#black people obviously

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

people have been so annoying about juneteenth since 2020 especially people who knew little to nothing about it beforehand and while i do think it’s always good to do some reading and engage with community organizations, juneteenth is and always has been a celebration. it is a celebration of freedom. so yes, go out and have fun! celebrate your freedom! rejoice! thats always how we’ve done it in texas and especially galveston!!!

#black people obviously #but everyone… #that freedom was freedom ultimately won for us all…. #there would be no liberation for anyone in america is slavery were not abolished

[seagreenstardust]

“When toxic behavior is portrayed as romantic, it’s problematic. When problematic behavior is portrayed as a character flaw for a character to work through, it’s good storytelling.”

Katsuki Bakugou, my friends.

His behavior was problematic but never once portrayed as romantic at the same time. Katsuki said and did awful abusive things, and he also chose to be better when he was given the chance. If you’re still hung up on chapter 1 Katsuki now then I don’t think you’ve been reading the same story I have.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m not shipping Izuku with an irredeemable abuser. I’m shipping him with his most important person. His narrative foil. His childhood friend who made awful mistakes and then made it right when he saw he was wrong. The person Izuku looks up to and strives to emulate, despite their past struggles.

Bakudeku is so good because of how flawed these boys are, and how hard they’ve worked to get over it, and how much they matter to each other after it all

#perfect stories about perfect people who never do anything wrong are usually boring #stories about growth and mistakes and redemption and forgiveness and progress are lit #bkdk #bakudeku #the quote is from cinema therapy on YouTube btw #love them so much #they look at media and talk about what is and isn’t good from a real life human perspective #and boy did this quote slap me in the face #anyway this is my thought literally any time anyone says something about shipping Izuku with his abuser #if he was still being abused then I get it #but he’s not #and saying he needs protection from Katsuki is honestly doing his character dirty #and this is not to say that every situation with an abuser and a victim should turn out romantic #obviously not #the world is not black and white and neither are people #sometimes you have to get yourself out and never look back and that is valid and healthy #but sometimes you’re talking about two boys in a manga who literally cannot stop thinking about how good and incredible the other is #bro I get it #surface level chapter/episode 1 Katsuki is literally the worst #but his glow up has been literally meteoric

[anewp0tat0]

Black Butler Amino, Black Arts Magazine - Holiday Party

it doesn't quite look like a holiday party from here, but what I imagined as a humble little piece is~~ Ciel and Lizzy sneak away from the big bustling midford Christmas party and raid the kitchen desserts, like they did when they were kids(it was Lizzy's idea, Ciel clearly hasn't been himself since he returned, and she wanted to bring him back).

#okay it's been a really long while so hi! I hope everyone has had a cool holiday season so far and will soon have a very great years end!! #and merry christmas to those who celebrate #I've been busy with work and art and unfortunately but obviously fortunately meeting and talking with a lot of people. it's very new to me #and I'm very happy with it. even if I haven’t had any chance to open my digital art folders #but yea that's to say that I'm good. i know no one's worried lol but school's been good and not a killer #I'm back in merica but when i go back i hope that ill be able to get back into the swing of drawing and stuff #I've had plenty of time to get settled and would hate to leave all of my big projects for this summer #I'll see! #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji fanart #fanart #ciel phantomhive #digital art #elizabeth midford #lizzy midford

[a0random0gal]

Hot take, but I personally think all the Criston Cole hate is bs. He's probably one of the most despised characters in hotd and the slander is so unjustified.

Like damn, are you guys really going to hate on him for despising Rhaenyra after all she put him trough?

I'm 100% certain that if the genders were swapped almost everyone would side with him.

Just imagine a girl that owes her dream job on a prince that is in a significant position of power over her. One night, after things don't go his way, he makes sexual advances on the girl. She feels like she has to sleep with him, because of how he helped her achieve her goal. Also because if she refuses, the prince may be enraged and make up a lie to get her executed. Afterwards, she feels dirty, she knows she broke her oath, and that if caught she would be tortured and murdered, so she deludes herself into believing they love each other and should run away together. At least that way, she won't have ruined her life in vain.

But when she tells the prince her plan and confesses her feelings, the prince tells her that he's not willing to give up the throne for her and that all he wants her for is sex. She's pretty much just his glorified whore.

I bet all I have that in this case everyone would call Rhaenyra an evil fuck boy misogynist who only sees ladies as objects to sleep with. But since she's a girl, then the fandom views her as an empowered, sexually liberated girlboss who takes what she wants. Even if that leads a man to almost committing suicide.

