#yes it is the racism

[rolandmoiraschitt]

Just replayed DE last night and man, I get that you’re the main character and also basically have super detective powers, and people do fear you and thus shower you with undue respect, and ACAB, but fuck how it hurts to see my man Kim disrespected and considered as useless compared to Harry, over and over. And he never says anything.

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[flakops]

warrior cats hot takes be upon ye!

[jadedgenasi]

The more I think about Carla the worse it all feels. RTD did a Racism For Idiots episode and that's cool, but did anyone look over the optics of not only Ruby calling her bio mom her "real" mom in front of Carla, but sitting next to her instead of between her two moms (as in, near Carla)? How many people looked at the part where Carla without Ruby states that she only keeps kids for the money and went "hmm yeah that seems fine," like. I've watched enough British TV to know there's a huge fucking blind spot with them as a whole re racism, especially with regard to black people, but what the fuck. It tastes nasty. And it could have been solved so, so easily by acknowledging - reinforcing - that Carla is Ruby's mother. A large portion of the time we got with Carla wasn't even real, and those times were super shitty.

[spacebubblehomebase]

Not art this time but...

Headcanon: Lucifer visits Earth every decade or so as a part of his job as the ruler of Hell. He does it to learn about new sins as "subtly" as he could.

Lucifer: What is ray-sings-sims? Raising-sims? Raisins? Rain-Race-sin? R-Racisms? YES! That! Is it the one where people hate on the opposite sex for absolutely no reason even though humans were all made of the same cosmic dust?

Black woman: (Looking amused at the most stereotypical rich white guy she's ever met asking about sexism and racism.)

Lucifer: Yeah. This cocaine thing is doing absolutely nothing for me. I don't really get it, but this is a sin too. So marking that off the list! Thanks for letting me have a go at this, uh, Mr. Dealer? That's your last name, right? Oh man. I'm really bad at remembering names, but have this as a token of my appreciation. (Gives him a thousand dollars which is basically worth even more at the time.)

Drug dealer: (Gobsmacked the guy was still able to keep walking after practically inhaling every drug in existence back then in one go.)

Lucifer: So this, um, cult thing? How did it get assigned to our department again? It sounds just like what Heaven does to me. Huh. Ah well. I guess I'll just roll with it like everyone else here. (Shrugs.) Yay, cult! Sooo do I get to keep the robe? It's kinda comfy- Aw wait there's murder? One died a-and another... Oh... OH... Ooooh boy. Oof. Yikes... So this means I can DEFINITELY keep the robe, right?

Lucifer: Ah yes. Burning the witch. Time to list down all the sorry souls who threw their life into the flame by believing in the occult arts. (Lists down everyone in the crowd who burned said "witch.") And as for Ms. Agnes The Witch here... Hmm. Well, that's for Heaven to worry about! Toodles~! Or, uh, Tickety-Boo!

(Needless to say, dear Luci has been an accidental charmer back on Earth. ^v^ Specially to sinners and people who were just unjustly treated during those times. He just had to see what every sin was for himself and try them out from time to time, but he didn't know he's been perceived as acting with the manners and traditions he gathered from the LAST decade he was on Earth so to everyone who's long gone pass those times, he comes off as a polite old-school rich white man. Naive yet surprisingly non-judgemental.)

-Bubbly💙

[arkiwii]

the "arknights is better than genshin" people went real queiet since the summer event dropped

[babygirlhaljordan]

one of my biggest complaints for dc is the lack of indian ppl in gotham. like if ur setting a city in new jersey, a state thats literally dubbed as “little india” from how many indians are there yet not a single 1 in gotham?! how am i supposed to take you seriously

[erabu-san]

Could you not blackwash characters? Idk why you suddenly started doing this but its incredibly annoying.

Could you educate yourself ? Idk why you suddenly decided spit your ignorant opinion but I don't care if you are annoyed.

