#black folk in america

[tariah23]

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#because… we wrote one idiot 😭!!! #I guess wp and nbs just learned that black ppl have our own National anthem and are of course spazzing tf out #just… write one? #yourselves??? if this is such a big deal like kskskskskl #there’s no arguing with racists but this is still funny #I saw a few black folks not know about it but they probably either went to white schools or aren’t from America so they missed out on #having to sing lift every voice and sing for 5 days a week 8 years straight #I only sung it for 7 since my 8th grade teacher didn’t care if we did it or not #I just didn’t feel like standing up sorry and I’m sure her lazy ass didn’t either that’s why she didn’t care lmfao #no wait I did do it for 8 years because my mom made my teacher hold me back in 3rd grade 🗿…. so #crying #you can feel the antiblackness roll off of that ‘s’ #rambling

[kermit-coded]

i will never be able to put into words how much the percy jackson books mean to me... they were a formative experience and they truly helped shape me into the person i am today, so the fact that we're finally getting a good live action makes me feel unwell...

#i will be SO insufferable when this comes out #also the riordianverse in general was my introduction to a lot of different people and cultures #first positive exposure to gay and trans people #first positive exposure to muslim/nonchristian folks #it helped me learn about the world around me #and i know they arent perfect but god they mean so much to me #so im sobbing fr that theyre getting it right... #the bit in tkc where carter mentions that his dad told him that he needs to dress well bc otherwise he's going to be seen as a threat as #a black man in america #the parts in mcga where samirah talks about her faith #specifically when she has magnus take watch for her while shes praying #and alex's whole introduction and the exchange about his/her prounouns #specifically magnus going ''wouldnt it be easier just to go by they/them'' and alex saying ''easier for who?'' #all live rent free in my head #as a queer kid stuck at catholic school and surrounded by conservative adults these books saved my life #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson disney+ #soda speaks #riordanverse #pjo

[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.

#meta thoughts #case in point - so much of the wincest community still comes off super classist to me and it sorts of...leaks into their meta #you'll be going alone with an interesting character study and then you read stuff that just BOOM classism about family ties #then you go to their page and you find that yes they're into that shit and there's typically a desert of thoughtful cas military angels etc #they tend to like benny cause benny is an idealized brother substitute / sam parallel and it's given the most uncharitable reading #just because you choose a partner than is familiar and like your fam members does not mean you're into your family members oh my god #and sure there's tons of visual and overt racism in SPN in general but to me that at least gets discussed #the classism inherent to narrative fangirl obsessions with incest? not as dissected #familism and community are seen as Weird (TM) to them and they kind of tell on themselves with that imho #and like with racism there are just some things you can't overlook to enjoy a series if you're black because that's your day to day life an #with classism it's hard too bc sometimes you can't escape the reminders of day to day life #and when ppl in the fandom see the villain's monologues as TRUTH you just wanna shake your head but know it's not worth arguing #communal living is more normal than america wants you to think...rich folks want it labelled *weird* bc they want you separated and drained #i am begging us to deconstruct suburbia instead of defaulting to TEEHEE incest bc shitting on pooled resources is paramount in a rigged gam #I find the inherent isolation of american living-to-work without any time to visit each other VERY isolating indeed...also... #like how did we get here #where we're so afraid of labels like*cults* and *helicopter parenting* and *enmeshment* than we isolate as a form of hallowed independence #american success culture has a dark side too #and separating low class families is the aim #get them to spend more $$$ and go for lofty ideals in pursuit of american dream instead of pooling their resources and meeting their needs #meanwhile rich folks do so much respectable nepotism and pretend they're *self-made* #to me that's what the symbol of zachariah is ALLLL about #and if you're blind to what his taunts ACTUALLY mean...i'm very suspicious of your worldview #if resource sharing and co-living becomes shameful and *incestuous* for lower classes then they won't pool their power at all #american exceptionalism #spn + class #class #class warfare #giving up college dreams to be a caretaker seems way more common in poor families too #i suspect we see the incest reading less from brown families / hispanic fams...cause familism is more common

[ancienttheblackangel]

We Must See Black Indigenous Images So I Created Some Art To Reflect our Lost Ancient American Organic Culture

