#rk speaks

[rheakira]

I've come to temporarily break my hiatus to bring up something deeply important. Because after a recent event, if I have to go another day without talking about it, I don't know what I'll do.

Fandoms have an enormous issue when it comes to bigotry and people feeling comfortable enough to be openly bigoted.

And I want to make it clear: everyone is capable of it. In fact, most people do it more often than they don't. But because this strange myth has been built up that if you aren't "blatantly saying slurs" or "killing others" it can't possibly be bigotry, we have done nothing but become dangerous behind closed doors.

If your friend has odd beef with a person of color in the fandom and holds them to standards they don't hold their white friends to, that is bigotry. If your friend feels some sort of way about the trans person in your friend group and tries to come up with reasons for why they specifically can't stay, that is also bigotry. If your group insists that a person with a personality disorder is making it up just for attention and uses that as a reason for why they can't be around them, that is bigotry as well.

I've never been upfront about it because... why do I, as a human being, need to be upfront about my identity when people randomly decide what I am? But I am in fact a person of color who is queer and disabled. Whenever I join a fandom group that is mostly white people, I am liked until this is discovered. And then I watch as people get brutal about things I do or say. Things that they don't do to other people in the group, and I also watch as they take my words and either twist them for convenience or ruin my reputation for it.

As a marginalized person, both in fandom and out, you are held to a unique standard that does not apply to other human beings around you. It makes doing what you love very difficult, because unfortunately as a marginalized person, people will always subconsciously side with the person trying to oppress or attack you. This has happened to me my entire life, from school to work spaces to even internet spaces claiming to be safe places.

People will say that they care about you and like you and even form a friendly bond with you, but the moment a person of privilege decides they do not like you very much, they can and will side with the other person even without proof of their issues with you. It's exhausting and ruins lives in places that should be fun and safe.

I am on my umpteenth experience with this exact cycle and I would be lying if I said it didn't make me feel like I couldn't live or breath in places I should be allowed to be involved in. It's a very real problem that refuses to end because no one has the courage to challenge it. I am speaking not only on my own experiences, but for the many other people of color or queers or disabled people who simply cannot join these so called "safe spaces" because of our identities conflicting with people who have been taught that we are lesser and not worth love or care.

If this is a problem you face, please know that I see you and I love you. It's hard to keep surviving in a world that wants to hurt you and leaves you abandoned and alone. I want you to know that the world is scary, but we all exist. You should be allowed to experience joy and fun without feeling like you're being suffocated and wanting to die.

You matter. The people around you that make you feel like you don't are nothing by comparison. You matter and I truly hope that we'll one day find each other and become the safe space that we deserve.

The marginalized people in your fandom are more important than your fictional characters and plotlines that you put above us. We're here and we're not leaving. Learn to live with us and protect us.

If we're truly your friends, you would care when your privileged "friends" want to remove us.

Additionally, please do not take this rant and make it only about white people who are part of these marginalized categories. This is a post about EVERYONE. Including the people of color around you. Do not remove us from this conversation. Care about ALL OF US if you support this at all. Thank you.

[aulga]

I think Kusuo Saiki and Anzu Hoshino would be good friends. Two people who don't want to be apart of a harem but still become friends with them and treat them like people. Both love sweets (Saiki would feel sad that this tiny seemly-indestructable magical wizard is preventing her from eating her favorite sweet. He would have killed Riri). Neither can handle bugs. Both have stereotype friends that actually have more to them than they seem (they would love each other's friend groups. For the most part anyway). Saiki would feel safe around Anzu since she would NOT let anyone get away with stalking or trying to trap him. Saiki wouldn't let anyone do the same to her either. I think after a situation got a bit too out of hand in Anzu's life, Saiki would tell her he has psychic powers and she would be like "Are you with the wizard?" and he'd be like "No" and then they'd be friends.

[foursaints]

saints what are your opinions on rosekiller's (very) unusual ways of showing affection?

i mean like evan biting barty when theyre laying together, barty pulling strands of evan's hair hard enough for it to hurt but not hard enough to rip it out, evan tapping barty's skin (like tapping tapping, like how asmr-tists (?) tap on things) just because it feels nice, etc.

