#support poc and stop making racist jokes

[ianthoni]

thank you so much for calling out @ damienhaassboyfriend. using POC as a shield, lashing out at an actual POC because you called them out on it, erasing courtney's gender identity, making low-key classist high-key nasty comments about courtney's dress being "cheap"....... all because they're butthurt their rpf ship isn't canon. jeez

You are welcome i felt like someone had to do it. That's so sad that there's people out there that hateful that classist, homophobic and transphobic so openly and they get away with it? It is NOT hard to become kind. It really is not. This can be a joke but it's not gonna erase the fact that people were being so mean to Courtney on a special day like this. Doesn't care about their identity and fuckin erase it. Court can date a man, marry a man and they're still queer. This is not a heterosexual marriage and they're not getting that much support because of that. I have seen so many mean comments since yesterday. Even in the Smoshcord where Court is in and can see what they're saying. That is just sad. You can't be that rude to people just because it doesn't fit your narrative. That's just distasteful.

I stopped responding cause they're clearly not understanding their words and their impact and they're definitely not aware of what they're saying. And they're being very racist and transphobic while they're "defending" themselves. You can't have a conversation with people like this cause they'd never accept their mistakes and say i was wrong and learn. They'd always defend themselves harder and harder.

#fandom discourse #fandom wank #shayne topp #courtney miller #shourtney #smosh

[anonymousredactedconfessions]

I don't know if this is me taking "bird's of a feather flock together" to far, but instances of lowkey racism/microaggression and direct mentions of friends with conservative views from Steph and about friends mentioned like Brandon respectively on the podcast makes me a little uncomfortable. I didn't think about the former again until I saw Steph (the podcast co-host) mentioned in the Redacted tag and I remembered watching all the episodes for the first time where one included Steph saying white people should be allowed to make the jokes they want about POC while talking about the movie 'Blazing Saddles' and has had a few times where she used pretty fetishistic language about Asians while talking about anime (being half-Japanese, I made a comment last summer about the latter once one time she did it, but my comment was either deleted or, to give the benefit of the doubt, went to moderator approval maybe).

And multiple people here have talked about how they joke about having conservative best friends/friends who support Trump, but I don't really find it that funny especially when it seems (based on the friends they allude to being so) a friend like that has been brought on the podcast/can be seen in the comments on occasion getting hyped up. And it's like family is one thing (you can't choose them, it can be very hard to speak up against someone who raised you, etc.), but it's people you're actively choosing in your life and specifically choosing to bring up their harmful beliefs as a joke and even more specifically bringing them on a platform.

I know the choice here is to stop consuming Erik's content, but it sucks to yet again have a space where a creator shows they don't actually care about POC irl. He may care about marginalizations that directly impact him or a friend, but I hate that the podcast made me realize that he won't call out his friend when she occasionally says microaggressive/racist stuff and will platform her and a friend they've laughed about being a staunch conservative is a bummer. It's not a lot to have BLM in the end credits background of your 2020 audios when you give people harming POC even if just in little ways a platform.

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#redacted asmr #redacted audio #confessions

[anbubisibuna]

The BDS Movement calls Beyonce and Taylor Swift out.

Swifties have even started a petition to make Taylor speak up. And it's honestly so sad because this woman she doesn't care. Same for Beyonce. They rather keep their billion than speak up against a genocide.

The scene in Miss Americana. Did you actually think she's going to speak on things that don't affect her directly.

This is the same woman who had no problem calling out a TV for a sexist joke they made on her expense but when her racist ass fans go on to attack the poc actress she is silent.

And is friends/hangs out with a SA apologist.

Just stop supporting these people. Don't watch their concert films, don't stream their music. Don't buy their concert tickets.

What to boycott

Why to boycott

#taylor swift #beyonce #BDS #free palestine

[interlagosed]

I can't help but feel like all of this defense of Bianca is purely due to ableism that F1 fans themselves have but don't realize.

The amount of times I've seen people try to pull the "I can't be racist because I have black/brown friends/relatives" card and still have to face consequences, yet she uses her autistic brother as a prop to claim she can't be ableist and people are suddenly like "omg best apology ever, we support our queen."

No. I am autistic. I've gotten bullied for it for much of my life. I don't appreciate seeing Bianca continuing that bullying by encouraging the use of autism as an insult, and I especially don't like her using someone who is autistic to try to cover up her behavior. People need accountability if they're going to learn, and so far her version of "taking accountability" has just been "I'm just a girl, just a kid, only 18, I didn't know better" which luckily she deleted, and then using her autistic brother to try to gain PR brownie points after insulting people with autism.