ART BY ANCIENTTHEBLACKANGEL

#black art #digital art #artists on tumblr #nftart #ancienttheblackangel #art #digital illustration #nftcollection #black people #extraterrestrial #america #black folks #black indigenous #soultribe

[carcinized]

whenever anyone says anything like “America has horrible food & they dont know how to cook bc theyre such a young country and they suck” its just so obvious that they dont know anything about cuisine or common sense its just so funny to me like

#like /i/ dont know a lot about cuisine but if uou watch anyone who does its INSANE how much good food + history america has #and how like 99% of it is either like derived from native cultures or black folks (southern food especially) or immigrants during the 1900s #and then its like this dish came from trying to use up all scraps during the Great Depression ! this dish came from etc etc etc! #and its a beautiful mishmash of cultures wnd styles and needs and its just so obvious that uou dont know fucjing anyting whrn uou say that #& its like yeah america is young but the people who live here very much still have cultural history 😭 how dumb do you have to be istg #tobin talks

[yourheartinyourmouth]

husbeast watched To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar with me and he LOVED IT and i could just cry little tears of queer joy. this movie means so much to me as a queer person and as a gender nonconforming and a just generally socially non conformative person.

if you haven’t seen it, you gotta.

#the youths really don’t realize how much of a completely different world it used to be #same sex marriage has only been legal in the US for the last 9 years #if youre under 30 or so you really don’t know what it used to be like #‘gay panic’ was a legally admissible defense for why yoy brutally murdered someone #queer ppl had to live in secret basically #yes even in 1995 #the internet barely existed #most ppl in america weren’t even aware gender nonconforming folks EXISTED #or that that was even a THING #so many stories of trans ppl who were young then & older now not realizing they were trans #but there was nowhere to go if u didn’t have a local queer community #& most places did NOT have open queer communities #u literally had to know a guy #hanky code was in use to surreptitiously signal ur gayness #this movie is a reminder of how far we’ve come and what we have to learn #also this movie was racially groundbreaking believe it or not #ok maybe not groundbreaking #a movie where the three main characters are a white girl a black girl and a latina girl #was still a p big deal

[jasmineiros]

São João em retratos — São Luís, Maranhão, maio 2022 💙🧡💛

#photography #brasil #brazil #brazilian culture #women #black woman #afrolatina #afro latino representation #nordeste brasileiro #nordeste #sao luis do maranhao #sao joao #maranhao #folklore #folk costume #folk clothing #fashion #latin america #latinoamerica #america latina #south america #sudamerica #latino tag

[odysseys-blood]

its so stupid to me when someone goes up to somebody (recently in the inboxes of palestinians doing their damndest to share information about whats going on with the genocide of their own people and some of yall still cant take being spoon fed this as if its the worst thing to happen to you to just pay attention (but it happens also after any catastrophe yall just rock up to anyone you judge an affected minority be it someone of another race, culture, gender, sexuality w/e)) and you ask "well who should i vote for"

thats your choice

when you turned 18 in the us of a you gained the right to choose whoever the hell you want on the ballot for president. nobody can make you vote for somebody or withold it. you make that decision. you should be able to think for yourself. do some research and stop talking out of your ass because that is literally the least you could do.

and also you shouldn't be going to someone (especially someone who this is of he least concern of) and go "well what do you think i think i have to vote for x because *despite every atrocity they've ever comitted* theyre still better than the other guy!" because what do you want? forgiveness? you made a choice. you also just told somebody that this choice WILL AFFECT that it was the only choice available to you (even though it wasnt). and then act like they should be grateful. like you're doing them a favor.

#this isnt well worded at all its just. getting on my nerves #like sorry you want recognition for voting for the guy who will feed you poison in a three course meal #instead of in a single slice of bread? #if you're gonna do it anyways at least just do it and shut up #yall put so much more weight on these votes than there actuslly is too #esp for presidential elections #will i go vote? probably #do i expect a damn thing? hell no #systems rigged to hell. but instead of focusing on that we focus on americas next top bomber and which one we gotta endorse #biden aint get them kids out of cages #biden let the pipelines get built on indigenous lands and spoil their water #biden let abortion rights fall through #you know how many black folks were killed by police last year? #and im supposed to thank you? #fuck all that

[onyxeve]

#hoodoo #hoodoo heritage month #hoodoo history month #conjure #hoodoo history #mojo #black girl magic #black religion #folk magic #african american #african america history #books #book blog #rootwork

[andthebeanstalk]

Today, I am learning about Malcolm X, and the way he talks about white liberals really struck a chord with me.

