#Decade of black people

[marzipanandminutiae]

on the flip side of that Toxic Skincare Obsession post: I’m tired of seeing sun protection presented as another frivolous, unnecessary product of the patriarchy

“I’m going to sit in the sun with wine and enjoy it and fuck anti-aging products like SPF!” I mean yes normalize and celebrate people- especially women -not looking 22 forever but also

Skin Cancer Is Bad Maybe?

#sun protection #skincare #you don't even have to use a tanning bed or lay out in the sun or whatever #neither of my parents have ever intentionally tanned; they just seldom wore sunscreen for decades #and they've both had pre-cancerous cells chemically burned off their faces #no such thing as a safe tan in the long run. it's not that you should stress yourself out about it #but you SHOULD take reasonable precautions #(and yes dark-skinned people too. Black people tend to have worse outcomes with melanoma because doctors trained on light skin #may not catch it soon enough) #Everyone! Needs! Sun Protection! #It is not a frivolous beauty thing!

[mppmaraudergirl]

I've recently seen Sirius described as cowardly and just what??? Sirius, who rode a flying motorbike, who rebeled against his family and their bigoted beliefs, who ran away from home as a teenager? Sirius, who became an illegal animagus at sixteen, who joined the fight against voldemort at eighteen, who escaped from prison to go protect Harry, who did not give up on that task even if being caught meant losing his soul? Sirius, who gave up his freedom to be close to Harry and support him, who was restless at grimmauld place because he wanted to actively rejoin the fight against voldemort, who ultimately died running straight into that fight to protect his godson? There isn't a cowardly bone in his body. There's playing with characters, and then there's taking a core, defining part of them and throwing it in the bin.

#sirius black #the people who need to see this wont but whatever #sb hasnt been a fav of mine for 2 decades for me to shut up about him

[rosesocietyy]

It'll never stop being funny how people can see something in fiction and recognize it's wrong but for some reason, can't seem to translate that to real life and see how those same things are reflected in their behavior.

y'all watch episode 2, you see Louis face horrific macro aggressions while trying to conduct simple business, you watch him rightfully get angry, you cheer when he kills the man for what is agreed to be a blatant display of racism. you watch him then explain to lestat what the man did and why he reacted the way he did.

and you clutch your pearls when lestat is dismissive, disregarding louis' struggles and calling him confusing, that he's too dramatic and he needs to get over the racism he faces everyday because they just can't keep having this argument about their differences lestat is tired of it! you question how he can be so flippant to a very serious issue that he previously claimed to care about.

But then you come on this tag, you see black people, frustrated and exhausted, calling out the racism they face, explain how harrowing it is, how isolating and sinister it is, and you roll your eyes, dismiss it and call it "fandom drama", we're overreacting and we should drop it already because we can't keep having this "discourse" over and over again, the carousel comes round again and you're tired of it!

I simply have to laugh

#try as hard as they can they'll never push black people out of this space #they sat in their comfort cushion stuffed with white supremacy flavored foam for decades #and now that they're being forced to directly confront the abysmal nature of the text they love so much #it feels like they've been dropped to hard concrete from the 16th story window #I'm just giggling #your 'peace' is irrelevant as long as these ppl continue to make this fandom hell for us #we will continue to call them out and if that's all this tag becomes filled with then so be fucking it #interview with the vampire #iwtv

[bmoharrisbankofficial]

am still obsessed with the bit from nope (2022) where em goes "so i was talking to my therapist about how dad made me feel unworthy and less than and--" and oj goes "you see a therapist??" and then em pauses and goes "i fuck one occasionally! anyways i was telling her--"

#nope 2022 #emerald haywood #oj haywood #em haywood #for the people who say they wish theaters had subtitles: they do! not every screening obvs but look up your local theater and type in #'on screen captions [movie name]' and it will give you a list of showings with subtitles #usually there are 2 to 3 during a movie's run; i'm going again on wednesday bc there's a screening with the captions #nope 2022 spoilers #nope spoilers #i am so in love with these siblings they are so good #also i love when black lesbians survive films holy shit #i was so worried she was going to die based on (waves at the past several decades of media and how it treats black women and sapphics #let alone characters who are both) #i love and cherish my little lesbian so much

[oifaaa]