And I KNOW F1 is full of ableism, not just on twitter but on here too. Hell, I was ranting to a F1 friend maybe a month ago about a post someone made on here about how they didn't like Lando solely because they thought he was neurodivergent but he was too privileged to have to mask his neurodivergent behavior and I just? Girl what in the fucking ableism. Do people realize how exhausting "masking neurodivergent behavior" is? And that post had about a dozen notes - not of people calling it out, but of people agreeing with it. Lance gets the majority of it, but I've also seen people use autism to insult Logan too. He isn't in F1 anymore, but I saw it all the time with Latifi too. Like fucking stop chalking up disliking people to "omg i don't like them because they exhibit behaviors that i associate with autism," that's fucking gross and insulting!!!

Idk I'm tired of reading how I'm anti-women or anti-POC for not immediately accepting her apology and jumping right back in to supporting her. She needs to do a LOT of self-reflecting and attitude changing, as do motorsport fans in general given a lot of responses to this situation. Ableism isn't cool, cute, funny, etc. (Also looking at the fans who repost that RocketPoweredMohawk YouTuber's clips in the tags on Tumblr too. The guy's biggest punchline is "HAHAHAHA lance autistic" yet F1 fans worship the ground he walks on and treats him like peak comedy. Please, find an actual sense of humor that doesn't involve making people with disabilities the punchline of your jokes). It's getting old. It's not funny or quirky or edgy. It's exhausting to constantly run into reminders that most of these people I'm interacting with in my online spaces would never accept me and would probably just bully me if I ever came across them in real life. 🙃

Thank you for saying all of this. I genuinely didn’t even know this was a line of ~commentary (ew) on Lance or Logan. It’s absolutely disgusting. I feel like we’re only just getting to a point where people even understand autism (and let’s be clear…they still don’t lol not really) but shit like this is so gross and only forces autistic people even further into the margins of society. I’m really sorry the fandom is like this. You deserve to take up as much space as you need, and the rest of us need to hold ableists accountable.

#hibi answers

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Will all good intentions, you and other blogs like yours should stop wasting your time writing whole ass essays to racist strangers online as if they care. I can assure you people of color and ethnic minorities have countless of stories to tell when it comes to entitled racist people who always try to justify their shitty behaviour by blaming minorities for not wasting their lives "teaching" them like elementary schoolers, why racial nasty jokes are not "ok" and coddling their ego.

These people don't lack any knowledge of Greek myth, in fact, it literally requires zero knowledge of Greek mythology to know basic stuff like how stupid fantasy books with Greek elements will never make you learn anything about Greece or that being vile to a non-abrahamic religion is one of the worst types of blatant religious racism. They are terrible towards ancient Greek elements because no one sees Greece as a real country nor Greek people as real people with actual emotions who can actually see them and hear what they say, so they know can get away with racist reactionary content that gives them tons of notes and clout.

Thank you for the support, really. At the same time, the condescending tone about minorities and poc feels out of place when speaking to a Greek. "I can assure you, people of color and ethnic minorities-" Yes, we know. We are in these categories.

Greeks have been historically considered non-white, "barbaric" and "ethnic" in many countries (still are, in a lot of places). In the US we started being seen as white after the 1950s and it's been a slow progress since WASP USians saw us as the same "race" as them. Before that, Greeks faced segregation and extreme violence by White communities and police. (Lots of WASPs still see us as "primitive" when they actually learn how our customs and Christianity look, btw). But we also exist in other places and the othering about how we look hasn't stopped.

Greeks have been considered "poc", "ethnic" and "wog" for a looong time in the west. We know bigotry not only because of how we look but also because of our ethnicity (hence the progroms and genocide and cultural erasure, you can Google all about anti-Greek sentiments and Greek caricature figures on posters). And of course, we have ethnic minorities everywhere and have faced forced cultural erasure like state punishment when speaking Greek (Turkey), changing the names of Greek towns in other countries to erase the Greek history there (Russia), and more. Recent research shows Greek names in the US are discriminated against as much as Chinese names.