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I'M GONNA SAY SOMETHING CONTROVERSIAL 🙌 i don't see them as a couple with a lot of PDA. yes, barty is obsessively slavering all over evan in public, but it's like... one-sided and perhaps a touch performative? the most affection evan will publicly show is maybe quietly holding onto barty's sleeve <- he is always doing this

but i think they're perceptive characters who are both highly Aware of each other's bodies at any given moment, and their real pda is just how seamlessly they move around each other. it's how they always end up sitting next to one another, or anticipating each other's movements and needs. they're not touching, but you can almost palpably feel them pinging each other like satellites.

fanon barty is super touchy in private too. and i agree that in public/with friends he 100% is (he likes to use physicality to Instigate Reactions). but i try to remind myself that ESPECIALLY with an intimate partner, he is someone with deep issues surrounding bodily autonomy/his own embodiment, who is unused to being touched in a nonviolent way. there's a difference between barty initiating sexual contact and the more casual intimacy you describe. EVAN is the one who grew up cuddling a sibling, and he most likely initiates those little shows of affection....

but mostly i think they show affection via that quiet mutual (somewhat stalker-ish) awareness. it's a careful peeling back of their respective shells

[deus-ex-mona]

tokishun’s qrt of the ed announcement t h o u g h lmaoooooooo

[inkbagel]

“Jason Todd would listen to pop girl music” this, “Jason Todd is a swiftie” that, WRONG!!!!! Jason Todd listens to paramore and mitski. I am a Jason Todd paramore truther fight me on this

[ssruis]

Since the prsk videos playlist has over doubled in length since I last shared it here please enjoy the fruits of profound mental unwellness.

[mynameisrobiniamadumbass]

every time i listen to dive/tune into the madness and hear the lyrics "a little lassie in an overcoat"/"a small lad sitting in the tall grass" i start crying

that lassie sure is little. that lad sure is small.

[lunar-years]

Thinking of all my favorite roykeeley moments and literally all of them are before they get together or right after they get together (still s1) lmao like everyone complains about their treatment in s3 but to be frank…their writing in s2 was also a DAMN mess.

[angels-worship]

🪽 - Daemon / Angel

🎀 - 13 [Bodily min♡r]

💌 - B♡y , D♡llgender, R♡sb♡y

💕 - He/It/Sun/L♡ve

🪽 - Gay

🎀 - Trans/Cisids - cis- fultist , clingy , ad♡ring , bpd , dpd. trans - cultist , enam♡rid , ♡wned , narc♡lepsy , abused , c♡nsang , f♡rced , w♡rshipper , darling , dependent , harmed , perma - kid , null - sleep , null - blink , null - reflecti♡n , null - sustenance

💌 - Paras - 🧸 , 🦴 , 💥 , 🐊 , 💐 , 🔱 , 🩳 , 👁️ , ⚠️ , 🔪 , 🪢 , 🔗 , 🪓 , 🦌 , 🛐 , 🧹 , 🩹☂️ , ✨🪓 , 💢🔪 , 👏🪄

💕 - I am fine with anything and any♡ne interacting with me ! I see myself as 13 th♡ugh you can refer t♡ me as any age y♡u'd like me to be . I am an angel wh♡m wishes to w♡rship someb♡dy and be useful

(♡ = o)

Tags <3

🪽 - it talks

🎀 - st♡len w♡rks (rebl♡gs)

💌 - angels ids

💕 - thy g♡ds wish t♡ speak (asks, in this c♡ntext g♡ds are genderneutral)

[piperslovebot]

I'm a huge shipper and t90s to me is what tsc is to sara (had to give her a shoutout!). Everyone just meshes so well and they have so much chemistry (platonic, romantic, familial, etc.)

[emberglowfox]

i love when spotify is like we made a playlist of all the essential songs by one of your favorite artists!! and i skim it and am like no you didn't. you don't know them like i do. goodbye

[b1mbodoll]

working on this gamer kkura request and im going insane!!!!!!!! like gamer kkura makes u dress up as her fave characters n recite hentai dialogue and cums on ur face bc she likes takin pics afterwards

[cabeswaterdrowned]

I’ll always wonder if I could’ve been capital i Into rovinsky if I’d gotten into fandom at a different point…

[weaselishmcdiesel]

NEW RKS ALBUM DROPPING !!!!

[kidrunaway]

seeing the babyfication of RK makes me scream in the most negative way possible.

[bugstung]

I hate writing Rui so much