The fact that the fan base also has the nerve to call him a pathetic incel is just the icing on the cake.

Guys, I'm not sure if you now, but hating a woman for something that has happened between you is not the equivalent of hating all women.

Criston hates her and her only, while treating every other lady in the show with great respect, hell he worships the ground on which Alicent walks! And scolds Aemond for how he treats sex workers, 'Cause for him they should all be respected like the mother! He's probably one of the least sexist characters in hotd lmao.

Sometimes I wonder if Rhaenyra stans can't stand him because they genuinely can't fathom a man receiving her advances, being offered to be her lover, and rejecting. Like "how dare him break our queen's heart!"

Poor dude never stood a chance

#Obviously I'm not condoning what Criston did at Rhaenyra's wedding #That was still fucked up #Though I know some people have analyzes the shit out of that scene and it' super complex and interesting #pro team green #pro criston cole #pro alicent hightower #hotd #house of the dragon #anti team black #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower

[beanghostprincess]

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

#sorry every time i see people hating on pudding i have to defend her with my whole soul #it's a physical need it's a condition if i don't do it i collapse #sick and tired of people babying male villains but the second a woman does something wrong she's a monster #ofc what she did was wrong and it honestly fucked me up too but give the girl a chance she obviously regrets that and she's not like that #i mean she IS like that she's a little bitch and i love her BUT you know what i mean #also even if she were evil like that ??? i've seen so many people complain about her as if they didn't love worse villains lmfao #pudding is the representation of a teenage girl with mommy issues and a lot of drama going on in her life leave her alone #one piece #charlotte pudding #black leg sanji #whole cake island

[griancraft]

I wish more people were normal about POC, and specifically black, characters in the MCYT fandom. I mean, for obvious reasons related to CCs and all that, but also bc I often feel like I’m doing something wrong because sometimes I’m one of the only people I know how is getting like? Stimming flappy arms excited about my favourite black characters? It’s not like I’m singling them out either I get the exact same way about my favourite non black characters?

It’s jarring to get into skyjacks and see almost equal amounts of art of Jonnit as everyone else because I’ve been in this weirdly passively racist fandom for so long. People are so weird about like CANON (silly canon but) biggri and they make them weirdly toxic when they were so sweet. If it was Scar and Grian you people would be all over it. And dude fucking whatever happened to the way people drew Ponk. And, it’s not even just black ccs and characters. Don’t get me started on the way a lot of Dteam fans back in the day (and still some qsmp fans) talk about Asian women like Tina.

#obv if you’re black your input is more important than mine #this is just important to me because a lot of my favourite characters and CCs are black and this fandom treats them like crap #and obviously??? because black people matter generally??? even if I wasn’t really into their content I still would be upset #I don’t watch tina! I don’t watch p0nk anymore! I can still feel angry about this! #and you should be too #sorry including Tina in there makes this flow weird she’s Asian oops #sorry I am. so tired

[creativity-deficient]

I’ll never quite understand the discourse around whether or not Tweek is a part of Craig’s group

He may not appear as frequently as the other members but he still is pretty consistently associated with them, and has been even before he and Craig started dating

Even South Park studios lists him as a part of the group

#he’s basically the butters of the group yet it’s perfectly normalized to include butters with the main 4 but including tweek with Craig’s #group starts a whole argument #he even feels a bit more solidified in Craig’s group than butters does with the main 4? #in a way? #I can’t really explain it lol #like I feel the main 4 only really tolerate butters while Tweek feels like an actual friend lmao #I’ve seen some people get real pissy about it too like pleaseee 😭😭 #obviously my only issue is when people just completely erase Jimmy but also like #the show does that too at times? he definitely appears more than Tweek but #Clyde and Tolkien seem to be the most frequent members #I don’t get why it has to be a competition they can both be in the group #south park #tweek tweak #craig tucker #Jimmy Valmer #clyde donovan #Tolkien black

[miraculouslumination]

The audacity to be like "there's a problem with racism in transandrophobia discussions" while also unironically using the term "transandrophobia truther(s)"