Let me remind you that although Middle Easterners and N. Africans are categorized as White in the US legislation, it doesn't mean that they are exempt from racism and bigotry. The case of Greeks is similar. In northern and Anglo countries our appearance is commented on and looked at with suspicion, our customs and our food receive negative comments, there is hiring discrimination, etc. There is a reason we say "the only Greeks foreigners like are the dead ones". When you don't show them syrtaki and feta, they can turn to bigotry really fast.

So, we've been in the dance for a looong time. Try the "barbaric" from Charlemagne's time. Try NW Europeans basing their national identities around a superficial image of idealized ancient Greek culture, the NW Europeans stealing our antiquities because we weren't "worthy heirs" of our own culture in their eyes, the "disappointed" Nazis with how "non-white" we looked, etc etc.

What makes you think Greeks had aaaany say in this? What makes you think we don't know how it is to be ignored while other nations make bank and base their whole new-age spirituality and our stomped-on heritage?

It's clear you are on our side here and I don't mean to interpret your message in bad faith. Most of your statements ring true, anyways. But I feel that, while you correctly identified people who don't take Greeks' accounts seriously, you kiiiinda did the same? I mean I wouldn't need to write another essay if you had dignified us with the thought we know how it is to be in marginalized spaces, that we know how it's to not be heard, or that we know the reasons people online don't respect us. Example: I and most Greeks have verified with our own experience that the following statement is actually false.

"These people don't lack any knowledge of Greek myth, in fact, it literally requires zero knowledge of Greek mythology to know basic stuff like how stupid fantasy books with Greek elements will never make you learn anything about Greece or that being vile to a non-abrahamic religion is one of the worst types of blatant religious racism."

We've been in this discourse for at least a decade and you'll be surprised by the great number of adults who are absolutely confident that PJO taught them everything and that gods hold no value for worshippers or Greeks whatsoever. I invite you to have that discourse on our behalf and see for yourself.

Bottom line: Please let us handle the situation however we see fit. We take nothing from other people and nations when we express annoyance about how our culture has been treated.

#yeaaah another long post but what can you do #like.. it's needed #i cant just say a statement and leave cause then half the site will fall on me #answered #i should have sth like oppression masterpost to just link idkk xD

[canpandaspvp]

LET IT OUT GLARE LET IT OUTTTTTTTTT SPEAK UR MINDNDNDNDNDD

OK THANK YOU RANT TIME. i'll put it under the cut so i don't clog things:

I LOVE SABRINA CARPENTER. I LOVE MEG DONNELLY. I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT AND MCKENNA GRACE AND ELLE WOODS AND REGINA GEORGE AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL AMAZING WONDERFUL BLONDE GIRLS IN MEDIA AND IN THE WORLD. I ALSO. LOVE. RAPUNZEL. and i understand why people would want a blonde girl to play rapunzel, but the same people who will cheer so loud for black actors and actresses taking on live action lead roles are the same people tearing down maitreyi and avantika for being considered to play rapunzel??? it just screams performative so bad because of course everyone wants to seem accepting when it's the most commonly marginalized community getting big roles, but when it's the race they don't take seriously then their true colors show. that's not to bring down any black actors bc god knows i will defend my fellow poc to hell and back, but why can't brown people in media get the same reaction? the second that we're considered for these prized "white roles" is when everyone gets pissed cause they don't see it as some kind of apology for how they've treated us in the same way they do for other races.

these aren't random comments i found that ive cherry picked. this is all ONE COMMENT SECTION ON ONE TIKTOK. and i could've kept going. SHES FAKE SHES FICTIONAL HOORAY EVERYONE!!! HER RACE DOESNT MATTER. HER HAIR IS FUCKING MAGICAL AND A BILLION FEET LONG. and i totally get wanting to stop with live actions so that you can make way for new princesses, but:

- most new animated films have been largely Shit

- their representation largely Sucks

- people don't care anymore. they don't get invested in new characters and the only reason anyone might tune into this is because they already have some form of connection to it.

i don't like live actions. i think they're stupid, poorly done, and a bad attempt at remedying the lack of representation for various communities over the past century and some. i also think it's weird that people only want to support poc actors when they know they'll be judged for how they react, because the second it's an indian? it doesn't fucking matter. these freaks don't care about racism they literally only care about how they're perceived, and they know they'll only be perceived as racist if they say something against certain races. if it's an indian it's ravi and baljeet and all these other fucking JOKES so they can say whatever they want. KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT SO HARD DEFENDING HALLE BAILEY (whom i love, adore, and admire) LITERALLY A YEAR AGO.

i feel like a broken record or something but it's just insane to me that people only care like this when they know that they can get away with it because at the end of the day, america thinks brown people are fucking jokes. they'll only defend whoever it looks good to defend and it's such performative bullshit that it actually makes me want to throw up.