I also found this quote from him about John Brown, a white abolitionist who went to war for his beliefs and helped push America towards civil war. I only learned about John Brown from my very racist AP US History teacher, Mr. Green, of Hampton Township, at Hampton High School, in D Hall, who lied to us and said the Civil War wasn't about slavery. And so this'll shock you, but I never learned about Malcolm X in school! Anyway, Malcolm X says:

“We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn’t nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read the history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They’re trying to make it look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it, I saw a movie on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him. But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom—in the sight of other whites, he’s nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that, if he’s liberal, a nonviolent liberal, a love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same kind of contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary for them to make for their own freedom, they back out of the situation. So, when you want to know good white folks in history where black people are concerned, go read the history of John Brown. That was what I call a white liberal. But those other kind, they are questionable. So if we need white allies in this country, we don’t need those kind who compromise. We don’t need those kind who encourage us to be polite, responsible, you know. We don’t need those kind who give us that kind of advice. We don’t need those kind who tell us how to be patient. No, if we want some white allies, we need the kind that John Brown was, or we don’t need you. And the only way to get those kind is to turn in a new direction.”

#original #malcolm x #john brown #racism #anti-racism #allyship #civil rights #american civil rights movement #my schooling left out a LOT of stuff that seemed to be left out for no other reason than it would make us confront modern racism #i went to a school that was like 99% white and the other 1% was Asian i didn't have a full conversation with a Black person until I #was already in high school. it was fucking bad and that system produced a LOT of racists i mean a LOT #i had to unlearn a lot of things in order to try and become the kind of white person that doesn't suck for people of color to be around #we were never taught outright that Black folk are inferior but we were instead taught that racism is over and we needn't worry about it. #aka we were taught that any incidences of modern racism were essentially harmless and exaggerated. which is so deeply evil and insidious. #and NO ONE EVER EXPLAINED WHY OUR ENTIRE TOWNSHIP HAD NO BLACK PEOPLE - IT WAS WEIRD HOW NO ONE TALKED ABOUT IT. FUCK SUBURBIA MAN! #You don't have to tell a white person racist beliefs to make them more racist. We'll pick those up from our segregated environments. #No no you'll have much much more success by telling him that his apathy and his aggressive dismissal of racial issues is valid. #ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is place a child in an all-white environment in America... and change nothing. #WE HAD KIDS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS ON THEIR TRUCKS. IT WAS FUCKING ///PENNSYLVANIA/// - WE WERE IN THE UNION. Y'ALL. #and now that kid's probably a cop if i had to guess #anyway fuck racism and fuck you mr. green and i am gonna do a lot of reading on malcolm x on my fucking own i guess #edit: *All you have to do is place a white child nearly ANYWHERE in America and change nothing. #If you're white and not teaching your kids anti-racism then you have failed them and you have failed the people of color in this country #also why tHE FUCK would you put your child in an all-white school i mean test scores be DAMNED who DOES that?!

[coyoteworks]

got any good country recs there mate? 👀

my computer crashed when i initially opened this ask im in hysterics

BOY DO I EVER THOUGH!!

mostly this is just music i like, so naturally there's the caveat of it potentially not being to your taste; on top of that some of these may be additionally or technically classified as rock, folk, and/or indie/alternative because music genres are...so nebulous and i do not understand them...and sometimes the results when i search for the genre of certain artists just dont make sense or dont apply to individual songs......

so im being a hefty bit generous in calling some of these country, but they do diverge from those typical Beer Truck God America songs that pop up when searching for country while having a similar or related musical style, and hopefully they'll be a breath of fresh air for you!

i put my personal favourites in bold :] these are not ordered in any particular sort of style categorisation so it's a little messy, but each should link to a youtube version of the song! theres a decent array of different styles and tempos here i think

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall

Sleeping on the Blacktop - Colter Wall

Johnny Boy's Bones - Colter Wall

Ballad of a Law-Abiding Sophisticate - Colter Wall (this guy again!)

