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"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

#antiblackness #racism

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there is an insane amount of antisemitism floating around right now.

i just want to say:

this blog loves and supports jewish people.

this blog does NOT conflate the israeli government, or the atrocities it commits, with jewish people.

this blog is disgusted with those who use or express antisemitism.

this blog knows that if someone needs to invoke antisemitism, they do not actually care about helping palestine or the palestinian people.

this blog will do its best to insure that it remains a safe space for all.

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For legal reasons, pretend this is not a confession. [x]

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Siren

"Don't you remember me?"

False Humans. Monsters with Faces.

View in pixel-perfect quality, without glazing and compression, as soon at it is done - on my BuyMeACoffee

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Sirens prey on humans by utilizing a variety of auditory and visual lures - in practical terms, they look and sound human until it is too late.

Rumors of these things have circulated since the Fall, but Sirens seem to have a rather slow metabolism - they hunt infrequently - and so sightings have been quite few with little concrete information on their behavior. On top of that, they are exceedingly deadly and almost impossible to kill or incapacitate - and thus much of what we know can still only be attributed to rumors.

One thing is certain: a Siren can mimic human voices. It's not merely a playback of sounds it heard - the creature seems to have at least some understanding of human reactions to voice and tone, and actively chooses appropriate vocalizations. For example, high-pitched voices with exasperation or in intense pain are common - suggesting a small and helpless individual.

But it has to be stressed: the pattern of Sirens' hunt is NOT known for certain, and there have been cases of significantly different kinds of vocalizations. Some of them aim to elicit a strong emotional response, some try different voices in quick succession.

In some cases, a Siren produced confusing and / or distressing vocalizations in guttoral, distorted voices on contact, shocking and leaving its prey frozen with fear for a decisive moment.

Again, due to the nature of the event, only survivors' accounts (possibly exaggerated and passed through many ears) are available and it is not known what actual percentage of Sirens' victims exprerienced such a scenario.

Communication with them is inadvisable. They do not *talk*, but they can choose vocalizations that suggest a reaction to words - for example, increased exasperation.

Note that they pinpoint their victim's location through sound - if you don't come to it, it will come to you. They are far more mobile than they initially seem, navigating through many branching burrows - and sometimes they hunt in groups. If you can hear it, it can hear you. It can hear your hesitation. RUN.

They also have been reported to manipulate corpses sometimes and use them as lures, often in combination with vocalizations. No amount of visible body can be used as an indicator of safety. They can steal clothes too. When you catch the smell of rot or stomach acid it will already be too late.

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"Dirt in the hair. Blood under your skin"

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Do not trust voices. Do not trust faces. Remember to run.

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Bonus lore: rumours and hearsay.

#horror

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lemon meringue

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

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there is something about pathetic men that enchants and beguiles me

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I like weird unicorns

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Kindergarteners will be so proud of themselves for being able to draw a triangle. My GPU can draw tens of thousands of those in a second. You are not special.

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I ❤️ deceptions

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can’t stop thinking about them

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Grim didn't like this

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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

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I added pictures to try and explain the cartoon better!