#i feel like there's more i need to say i just don't know how to say it #point is if everyone else was normal then i'd be on their side #cause god knows id kill to see meg or sab as rapunzel #but also i NEVER get to see brown girls shine like normal characters #so when people are tearing down people who look like me and come from my backgrounds just cause they're not blonde?? #IT GETS A LITTLE FUCKING PERSONAL. #ok sorry rant actually done now #🍓.ask

[yallcantread]

The difference is, South Park is good at satire. Matty is not good at it. South Park makes fun of Cartman and other racists to show they are in the wrong, Matty does not. The podcast is a good example of bad satire where everyone is just laughing at horrible jokes, not calling them out.

Matty himself said art isn't worth hurting people, and that's what he's done. Are you POC? Are you a member of one of the communities his satire has effected? Stop acting like you know everything when you are nothing more than an obsessed stan that can't admit maybe he isn't a great guy.

Could you provide specific instances of satire from Matty Healy that go beyond his appearance on a podcast known for its controversial content? Furthermore, when it comes to shows like South Park, which often uses accents and stereotypes for comedic effect, how do you differentiate those jokes from the episode featuring Matty Healy on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’? While you may personally believe he falls short in his attempts at satire, that is subjective. I, for one, don’t place much importance on your dislike for him based on what I consider to be trivial reasons.

Matty Healy has not caused harm to anyone. If you find yourself ‘hurt’ by his comments, it may be worth considering seeking support or assistance. As for your question about my ethnicity, whether I am a person of color or not is irrelevant to our discussion. The validity of my opinions or beliefs should not be determined by my minority status. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, regardless of their background. But you obviously didn’t read my blog post where I talked about my race just to avoid questions like this one but clearly people like you don’t read. Which is why we are here right now.

Let’s move away from identity politics for a moment. It’s important to recognize that personal experiences shape our perspectives. However, claiming to be hurt by sarcastic comments made months ago can sometimes seem like an attempt to show concern based on others’ expectations rather than genuine personal impact. ‘South Park’ is known for satirizing a wide range of individuals and groups, including both conservatives and liberals. It’s worth noting that the show has criticized people with viewpoints similar to yours in numerous episodes. If you’d like, I can provide you with a list of ten episodes that may challenge your perspective, PC Baby.

Why would they call out the jokes if they are intentionally bad and offensive? As for your assumption that I think I know everything, that’s not true. I’m just here to provide a perspective and engage in a discussion. It’s ironic that you’re trying to pick a fight with someone you don’t know, projecting your own frustrations. Some of us normal people can simply like artists without “stanning” them. Try it out sometime!

“Maybe he isn’t a great guy” to who? I don’t know him. Your reasons for why you believe he isn’t a “great guy”aren’t valid considering you don’t know him either. And the things you do know about him are pretty limited. 8 My opinions like everyone else are based off of what I’ve personally seen and have heard about through interviews, music and colleagues. I have worked with people in the music industry that have also worked with both the 1975 and Taylor Swift on individual occasions. Those individuals have told me that Matty and the band and Taylor Swift are wonderful individuals to be around. I have no reason to assume that his or her intentions are harmful. Thanks!

#matty healy #matty healy icons #taylor and matty #taylor swift #the 1975 #celebrities

[inkher0]

Also that whole thing with Bow and the joke the creators told on that livestream? That is exactly what I'm talking about.

For those who don't know, the Controversy that took the wind out of SPOP's sails was a livestream where the creators mentioned how they brainstormed that Bow, a poc character, had a ton of brothers. The ACTUAL JOKE was that they were all named after the thing they did- like he'd have a brother that has a boat and is named Row, or had a rope and was named Tow, or something like that. And they joked that one of his brothers, who would be a farmer, would be named Hoe, which is obviously Not A Good Idea to put into a children's show. But they said "he works in a field/is a fieldhand" instead of "farmer". Because of that, people lost their goddamn minds because they ASSUMED they were making a racist joke about slavery.

The reality is that they didn't, and if you watched the entire clip, you'd realize that. But most people only heard through word of mouth or saw the punchline and not the setup. They proceeded to make the wildest, most uncharitable assumptions possible, driving people away by claiming the show is Literally The Most Racist Thing On TV and it Supports Fascism.

