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saltycollectornerdme · 3 months ago

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#john boyega #reparations #slavery in the US #black people #black people of African descent #yes we are african #black power #black people band together #marvelcomics #marvel comics #cartoons #digimon #digimon adventure #racism #racism in the us #i'm tired #i'm done

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xejune · 2 years ago

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little request for @bookcalanthedaily of her calanthe & ciri (+ an additional tiny comic), thank you for your patience! ✨

sketches + process shot underneath the cut!

#the flowercrown is supposed to be made out of feainnewedd flowers but i took a lot of artistic liberties with the colours dshfjh #although they seem to potentially be based off of African Violets; which do come in pink!#the witcher #the witcher books #(kind of?)#the witcher 3 #ciri #cirilla fiona elen riannon #calanthe #queen calanthe #my art #i redrew this piece (& parts of it) so many times djkfsf also thank you to my bf for his patience with me while i was working on this LMAO #me: ah yes. a quick little sketch request; my brain: okay now what if we colour it through a method you're not used to #and also activate perfectionistic tendencies you weren't even aware of #me: sure! i don't see how this could go wrong :)#[cue a montage of multiple weeks passing by]#i had fun with it though!#will tumblr let this post appear in the tags? who knows! we'll see!#fanart

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bijoumikhawal · 2 months ago

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*sees a long post from an American comparing Cardassia to the USSR/China* *rolls eyes and keeps scrolling*

#cipher talk #It's not that I think those are bad comparisons #It's that I don't trust white American liberals to make them and when yall do it tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth #Kinda veers into orientalism (and yes this is a factor in how Americans and Western Europe views Russia for shitty reasons)#As well as a weird fascination combined with loathing towards leftists that's just gross to be around #I don't even especially like the USSR or some of China's policies post revolution #Including the tendency some people have toward Han supremacy #But Cardassia is a Mish mash of whatever is scary to white progressive men in the 90s #And includes inspiration from the Ottoman British and Japanese empires as well as the Nazis who were Not Communists #So primarily analyzing Cardassia as a communist nation really is just. Foolish? Because they're also compared to fascists #Especially because we don't ACTUALLY know anything about Cardassian economics or much detail about politics #We know they venerate the family (which rings true for Chinese Japanese and Ottoman comparisons)#We know they have a military led ruling class that tries to balance with the Detapa council; military ruling class is not really like #A communist thing it's a dictatorship/authoritarian/fascist thing. A lot of African countries have or had those #Almost none of us are 'communist' in a meaningful way. At best Nasser was a socialist and that's not the same #And you can infer there's classism even from alpha Canon as well as food insecurity #If anything I think a pretty pressing comparison to Cardassia as a whole is they're Turks.#And even that is vague and stretches a bit because they weren't DESIGNED with that much intention #They were designed to be scary and not with a specific ideology and economic policy #If they were designed with such specifics by a politically informed person you would NOT have references to the Nazis alongside references #To communism because those two things are actually the opposite economic/political policy #And the ways they commit atrocities such as genocide or extend neocolonial influence aren't the same!#China for example has a VERY different stance to the US when it does that to the point where many Africans vastly prefer #To deal with Chinese companies because there's a material benefit from it even though Africans are often not getting a good deal #This doesn't make those dealings 'good' but it goes to show how just having a political history recently rooted in communism #Impacts how a government approaches things #Any government unfortunately is capable of genocide colonialism and imperialism. Resistance to those things is not simple.

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nyloww · 3 months ago

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update: he’s got lineart and flat colors now

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sudaca-swag · 11 months ago

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i get so mad whenever i get one of Aylen Park's videos not bc of her shes lovely, but i cant stand the comments of diaspora people saying "omg you speak spanish better than me" like yeah i fucking wonder why, maybe bc shes literally argentinean born and raised and you are a 3rd gen usamerican her fucking name is Aylen just say you never lived a day in latam asdkekelc

#yes we are from all races and descend from various nationalities in latam arabs asians africans native americans white etc etc etc

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im-not-a-sheep · 5 months ago