Remember how last year I was like damn I need to go back to my roots and start posting more about just whatever I'm currently thinking about and you all were like go for it we support you yeah how's that working out for you all

#im just saying #i dont know how many people would have guessed thatd mean me talking about a anime ive not thought about in a decade #for 2 days straight #next ill start ranting about black butler its fine #atleast ive actually been keeping up with black butler #i refuse to stop reading until i find out what bitch faces actual name is

[idolomantises]

Anyways speaking of being gay apparently teenagers on tiktok are mad at me because they found out I’m a lesbian who uses he/they pronouns

#txt #there’s something funny about telling a nb lesbian that their identity is ‘terminally online’ while regurgitating talking points #from 2015 transmed tumblr #like first it’s Pearl clutching over masculine women and feminine men and now it’s non-binary lesbians making people go berserk #honestly I wish I could find this funny (I mean in concept it is) but it’s irritating how tiktok incited so much online harassment and #bullying by just making shit up about queer identities and terminology to a point where we’re just back to acting like we have to fit into #our stereotypes. but only the accepted ones because god forbid your lesbian character is masculine lol #I remember a bunch of 15 year olds on twitter blew up at me because I pointed out that dyke is not a term exclusive to black lesbians #because guess where they got that insane ass assumption that ignores decades of lesbian history and queer activism #that’s right! another random ass teenager on tiktok with no sourcing #just gatekeeping a slur meant for all lesbians #I feel like if a tiktoker interacted with a real butch lesbian they’d explode and die

[abelas]

guess who just bought a ps5 and baldurs gate 3 👀👀👀

#I AM SO EXCITEDDDD AHHHHHHH. I’ve had my ps4 for a decade and I bought it used lmfao #I’ve been seeing all of you guys play bg3 and have been so jealous #I’ve black listed the tag so I’m not majorly spoiled. but god I’m ready to kiss all the people 👀👁️👄👁️ #trying not to go into it with an astarion preference lmaooo but it’s hard I love his va sm #anyway the girl spending $700 she doesn’t have? no surprise there 🥲😭 #personal

[sonknuxadow]

sorry i dont really like the shadow is silvers dad theory/headcanon/whatever and part of the reason for it is that people keep presenting it as an actual thing that could be possible even though it makes no sense and all "evidence" people use to back it up is easily disputed

#''they both have white chest fur'' okay ? there are so many other characters who have small physical traits in common #doesnt mean they have to be related #''shadow and silver are lancelot and galahad in sonic and the black knight'' okay and . #im sure there might be SOME meaning to the character choices in the storybook games but i highly doubt their lives are 1 to 1 parallels #or that the character choices are meant to imply anything about the characters that we dont already know #plus amy was nimue and nobody tries to argue that shadow and amy are related because of that? #also im aware that a lot of dad shadow stuff takes place in the future when silver is a baby and shadow has still been alive for a long tim #(which. how would that even work wasnt shadow in stasis again in the future) #but sometimes i see people do it with like present day shadow being a father figure to the silver who time traveled there ? #thats like the horrible combination of people infantilizing silver in a way they dont do with other characters his age or younger #and people pretending shadow is an adult when he isnt . what #also i dont get why people insist that if shadow is silver's dad then the other parent MUST be someone from the existing cast #like . silver is not from a few decades into the future hes from 200 years into the future #none of the characters youre saying shadow is gonna get with are gonna be living that long im sorry to say #and why does silver HAVE to be the child of a couple in the existing cast why cant he just be some random guy #and im not saying every au idea has to perfectly align with canon #but a lot of the people who think shadow is silvers dad arent presenting it as a fun little baseless headcanon #theyre presenting it as an actual plausible theory . when it really isnt . #also ive noticed one of the most common pairings for silvers parents is sonic and shadow . #sorry but that is just not happening i feel so strongly about sonic never wanting to get married or have kids #i think shadow being an older brother figure to silver could be cute . #and the idea of a timeline where shadow doesnt die or get put into stasis or whatever the hell and is still around in silvers time #could be interesting . but im not really on board with the dad thing

[oldvintageglamour]

Chicago tailor Scotty Piper measures a man for a suit as two beautiful African-American women in dresses stand & watch, 1950s 🖤🪡🧵🖤