It's important to view shows through a Critical Lens, believe me. You can criticize SPOP and Steven Universe for a LOT of things (Like how the shows were managed, for one). But if you become so obsessed with finding flaws, even the tiniest little mistake becomes a huge deal. And, in Spop's case, you lose the ability to give much needed benefit of the doubt.

Next time something like this happens, just think: "They have no reason to hurt me on purpose, so is there more to this than what I'm seeing/hearing?"

And STOP LETTING PEOPLE YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE FORM YOUR OPINIONS FOR YOU, HOLY SHIT

[mogai-sunflowers]

I guess a vent?

Maybe it makes me a "bad activist" but im kinda happy that one dreamsmp guy died. Like i get that im not supposed to celebrate someone dieing and im certainly not but he contributed to alot of people's oppression, especially mine as a nd lgbt uterus-owning native, and im glad thats one less strong and supported voice in the sphere. He contributed to racism, rape culture through roofie jokes, ableism and never even tried to stop the other cis (and mostly het) white abled guys around him. He was fully privileged and perfectly happy to shout disabled slurs cause his one nd friend said it was ok.

Cancer sucks and ive lost treasured family members to it but honestly? Good riddence. The only good racist is a dead one. I know its macabre but apparently us poc are only "allowed" to be happy that a racist dies if their a politician and not a youtube celebrity.

i don't fully know how to respond to this, but i don't think it's wrong to be happy that a bigot died, i just think it's best not to celebrate the cause. i've seen many people saying rlly ableist shit about ppl with terminal illnesses like cancer, so as long as you're not doing that then i don't see there being any need for you to feel guilty. he hurt you and many people, being happy to see him gone is a normal reaction. i don't really love the idea of celebrating death, but i'm not going to tell you how to respond to your own oppression so i'm just going to wish you good health and happiness!

#🌌written in the stars ; asks 🌌 #tw death #death tw #tw racism #tw ableism

[dream-critical]

(Same fan here) I’m sorry. I should’ve have phrased my ask in that way. I shouldn’t have called them just “shitty” views. Dream calls them racist and bigoted and I should’ve done the same. You’re right, it wasn’t an overreaction and those who were angry were rightfully so.

There’s one thing that i want to comment on as it made me realize something. You say he hasn’t proved or shown that he’s changed. But, if you don’t watch him, how would you see the change? I don’t mean for that to sound patronizing as you’re completely justified in not watching him, I just mean that we are likely coming from very, very different perspectives. That’s not a bad thing, but I understand a bit more now.

From my perspective as a fan who regularly watches him, I see the change. It’s him asking for the proper pronunciation of Chinese names when he streamed Genshin and asking for his chat to be respectful of Chinese culture, it’s wishing a happy Ramadan and, when asked, Eid Mubarak to a Muslim fan, it’s being respectful of and interested by astrology when people who believe in it are often mocked, etc. Little, bare minimum things, I know, but they meant a lot to poc fans. This doesn’t reach the people that don’t watch him, but it does allow for a safer space for his fans.

Him changing doesn’t negate what he did. Not at all. It doesn’t change the fact that the edits exist and he’s hasn’t confronted them directly. I just want to explain myself and my perspective a bit, as I realize that my previous ask was insensitive. I’ll leave it here and I’m sorry again.

As a Muslim I'm telling you none of those things show change and also he's being performative, he has done multiple wrong things while trying to desperately appease to muslims so that's one thing you can shut the fuck up about.

Also wow him making jokes about being a Leo totally show he's sooooooooo respectful about astrology. Didn't know people who believe in that were part of a marginalized group /s

The correct pronouciation of a name is basic human decency btw and I refuse to praise a white man for doing the absolute minimum.

Also I was a very avid dream watcher until the clips resurfaced. like I've mentioned multiple times I had a hyperfix on sapnaps content and stanned him as well and since dream is his best friend I've seen a lot of content with him as well. Back then little things he did were just minor things that could have been honest mistakes or I just brushed off bc I did genuinely like him as a cc but now it just makes the bigger picture a lot clearer than it was before.

None of these things show change it just means he's putting a tiny bit of effort into making sure his fans that do still support him have things to cling onto and ignore what everyone else is saying.

Also even if it is change those are all things that happened very very recently while the main argument to defend him is that he already has changed since 2020 so that doesn't hold up either. Which is what you said in your previous ask as well.