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man wtf is it with tf2 fans and writing everehzing liek dis zo ve can undarstand Zhe accent, fuck you, I bet yall make fun of accents in your spare time or something

#Specifically thinking of everyone ik who makes fun of my south African friend for the way he says “off”#I've done it ONCE #and that's it #But when people KEEP DOING IT #makes me wanna fight em #Like YES WE KNOW he says off like oughff or some shit #ITS HIS ACCENT???#OTHERWISE HE SOUNDS LIKE YOU MF SBFKSNKFNGG #that case particularly annoys me bc idk how ppl are still surprised at the way he pronounces off

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atopvisenyashill · 5 months ago

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i finished my family tree for corlys/house velaryon/dragon twins AND i used that to solidify one for my “freya hightower” au which i decided to combine with my “ned finds out he has magical kids” au for shits and giggles. Catelyn deserves a crazy Hightower mom to queen out with alright!

Who wants to hear me ramble for like 5k words on the Summer Isles’ diaspora and the way the various cultures in Westeros mesh together.

#getting on my soap box #finding that many mixed actors was a bit of a challenge but i did it #altho once again i gave up for a martell-valyrian match like there’s only so many north african and palestinian actors in the world ya kno #and since this was an exercise in ‘how do we make show corlys fit into the book canon story’ obviously i was thinking more about backgrounds #then i do with like. wish fulfillment ndn starks or giving rhaenyra & daemon a vietnamese trans child akskdkdkd #yes i did throw in several sapphics AND hightower witches. there should always be a hightower woman doing insane stuff!!

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queenerdloser · 3 months ago

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whiplash conversation with my mom where she told me of her own volition that she plans to vote harris in november (she's republican) bc "no one likes trump" and she also admitted he was basically incoherent and untrustworthy (in the past she's admired him). which then turned into her saying that she didn't see the big deal about harris being the first female president was and that led into. full on big blowout fight about whether or not the patriarchy exists and if we live in one. i was full on yelling. so enraged i was near tears. all while fucking DRIVING. jesus christ.

#liveblogging life #my mom: we live in a DEMOCRACY so we CAN'T also live in a patriarchy checkmate #me: you LIVED through the 60s/70s how can you even say that?????#her: well that was then and we did it all back then so now there is no patriarchy!!!!!!#me: what the fuck are you talking about??????????????#her: harris being a female president means NOTHING obvs we have only ever elected men bc they are all the best for the job #all that matters is if youre good for the job so harris' sex shouldnt even enter into it at all and bringing it up is stupid #me: i mean in an ideal world obvs it'd be nice if sex didnt factor into nominees but we live in a patriarchy so it uh. really does.#also considering we HAVE only had men for the president yes it does significantly matter to finally have a woman in office #her: why do you hate men. :((( me: i never said i did????#it was literally THE most insane conversation ive ever had with another human being in my life #and i once had to explain to my dad that the aids epidemic was not because of african men fucking monkeys #yes THAT was also a really fun conversation too!!!!!!!!!!!#THESE are my parents. how the hell did i learn how to be a human being with these people.#her: well in SAUDI ARABIA women are treated really badly. so there.#me: yeah bc they live in a patriarchy. just like we do here in america. jesus christ.#also im glad she's voting harris but it's pretty clear she's basically doing it bc trump is wildly unpopular lol #like she said something along the line s of 'well no one likes him!!!' twenty times #like okay so if they DID like him you'd vote for him???? omfg.#anyway. insane conversation to have at 10am driving on a highway i've never driven on. before fucking BREAKFAST. jesus christ.

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randomnameless · 1 year ago

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So this may be an odd ask, but if you could pick a real-world culture to be the basis of a Fire emblem nation in a future game, which ones would they be?

Hmm...

Given what Fodlan did to Almyra...

I mean, we're on par with "Verdane was inspired by Persia" from Jugdral, and we're not in the early 1990s anymore, so I'm not really trusting IS with any "real world culture" anymore.

But for some sort of revenge bias - after Almyra and TS, well, Hyzante - I'd like to see IS, try to get designs and clues from the Middle East, but without the 1800s bias that ultimately created Almyra.