[rjalker]

fandom worships white men so much everyone will latch onto a rich white guy and come up with fifty thousand reasons why he was definitely the single person in that white supremacist rich kid club who was definitely not racist. Because these people can't stop worshipping white men for five seconds and are desperate to latch onto the first conventionally attractive white man they can find. So now we're going to have to suffer through hundreds of posts worshipping Ricky September and coming up with a million and one explanations and backstories and headcanons pretending that he was definitely not racist because uhhhhhhh *checks notes* he's a white man and white people who haven't bothered unpacking enough racism think he's hot and think being hot means you're automatically a good person.

You people can just not latch onto the first white man you see. I promise you'll survive.

And if you're one of the people doing this, you need to stop and think about why you're so desperate to excuse and exonerate a rich white man living in a society literally designed to foster white supremacy so you can make him your new favorite blorbo.

[t4tstarrailing]

THIS IS NOT A SHIP POST. THIS IS PURELY SPECULATION.

a lot of people are saying that what sugilite says is like, beef with aventurine right off the bat. but I honestly disagree with that statement strongly.

I don't think aventurine wants to be a stoneheart anymore, especially after that conversation with acheron in the void. his reaction isn't necessarily what I would call a happy react, more like a resigned "so, this is really my fate isn't it?"

I think sugilite recognizes that aven wants out, was hoping to use his death as an out, and sugilite was trying to give him an out with his vote. whether it be for business purposes (eg. he won't be as dedicated to the stonehearts anymore, therefore he should be let go for someone more loyal) or for sympathetic purposes, I'm not entirely sure. but it's definitely not an aggressive or "beef starting" statement. it's a simply a statement that is probably true, and that makes me very curious about him since no one else seemingly pointed that out, even those closest to aventurine (topaz and jade).

overall, sugilite seemed to be one of the few to perceive aventurine as an actual person (other being pearl, but she may have made her judgment based off her own values rather than aventurine as a person) and not by his value, as the other Stonehearts went on to discuss that aventurine still has lots of value to give the Stonehearts or went on a tangent about their own desires (eg. obsidian's desire for bloodshed).

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

the fact of the matter is every single servant seen in acotar are coded as people of color and those they serve are white. that is an intentional hierarchy sarah set up and compounds on in every single book. the only thing we know of alis outside of her service role to tamlin, and eventually feyre, are her nephews and the fact that she had a life before spring. there is quite literally nothing about the twins that exists outside of their role of servitude.

we do not know when and where they were born, their parents, any non-shallow explanation of their powers or abilities, their beliefs, their wishes, any personal anecdotes. they exist as people as much as rhysand’s sister does which is to say not at all. so yes it is very weird to set them up as elain’s “friends” who will train her as a spy, role of servitude, set her up with azriel, role of servitude, or dress her, role of servitude.

[nekropsii]

thank you for carrying the torch of hemoanarchists with the posts that detailed how shitty/racist hussie was. feels like people nowadays enjoy flattening their personality into either "theyre a saint <3" or "theyre the worst person ever to live" when like. theyre not perfect. they were just somebody

Thank you, and I’m glad you like my posts, but I will put it on record now that I’m not really carrying the torch of any specific blogger. I’m speaking up on behalf of all of the Homestucks of Color that the fandom has brutally harassed out of the community for the crime of saying the truth. I loathe the fandom’s blindness to racism, especially racism in their own corner, and their black and white mentality with regards to the notion of Bad People.

Hussie was indisputably racist during the time of writing Homestuck. That much is fact, denying so is abject stupidity and spitting in the eyes of reason. I don’t care what your minority status is, I don’t care who or what you are, if you say Hussie wasn’t antiblack during Homestuck’s serialization, you are an idiot. Demonstrably so. White people do not not casually throw the N-Word around as a joke for non-racist reasons. White people do not draw and write racial caricatures as a joke for non-racist reasons. Bigoted jokes made at the expense of a minority are still bigoted.

