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[crimeronan]

god the trump jury selection process really is my superbowl. i know 95% of you don't follow what's going on with the man but you should look up the staggering levels of diplomacy the currently remaining jurors are displaying.

how it's going: today trump's attorney asked a mexican-born juror who recently became a US citizen if being mexican would have an impact on his potential ruling, because of how this lawyer's client is a giant racist, and the guy was very thoughtfully like, "i..... fail to see how me being mexican affects whether or not a crime was committed.....?"

[xycuro-illuminati]

Ok WHAT the fuck went on with Kamala Khan, jesus christ

Zeb Wells and Nick Lowe decided to be racist pieces of shits by killing off Kamala Khan for Amazing Spider-Man for shock value, rage bait, and possibly (not confirmed) to mcu-ify Kamala by resurrecting her on Krakoa and retconning her to be a mutant instead of an inhuman. Everyone is rightfully pissed off about this esp when this shit is happening on AAPI heritage month. They're doing this for the white protagonist (Peter)'s pain and comicgate dudebros are celebrating bc they're also racist pieces of shits. Do not reblog any of this shit if you're not gonna tag it properly as "Wednesday spoilers, Zeb Wells, and Sara don't look." Please.

[frostbiteandglitter]

Call out post for @whoever-nobody

Is a racist

[genderkoolaid]

another black trans man was murdered on Thursday, February 29, 2024. his name Righteous Torrence "Chevy" Hill. we currently do not know any details other than that he was murdered.

his friend posted two days ago on instagram:

our beautiful black trans brother, 35 year old Righteous Torrence “Chevy” Hill, was murdered in Atlanta, GA this weekend. he went by his nickname ‘Chevy’. he was originally from Macon, GA. he owned Evollusion, which is a black/queer owned LGBTQ+ salon in Atlanta that provided and dedicated full service to specializing in hair, nails, barbering and makeup. growing up as young black queer boys/kids , the barbershop experience can sometimes be a tricky space to occupy, this was something that Chevy understood and wanted to cultivate a space of safety where you can also get the affirming look and style you want, and he did exactly that. Chevy was a beloved son, brother, partner, and father. one of his last posts that had a photo of himself said : “if you truly know me, you know i am a humble, modest, private man, that i love my community, i have the love of God in me and will give the shirt off my back to any soul in need, also i never post pictures of myself, i never give myself credit, that stops today, i am my legacy!” (a close friend of Chevy asked if i could share more then one photo of Chevy, since he never posted photos of himself and in recent years he got the confidence to want to share more photos and now he won’t get the chance to) Chevy, hey king, hey brother, hey angel, thank you for everything, i lové you, we lové you, i’m so sorry. there are a lot of photographers in heaven who will be able to photograph you as the glorious black trans angel that you are. there will be a homegoing service/memorial for our brother

[sukibenders]

Hear me out: you can ship JayVik without falling into or using rhetoric that fits the disposable black girlfriend trope. You can ship JayVik without using Mel as some conceived ploy or antagonistic plot device that makes her out of character. You can ship JayVik without falling into misogynistic rhetoric (eg. viewing female characters as disposable or stepping tools, amongst other things). You can ship JayVik without erasing the impact Mel has had on Jayce and their relationship because, whether you shipped it or not or even gave it the time of day, Mel and Jayce did care for each other, and to deny that or say Viktor held more importance/impact than her in Jayce's life to where she's viewed as "unnecessary" just to further your ship is so wrong and, whether you intended for it or not, does carry undertones where black characters, especially black female characters, emotional impact on others is ignored or downplayed even though there's context to support just how important it is/they are. Lastly, you can ship JayVik without using anti-black and misogynoir type rhetoric because the amount that has flooded this fandom, but especially from some fans of this ship, is atrocious. Ship what you like, but be respectful and careful with certain things you say, is all I'm saying.

[hussyknee]

Rundown of the current protests, rioting and state crackdown that have erupted in France over the police murder of a 17 year old brown boy.

I've seen way too many Europeans on here insisting ACAB is just a USAmerican thing. It's really important y'all know that it isn't. Cops as an institution is fundamentally fascist, and in the Global North, white supremacist.

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Rest in power baby boy.

*Correction: Nahel wasn't Black, but Maghrebi (of North African descent). Apologies for the mistake.

[softbutchthatlovesyou]

Hello White Transmasc who doesn't believe any men face opression.

In front if you are two post.

One is a post that says no transmen face opression because men aren't opressed for being men under any circumstances.

The other is a post filled to the link limit with all the ways Black Men have been denied their mandhood, beaten, and killed. It also has their list of names.

You will have two hours to press post on one of them, and add an insightful reasoning why this is the post you chose to put out.

