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writingwithcolor · 1 year
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Black woman with shockingly dark eyes and impossible features - is this exotification?
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Okay so I'm writing a superhero story and one of my main characters is from Ethiopia. I know it's really frowned upon to give black characters "exotic" features, especially things like light eyes and perfectly straight natural hair. My character is described as having very dark skin but she also has some features that are meant to show her powers. For instance, her eyes are very dark but they're described as being like oil in that they're very shiny and reflect a lot of color, and she has specks of shiny green and blue on her cheeks which are described as freckles. 
She also has really long bright green hair but I want to make it clear that it's really thick and not at all straight. It's not really curly though either, but I don't know any words for hair like that. Are there any adjectives I can use to describe the texture? 
These features are supposed to reflect her powers which are basically colorful blasts of energy but I don't know if they could come off as trying to make the character exotic. I have a bunch of white characters who also have unusual or otherwise impossible features (one is a girl with white hair and unnaturally pale skin and there's also a boy with cat like pupils and fangs). Having unusual physical traits is normal for superpowered people in this world but I don't know if this could be potentially harmful.
"Exotic" features on Black people
I know it's really frowned upon to give black characters "exotic" features, especially things like light eyes and perfectly straight natural hair.
I wouldn't say it's frowned upon to give Black people light eyes and straight, natural hair in itself. It’s when creators choose these features for Black people time and time again over those with darker features and those more commonly associated to their heritage. 
It's also a problem when characters with these "special" traits are exalted, either by the narrative, fate, or other characters, while the other "non-special" Black people aren't given favorable treatment, if they even exist in the story at all. Books tend to represent Black people with light skin or stand-out features first, especially Black women (Black men are more often allowed to be dark and still be seen as attractive, although not always).
When you do have characters with these extra-special traits, it's nice to avoid the pitfalls mentioned above. Also, adding important Black characters without these traits helps to balance out the special snowflake syndrome.
This applies to your character as well. The oil-dark eyes doesn't read as exotifying to me. The shiny green and blue freckles are adding some more "main character syndrome" to the mix, but i'm not too concerned. You have characters of other races with unusual and impossible features. This helps to avoid implications of her only deserving to be there because she's not like the others.
As for her hair Thick, not quite curly, but not straight at all? I think you're looking for the word wavy. Check out our hair guide for more words that may help with texture words, but I think wavy works fine.
~Mod Colette
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shred-my-anxiety · 5 months
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PLEASE STOP TAGGING EVERYTHING AS AUTISM. NOT EVERY LITTLE ‘WEIRD TRAIT’ OR ‘SPECIAL INTEREST’ MAKES YOU AUTISTIC. STOP ARMCHAIR DIAGNOSING YOURSELF.
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puckinginsane · 1 year
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def-not-kaz-brekker · 6 months
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Quote from my friend Noah (I love you merchles if you see this):
“I love gay historical figures cuz like it’ll be like
They lived together all their life and they were best friends they even slept in the same room neither of them married a woman for work related reasons and when one died the other commits several war crimes :33
But they were just friends”
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Dancing in the hail is so much fun!💙❄️
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fiadhaisteach · 10 months
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So the Orthopedic PA, who sees knees & ankles all day, every day, has never come across knees, or ankles, like mine before.
*feels special* 😂
Waiting for the MD consult next.
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alice-serenity · 1 year
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“Oh, I don’t go out partying, I don’t drink and smoke, I’m a sheltered homebody, I’m such a Good Girl uwu - BRUH, that doesn’t make you better than everyone, it just means you keep to yourself!
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trexalicious · 2 years
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The latest insight from Berkshire to Buckingham. Queen Elizabeth II is no doddering old gran whispering sacred secrets in Harry's ear because of their uber special relationship...no matter what their PR claims!