Hussie was not a saint. This is true. Again, the racism. But they aren’t the devil, either - some of the things people accuse Hussie of… They’re just not true. Even I’ve fallen victim to that mentality before. Years upon years of getting told, starting at about age 13, that Hussie’s Avatar is indicative of Hussie, and therefore Hussie was actually sexually attracted to Vriska… Will get that ingrained in your head, even if it’s not true. Years upon years of discourse saying Hussie is superhuman levels of terrible with nobody contesting it will get you thinking Hussie is completely terrible, and that every little accusation made at their expense is true. After all, when you start accepting one bad thing about someone being true, it’s easy to start accepting all those other things, too.

Hussie is not a saint. Never was. Hussie has flaws, some of which were… Very appropriate for the era, and the demographic she belonged to. Again. The racism. But, sincerely, a lot of the Hussie Hate is majorly overblown and founded on nothing in particular. A lot of it is commonly believed just because it’s never really been challenged before. Just because a guy was racist in the 2000s does not mean they were also a pedophile. What the fuck?

Hussie was just some guy. A flawed guy, yeah. Racist guy. But genuinely just some guy. Not a child predator, not a superbigot, absolutely not comparable to fucking J.K. Rowling, Jesus Christ. Some guy. Regular dude on the internet. Did some bad things. So did you. Forgive them or don’t. But maybe get a source for all those claims you make.

[tiredqueermushroom]

I'm seeing some bad Dorian takes already... it's concerning the number of people that suggest that he's "unwilling" to move position or be reasoned with because 1.) In game, we have herd very little from Dorian himself and only through Robbie during cooldown and 2.) It's been like 2 days since his world fell apart give him a little grace, also he hasn't talked in depth with anyone yet.

I just find it's strange that people think his stance comes from being unable to accept responsibility for how things happen with the crown keepers, when we know for a fact the he does 100% blame himself and carries that guilt and that killing the gods would be his way of atonement.

I also don't like the idea that dorian is being 'tricked' like no, he has agency and he can use said agency to disagree with other (white) characters. The onus isn't on Dorian for being "tricked" but on Ludinus for using manipulative techniques to appeal to those rightfully pissed at the gods.

I also find it really odd that the same people who give dorian very little grace have said nothing about Ashton. Who 1.) Openly said he was on Ludinus' side the most and 2.) Had a borderline nihilistic take to the situation, like at least be consistent. Is being anti-god bad, or is it only bad when the character of colour does it?

[ludcake]

George R R Martin: in my lorebook, I'm going to make the western accounts of the eastern peoples outlandish and incredibly racist, and note how they think the same of the people in the West, to illustrate how Orientalism propagates through ignorance and stereotype and Othering of other cultures and peoples, ascribing mysticism and exoticity to the mundane and different

Redditors: wow, isn't it cool how outlandish and unbelievable these eastern civilizations are, they're so weird and wacky with their beliefs and magic

[elbiotipo]

random history fan: THE BYZANTINE (ROMAN EMPIRE) WAS THE GREATEST EMPIRE EVER (THEY WERE THE ROMAN EMPIRE ACTUALLY) THEY SURVIVED FOR CENTURIES (BECAUSE LIKE THE ROMANS THEY WERE ETERNAL) AS THE STAUNCH DEFENDERS OF CHRISTIANITY (THE REAL ROMAN RELIGION, NOT THE CATHOLICS) AGAINST THE EEEEEEEVIL TURKS (WHO WEREN'T ROMAN, UNLIKE THE BYZANTINES, WHO WERE THE ROMAN EMPIRE, DID YOU KNOW THE BYZANTINES WERE THE ROMAN EMPIRE) TRULY AN EMPIRE WHO DESERVES TWENTY EXPANSIONS FOR MY FAVORITE STRATEGY GAME THEY WERE SO POWERFUL AND ROMAN AND COOL

the Byzantines in real-life history: *civil war, loses territories against the Ottomans* *civil war, loses territories against the Ottomans* *civil war, loses territories against the Ottomans* *civil war, loses territories against the Ot