"….Abbi? Are you all right."
Abena has been watching some videos; by the time Josep came in, she clearly looks distressed. "I'll be fine."
"Love. Talk to me. Why are you watching these videos? Stop it. We suffered enough of this in Guangzhou."
"But these mothers and their children… we are not alone. They suffered too. I am lucky enough that people can tell I am Arcelia's mother through her dark skin, and that you are her father because she had your blond hair. But if she looked more white, I could have been accused of being a kidnapper--or worse, a trafficker. And you be given some other horrible narrative if-"
"Enough." Pep leans Abena's against his chest to hold his wife close to his heart. "She was loved. She was cared for, she was fed, she was clothed, she was homed. She smiled, she had friends, she was happy. Those times people judged her, and us, based on our appearances, were never in the right. The world is still catching up to mixed parents and mixed families, even if overcorrection is taking place."
"I thought people are better than this by now. That you wouldn't send the police at a black mother for having a white child. Or brown caregivers caring for fair-skinned people with needs."
Josep kisses his wife on the forehead. "People always think they are doing good things with good intentions when they make actions with blindness to humanity. That's just something that will always happen, no matter the centuries."
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Using tumblr mobile browser is inconvenient and unpleasant.
It is Perfect for my plan to reduce tumblr use.
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Unironically I really need to start saying 'G'day' and calling people 'mate' more often like. It's free gender
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Me when I hear “let’s not open that can of worms”
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cis ppl are getting their she/her privileges revoked until they can call me any other pronouns
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I love y'all but why do you lie
I mean I have a Gemini placement but
I was in the hospital for a migraine cause my reg Medication was not cutting it 🤪✌️ silly goofy mood
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really been getting into your mom jokes lately
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Help. Tumblr blaze is inundating me with cat girls.
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Egret Nurse
design from The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am working on and hope to have finished in 2025)
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i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw
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