#the inherent racism in this shit

[ahalliance]

American-validated Frenchge 🥖

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Etoiles: —and you put this face— next to the camera! Like this!

Foolish: (laughing) You’re so French!

Etoiles: I’m so French, that’s my main problem. Like I’m so French, I try sometimes to nerf myself and be like, less French

Etoiles: But that feels good to hear this because you say I’m so French and like, some racist people in France think I’m not because I’m Arabic too, so—

Foolish: Ohhhh

Etoiles: —that feels good too, you know

Foolish: No dude, you seem like a French ass French person—

Etoiles: (laughing)

Foolish: I don’t know how else to put it. Simply put

Etoiles: That feels good, man. I was saying hello to Tarik and all his chat was saying like Frenchge, the emote they are putting—

Foolish: Oh yeah

Etoiles: —the emote they are putting. Yeah, yeah, yeah

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[bookshelfdreams]

finally watched Netflix The Sandman a while back and can i just say, from the way fandom talks about it, I would not have guessed that Hob Whatshisface is a minor side character who was in half an episode, and who's most notable action is loudly thinking about getting in on the transatlantic slave trade.

(before you get your knickers in a twist, I'm not making a judgement on anyone's character for liking him or shipping him with Dream, or whatever. There's just certain tendencies and patterns in fandom, and at some times, they are more apparent than others)

[nashvillethotchicken]

People will ask "why did lestat buy the Fairplay for louis? Does show!Louis not have his own money" as if 1: either Tom Anderson or the other one would sell it to him outright (they literally gave him horrific terms for a business deal in ep 1 because they wanted to take him down a peg) or 2: Lestat doesnt explicitly love spending money on Louis and what he wants

[macbethz]

I say this as someone who genuinely likes most of that hbomb vid and thinks it has some valid critiques of Sherlock you gotta stop saying “moffat can write individual episodes but can’t showrun” because it just makes it look like you don’t have individual thoughts

[shallowrambles]

So I've been thinking. It's funny how enjoying meta is somewhat embedded with trust.

Like, if you're "friends" and have followed a person for a long time, you have more a sense of their values, and it's easier to read their difficult meta because you trust more that they're being charitable/nuanced.

If you don't know them, it's harder to trust that they're not funneling difficult topics into rationalization of liking/supporting gross shit.

[antiqua-lugar]

the terror has me itching to fall into another rabbit hole about victorian racism because they absolutely nail the despair james would feel at "not being even English" but I need the details of what the Victorians were thinking about the Brazilians specifically. It's already pretty wild that James ends up embodying the English fear of miscegenation of all things, which right now I can't remember if it's openly addressed when it comes to Francis and Sophia or it's only implied (I am aware about the essays on how the Irish are an inferior race of "white gorillas", I don't believe for a second Sir John wasn't) but the ties to a different colonial empire...they had a caste system too, to add to the mindfuckery.

[bisexualseraphim]

Person of colour on TV: *exists*

Every fucking white person over the age of 45 in a 10 mile vicinity: There’s too many BLACK people on TV now there’s gonna be no white people soon. Seeing one person who makes up less than 18% of the population is obviously an indication that we’re being oppressed and wiped out. I am totally normal and mentally sound thanks for asking. I can vote btw

[coffeesforclosers13]

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[violetparakeetchuggerofkerosene]

i don't think people talk enough about how shoddy the dothraki are as a fantasy counterpart culture of horse-riding nomads

the cultures grrm mentioned as inspirations, the central asian steppe nomads and plains indians, are not only very different from each other in very important ways, but very different from the dothraki in ways that betray some very questionable beliefs and assumptions about real-life nomadic cultures

i personally trust his judgment here. even a cursory reading of the dothraki came off as odd to me: what do you mean these fantasy nomadic characters supposedly based on real cultures have no personality beyond raping, murdering, and enslaving?

[starfieldcanvas]

"white people stop" — that's my race tag.

WOW.

FUCKING WOW.

Racist much?

i am a white people

[scar-can-relate]

Person in 2024 DARES to come on MY dash with FUCKING BLAZE to discuss H//WARTS HOUSES??? Fuck this shit FRRR!!

[mossflower]

what the fuck

[justamanlookingforham]

I may be a coward but if I don't punch a racist once in my life then I fucking failed as a person

[outpost-31]

Hey just a reminder that anybody who believes in " reverse racism " or who reblogs any of that same white supremacy shit is not welcome on my blog ! At all ! I dont want you anywhere near me, I will immediately block and report you

[volkswagenital]

honestly i find it really odd when people are like, surprised or whatever that east asian animation, particularly anime, is so popular among people who live outside of east asia. or even kinda just have a stick up their ass about it

im not saying you HAVE to like it or anything, but being surprised is something i admittedly find confusing. there are tons of adults who work in the animation industry because they love animation- obviously, goes without saying. people usually know that. but its also true that there are tons of adults, artists or not, that love animation and might want to watch it. and i think thats where people seem to get lost? for some reason?

while theres exceptions to just about anything, obviously, the overwhelming majority of mainstream western animation is either 1) childrens cartoons or 2) seth mcfarlane/s*uth p*rk adjacent "Haha Racism Is FunnY, Guys". so if someone wants to watch some really nice looking animation that doesnt just rely on saying slurs to try to be funny, has an actually engaging story, and thats also intended for their age range? anime has a lot more options.

now, thats not to say that anime is inherently superior than everything else and its the best thing ever or whatever either. theres a lot of common tropes in anime that are annoying as shit and i wont say they arent. but like. considering western animations options it really shouldnt be all that shocking

[lord-squiggletits]

Now I may be overgeneralizing a bit, but I feel like in certain fics as well as the audiences for those fics, there's a weird tendency for the writers/audience to treat Optimus as if he's some sort of goody two shoes who doesn't care about his own race because of his love/respect for organics and it like...bothers the hell out of me honestly lol.

Like if you would rather focus on Cybertronian politics and ignore/even retcon out the organic destruction caused by the war, I totally get it. People find the Cybertronian politics way more interesting, there's not really as much lore on the aliens of the TF universe besides humans, you're tired of the Decepticons being bad guys, yeah like I get it.

I just find it incredibly off-putting when people (in fics or otherwise) try to frame Optimus prioritizing organics as legitimate criticism of him when it's not?????? Like his stance across multiple continuities is universally "organics are equal beings to us, we brought the war to their planets, they don't deserve to be hurt or exploited by us" and I don't fucking get how people can possibly frame that as a bad thing. HOW are mfs in this fandom treating Optimus as if his empathy/care for organic races makes him annoying or self-righteous or selfish like what.