really any Colter Wall song/cover i'm going to be honest

Raise Hell - Brandi Carlile

The Cremation of Sam McGee - Seth Boyer

In the Pines - Danny Farrant & Paul Rawson

Back from the Edge - Lord Huron

Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron

Pretty Lavinia - American Murder Song

Murder! Murder! - American Murder Song

Hurt - Johnny Cash

God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash

The Railroad - Goodnight, Texas

Down by the River - The Dirty River Boys

Providence - Poor Man's Poison

Hell's Bells - Cary Ann Hearst

Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood (this one's popular)

Blown Away - Carrie Underwood

Bad News - Whitey Morgan and the 78's

The Curse of the Fold - Shawn James

The Wicked - Blues Saraceno

Grave Digger - Blues Saraceno

Little Black Train - Woodie Guthrie (if you've seen Over the Garden Wall, you'll recognise this; it has different lyrics from the cover in OTGW though)

hopefully none of the links are broken or directing to the wrong song :'D happy listening, lmk if there are any particular songs you enjoyed! and if none of these work out, thats totally fine, everyone has their tastes of course

#inbox #anonymous #music #so much tag commentary incoming sorry im super scatterbrained AGDHSHGS #honorary mention is the crane wives theyre not country but their music is BANGIN and doesnt tend #to sound horribly out of place on country playlists depending on surrounding songs #my crane wives rec is scarecrow bones. listen to it. NOW #another honorary mention is do your worst by rival sons. more rock than country i think #part of why its so difficult to categorise country is that #a lot of songs that used to be considered rock are called country today #like johnny cash's music. thats all rock music. but by todays standards we'd consider that country #so rock & country go really hand in hand especially when you take into account their cultural origins (black musicians) #genre categorisation is so arbitrary to me and so so so so confusing when you get to overlapping music sounds 😭 #so usually if something is called 'folk rock' or smth along the lines of folk i'll consider it country mostly depending on. vibes. tone. et #i grew up HATING country music bcs literally all i heard on country radios in texas was #trucks beer god america and the occasional woman. and it was sooooo annoying i thought all country music was like that #so i was one of those 'i like any music except country' kids #started listening to carrie underwood & later on stumbled into colter wall and boy did it turn my whole attitude around #poor mans poison is partly on here because my 9th grade teacher introduced it to me and i was like WHAT is that sound i love it #and he was like its good music. take it with you. #ANYWAYS thanks for stopping by i hope at least some of these pique your interest!!!!

[getting-messi]

just stumbled on a woman of clear african descent telling m*appe on his last post to 'keep his head up" and talking about the "clear" difference in "education and class" between france and south america and it's just so tiring cause like??? i don't want to generalize but that honestly seems to be the case most of the time. if you needed anymore proof that europeans, whether they're even a little bit ethnically european or are just born there, tend to think they're just plain better than south americans... now i don't know if this woman has a french parent or was simply born there but there is NO WAY she just called a whole country she clearly knows nothing about uneducated and classless like,,, lady,,, what do you think a lot of white french (and just european honestly) have to say about you??? get a grip honestly 😭😭😭

oh god......

yeah idk what to say. I have no problem with people feeling more connected to the western country that they were born in than their native country but making ignorant comments like that is just insane and honestly kinda pathetic.

It only gives white people a pass to be even more racist towards African/Asian/Central and South American countries when racialized people make comments like that. Like that African-French woman could be subjected to those same comments from a White French person.

#like its this weird hierarchy of nationalities and ppl forget how to act just because they were born in Europe/North America #i find that it is typically WORST for racialized Europeans like they really do forget their roots omg... #and they be lying and stuff just to try and integrate its crazy #i have cousins in the UK and the Netherlands and the lifestyle is SO different #like they really forget that they're Black because they're so eager to fit in with the white folk

[drunkphotography]

#Aaron Lopez #America #American History #Americans #Anthony Johnson #Bellevue Ave #Black History #Clay Perry #Downton Abbey #Folk Lore #Gilded Age #Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #Israel Bissell #jewish #legends #MANN ACT #Mansions #new england #Newport #Newport Mansions #Passport Bros #Patriachy #Paul Revere #Rhode Island #Servant's Life Tours #Slave Trade #slavery #The Breakers #Vanderbilt #WHITE SLAVE ACT

[cyarsk52-20]

Hitler was an enemy to Black America. There’s no sanitizing him he hated Black folks like the freaking klan READ your freaking history and stop worshipping him, he never loved you!!!