#Scotty Piper #tailoring #black people #1950s style #1950s fashion #1950s women #1950s vintage #1950s #50s style #50s fashion #50s pinup #50s vintage #50s #decade: 1950s #vintage style #vintage fashion #vintage women #vintage men #vintage black men #vintage black women #black women #black women beauty #black women magic #black men #black girl beauty #black girl magic #black pinup #black pin up #black beauties #harlem renaissance

[stressfulsloth]

A thing most people probably know already, but this is Lullington church, the real-life church that the Smallest Church in Susssex (or Saint-Saens) is written about. There's been a church there since the 12th century, and this version of it was built from the burnt out ruins of its predecessor following a fire in the 1400s. It's near the Seven Sisters cliffs which are referenced in the song and in the game, although in game they are changed to become les Sept Soeurs- the seven Dolorian stave churches on the coast.

#disco elysium #something something hub of community that represented an religious regime but also brought people in a difficult place together #something something now you're all alone here none of this matters at all #really really makes you feel the LONGING and the haunting of something that used to be there #at some point the congregation of the church was almost entirely wiped out by the black death and it stopped being used #it's used again now but it sat vacant for decades i think #the village never really recovered and there's basically nothing left of it now aside from the church #weirdly i've been there and it's a really pretty bit of the country #very very quiet #almost makes you believe there's a 2mm hole in the world #DE rambling

[plumbob-pudding]

As Oliver stared down at the ring for the umpteenth time, he heard someone walk into the kitchen. He hoped to god it was someone else, he'd even take Connie but as luck would have it, it was Cata.

"What have you got there?" she asked. Oliver could hear the smirk in her voice; she had definitely seen the ring. Well, he thought to himself, this was finally his moment.

Oliver beckoned her over and squashed down all his nerves. He smiled his brightest most charming smile, knelt on one knee and asked the question.

Cata stood silent for a while and shame began to envelope Oliver.

"We can go to Oasis Springs, I hear they'll say yes to a marriage licence there and I know it's not the Church and I haven't much but-"

Cata cut him off with a kiss, "Of course I'll marry you, I've been waiting ages for you to finally ask."

Hearing that Oliver immediately made plans to hire a wagon to Oasis Springs where Cata could finally become his wife.

#sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 legacy #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #ts4 decades challenge #sims 4 simblr #the mosleys #gen 2 #yay gen 2 is finally about to start #i read a lot of literature about interracial marriage pre Loving V Virginia in the US and how things worked out west #Cata is meant to be Mestizo and would have been identified as white in the US but from my research the real world implications and rights #she would have had were very different to that of a white european #and so marriages between Black and latino people did happen #although they were rare and still illegal in many parts of western USA

[suga-kookiemonster]

getting reallll tired of white people and the media labeling things “gen z” when the things are really BLACKNESS that has been around forever, but is now being co-oped by gen z because of their perpetual exposure to social media and the actual black people who make all the trends on said social media 🙃

#when articles and tv segments come out ‘breaking down new gen z lingo’ and it’s just sayings black people have been saying for decades 🥴 #when classic black songs suddenly get popular on tiktok and they make up dances to them even though the songs ALREADY have dances!!!! #y’all really starting to piss me off lmao #mine #me at work having to delicately explain to my white boss that i understand her teenage daughter’s lingo because it was mine my whole life 🥴

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Observing peoples reactions to morally gray or black actions committed by different characters is so funny. Throughout all of G. War the character tags were chock-full of people unironically enraged claiming “Bruce isn’t even capable of doing something bad like that.” about an action that is pretty well in line with his character journey thus far, meanwhile there are still new posts that gain traction that open with lines like “I know Jason has committed his fair share of sins/crimes but” like bro when. In 2010?

Also. The whole premise of the b*tfamily™ that you so love is built on the load bearing wall being that they are a crime family. Hell, do people just collectively forget the part where Bruce manufactures and freely uses weapons with his own furry brand logo plastered all over them, causing all sorts of 'explosions and more!' property damage all over the streets of Gotham? Pretty sure that makes him a terrorist but you people don't feel the need to go around reminding fandom of that every five minutes.

