#kinda racist a lot of the time

[starlooove]

Realizing the adultification and demonization of Duke and Damian is just. Not gonna stop. El oh el

#demonization more in Damian’s case #and not in the characters can’t do bad things kinda way #but in a writers and readers are so racist they’ll never even acknowledge that they don’t grant him the same grace they do anyone else #especially their white faves in comparison #and with the way they keep tryna spin Ra’s and Talia as being like. perfect parents maybe slightly absent or evil back then but family ppl #at heart it’s just gonna be more excuses to demonize a brown child bc now the very basis of his previous attitude will be gone #i mean for some of you it was never existed or acknowledged but there’s a certain bitterness I’m feeling when y’all can point to a panel #written by someone who’s only read WFA for background and say ‘see its canon that he’s just a murderous asshole for no reason!’ #same mfs who can’t tell me three bad things Tim’s done that they don’t fw bc either they’ve never read it or they justify it in their minds #and for Duke it’s like. just removing every aspect of his character bc god forbid u pay attention to a black child who’s not an easy stereo #that’s the difference Damian’s early appearance was very easy for a lot of y’all to stereotype even and at times especially Talia Stans #for Duke u can’t call him ghetto and u can’t call him one of the good ones bc there’s no ‘bad’ ones as a comparison point so he’s just a guy #he’s a good bro :) he’s there :) u don’t know enough about him to speak :) #and honestly if they keep going down the Al Ghuls are perfect route they might shoehorn Damian near that position too #that’d make it three for three when you involve cass. wow the poc of the family being reduced to no character besides propping up the yt #cast. maybe if we go that route and it happens to all three of them some of y’all will make a ‘fandom has a problem 🥺’ post and dip #like always el oh el so exhausted #batfandom racism #tim drake #jason Todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #Lemme be a bitch today #Duke cass and Damian Stan’s I won’t clog ur dash with this #actually some of u cass Stan’s are…. #I’ll just say it a lot of you are racist as fuck and can’t say shit about cass besides she fights good and deserves the world #batfam #wfa #anti wfa

[cakemoney]

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

#laughs awkwardly #gender #especially considering the ways patriarchal expectations and capitalism very much intersect in terms of quality of life for women #ex. women being expected to have kids / raise kids / do all the housework and cooking in a relationship #while ALSO existing in a society where women (even married women) have to work demanding jobs to deal with the high cost of living #AND women are systemically discriminated against in terms of pay / job availability / work environment and harassment #all of these things add up. these conversations are not opposing points of view. you know? #and also like. not super comfortable with how TERFs are discussed in terms of non-white cultures #TERFism / radfems as a MOVEMENT (and a cult) is very much rooted in white supremacy / ideals of womanhood #again. multiple things can be true at the same time. yes i do see (from my perspective involved in taiwanese social media) #some east asian feminists engage in transphobia in ways that approach radfem rhetoric ('women are victims of men' 'men are predators' #type generalized sentiments which you can imagine gains a lot of traction among women traumatized by patriarchy) #but movement-wise i don't think it's fair (or just in good faith) to generalize radical feminists from non-white countries #to straight up TERFs. which again. rooted in white supremacy. keep feeling like i have to remind people it doesn't make sense #for asians to be white supremacists and that not all oppression on earth stems directly from white people. you weirdos #'what are you talking about' in east asia the type of feminist statements called 'radical' are stuff like. #women shouldn't have to wear make up every time they go outside. women shouldn't be expected to do all housework. #should men pay for women on dates. debates that i think in the states we kind of take for granted as stuff settled years ago #even if some feminists might be transphobic it's not necessarily Transphobia As Core Tenets Of The Movement. does anyone get the difference #basically what i'm saying is. wow these tags got long. maybe let's not apply uniform standards of 'correct language and values' #to non-white people and attack them when as all movements they are fluid and influenced by the people living in it #TERF-style transphobia is not the predestined course for them. maybe it's more productive to have open discussions about transphobia #to work towards inclusivity and solidarity in these movements than to prescribe White Internet Morality to them #and declare that they're evil when they are still very much having conversations that need to be had. thanks i think that's all #essentially. i find that 'how dare a non-american movement not have morally pristine vocabulary priorities and membership #as determined by white leftists' to be in itself kinda a racist attitude