#I fuckin hate seeing US caught up in this mindless shit. #Shame on yall fr! #Hitler killed black peoples too! #read a history book #Muting this because I said what the fuck I said. #Dear Black America #this shit is not a good look #at the fuck all. #Read your fucking history. #Hitler slaughtered Black people too. #Regardless you look like a #fucking clown #advocating ONE genocide in protest of another. That shit is disgusting! #Do mutherfucking better. #Be better! #Hitler was #an enemy to Black America. #There’s no sanitizing him #he hated Black folks #like the fucking klan #ffs READ your fucking history #these goof balls #better get it together #the greater majority #of the Jewish community #is not a fuckin enemy Black America #or even Palestine

[xtrablak674]

They Stay Mad!

As I became more and more myself I think the freedom, peace and nonchalance that I exude, were less desirable to corporate America. I recall one job where I was freelancing, I spoke about my on/off lifestyle and how I loved the balance of working for a few months then taking time off to travel and do other things that interested me. I guess I inadvertently inspired my supervisor too much because she quit within a week of me starting the position.

At another job I was given the feedback that I was, 'being too visible'. Now I am not even sure what that means, especially since this comment was dispensed by a Black woman, whom you would assume as dark as she was, would have more carefully about the repercussions of basically telling another Black person to be invisible.

You will note I have used the term "supervisor", because someone else being my boss is a mentality that is far behind me, and mostly in any of the positions I am in I am not even really being supervised. I am so autonomous, I don't really need to be told what to do, I figure out what needs to be done and I proceed to accomplish that.

This same mentality might also be a deterrent to potential employers, I am not ever trying to hide who I am, and what I bring to the table. I am also not masking that as I get older, I get Blacker, queerer, and freer, adding non-binary and my elaborate sense of style to that mix probably isn't helping any. But I will not apologize for who I am, and the caliber of work I bring is clearly documented in the very impressive resume I have. What I wear, who I go to bed with, who I go to bed as, and the length of my hair have nothing to do with my ability to do a job. #fullstop

The fact is that working in corporate America while Black, part of the thing you need to navigate is white people's comfort. And that's not the kind of shit the career coach tells you. I also wasn't really told when I started out, that I should lean more into nepotism to get work than getting work plainly based on my merits and experience. This is something I can never truly resolve because its just not in my nature to ask folks about something that I have easily and readily done for myself in the past. I also don't like being beholden to folks in that way when I should be perfectly capable of acquiring a position based on my own qualifications. But that isn't the world we live in anymore.

The thing that is so hard for me to resolve is I recall a time on several occasions where I went in, interviewed for a position and started either the same day or very soon thereafter. And in quite a few of these same cases I later got offer letters from these companies, so clearly whatever I was laying down, someone was picking up.

This added to the confusion of the seven year drought that I had. I applied for hundreds of positions and interviewed for dozens and didn't land anything. My charm, poise and well articulated interviews hadn't really changed, but I think the world had. And a place I had worked for previously for nearly a year, got a offer letter, and had a friend refer me to, who was currently working there, I didn't get it. He was as confused as me. As the gunslinger says, the world has moved on. I need to decide if I want to even bother catching up with it.

Because a world where I am not judged on the contents of my character, but on something physical that I may or may not have control over is not really a world I want to participate in on any level. This kind of world is one that breaks spirits and prefers drones to unique voices and perspectives and frankly my dear, this is something I could do without.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

#corporate america #white folks comfort #white fragility #working while Black #Black #dark skinned #queer #nonbinary #locs #dreadlocks #gender nonconforming #fashionable #sytlish #Black as fuck #queer as fuck #unapologetic #not the boss of me #nepotism #networking #job market #employment #offer letter #freelancing #ageism #long hair #articulate

[notherpuppet]

I know they’re probably not going to go into this (which i understand, there’s only so much time in an episode and they’re telling a different story) but I think about Al’s background a LOT. Get ready if ur in the mood for a read.