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personal-blog243 · 2 years
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I’m sure I’m super late to this but I realized that the reason boomers hate millennials is because of stereotypes they are fed by the media (and through real life interactions with CERTAIN millennials)
I hate that millennials are portrayed as stupid, incompetent, lazy, spoiled, selfish, entitled. Ungrateful, virtue signaling, pandering, self righteous, hypocritical, rich, white people who appropriate marginalized cultures, gentrify poor neighborhoods, and tokenize minorities, but don’t we ALL hate those people?
We just need to clarify with the boomers that it’s about criticizing privileged people and addressing those issues like racism and capitalism.
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pink-alchemy · 7 days
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realhankmccoy · 5 months
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Yes it's been a theme of my life that it's crystal clear that I want a Platonic relationship with someone and instead they're gonna pursue me like a I'm a piece of meat.
I still don't know how to resolve this. As a gay man, you're kinda stuck with gay men for friends -- maybe women, maybe a few straight men -- but all those groups including the gay men are what are called prejudiced.
All that straight white capitalistic male bullshit has been internalised by all groups and the only difference is to what extent people have cucked themselves to it.
This is the primary socialisation issue. All these people who think they can fix it with Trump's methodology -- sweep identity politics under the rug, never talk of it, start anew -- are dipshits and cucks, as the forceful aggression to silence and roll everyone back into the closet has always been there and is raging strong lately.
You really think you can cure racial tribalism with silence? That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.... the dumb white American idiot sees that black skin and runs screaming away from it, worse now than they did 40 years ago cuz everybody's such a self-castrated sissy toddler for Trump and Peterson.
Just watch an 80s film -- almost any 80s film -- if you don't think you castrated yourself for Trump and Peterson's protectionist 'you're the victimhood, you don't have to act like a man anymore, just be a sissy weakling rolling on the ground about the big bad woman who you can no longer take care of or care about' arms.
People don't know what I want to stick my dick into or not and don't seem to be interested in that. Well, it depends. I want this 20 yr old cowboy kid in Cheyenne who I've been talking about John Cena with, but I kinda feel like maybe those people are raging with diseases, and also, I abide by the Airbnb Rules.
But no, with a lot of people I want Platonic relationships... rolling on the floor suckin dick with every Tom, Dick and Harry who just wants to use me and shit all over me for a few seconds until they're bored and onto the next video game series or television channel of a person, as is their wont, is not my bourgeois backpacker way. I used to be looser in bed, but times have changed. It's a Trumpcucked America and I'm not about to just let some entitled King Baby cuck for Trump clumsily use me and throw me away in an environment this full of takers and so low on givers.
I can actually sense the energy, I guess, of when a male is looking to pluck berries and I'm not always in the mood to be plucked.
I might hold my nose and go to bed with fratboy assholes from time to time for the bodies, but what I really like is a crier.
It's Freudian -- didn't Trump's cucks read that part of Camille Paglia? I like a big alcoholic crybaby. That's what my dad was. I was totally in love with that alcoholic premature grey crybaby from The Woodlands, TX living with his parents even though he was bipolar because dun dun dun... my dad's an alcoholic premature grey bipolar crybaby living off his parents.
Even better, you know, if I can get one of those guys to apologise to me. That's me GETTING WHAT I WANT though I never seem to get what I want out of these people.
Could it be any more spelled out? No, it could not.
I WANT AN APOLOGY FROM A BIG ALCOHOLIC CRYBABY PREMATURE GREY BIPOLAR LOSER DEPENDENT ON THEIR PARENTS SOBBING IN MY ARMS AS THEY SAY I"M SORRY I"M SORRY I"M SORRY I LUV YOU DRUNK AND PASSED OUT ON THE FLOOR IN MY WALK-IN CLOSET SO THAT I CAN BE THEIR FATHER FIGURE
These people must not want it very much out of me if they can't even figure out how to unstrap the high heel pinching off their face and tell me they're sorry.
Anyhow, it's complicated tho because after Jeff, I wised up and realised wow, I'm just as stupid as these morons Camille was talking about who search out their father in other men without even realising it... like yeah, it's a really stupid move to fall for some spoiled rich kid in Texas who's bipolar and who's liver is shutting off cuz he drinks so much and gets fired from his jobs just like my daddy, isn't it?