I know FE isn't like, an Assassin's Creed game so you can't explore "real world cultures" that much, but if they could just take inspiration for clothes and designs from one "real world" place without slapping obvious prejudices it'd be nice.

#anon #replies #i was thinking about the Golden Sun series recently #sure some villages and locations aren't well developed #but you could see the devs tried their best with the limitations of that time #iirc irl there's a real statue that was used as the model for the Ankol ruin puzzles #and you don't have that much 'those people are savages' claims because even the obviously african themed kibombo #is actually a culture with a very powerful spirit guardian who nets you the necronomicon #even if it's only nods here and there it's a welcome addition #but FE imo shines when it takes inspiration from clues and aesthetics from real life or not but more importantly #when it creates a real state/country which makes you think ah yes this is not any random country this is idk Crimea or Daien #Fodlan really dropped the ball here even if I still think Adrestia and Faerghus from the few things we see and find between the lines are #very different in mindset and governance #alas more differences will have to be found in the 10k years of lore

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urmomsstuntdouble · 1 year ago

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not to be political but I've seen a lot of people saying that those who call Israel an apartheid don't know what they're talking about and um. As someone who has studied South African apartheid as well as grown up in a Jewish community. This claim has more merit than you think

#this post is brought to you by an article i read “debunking” the claim that israel is an apartheid and their “evidence”#included several policies that are the same if not more intense than apartheid era policies against black south africans #there are comparisons that hold weight here #although one thing i dont get and havent had explained to me yet. it looks to me as though both arabs and jews are indigenous to the region #in the way that both the hopewell culture and lenape people are indigenous to my state of pennsylvania #and thats a flimsy comparison i suppose since the hopewell culture (who lived here first chronologically) has died out #but anyway theres a case for indigeneity for both jews and arabs #its so silly to me that we dont consider both to be indigenous? yes many jews that came into israel in the early 20th century were #white europeans and carried the colonial baggage of that with them #but idk why its so hard to believe that an oppressed group can also be an oppressor?? like where's the intersectionality babes #anyway. the original point of this post was that maybe more of yall need to look into what south african apartheid was actually like #much like h*m*s leadership a lot of the ANC leadership was forced into exile and had to live and work outside of their country #(and this comparison is not perfect im aware. the tactics of the anc and h*m*s are totally different. however i think this comparison has #weight in that they are both one of the biggest names in opposition to the government. they do this in different ways at different levels o #intensity and violence. that is not to be ignored. but there are some comparisons that we can make and exile doesnt strike me as a bad one)#the bantustans in south africa were also constructed in a way that much like the west bank makes it highly difficult for an actual real #state to form #and the way that theyre set up invites puppet governments and corruption. this gives a major advantage to the apartheid state #id recommend reading Trevor Noah's Born A Crime if you havent #its a great introduction to what daily life in aparthid and after was like (its a memoir from about 1990-2005ish)#(apartheid was legally ended in 1994 but there are still remnants of it today and there were even more at the time of Born a Crime)#anyway these are my political thoughts of the day #edit: to my tangent about both groups being able to have some sort of claim to indigeneity. that in no way justifies any of the brutality #going on #i think its espeically cringe of israel to claim indigeneity and a sacred relationship with the land then create an environmental #catastrophe like they have in gaza. making the land unliveable is a bit of a perversion of the relationship you have with that land innit #in case it wasnt clear: ceasefire now and free palestine

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bnnywngs · 5 months ago

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foreigners get shocked that brazil have laws against racism, homophobia and feminicide (had to search that), and i get shocked no one else has it lol

#tho a lot of people don't get jailed for that #still too many white people who think they're above anything #and the police is shit #it's not a perfect country but it's nice #gasp! there's racism in brazil!#also YES WE'RE BLACK WHAT ABOUT IT #latino is not a race #latino is a culture #we have the blackest city outside of africa and a strong connection with african cultures and religions #we also have the biggest japanese community outside of japan #besides other countries #and we're fighting for right to live and exist for our indigenous population #anyway #mini rant #personal rant

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hussyknee · 2 years ago

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Nahel the child killed by french cops was not black he was maghrebi, of algerian origins

My bad! Thanks for the heads up, I made the correction both at the top and bottom of the post.

