i think sirius’ canon approval of dumbledore is an interesting piece of characterisation. very often in fic i see him being written as rebelling against the old man but canonically he obeys his every word, even if he doesn’t personally agree 🤔 in gof he’s convinced that snape, a man he loathes, is probably not up to something nefarious because dumbledore trusts him. in ootp, he HATES being stuck in grimmauld place but he obeys dumbledore’s orders to the T. when harry tells him he thinks he attacked arthur weasley, sirius only questions whether dumbledore is aware of this, before brushing it off
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Respectability Politics suck
Okay, let me talk about respectibility politics and why they suck. The face eating tiger party is gonna eat your face, believe it or not.
And hey, this is a topic that even concerns fanwork and shipping and all of that.
I understand that to many Respectability Politics is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but from what I see a lot of people are not quite sure of the exact meaning.
So, basically Respectability Politics is when a marginalized group tries to police parts of their own culture to be more accepted by the majority culture of whatever country they life in. While not the origin of this, the most classical example of this is queer folks trying to push other queer folks into going into more normative, nuclear families. To further the narrative of "we are not so different from you, love is love!" As such quite a few aspects of queer culture (like cruising, for example, but also ballroom culture and such) were socially frowned upon from those queer folks who were trying to seek acceptance by the majority culture.
Which is exactly also what is happening with those queer folks, who try to exclude trans people. and Those trans people trying to exclude non-binary folks. And trans medicalists, and so on and so forth.
It is also seen within general feminism - where this always has been a big thing. "Sure, I want voting rights, but do you really have to wear trousers?!"
Of course this extends to every other marginalized group. My white ass does not have the right to talk about Black civil rights for the most part, but just think of those people who would go "that is not how you ask for it" when it comes to Black Lives Matter and the like.
Or, for example, in the Disability Rights groups, where some people are trying to exclude some other folks. Or are pushing for a "everybody should want to be healed" narrative.
It really is all around.
We see it within fandom culture, too. The entire "proshipping"/"antishipping" thing expesically nothing but Respectability Politics. Be it respectability politics for fandom culture - or for queer culture, because both things are so closely related.
But the thing is this: No matter how much those people pushing for Respectability Politics do that... they will never be accapted by majority culture. They will be used as pawns for those more right leaning folks on the side of the majority culture to go: "See, even the XY agree with us. It is just XY extremists who see it differently and extremism is bad actually!" But make no mistakes: If those right leaning folks manage to push for laws against any minority group, those laws will be acted out against EVERYONE within that minority group, not just the "deviants".
Because here is the thing: the people who think of queerness as something bad and unnatural, will not leave you alone just because you and your gay husband/wife mime a nuclear family perfectly. They will still hate you, vandalize your house and what not. They might just go for the more "deviant" queers, first.
So, yeah. Fuck Respectability Politics. They do not get you anywhere. And when you need to give up part of yourself and your culture to be accepted, you are not accepted at all.
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I LVOE BLACK WOMEN OK?
I love hood black women
i love nerdy black women
i love dorky black women
i love high femme black women
i love stud black women
i love ratchet black women
i love loud black women
i love black women
i love fat black women
i love twiggy black women
i love THICC black women
i love trans black women
if youre black and a woman, i love you so much
I love mean black women (they have their reasons)
WE are the BLUEPRINT, dont get it twisted!
ALL BLACK WOMEN ARE CELEBRATED HERE!
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wyll is an extremely hard character to roleplay bc he acts so calm n cool n collected even when he does off the wall shit. he will say “lets kill this clown” in the most even tempered voice in the middle of a goblin stronghold, he will say balduran’s bollocks when u betray the grove in early access and just act exasperated with u for doing it, but does the most logical thing anyway. like he is impossibly collected to the point where it seems nonsensical and inhuman n tbh a touch poorly written if only bc we NEVER get to see him with that seven proxies n plot armor off
which is why its so fun for me to write high intensity stuff for him—but also, i have to Control myself so it doesnt come across as ooc. its a very difficult balancr, between letting wyll hv a little more humanity that he was denied in game n letting him have flaws—and letting my poetry take over n ignoring how strong n goid he is with his control over himself, even if he had to use beautiful, fantastical words and tales of heroism to stay. not going crazy as i believe any person would realistically feel
in gen in my lil corruption arcs/toxic ships, they happen bc circumstances force wyll’s brain n hand to act in ways he THINKS he can control but can’t. if the game thought about it for two seconds—i truly believe wyll n adtarion would also try to kill each other, or at least have like. idk. a moment on screen where they see and Do Not See each other before they see and See what they could be to each other. wyll believes he can control or act logically in any situation and handle it—but in truth, without the constraints of the game n leader forcing wyll into boxes that dont always fit, he would be more likely to fuck off n be more varied and impulsive in his reactions n interactions
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