To literally quote you, you said "We can’t ask him to stop having a racist sense of humor because he already has, even if the improvements just been in the past year or two when his fanbase was growing."

You're literally just switching up shit to seem right and on top of that, and I'm saying this again to put an emphasis on it, none of the things you mentioned show real change.

They are minor things that are all normal decency. You could argue small steps have to be made before you can get to bigger changes but it's 2 years too late and I don't think any person of colour owes him forgiveness or acknowledgement for it at all.

#mercury.txt #anonymous #asks #dream critical #cc critical #dream neg #dsmp fandom critical #dream crit

[journeysfable]

Helluva doesn’t have much bad abt it afaik (apart from Brandon rogers who says the n word and makes rape jokes constantly in his “comedy”) but there was a lot of problems with hazbin, with the racist stereotyping of vaggie (angry Latina, also wtf is that name) and how she treats charlie, the fact that Charlie could honestly have been replaced with a hat stand and nothing would have changed, the homophobic stereotype of angel dust (violent drug addicted drag queen who sexually harasses other men), how the voice actor of alastor treated kellen goff (voice of Funtime Freddy + other characters) in an animation cleanup stream (he was really rude to kellen, telling him to shut up and just being mean to the point where the angel dust va and the artist running the stream had to ask him to stop), and blah, the fact that alastor (the fucked up asshole serial killer) is meant to be creole.

When it comes to vivzie herself, it’s shown she encouraged people shipping charlie with alastor (before charlie was retconned as bisexual. She was supposed to be a lesbian in a wlw relationship at the time), she originally confirmed alastor as aroace because he was “too evil to love” (and still encouraged shipping him with charlie), she defended racists and transphobes, she tried to deflect the homophobia allegations by saying “I’m bisexual I can’t be homophobic”, she used voodoo symbols off of google images for spooky points in hazbin, she used to make comics where she had a teacher and a student in a romantic relationship

This is all just things I remember from when I was in the hazbin hotel fandom. I left pretty soon after the alastor VA was an asshole to kellen for not picking up social cues right after kellen talked about his autism, but I just kept hearing more shit about what vivzie was doing. This is the kind of thing that people dislike her for

Ohh ok

Well Alastor and Angel Dust deffo have red flags.

I can't speak for mlm people but Alastor being both aroace because he's "too evil" and a poc of color is big yikes.

Though I heard that Vivzie is latina herself? And I think Angel Dust has more depth to him than whats seen in the pilot ep I think(I could be wrong).

I don't have the right words rn but fitting a stereotype doesn't always automatically = bad. I might elaborate on that later 'cause yea idk I don't have a lot of words rn.

I don't want to support or bash Vivzie and Hazbin 'cause there are lot of red flags but like it doesn't seem super bad at the same time???

So I'll just keep watching Helluva Boss with an adblocker on until I fully figure emotions and thoughts out.

I might reblog with a better worded response.

Sorry I don't have words rn. But thanks for the message. Main impression of Vivzie is not a good person. Like not malicious but still harmful(but maybe malicious to aros. I hope she changes Alastor's character)

Alastor's VA doesn't sound good either.

I hope I remember to reblog this later with more thoughts once I sort through them all

[rainecreatesstuff]

Can people ✨stop being assholes✨ because I’d like to be able to go online without finding out that another of my favourite people is racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. Just. Like. Stop. I haven’t the mental capacity to lose so much comfort content. 

#raine rambles #i Won’t say much but #there’s some stuff happening in the fandom rn #and I’m just so tired #people #stop being assholes #support poc and stop making racist jokes #stop supporting racist companies #please #Im so tired of going online and just crying bc someone i looked up to is a dick #it fucking hurts and I’m not even one of the people they’re actively hurting #just #stop

[thebluespirit83]

debunking pro-snape/anti-james arguments and putting it on the internet because clearly i hate myself. buckle up. this is gonna be a VERY long post. im ready for the amount of hate i will get; im willing to take one for the team. 

1. james forced lily into dating/marrying/etc him 

this literally never happened? because its almost as if lily is her own person who is able to stand up for herself-

“I wouldn’t go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid,” said Lily.

“LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Lily shouted. She had her own wand out now. James and Sirius eyed it warily.

She turned on her heel and hurried away [from james]. 

-and so she would not allow someone to walk all over her. its almost as if james (canonically) matured as a person, and she appreciated this, realised he was a good person and got feelings for him? because james’ only negative traits were that he was conceited and a show off. people are able to mature and grow from these things! james did this! he did not ‘force’ lily to go out with him!