#t-minus until the 'should we use BLM for this murdered African kid' discourse though #yes we should because there's nothing uniform about race. like it's just arbitrary silly buggers rules invented by whites as a caste system #Black in the UK is also different from Black in the US #There's a reason Black used to be a political identity during the Civil Rights Movement #but asking people to define our struggles by our mutual oppressors #instead of comparing individual suffering #is a sure way to get them screaming crying throwing up #fyi none of this is about you nonnie. calling Nahel Black would be imposing a US racial context onto a French one #i'm just ruminating on race as a political identity vs race as a socio-cultural one #asks #anon #nahel m #french protests #knee of huss

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dropdoesdamage · 2 years ago

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does that one French song being popular as a tiktok soundbite mean we can have a resurgence of miriam makeba popularity pleeeaaaaase

#like.#if white people are going to get super into a song by a white lady that is inspired by and about #an even more talented black woman #we should also be enjoying and sharing that black woman's artistry yes #70s black south african music rules!!!!#Youtube

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rustchild · 1 year ago

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#complicated situations complicated world there is context however.#saw someone claim that the tunisian jewish community didn't face antisemitism.#as a point about jewish diasporism and international jewish communities and antizionism #a quick google search will tell you that jews living in territories occupied by vichy france did not have a good time!#even before direct nazi invasion!#just because north african jews weren't all sent to concentration camps doesn't mean............#and that's not getting into the ways in which #yes #anti-israel sentiments can and have been taken out on jewish communities in the MENA region #feeding a vicious cycle #like. obviously it's complicated! but the fact that there is still a tunisian jewish community doesn't mean!#they have never faced violence!#ignoring the ways that wwii and the spread of nazi germany impacted jews in regions other than europe is. in fact.#a form of holocaust denial.#if we want to counter zionism we need to be accurate. even when reality is inconvenient or painful.#radical diasporism can and must reckon with the fact that #the feelings of fear and insecurity #the conviction that jews will never be safe in the diaspora #*come from somewhere*#and there is something to be said about how the israeli government worked with governments across the mena region to displace their #jewish populations #and what that says about zionism.#and there is something to be said about how the violence of the israeli state feeds antisemitism and contributes to violence against #diaspora jews #drafting us involuntarily into a war we don't want to fight.#and there are many things to be said about how the impact of the holocaust on mizrahi and sephardic jews #have been completely erased from historical narrative.#there are so many things to be said. and we have to say them. but we have to be able to confront the truth.#i am going insane over here.

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vanesa · 1 year ago

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Started reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, which seems to be obligatory reading for any biologist.

I love how, as it is a book first published in 1976 in a field that has rapidly evolved since then, it starts with many forwards and comes with footnotes addressing the many criticisms and new research that has come since. I feel as if I were reading a Tumblr post with repeated clarifications from bad faith readings, or a list of terms and conditions. Science is self-correcting and humans are subjective.

One of the many notes he addresses is the title itself. While the word "selfish" has too many negative connotations, I would argue the grief over people only reading the title/first chapter and misunderstandings and further clarifications needed is worth it for the punchier title. I think most biologist students understand selfish to mean self-perpetuating. He makes a good argument regardless.

There are some publications that came out after that have since corrected/clarified many of the points in the book, so I need to read those too.

#personal #this is the era of me finishing all of those books i bought i just know it #and before anyone comments:#YES I know Richard Dawkins is a cringe atheist #richard 'i dont need to read the quaran to criticize it' dawkins #and I KNOW the 'We Are All Africans' meme shirt #(even though the idea of all humans originating in Africa has had some substantial challenges recently)#i really hope people don't think of me as someone who doesn't critically examine what she reads and who wrote jt #i passed *IB English* okay i have credentials

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yeswearemagazine · 1 year ago

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You Won't Miss Me's Weekly Choice #2

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