#Jean mumbles #Of course there will almost always be racism in discussions of oppression #But like...bro are you really going to say this and then side with the exact same people #Who have constantly erased and silenced the voices of trans men of color and other marginalized trans men #Calling them shit like white-aligned or overall gatekeeping their blackness #Are you seriously not seeing how that call is coming from inside the house #And again - truther is something that has very heavy ties to antisemitism #So again. Are you really the hero because of this? #Are you actually helping people here? #Now I'm white so obviously take what I say here with as many grains of salt as you feel is best #But all I'm saying is that racism is fucking everywhere and there is not a single group in this discussion who is guilt free #And right now you're participating in the violent act of erasing and silencing the voices of non-white and non-gentile trans men and mascs #I wish the best to anyone who has fallen for this pandering bullshit #And a huge apology to all the trans m&ms this bullshit hurts #Transandrophobia #(Gatekeeping blackness but also just non-white raced and ethnicities in general)

[james-sunshine-potter]

Regulus and Lily would both steal James’ clothes, and walk around Hogwarts in his clothes.

It would confused everybody but that was the joy of it.

#no one could pick up on who James was dating #because they’d wear clothes which were obviously James/ James wore often so people knew they were his #and rumour’s definitely spread #and when they reached any of them they were so vague they basically raised seven new questions with one question #I’m falling in love with jegulily if you couldn’t tell #i love breaking love trangles by making them all date #james potter #regulus black #lily evans #james x regulus x lily #jegulily #jegulily headcannon #james potter headcanon #regulus black headcanons #lily evans headcanons #maurder era #jsp headcannon #jegulus #sunseeker #starchaser #jsp- marauder era #jsp- jegulily

[euphorial-docx]

the black family is so pretty because they have aquiline noses, curly hair, and a whole lot of eyebrows. any other interpretation is wrong.

#/j #obviously other peoples way of seeing them is great too #but i just feel like they’d have roman noses and dark curly hair and those french eyebrows #i’m really leaning into the frenchness of their family if you couldn’t tell #they are so french to me #sirius black #regulus black #narcissa black #andromeda black #bellatrix lestrange #marauders #the noble and most ancient house of black

[apollos-olives]

Do Palestinians typically see Israeli’s as white?

yeah. it's a white settler colonial state. the settlers are white. their interests are full of white supremacist ideals. they treat poc like shit. the settlers mostly come from europe and america. israel loves eugenics. it's whole thing is like. white.

#i've only met ONE black israeli in my life #and she was stationed at the border. and she looked so sad and miserable #my family were trying to leave palestine and she was handing us our tickets after confirming our identities #and my brother. who was 9 years old and did not know arabic nor hebrew. did not understand that he had to take the ticket from her #and i obviously couldn't speak to him in english bc english = death #so i decided to take the ticket for him #and she fucking yelled at me and brushed me off #eventually my brother understood to take the ticket but god... that poor woman looked so awful and miserable sitting there #you could tell she was being treated like shit by the higher ups. #israel does not care for it's poc #it only cares about white people and white people only

[canisitsnotlupus]

Hey y'all,

We recently found a rabid skunk on the farm today (10/17) and I need to do rabies boosters on everyone. It's caught me off guard, especially in the middle of the month when my SSDI check is pretty much gone, and I just don't have the money to cover this when it's so sudden and pressing to get done ASAP.

No one has to donate, I will definitely try to figure it out, but I was told by friends to ask anyway, so:

COVERED

I will be scheduling the farm vet to come out to do it as that is easiest for me instead of carting 2-3 dogs 40 mins away and taking all day to get everyone done, but it does incur a travel fee. edit: thanks all! got it covered, will be calling the farm vet first thing tomorrow to get him to come out and booster everyone. this has been a NIGHTMARE.

#game warden came with a biologist and took it to dispose of it #literally so scary to deal with #i can also pay people back if you want just give a message and i will figure it out #i AM sorry to ask for this i was in a good place and was saving for black friday and will obviously be using that but it's not enough #and won't cover the entire bill and they're closed rn so idk if they will work with me on it #basically panicking but would rather have the peace of mind to cover it #trying to save for black friday at least but it kept getting used for like “food” and “heating”

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I noticed about transition that I never really thought about or was told about: My facial hair is (so far) completely different in colour. My chin hair is black, and the hair in my mustache, especially when it catches light, is blond and almost the same red that my head hair looks like