2. james and the other marauders bullied snape

you know what, i cant even disagree with this one. you’re right - they did bully him. but lets look a little bit at the context. 

sirius and james were both upper class, naive white rich boys. they are idiots. they were both stupid smart teenagers!! they were popular! and while this does not excuse the gross bullying snape was subject to-

Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape’s mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, choking him

Several people watching laughed; Snape was clearly unpopular ... Snape was trying to get up, but the jinx was still operating on him; he was struggling, as though bound by invisible ropes.

-it (unfortunately) makes sense with context. james and sirius also stopped bullying people, and even expressed discomfort/regret with the way they acted-

“I’m not proud of it,” said Sirius quickly.

“Of course he was a bit of an idiot!” said Sirius bracingly, “we were all idiots!

[sirius talking to remus] you made us feel ashamed of ourselves sometimes

A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it.

-when they were younger! i’d also like to point out these little lines i noticed when i was finding quotes for my argument which snape stans like to ignore:

James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other

I mean, he [snape] never lost an opportunity to curse James

there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of James’s face, spattering his robes with blood

wow, look at that. the hate they felt for each other was mutual! snape also jinxed james! but oh wait - james was the one who matured! snape was the one who bullied his son twenty years later because he looked like james! 

3. snape didnt abuse the kids at hogwarts 

here’s a real argument i saw when looking through some pro-snape posts: ‘snape wasn’t an abuser, because abusers don’t let their victims retaliate, but snape did let the kids talk back to him’

what. the. fuck?! 

this is the dictionary.com definition of abuse: ‘to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way’ or ‘to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about’. i’m pretty sure snape did both of these things-

“I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!”

“So,” said Snape, gripping Harry’s arm so tightly Harry’s hand was starting to feel numb.

Snape threw Harry from him with all his might.

[hermione’s teeth]  "I see no difference."

‘Idiot boy!’ snarled Snape [at neville]

-on multiple occasions. i’d also like to remind you guys that neville’s worst fear is SNAPE?! his TEACHER, a figure that is supposed to be there for emotional and educational support is his worst fear in this entire world?! above the woman who drove his parents to insanity? over failure, over his abusive grandmother, over everything? his teacher? and for the pro-snaper that used this quote-

Nearly everyone laughed. Even Neville grinned apologetically.

-to claim that it was a joke, it isn’t a joke. because when snape came out of that cupboard, he was terrified. yes, it’s an embarrassing thing to have as your boggart, but the point is is that it is. he is terrified of that man. 

4. james only joined the order because his wife was a muggleborn and he ‘had to’

this is just factually incorrect. james had been sticking up for muggleborn rights since he was in school, far before he started dating or even became friends with lily: 

“Apologize to Evans!” James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.

“I’d NEVER call you a - you-know-what!”

so this is literally not true!! plus, at least he did join the order, whatever his reasons where (which were canonically good). snape didnt join the order. snape was friends with someone who suffered discrimination in society, and instead of using his privilege to help her and support her, he joined a group that was set on murdering people like her. when james had a friend who underwent oppression (remus/lycanthropy) you know what he did? he illegally became an animagus. 

5. snape had to be a death eater to survive at hogwarts as he roomed with blood supremacists

this is the shittiest excuse i have ever seen in my entire life. as a poc, this comment really reminds me of the argument ‘i was raised in a racist white household! i cant control my beliefs!’

you can always control your beliefs. i understand not going on big rants about blood inequality in front of a bunch of supremacists, and i understand wanting to blend and fit in (especially because he was unpopular and needed the support the slytherin boys provided), but i will never understand then becoming an active member of the group yourself. he got the dark mark. he helped voldemort. he was a death eater, and a proud one at that! no-one forced him to join. this argument literally makes my blood boil. 

6. snape had a lot of trauma from being raised in an abusive household

okay? so did sirius. so did neville. luna was bullied at school, just like snape. harry lived in an abusive household. did any of those people bully children? did any of those people join a blood supremacist group? and dont get me wrong, im not calling any of these people perfect - they all had a lot of flaws - but none of them hurt another people to the extreme that snape did. 

