whole life even though I’m from massachusetts but my black ass is OUT HERE??? I’ll fight you in salem I’ll fight you ON TOP OF plymouth rock idgaf) had been in these threads with her talking shit about “savage” black ppl/ndns & was generally being a weird ass white supremacist mansplaining Why Everything These Negroes Do Is Celtic to a literal actual irish-canadian.

so I saw this creep’s notes on her posts when I would like go & support my friend & read her content & check out her edits & stuff and decided IT WAS ON... well before I learned he was ALSO close friends with ms. miss from my old drama (which had followed me to half of the rps I’d done after aria, too, bc she has Boundary Issues!!! like I blocked her & she’d still stake out gifs in untagged posts or have her friends reblog posts for her... wow)!!

so it was VERY MUCH on then.

and I tried!!! to be nice at first!!! I really did... I was polite... I was cordial... my rule for myself was: I know he is going to cross the line at some point. I don’t need to swing first. whether it’s to me or mcjack... ime racists actually do not need prompting to show ass, and they don’t need my help to look bad. I don’t need to come for his friends... unless he wants to bring them into it. I don’t need to do anything but be black & whoop his monkey ass.

it took him all of two posts to refer to me / sophie as “a voodoo”/“the voodoo” TWICE (??? I assume this is the magical equivalent of “a black”), make a point of saying sophie “at least [...] had more gentility with her discourse than lisbeth” (mcjack’s char.) in like my FIRST week in the group, and then like a post or so later call sophie & lisbeth’s group a “tribe” but in like??? a snotty way??? um???

keep in mind, too, this whole respectability politics, “I’m passive-aggressively warning you in advance not to be an Angry Black Woman” deal was in june of 2014 aka early but full swing into #black lives matter.

it escalated from there, but I hit him so hard-- esp. when he tried to “drag” me with fucking oral tradition vs. printed books for trad’nl. beliefs/folk knowledge (which is also... hilarious bc not only is it SUPER RACIST and classist & insulting as shit, it’s also Very Much an issue re: the christianization of ireland, too, which he would’ve known if he wasn’t such a fucking scrub)-- that he INVENTED an UNNAMED voodoo coven CHILD npc to scream at and demean in a self-para post he made like THE SAME NIGHT as our interaction, literally never posted in the ooc page again, and then iirc deleted by like the end of july/early august.

so for obvious reasons it’s some of my FAVORITE writing!!! just because dude was like... VERY obviously condescending, VERY obviously racist irl on top of writing a DELIBERATELY racist character---- and then got VERY obviously flustered when I knew my own history. like it wasn’t even anything I’d had to research... it was just me channeling a very specific emotion... and still doing so politely (ic & ooc!!!) I might add... with even what little knowledge I do have of my afro-latin native history (bc lbr: it’s not much, and that’s a deliberate consequence of some v. specific stuff)... and within ONE WEEK of JOINING an rp with someone who I knew already had a vendetta against me literally for sake of picking a black character, this person who thought they could push me around & I would have to take it tried to come at me, and instead came away with burnt palms and fuckin SHATTERED pride.

so much so that he had to pull a move straight from the reddit boards and invent a hypothetical 12 year old black girl (who, like I said with sophie’s little bio/history thing-- her whole family & coven etc. is already either dead or homeless??? wtf dude), even within an already fictional space, to scream at & harass......... while mcjack & I started making “tribe” graphics and playlists.

and that, my friends, was amazing.

get to know the rper.