To be a mixed Black person in America is a…bizarre experience. You come to realize that due to the coincidence of your genetic makeup, white folks may divulge information that they keep so closely guarded from the ears of “more obvious-looking” black folks. Im gonna bring it back to Alastor, but lemme give some personal context. I’m mixed with Filipino, so I’m pretty obviously not white, yet my ambiguous ethnic makeup in a predominantly white suburbia seemed to make white peers and people feel much more at ease in relaying their criticisms or prejudices of black people to me. I would hear someone feel comfy enough to spew vitriolic racist shit with me, then toe the line like a circus acrobat when around someone a few shades darker in skin tone and a few coils curlier in hair texture. It was constantly infuriating and holding my tongue was a practice to both investigate someone’s true nature and preserve my own safety. I did abandon that method of navigating life in America, and experienced the switch-up white folks made when I started ‘broadcasting’ my blackness. (E.G. beyonce pre vs. post Lemonade). The criticisms and prejudice confessions just came less often, til I saw them being caged up completely after white peers experienced backlash from me. After they realized “OH this bitch is a n*****!?”

Now this is from someone who is brown, but i also wanna talk about my white-passing cousin with a similar racial makeup as Al, who is from the south and oh BOY. (Let’s call him J for this post’s purposes). J’s navigation though simple daily life is such a constant contradictory experience, of which he is still working through in therapy. I think of one moment when he was manager at retail gig and his boss told him that whenever a Black customer enters, it’s policy to give them “exceptionally attentive customer service”. Essentially, “follow that n***** around”. This is just one modern incident of when J would hear the quiet part out loud, despite his Blackness, because his appearance was white enough to make white folks drop their guard. Eventually, my cousin and I took to the same direction where we used our advantage of disarming white folks against them when the time came. We would keep note and record of racism and unlock a sort of “this you?” when the opportunity to expose that person’s true nature came. It’s pretty vengeful thinking ngl, but it is really REALLY hard to resist exposing an asshole rather than attempting to teach an asshole to change their ways. Especially given that such an attempt is an ARDUOUS uphill battle. The experience of KNOWING the truth about what someone thinks of your people, and being opened to opportunities and information that you would not have access to if the chance of your genetics was only slightly different is bIZARRE, horrific, and fuel for constant inner turmoil. (It sucks y’all)

Now back to Alastor; to have been a mixed person in the Deep South in 1930s America—it’s not too difficult for me to imagine how traumatic and convoluted that experience must have been. Especially when legally and socially, things were so much more Black and White. And when you’re on the line in between that, when society does not prepare a place for your existence, it can be SO isolating. You may consider the absurdity of such an arbitrary method of determining class, status, and/or caste much earlier in life than peers, which only further isolates you. You hold a resentment of society now that you know exactly how the other side is operating to ensure your oppression.

And then I think of Al’s weird ass moral code. How he arrived in Hell and (according to Mimzy) began killing overlords with reckless abandon. This is someone who likely had to develop the cunning to navigate 1930s Deep South America as a mixed, murdering, psychopath without getting caught by authorities who are already gunning for you. And now he is in Hell where the rules of society have gone up in smoke and he can fully embrace his rage, resentment, and vengeance. A desire to burn down the powerful people of the world can be accommodated and ANY previous inhibitions can finally be released. The morality of rising above someone by cutting them down (instead of developing emotional/spiritual healing) has become the easier and satisfying option. Finally the opportunity to show the power-secure villains of the world how easily you can tear them down when nothing is holding you back any longer.

TLDR; The trauma of racism in America is pretty sufficient cannon fodder for a severe psychotic break, the development of socially debilitating behaviors and isolation, and a quest for profound vengeance. So maybe that can explain some of the enigma that is Alastor.

And this is just ONE facet of Al. I didn’t even get to bring up the isolation that comes with being an aroace nonbeliever in the 1930s Deep South. Like FUCK. I’m a mixed, aroace nonbeliever from a modern day conservative town and yall….what a weird experience for sure lol but anyway lemme get back to my life. Whole point of this was—-WHAT AN INTERESTING FUCKEN CHARACTER TO THINK ABOUT

#hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin hotel spoilers #it’s an alastor analysis yalllll #character analysis gives my media and art engagement brain the wiggles #also I hate racism!!!! :)