[caffeinatedopossum]

I'm having the sudden urge to make a discord server for all of us but I'm almost definitely not qualified. Like idk I just like you guys and you seem so cool and funky and sometimes I think we should talk and listen to music and show each other our art and our outfits and vent and celebrate together and play games and shit

#but oof thats a terrifying thoughts #ive had bad experiences in discord before #because they were not moderated well or people just decided to make a bunch of drama for some reason #one time a person legit called me several slurs?? when i was just trying to ask if they could be a little more respectful #and then they were like 'well ACTUALLY im only racist and violent because im autistic so stop being ableist maybe' like??? #skgkfj it was honestly so absurd its just kinda funny #but then the LITERAL PERSON THAT MADE THE SERVER started insulting people too #saying that we were all boring npcs and didnt care about them at all and saying how much they hated all of us #like ??? ok i kinda feel for you but also the only reason no one was talking was because it wasnt being moderated at all #it was like they didnt pay attention to what was actually happening in the server at all #they were fifteen and mentally ill though so idk how much i can blame them. i just hope theyre ok cause it was a lot honestly

[gossamer-green]

from the canon art of chip, he’s the kinda white person who tans really well

it’d make sense for his torso and arms to be tanned a bit the way they’re depicted, since he’s only got the one shirt, which has to be washed at least occasionally.

he also strikes me as someone who’d notice that his legs were drastically pale in comparison to the rest of him and get self-conscious about it and spend some time intentionally sun bathing to tan them uphmm but life on the sea is busy, right? so maybe he’d just go about his duties on the ship in his undies every now and again kjdhfjksdnwould jay make fun of his legs? yeah probably :( which wouldn’t help his insecurity about them :( but that’s the whole reason he’s tanning them, so

jay seems like the kinda white person who’s too pale to really tan. she probably burns easily. maybe chip would call her sunburn karma

wait what if jay’s a freckle tanner. jay with sun freckles <3

i genuinely don’t know how people mistook lizzie for being canonically pretty dark when she 1) used to be blonde and 2) has a rosy blush?

there’s a youtuber called manesbymell who lots of people have mistaken for black and who was blonde as a kid. to me, lizzie has a natural complexion a bit deeper than hers. kinda like mell's sister, amanda, does. the kylie-rihanna skintone grizz describes her as having would come from her suntan

#jrwi #jrwi riptide #chip jrwi #jay ferin #lizzie lafayette #gossamer thoughts #this is basically just a train of thought edited to be less odd to read #started thinking about chip vs jay in the sun and then the lizzie gripes came to mind #i've seen ppl (mostly twt) complain about chip being drawn increasingly darker #whereas we don't have (accurate) art of characters described as having darker skin #and while i kinda get it i'm also like. have you seen a white person who tans really well who's spent a lot of time in the sun #They Look Like That bro #since i'm just talking in the tags now i hate the way ppl talk about lizzie bc it's so clear that to so many ppl #'poc' is synonymous with 'black' and occasionally 'and/or brown' #and being black or brown means having deep brown skin #unless a yt person's officially depicted with skin that has a bit of colour in which case it's racist bc only poc have skin like that #it's thinking in literal black and white and it's so frustrating on both a logical and personal level #i feel bad that grizz was made to feel bad about lizzie and genuinely believes he messed up with her :(( #rant over just had to get that off my chest lmao

[grassbreads]

Apparently it's a universal requirement of priest novels that one of the main characters has to be The Most Annoying Man Alive