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #i think this one is funny though #i'm 2.5 years on testosterone and my chin hairs are more prominent than my mustache so it could be something i 'age out of' #but it just looks odd and there's no way in hell i'm shaving off my mustache no matter how small it is #i used to be called a redhead and even a ginger on a frequent basis and idk if people are collectively truman show-ing me #because i don't see it most of the time. but it's weird to see it in my mustache #there IS some black in it but obviously not everywhere #i just wasn't under the impression that it was something that happens lol #i'm sure this is something that as my facial hair matures i'll likely outgrow but that could be a while

[realbeefman]

i know chase obviously wins the religious trauma competition but can we please talk about how foreman was not only raised by a deeply religious father, but was most likely raised BAPTIST. no wonder he’s so repressed. the baptist experience is like. you’re in church every sunday listening to a man scream about how love is something that should hurt. you believe in a good, loving god - but to believe, you have to accept that true love is painful. that to be a good person, you must suffer. to love is to endure it, to work mercilessly. you’re not worthy of the love of The Almighty, and you never will be, and that sense of unworthiness is fundamental to having faith. when you sin, you don’t just hurt Him, you hurt everyone around you. you make the world worse because you have dared commit the sin of existence — to be human is to be sinful. to be loved is to feel unworthy and pathetic and hopeless. like YEAH no wonder foreman self isolates and is emotionally closed off. he was taught from BIRTH that he is fundamentally unworthy of love, and that in accepting love, he is also accepting that he truly is worthless.

#also #i really cant stress enough to non-americans that foreman being black would seriously have had an impact on his relationship with religion #christian ideals are baked into the way racial justice is thought about in the blm movement of today #christianity is also by and large more significant to black americans than it is to white americans because of this #because race and religion are really intertwined #and idk its not. the MOST important aspect of foreman’s character or anything #but i think it’s a lot harder to Get him if u don’t have that cultural knowledge which most americans will inherently understand #also disclaimer im not black. never been to a black church so obviously i cant speak to that experience #however i did go to a baptist school growing up and they REALLY emphasized that i should be ashamed of being alive #obviously this is all me theorizing bc foreman could be some other flavor of protestantism #they’re all varying levels of traumatic tbh #if he was episcopal he probably was listening to people speaking tongues in church which just. yeah. that also really fucks u up #house md #eric foreman #house md hc #house md headcanon #dr foreman

[queenvhagar]

The thing is Rhaenyra didn't need to make babies with Harwin. I don't care if she wants to be with him, that's fine, but moon tea was right there in two separate episodes. She didn't need to have children to have heirs to the throne, and no heirs is definitely better than "obvious bastards posing as trueborn" heirs when it comes to future stability of the realm. It's not like the Targaryen family would end if she didn't reproduce - her brothers and sister and their families could carry on the line, and in the event she became queen, her brother would be heir. Not having babies with your husband isn't necessarily unheard of in this world - infertility happens.

I could even be sympathetic to her if she made a mistake and got the tea wrong once and oops! Bastard baby. But three? That was definitely on purpose and a very big "rules for thee but not for me" moment. Like I don't care if she should have the right to have babies with whoever based on our modern views but doing it back then with all that was riding on her to follow the rules and uphold the law as an heir was expected to do was just stupid and dangerous to everyone around her. Sorry girl if you wanted to prevent a war being fought over you succeeding the throne you needed to have done better.

#unfortunately gotta tag this one as #anti rhaenyra targaryen #she really chose to do that. at the cost of the entire realm #obviously the show makes you hate aegon more but going off a more book slant. aegon would've made the better ruler #under otto/alicent guidance #people who literally ran the country for years while Viserys was ill or busy with legos #they would council him better than daemon would council rhaenyra I can guarantee that #team black priorities are serving their own interests #team green priorities are serving the realms interests above self #the whole love vs duty thing. duty is better for ruling

[faggylittleleatherboy]

One thing people really miss about wolfstar is how similar they actually are, how much they understand each other. Yeah they’re very different in some aspects, opposites traits for real, but they’re not polar opposites???? And that’s probably because there’s this constant “need” to fit them in a daddy/bbg dinamic (or variation of it) (and alternating who’s the daddy and who’s the babygirl) because it has an appeal I guess, but it’s just not them???? You strip the character of key (deep) traits in order to put them in a mold

#remus lupin #sirius black #wolfstar #or because people see an extrovert and an introvert and say yea they are polar opposites in every way #just like two introverts are the same person and will always be best friends (?????) #saying moonwater would happen #(it would not) #(not even platonically) #and explaining how similar regulus and remus arw by pointing out shit like they both like to read so they are obviously besties 😌😌 #pLEAAAAASE #sigh