But yeah, I was really that stupid and probably still am. Who knows what sort of stupidity is floating around in my head. I'm sure all sorts of self-destructive stupidity that will permanently keep me lower middle class and it's not at all something I feel ready to fix... I'm always tired and all this crap is like climbing a mountain, and you're expected to do that while treading water like a hamster in some brainless job with supervisors who are abusive because America's all a bunch of cucks who believe that a supervisor is supposed to be an asshole violent forceful socially inept piece of shit so that's what they keep generating, cuz it's short term solutions for these cucks about the proper use of violence that immediately becomes lazy routine violence to keep these cucks signfiicantly lazier than I am, even.
Yes, who even knows what stupidities in my head will wreck the rest of my life as it comes to an ignominious end.
I mean, even my simple pleasures that I've told myself will suffice to get me through the next years of drudgery are things like 'get some guinea pigs' and 'buy camo pants and take a vacation in Marshall, Michigan (pop 6800 or so) and did you know, kids
did you know
that Marshall, Michigan was named after John Marshall -- you wouldn't know who that is --
unless MY cowtown which was named after a fuckin' real estate developer
and if I had my way -- in the unlikely event that I rose to be mayor of my Marshall -- which will never happen due to me being a faggot and Trump's cucks making a giggly-eyed goofy game of status quo replication in which the faggot deserves to be ostracised and it's funny hahah -- I would rename the village to its originally name
which was
Bird's Ruins
and that would be progress, perhaps.
is Papa John's pizza as bad as Jesse says it is? I think i had it once and decided never again, but that was long ago. i could find out today.
Dancehall Days by Wang Chung is a good song except maybe the nostaliga built into the song gets to be a bit Much, don't you think kids?
i can't believe cucks of Trump think 'practical business skills' are something i admire or think people should have. What a cuck. I admire actual tangible skills, like how to design a house, play an instrument or write something sexy, not sissy toddlers who think cheapo gimme gimme is a 'skill'. They must be exceedingly corporate to even presume I would give a damn about a bunch of corporatist busywork posturing as serious business, anyway.
No wonder my dumb biological Brother just presumes I admire him or he's impressing me when he starts talking like a used car salesman. I just think he's an asshole, but I guess that's how these dumb Millennials think -- that they are very 'smart' and have 'great businesss skills' and i'm some sort of outmoded jealous loser.
I'm not a big Hunter S. Thompson fan at all -- he's overrated -- but hello kids, he wrote like 50 years ago about how America is just a shitbag country of used car salesmen. This isn't something I admire and never has been. It's not what I uphold. It's what you uphold with your entitlement and sleaze. You are mere replications of the American system -- take take take from the good people and the indigeneous and uphold whitey as better, like the American way has always been since the foundation of this shitbag country.
I'll let Trump's cucks lecture me on infantilisaiton maybe if they develop so much as one real skill that is more impressive than my skills. Even my dumb brother can't do that with all daddy's love and financial support behind him, tho. He thinks, what, he can attract a deer better than me? The way you attract deer is you bake some pancakes with maple syrup, maybe throw in some smores flavour into the pancake -- the deer will come running. You don't need to be planting red osier dogwood all day, jesus fuckin christ talk about overcomplicating it. Raise a deer in a pen and fatten it up yourself and put it down with a cattle prod if you want an interesting, homegrown way of killing the biggest buck, for fuck's sake.
It's all a game to these kids tho. It's all a snickering Bugs Bunny game of being stupid all damn day until you drop dead from being a cuck of the capitalist system. Britney Spears has learned scarcely nothing... she's still waggling her tits for freedom really rather than developing a skill, and of course everyone young and dumb is gonna cream themselves over how she's a business genius for it just like they did for the Kardashians. That's how sissy toddlers castrated themselves into Baby America, which we're now living in i guess -- and Baby America is as brutal as any King Baby on the Springer show. it just is a flop of phony posturing and hustle, and the world knows it.