#tho spl is the first time I've found the most annoying man alive actually annoying #reading about xp driving everyone around him bonkers in ts is a blast #and watchjng fd drive lwz up the wall in md was also always a lot of fun #but GY in spl is legitimately frustrating me a bit #he's funny. but he's SO bad at dealing with others' feelings in a way that's a bit frustrating to read #you can't buy a freshly traumatized teenager's love with gifts dude #anyway I'm finishing vol 1 of spl since I paid for it #but it's uhhh. still gross tbh #at least they've stoped being actively heinously racist for a while (since there stopped being scenes with 'barbarians') #but it's also. like. REALLY fatphobic w how cg's friend is depicted #I find cg's setup as a character pretty compelling #young miserable disillusioned and burdened with the idea that he's cursed to go mad with bloodlust #I like that #and the xianxia mech thing is legitimately very cool #but those two points of investment and enjoyment are carrying me through a book that I otherwise find kinda gross in a lot of ways #andie reads spl

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

Burn

historical fantasy set in an alternate 1957 with dragons

a girl and her father in a small town hire one to help with their farm, and despite warnings she starts to talk to him

meanwhile an assassin for a dragon worshiping cult is heading their way trailed by FBI agents, and things start to get far more complicated with world-ending prophecies and the impending war

#burn #patrick ness #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is one i just never got around to reading bc i guess by the time it came out i mostly don't read white dude authors anymore #(love u patrick ness tho...) #there are a lot of things i liked about this! #i love the base concept and everything; and a lot of the details #maybe the detail choices of characters/settings was a bit odd? #on one hand that's the point and also a patrick ness thing. on the other idk if it meshed entirely #definitely switches things up at halfway also! #love the weird time stuff and magic based on belief but it kinda only came in properly at the end #also. i do love the concept of dragons being russian blues. like the cats. they're called blue but theyre grey #big warning for racist police violence #the MCs are a biracial girl w a japanese boyfriend and a gay boy #also my random notesapps while listening to this: woah half way; 'you were a teenage dragon??'; society................

[arundolyn]

ngl i sometimes forget cishet nerdbros exist and are the only ones who like kenny pretty much, like to the point of nigh worship, which is like On Brand. these bitches like genuinely try to make him some kind of christ figure almost as if he doesnt fucking suck terribly and is mediocre and iirc its never even CONFIRMED confirmed he ever did the one good merciful act that he ever SEEMED to and put him in We Don’t Know If He Died limbo. and its very funny also how they hate anyone who rightfully calls kenny out on being an ass and say theyre weak cowards (BEN. BEN. BEN.) or evil and lying (JANE! WHO WAS FUCKING CORRECT ALWAYS! YOU HATE HER CAUSE SHES RIGHT). anyone who killed jane over kenny is wrong and a coward and he dies anyway so die mad.

admittedly there is SOME nuance and depth to kenny’s character for sure. but these people are just straight up making shit up completely all the time. cope and seethe die mad etc etc your cool white guy died. boo hoo. which is really funny these were probably the same bitches crying when vasco wasnt playable anymore in indivisible and replaced by a cooler black man and genuinely got big baby mad when there was not a playable white man anymore. that happened