Good luck :)

[laniidae-passerine]

I’m one of those people who will double down on an m/f pairing when I realise that the female character is being ignored or degraded by the fandom because she’s ‘in the way’ for a gay ship involving a white boy (especially when she’s black or brown) and I think I’d just like that on the record

[crimeronan]

AU Hunter taking care of Luz's hair? 🥺

YEAH... okay you guys can have my thoughts.

i'm always playing fast and loose with the number of servants on hand at any given moment. realistically luz would have servants to help her with her hair and getting dressed and whatnot, but i also like thinking about hunter taking care of her hair.

it's something i think could start when they're really little, honestly -- i'm gonna go out on a limb and say belos Probably did not bother learning how to care for his afro-latina daughter's hair, even if he was never Overtly Racist toward her. (i DO think the novelty of "you're a human!! <3" overpowered everything else wrt her skin tone, thank god.)

and given that he is Child Neglect Georg, it probably wasn't getting taken care of until hunter himself was like. hey. this is making luz Miserable. i fix.....

very fond of the idea that one of the few times hunter has actually asked darius for help has been in learning to moisturize and wrap and braid textured hair.

anyway with all of this as background, my main thought Today was about the worst timeline AU, where luz spends months thinking he's dead and completely gives up. on everything. under ordinary circumstances camila would help her with her hair, but luz does Not like being touched (for perfectly understandable reasons) and is prone toward freaking out, so camila is very anxious at the thought of asking to detangle or cut it.

so hunter gets there and sees that luz's hair is a giant fucking mess, which is part of why he thinks camila has been neglecting/hurting her, and he spends most of that first night going through approximately 85% of the hair products in the bathroom as he detangles the mats. because luz doesn't have any problem being touched by him and in fact wants him to stay near her and keep touching her hair for as long as possible. & hair care as a form of intimacy gets me Every Tiiiime......

waugh.

[ariel-s-awesome]

Dang, I was surprised that people write their relationship as abusive. Even with all it's wackiness and their moralities it's pretty healthy.

I think people also need to be aware of the source material's tone when they're writing a darker version. Like part of why (most of) the DC focused halves of the official Looney Tunes x DC crossover comics sucked is because they didn't realize that dramatic Looney Tunes characters are inherently funny. Nobody's gonna take it as seriously as when you write your usual grimdark superhero comics.

That and like you said, it needs to say something meaningful. Which means it needs to have actual thought put behind the characters instead of just making them edgy for the sake of it. For example:

I said most of them sucked because the Martian Manhunter x Marvin the Martian one used them being Martians and plausibly being the last of their kinds (at least in some incarnations) to form a connection between them.

This Marvin's species was wiped out after humans took advantage of the Martians offering help. So he went to other universes to find other Martians. So when he found the last Martian in this universe living on Earth while acting as their hero of course this canonically sweet (on a personal level), yet extremely violent little guy would decide to "rescue" Manhunter by destroying the Earth.

Except this time it's serious because he's not flippantly doing it for petty reasons. He's jaded, furious at humanity, and won't back down between that and being scared of them hurting J'onn.

Meanwhile the Lex Luthor x Porky Pig comic's writers didn't seem to know or even think about Porky. Why would they pair Lex up with Porky? Sure, Marvin (the best fit being an alien) is taken, but what about Wile E. Coyote? They've got the same genius undone by constantly antagonizing a foe they could never win against thing going on. Maybe they could've tried to work together to take out their respective nemesis before betraying each other.

Or Yosemite Sam could've gotten in Luthor's way when he tried to do a development project or whatever in his territory and fought back. Actually, Bugs would do the same with less guns and with an intellectual challenge for the evil genius. Daffy Duck would've been a good match too with how he cyberbullied Luthor within that very comic. (Not to toot my own horn but I wrote a fic on what Daffy's been up to during the comic.)

Instead Luthor hired Porky and inexplicably decided to make him the social media manager of his Twitter-like website. (Which is just as toxic. Amazingly, this comic was made pre-Elon Musk buying Twitter.) Does Porky even have tech skills? I can't see him knowing much beyond spreadsheets. And he doesn't exactly have the best social skills either.

Then Porky's solution to not being able to figure out who was stealing lunches from the employee fridge was to boa under pressure to resolve it quick and blame the Hispanic janitor. Who instantly got fired. So Porky, one of the nicest Looney Tunes, is racist now???

(Lex Luthor was the one stealing lunches. Because that's exactly what we need to show that this is a Serious Story and that Lex Luthor is Evil.™ Superdickery level shit.)

The story didn't get any better and ended with Porky being used as the fall guy for something he was only tangentially related to and getting jailed. Somehow. Dunno how anyone bought that.

Anyways, it's technically not fanfiction (or even Sam and Max) but those crossovers are a good demonstration of what to do or not do when putting goofy characters in a more serious situation. Sam and Max (at least the games) are tonally far closer to Looney Tunes than the gritty DC comics anyways.