Absolutely, I understand why a weakling cuck of Trump's would be furious that anyone would stand up for how gays are marginalised while selfishly whining about how hard itself has it. It can only do what's permitted, and instead of rationally identifying a real problem like a grown man would do
e.g. climate change, e.g. what goes into American food
a total weakling cuck would just be furious on behalf of the Man it castrated itself for, spewing the man's lines about how all these gays need to realise the status quo and be reactionaries who conform to it for the benefit of The Man.
how could i be attracted to a self-castrating sissy cuck? I just couldn't. I'm gay. I'm attracted to MEN. I know a man when I see it, not a babysoft self-castrated sissy cuck, which does nothing for my libido.
No, I need a MAN, one with the timeless, soft and manly touch of a Can Yaman... a man who understands what's always been sexually desirable in men.
A toddler trying to smash a square peg into a round hole is not attractive. I don't like based. I don't like square. I don't like cucks.
The Republicans always believe in NO, which they shout out in the most doofus and clueless ways. Why would some sissy toddler cuck replicating the status quo be anything other than a joke? I don't know why some parroting cuck relying on its parents for money and shelter would ever want to laughably get up on a chonky large alphabet blcok and stand on that and say one shouldn't rely on the parents for money. Like, what the fuck is this toddler talking about? There's no money from the patriarchy for me.. I"ve been financially independent of him for decades. Do these kids know what financially independent is? Of course not. Honestleigh, they're like 35 and still wholly dependent Valley Girls here.
So yeah, i do get why a total cuck would rally to defend the patriarchy's prerogative to throw blacks, women and gays out of the workplace and out of the family. That's the status quo. If you're so deeply cucked that it blows my mind that any toddler would want to chop off its own nuts, sissify itself and toddlerify itself for the man, that's exactly the sort of battle on behalf of The Man that such a cuck would wage. But they can't win these battles... it's so laughable because they're reaching the point of 'so deeply cucked that one is almost getting insight into how Heaven's Gate was able to castrate itself for the sky daddy'.
I can't even really have a Platonic relationship with purple-pilled cucks. They're just too ridiculous, and I cannot respect them on a Plantonic level because they're at least 10 planes of maturity below me, like something out of some absurdist Discworld tale by Terry Prachett, but they don't know it. They honestly think swallowing that red pill and turning themselves into an ideology-bound cuck liberated them or gave them insight.
That's as stupid as a secular person deciding that if they Koran-pill themselves they're suddenly gonna be superior to the secular. No, you just massively degraded your own mind. It's possible to read the Koran without cucking yourself to it, like secular people do. That's what I did. Get a clue, kids.
I'm absolutely certain that sissy self-castrated toddlers cucked by Trump will try to make money while retaining their status quo, reactionary and completely unoriginal values for Trump and hustle and make sure to keep Gawd as stamped into their value systems as Gawd is stamped on the American dollar. It sez it right on the back, In Gawd We Trust. That's a commandment, kid, and as a cuck of empire you'd better comply. Run around chasin it with a Bugs Bunny smirk and fuck over all them queers, women and Natives, it's your duty as a Good 'n Typical Good 'n Plenty American.
I'm sure I do make things 'difficult' for babysoft King Babies incapable of even figuring out how to sew a fursuit, let alone how to do anything adult. When you get to your teenage Home Economics years and sew that fursuit, you let me know, kid, and we can discuss steps you might take to consider Architecture, Science, or History as a profession. but ya gotta hit puberty first, and that's a long ways off.