#crow.txt #yes the game is about making choices But there are wrong choices (picking kenny over literally anyone else for anything ever) #IDK HE SUCKS TOO MUCH FOR ME TO JUSTFIY IT! HE SUCKS IN S2! DIE MAD IDC! #idk idc i dont give a god damn kenny aint shit and never was. kenny fans are the signora mains of twdg #twdgposting #jane also dies anyway to be fair but i mean at least it wasnt as insane and gruesome i suppose? for her at least? #and its sadder imo. whatever whatever kenny whatever the fuck jane literally like hung herself from the ceiling fan. which like #iirc it was on. and i feel terrible for laughing. but like she was literally slowly rotating. as a zombie. im mad it was so fucked up #but in my brain it was funny just looking back. like it was shocking but did you have to do it in the funniest way possible. girl. #not to mention kenny like. being southern Obviously. says some fucking WILD shit a few times #and implies some wild ass shit that i dont appreciate. idk abt yall but im not gonna side with the racist redneck guy #hes literally the type to own a confederate flag. i bet he did in the first draft of the game #idk unpopular opinion i like ben and im fucked up over like..... sure i get why kenny was pissed. but jesus fucking christ have some empathy #you arent the fucking protagonist surprise surprise! though he sure does want to be #these are the kind of people who saw ben standing up for himself and somehow didnt like. care. which i cannot fathom #like honestly kenny aint fucking shit!!!!!!!!!! im actually mad now #ben went through sooooo much worse. like a LOT fucking worse. but its always about kenny of course. #kenny apparently goes so far as to praise lee if he lets ben fucking die in crawford which. fuck you for that #and ben CLEARLY feels fucking TERRIBLE about it the whole time and is absolutely riddled with guilt after he ruins kenny's family #and is honestly just kinda telling people to kill him after cause he feels he deserves it and shit. and then his death IS sad as fuck #if you spared him from falling in the bell tower thing. like arguably worse than breaking his legs and being eaten alive maybe #idk i just like the cringe little failboy. he was doing his best. BEN did nothing wrong actually i think. kenny genuinely sucked #ben was just scared and confused. justice for ben 2k22. #like even after the supposed mercy kill kenny shit talks him postmortem after purportedly starting to understand him #what is his fucking issue. didnt ben literally like JUST graduate from high school. if he had graduated at all. christ i hate kenny. #...and also the nerdbro kenny obsession is totally cause hes like the white guy power fantasy every dude like that has in apocalypse setting #theyre always Cool and Right and doing the Best For Who They Care About while being a fucking asshole to everyone else #and from the outside seeming like an utter fucking tool in spite of the times they do good. cant stand him #hot takes from me today i guess?

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

po.to phan.dom drama was insane like how come half of ya'll turned out to be bigots. like in droves.

#every time i see a blog about it still i get kinda nervous lol #myevilposts #i know gothlit fandoms unfortunately attract a lot of racists but with po.to there was that and so much more. it was awful.

[teawizardry]

New boy, this is Camilo

#my art #he's a vampire cowboy #kinda sorta #anyways he's angsty bc he can be #I had to give him a hat inspired by hateful eight and that clint eastwood poncho #yes i love westerns deal with it #i also love irl western history #well i love learning about it #i dont love a lot of what happened but thats because it mostly ping pongs between being racist against mexicans native americans etc #this has been history ramblings with hk #tune in next time to hear a different hyperfixation #(mid 1800s clothing)

[cool-and-caustic]

Maybe it’s bc I’m middle eastern and I would regularly see my facial features in racist political cartoons as a child and well into adulthood but seeing white ppl act like having a hooked nose is an “exaggerated” feature caused by inbreeding makes me want to do things I can not say on this site.

Like pls if you think a feature is ugly pause and think about WHY you think it’s ugly. Mayhaps something to do with internalized racism? Or sorry are all the poc across the world with hooked noses or deep set eyes all inbred 🤔 anyways white ppl kill yourself challenge

#also the amount of times I’ve seen other poc pick and choose what surgery is considered racist and not #like poc saying a rhinoplasty is okay and different from other racist surgery? #kinda insane bc yeah lots of middle eastern ppl have hooked noses but I got friends of all races with these features #do you guys not know what featurism is?

[rotwilt]

food poll makes me mad :)

#i lived in the uk for like 3 months and cooked with a bunch of people and good lord. #istg if anyone actually had the things on that poll cooked by someone who. knew how to cook. they would love it #even ignoring the sorta racist and classist vibes from that poll it bugs me #like babygirl #do you think no one can cook #surprise surprise a lot of americans cant afford to eat out all the time. so we cook. #and we came up with some things that seem kinda wacky to europeans because of the literal great depression. or immigration.