#as someone who loves post crisis Jason more than the average person who considers themselves a Jason fan: #how much longer are we going to pretend that’s still where we are today #to all the people who get so fucking worked up anytime Jason does something other than sit there and look pretty #what exactly do you want to see him do in comics anyway? vacuum his apartment? #like please let him fuck shit up for people whose plans were messed up anyway please let him have opinions and act on them #kelseethe #these people assume fans like Jason *despite* all his ‘wrongdoings' #when we repeatedly post about why Jason fucking with people was epic and cool and justified #while they sit there being upset that their traumatized problematic fav with a god complex #acts like a traumatized problematic bitch with a god complex lol #‘do Jason fans even know why they like his character’ seems like someone is in need of some introspection #disclaimer: l'm not a bruce anti. you know that liking a problematic character doesn't mean wanting to erase #every atrocity he committed and putting him through a redemption arc #I just have low tolerance for the utter ignorance of some of his fans lol #and that of his writers who market him as the agreeable voice of reason #while simultaneously portraying him as an abusive father + war criminal lol #the way I used the terms ‘morally gray/black’ here is subjective. #personally I don’t consider killing drug dealers/kingpins in a fictional universe morally gray because I’m not a fucking narc lol #but abusing your son for over a decade then literally breaking his brain is undeniably morally black in & out of universe

[schnuffel-danny]

people on twitter are drawing their blorbos in hazbin hotel style as a joke and I kind of wanna try it, but I don't wanna draw Jack skinny for it, eventho it's a running joke that vivziepop can't draw fat people, I actually wanna try it as style practice? + I've seen the show creator draw diverse bodies before, she just chooses not to include diverse bodytypes in her work, it's not that she doesn't know how to draw fat people.... she just won't

#'vivz can't draw fat people/poc features' is giving her too much credit #makes it sound like she lacks any kind of artistic skill #she's a trained professional animator and has been for up to a decade now #she's fully capable of drawing fat people old people black people etc #she chooses not to #it's an act of strong will to refuse to draw anything besides the most milquetoast tumblrbait imaginable

[gibaraltar]

as far as social media sites go, even if some people on here are. A Lot. And there's bad corners, as per everywhere... Still, compared to Some Other Large Sites there is an appreciation for the Human here. The experience of being human, the joy of creation, exploration of the reasons we share things and the motivations and experiences of authors. Of reflecting on how works impacted us. How even simple funne posts or whatever impact us.

#in the corner ive pruned for myself at least i feel much surer that we all understand that intention in media matters lol #like. i saw a post by some tech shithead about how “the future could be that we never have to watch or read the same thing twice” #implicitly that thanks to AI we'd never have to consume the same thing twice. #and i just. felt like an alien #bc even though he was obviously being ratioed to fuck #very few people were saying explicitly “that would blow who even wants that” #but i know for a damn fact all my mutuals here who have read the same 3 books on rotation for decades bc they were formative got me lol #personal #text post #People who don't create and have in fact removed the idea that they could ever create are black holes of humanity btw #even if you think you aren't creative most of us have at least some hobby where we make SOMETHING #whether you took to mending your own shoes or DIYing or playing guitar or dnd or woodworking or 3D printing or collecting retro synths #you likely have something you relax with #channel feelings into #these people seem to have never once experienced the human concepts of exploration or creation or play. all they have is consumption. #and its making me even more mental than i already am lol

[tariah23]

I’m not rooting for Candace Owens just because she spoke out about israel and Zionists, man.

#fuck that bitch #spent over a decade dancing like a monkey for white people but now she’s trying to low key rebrand because she can’t make money off of #brain dead white people anymore #the funny thing is wp don’t stand on shit like #I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw liberals trying to stand by her side and accept her now #nvm i actually did see some 🤪 #like just as long as she says things that they personally believe in then they’re fine despite the antiblackness and other shenanigans lol #it’s crazy #rambling #she’s trying to pull a Stacey dash from what it seems #twitter liberals are lifting her up just because she said that she refuses to spread islamphobic rhetoric but… um #what about all of the shit shes been saying about black people for years 🧍🏾‍♀️? #wp and nb liberals are so unserious bro #she was an obvious grifter #grifters don’t believe every little thing they say. they just have to say it though #and make it sound as convincing as possible so that gullible people will continue to throw their money at them #just as long as the grifters are reaffirming these stupid people beliefs the money will continue to roll in regardless of how insane they #might sound #as for that nigga Alex jones… yeahhhh. He 100% believes all of that shit 😭