If we can get you off the puberty blockers -- Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, Camille Paglia -- that's a start. If you actually read Camille Paglia's books instead of just look for a cheap blurb that smells of power to lift up for a second like a Tucker Carlson would do, that's a start. There's a lot that would help you mature in those books. Ya gotta read em tho. Go read em all, including that one on Hitchcock's The Birds -- that one, more than any of her other books, should give you a sense of what it looks like when an adult is working on something. Sure, it's her driest, but you're going to have to learn that life isn't all
shits and giggles
in the adult world.
as for your cucked ideology holding you back from any insight into other people? I dunno, kid. you're just gonna have to drop it. having a temper tantrum because there's some gay man out there who says throwing people away for their body types, systemically, as the American empire does is Wrong -- that temper tantrum isn't gonna do anything other than reveal you as a cuck who's unable to understand social issues at all, for all you can do is cling to the legs of daddy figures and say 'daddy was right! daddy is good you're being bad!'
i'll take being 'bad' in the eyes of Trump's cucks any day. the xenomorph knows I want it extinguished, so of course it gets hysterical over me and spits and hisses and shrieks "NO! The only person who needs a daddy is Trumpself and Trumpself will always need one, a faggot must accept its fate for Gawd!'
I ain't accepting fuckall of that, and I don't believe in your Gawd, cuckboy. If you can't even invent your own god you're not very creative. Sit yourself down at your own drafting table and at least invent your own fictional deities, for fuck's sake it's not that hard. If you need so many daddies, at least invent some of your own.
All the daddy dicks can be yrs, just invent a Gawd with a 10 ft long hose that he keeps coiled up in his pants and is bashfully embarrassed about but engages in a severe personality change when it starts to harden up.
Fuck do i hate how these kids can't create and just want to roll around on the carpet as toddlers screaming for the man and demanding we all become cucks like they did.
I will never be a cuck, sorry ya freedumb-fightin kid but it isn't gonna happen. You're the cuck and you always will be a cuck until you look in the mirror and wise up to how you're photocopying in a lazy attempt for power -- you're photocopying yourself right out of the adult world and it is not becoming. It's tackier than even some of these photocopiers in India, who at least do it in 5 languages as they seek power.
I don't know why people want to jump into the cage trying to maintain a life-work-balance and participate for a trophy to hopefully become a winner under the American God. Why? Why would you do that to yourself? Why not innovate? Why preach freedom from the cage? Why do this to yourself:
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Anyhow, even though most of this guy's books aren't that good, I'm going to maybe watch some of this just so I can get the taste of reactionary Millennial snowflake out of my mouth. Icky.
Remmeber kids, the guy who came up with the term 'special snowflake' was a gay man. Pretty sure in clarifying himself in 2017 about 'Victorianism' in the kids, he was photocopying Camille Paglia, which was really fucking lame of him.
This interview's pretty fucking boring so far. Americans are so -- they gotta get out of the Wonderbread bag. Reading Lullaby, Survivor Haunted... all sorts of Palahniuk books, my thought was always that it all seemed so tepid to me. Lukewarm. White. It's very white in Washington state. That state produced a lot of great music, but seems like great writing is not their forte.
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uapro · 10 months
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March 19, 1999
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Gary Lesley:  Imagine a crop circle as a snowflake,
What intelligence is behind both?
Not us.
Jerry Bryson:  We’re part of IT.
Gary Lesley:  But does IT make the snowflakes or crop circles? Or do we make 'em together? And, for what reason? Fun? Creativity? Mischief? Or, could it be that these beautiful designs are simply telling us we're not alone, nor have we ever been, nor will we ever be? A part of IT that we can never fully comprehend, but that which we really don't need to....> 
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Alright, Modern Art fans, it's time to mock our haters. Presenting:
The Special Snowflake Collection
There are an absolute ton of these, so I'm gonna queue them so they post automatically in-between whatever other random art stuff.
And now with no further ado:
Special Snowflake #1
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leezuhh · 4 months
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did an insane double take during the new hbomberguy video not only because he called out internet historian for some crazy plagiarism, but also because he had a separate dislike of the same guy for the *exact same thing* that put me off his channel for ages (his dashcon video)
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Let’s share to spread your love for Jack Frost! 💙 ❄️
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spicynectarines · 4 months
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Mikkian twins based on jellyfish
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