[nervousenby]

Started reading moby dick and one thing I can’t get over is queequeeg’s use of his harpoon for everything and anything. Like in some situations it makes sense, he shaves with his harpoon because hey, it's good quality steel that’s regularly sharpened and it’s probably available more than a razor is when you’re on a boat. Completely reasonable! But THEN IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE they’re at breakfast and queequeg’s having steaks. Not weird on its own, it’s basically the same as having bacon or sausage at breakfast, no big deal—right? Well it is because instead of using utensils or even his hands, HE STABS AT THE STEAKS WITH HIS BIG ASS HARPOON. And like all the other sailor dudes are crammed in next to each other so it’s not just “oh he doesn’t understand cultural norms” it’s “culture and etiquette aside, you should know better. You could ACCIDENTALLY STAB SOMEBODY IN THE HEAD” Not to mention, HE JUST SHAVED WITH IT. YOU’RE GONNA GET HAIR IN YOUR FOOD. At this point I’m not even criticizing queequeg the character, queequeg the character has done no wrong. I’m criticizing the author BECAUSE WHY WAS THIS NECESSARY THE TEXT HAS ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR HE’S A WHALE OUT OF WATER HERE IN THIS NEW ENGLAND FISHING TOWN YOU DONT NEED TO ADD THIS WEIRD DETAIL HERMAN. WHAT THE 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞 HERMAN

#moby dick #queequeg #herman melville #why is this in my head #long post #is this offensive #i think it might be but it was written in the 19th century and it's a lot less racist than other books from that time I gotta say #so like i can’t judge but I also kinda can #Herman merman mellville what the ever loving fuck #too many tags

[evilminji]

You know what would be hilarious? The Totally Normal Collage Life of one Valerie Gray(tm)!

She PROMISED you see.

It is fuled by the unspeakable rage of every one of her ancestors trying to do their damn job at on 2 hours of sleep and no coffee. Maternal line, of course. Her FATHER'S bloodline is bizarrely chill.

But dear LORD you should have seen her grandpa yeeting hooligans into composting heaps for getting in the way of his early morning baking. You don't MESS with grandpa's bakery, people learned THAT fast. Long time Amity natives the lot of um! All sorts of interests. That side of the family got real... ob.. sessive....

Waaaaaait a second. She's connecting some dots.

Not important! (Currently.)

See, her dad WORRIES. And SHE worries cause her dad worries. So she PROMISED! No funny business. No ghosts. And NO, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, crime fighting! Just go to her classes and get good grades. Focus on setting her self up for a good future.

O7 yes sir, dad sir! Fuck them ghosts and their nonsense!

So she studied like the brilliant young woman she is. Got FANTASTIC scholarships. Checked out the various colleges. And??

Honestly?

Vibes were RANCID.

Some city's were too... twee? If that makes sense? And some too "time fucky". Others felt "magical nonsense" and "barren Ectoplasmic wasteland"? And the last few were just kinda racist, so that was not happening. Like the CITIES were fine! But the SCHOOLS were... Subtext Heavy.

She might have had to break somebody if she stayed their too long.

She's heard Paulina's going to one of those, though. So... Ha! Rip in pieces fuckos. She honestly can't wait too see THAT gruesome trainwreck from a safe distance. Paulina's gonna THRIVE. Its probably why she even CHOSE that school.

Where was she? Oh, right!

She's deeply fucked and it's Batman's fault!

See, Valerie? Kinda chose Gotham U. It... wasn't her WISEST choice for her "totally normal, crime fighting free, young adult adventures(tm)" but like? What can you do? Gotham just feels so HOMEY!

And MAYBE she gets a little too relaxed. Too tired from a long day of studying.

Some rando tries to mug her with riddles or something! Look, she was TIRED. Not listening. She kicks his ass and goes home. And the plant protest lady. Or that crocodile not-a-ghost?! And YEAH, maybe flying to class wasn't the BEST idea! But like?

How was SHE supposed to know someone saw her?!

@hdgnj @hypewinter @nerdpoe @lolottes @ailithnight @mutable-manifestation

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