Actually, the DC comics are good examples themselves when their superheroes started out as (and often still are) a fairly lighthearted cast of characters who pulled about as many new powers out of their asses as Looney Tunes characters find highly specific useful tools in their non-existent pockets. And they usually keep the silly outfits. You gotta have real talent to make people sincerely follow a dramatic Aquaman or whoever story.

Do you ever feel like at times, Sam and Max fan content can get a tad bit too dramatic for a comedy series?

I think sam and max (the telltale games at least) is the perfect blend of comedy and sincerity because even when the stories get tense it's always done with an air of absurdity. But i can also understand why people would be put off by something like The Devil's Playhouse after only knowing sam and max as the funny animal detectives who punch racists

[badaziraphaletakes]

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I think we must add to our list of problematic insults... Racism and/or stereotypes against the Japanese people.

And after that I'm going to bed for the day

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

im disappointed but not surprised at the misogyny of the loki fandom. Sylvie isnt known as the complex, traumatized character she is whos also an anarchist against the system that kidnapped her and destroyed her home, shes heralded as a horrible, awful and evil witch who’s trying to get in the way of lokius because shes a whore. What about B-15? No one actually cares about her existence in the series so long as she isn’t getting in the way of their white male blorbos. Instead of having an interesting dynamic between miss minutes and ravonna to make them capable antagonists in this series, they just decide to have them fight over timely, also did I mention how fucking weird it was to make an ai have a crush on him?Meanwhile Mobius and Loki are seen as innocent cinnamon rolls who can do no wrong which ignores everything they’ve done and the fact that these are GROWN MEN. Genuinely yall are so predictable with your treatment of women and POC and I’m always unfortunately right.

@punkeropercyjackson @the-cat-and-the-birdie

[mashmouths]

so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

[genderkoolaid]

Hi! I wrote a medium article!

If you've been at all interested in what I've been posting about historical sex work and FTM crossdressing, that's what this is about. I go over three examples of this in ancient Greece, Renaissance Venice, and 19th-20th-century San Francisco, and talk a bit about my thoughts on how these stories tie in to transmasculine erasure (& specifically the erasure of gay transmasculinity).

[sukibenders]

Not some CaitVi stans playing victim on Twitter, wondering why no one vibes with them anymore, even though they went on a spree of harassing black Arcane fans, calling them, Ekko's VA, and black Arcane characters racial slurs while pretending they [Reed and black fans] were homophobic for not liking how Cait was a cop and gassed Zaun, even going as far as to dox some fans for even daring to ship Vi with someone else (who is black). But, suddenly they feel unsafe in the fandom? Sure, Jan.

[electric-friend]

wait hang on 😭😭 are people seriously debating “he’s a complicated man” right now??

i agree that izzy’s an unreliable narrator, and i think that some of the things he’s said about ed aren’t necessarily true, much as many other things he’s said are also not necessarily true. he’s not really aware of the full picture the whole time, poor duck, as much as i adore him.

but like… besides the fact it really doesn’t have anything to do with wether or not you think izzy’s doing complex evil shit to ed on purpose, and people seem to be making it about that…

ed is VERY MUCH a complicated man. as someone who relates to ed probably more than stede or izzy… he’s absolutely a complicated man. ed can be violent, and suicidal, and he clearly experiences some form of emotional dysregulation, and he’s done things to people that weren’t justified. the crew was traumatised by ed’s behaviour and how much violence he placed them in a position to commit.

the way ed responds to rejection is so violent and out of proportion, his consecutive raids, his suicidal antagonism towards the crew… and for me and my personal issues, that’s extremely relatable… but it is NOT mentally well behaviour.

ed also exhibits patterns of disordered alcohol use, and his anger often causes him to lash out (yes, often at izzy who pushes his buttons, and yes, izzy’s behaviour is a factor in this. but it’s also worth noting ed has agency as a character and his violence is still violence, provoked or not) and one of his most integral traumas is how an act of violence saved him from the violent alcoholic who was his father.

there’s nothing about ed that’s not a complicated man. he’s done bad things that weren’t justified. that doesn’t make him a bad man. it makes him a complicated one. it’s very clear he knows how to be a better person. and that he can be. that the show left out a lot of that journey is really disappointing, but ed feels like he’s a monster and he does bad things to become the villain he thinks he deserves to be treated as, you know?

he is SUCH a complicated man. that doesn’t mean he’s irredeemable or bad, it doesn’t mean there’s a moral obligation to dislike him either. none of that’s the case. but izzy got it right when he called ed complicated. i think in some ways izzy had finally realised that he wasn’t always going to understand ed because ed wasn’t always going to think the way he did, but he was coming to accept that he didn’t need ed to be someone he could understand as long as ed was happy? does that make sense? i know that’s a sappy outlook on a canonically toxic relationship but i just cannot believe that there’s a genuinely widely accepted take going around which boils down to people thinking it’s wrong to call ed a complicated man. like, huh???? girl….