7. snape saved the trio’s lives many times

this is the absolute bare minimum. ‘oh wow, he didnt let harry die!! what a king! he should be respected and praised! we should excuse all of his other actions because he didnt let people die <3′ 

8. snape is not a perfect person, he also did good that many people overlook

you’re right, snape did do some good things in his life. but unfortunately, for me and many others, doing a couple of good things doesnt excuse all of the shitty, abusive things he did too. we’re not ignoring them - we just dont think they’re good enough reasons to forgive him. 

‘but james and sirius hurt others! you ignore all the bad things they did in favour of the good!’ you do the same thing with snape, first of all. second, they did a lot of good stuff. james’ and sirius’ only crimes were being annoying. for being a bit of a dick, conceited, knew they were hot and were a bit entitled. while these things are annoying as fuck, they were also stupid teens that eventually grew out of their behaviour and became better people. not perfect! better. while snape just stayed bitter at the marauders, long after their deaths, and even took his anger out on an innocent child. 

9. people only hate snape because he was poc and queer coded

as a poc and queer person, please stop. this is a very bad excuse. being poc and queer (which im pretty sure he isnt, but anyway) doesnt excuse you from your actions. plus, a huge amount of harry potter readers are poc and lgbtq. why would they hate snape for those reasons?! 

so thats all i got for today. im not gonna go into a deep snily/jily thing because i literally cannot be bothered. anyway im done. i need to go revise, i’ve already spent long enough on this. 

#i wanted to put this in the pro snape tag #but i will be slandered so much if i do #hate on me if you want i dont care #harry potter #the marauders #james potter #pro james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #anti severus snape #long rant #lily evans #jily #flowerpott #anti snily #wolfstar

[percqbeths]

can we please stop being anti-annabeth solely for not being a cliched female love interest i am so tired of people painting her as manipulative, harmful, toxic, or anything of that nature solely because of some of her natures. annabeth chase is a character who

grew up in a household that made her feel constantly unwanted and a burden, so much so that she fleed

didn't know what a stable relationship looked like–arguably yes she could have seen silena and charlie but they were also teens who were new to it all. she had no one guiding her.

ran away from her home early on and found safety in two people–one of which sacrificed themselves for her and the other betrayed her

has a fatal flaw that causes her to fully believe she could always do everything better than anyone else

constantly seeked approval and praise from a mother who was never there

annabeth chase is all those things. now let me debunk what people believe she is:

"annabeth is toxic." — no, she is not. she is a survivor of a traumatic childhood and doesn't always know how to go about her emotions. camp half blood, for as friendly as it is, trains warriors. she wasn't raised with parent figures teaching her how to communicate her thoughts, in FACT, the only parental relationship she had was parents making her feel unwanted and dramatic (ie her stepmother telling her she's scaring her brothers), so as a result she doesn't KNOW how to talk. if she ever came off as rude or negative it was solely just her lack of being able to talk it out.

"annabeth is abusive." — once again, no. the judo flip scene came from her genuine irritation and the heaviness in her chest of being without percy for so long. it wasn't out of harm, they sparred together all the time, and he laughed it off. also remember annabeth didn't know percy lost his curse of achille's, so in her eyes she didn't think he would feel pain from that flip. so all she did was just tell him i'm so mad at you for being taken away from me and also let out her inner turmoil. she did not expect him to get hurt.

"annabeth shouldn't call him seaweed brain its harmful." – seaweed brain and wise girl are their childhood nicknames to one another. its not harmful–YOU GUYS implying that the nickname implies him being stupid or it hurting him is actually far more harmful. the nicknames hold nostalgia for the both of them: it holds the fact that despite everything they're best friends, that they've come so far from where they started and how even though they disliked one another they fell in love. it's not a harmful nickname, it just shows how much she loves him.

the annabeth/rachel dynamic – i'm sorry, but why the fuck are we crucifying a teenage girl for being jealous? i genuinely do not fucking understand why people r getting so angry at annabeth for being jealous of rachel when she was literally in love with percy and one of his only friends for THE LONGEST time before rachel came along. feelings and romance aside, as a friend (who has been abandoned in the past for others, like thalia did w the hunters) i would feel really jealous as well. the whole botl dynamic is just childhood pettiness and jealousy at its finest, and then in tlo annabeth admits she let percy have a summer with rachel DESPITE her wanting to be with him–how is that bad? she's a teenage girl in love with her best friend who's met a new girl, one who's mortal and comes with far less baggage and who he can just relax with–her feelings of jealousy were completely valid throughout the series, stop hating on her for them. and then as for the whole tartarus "keeping percy on his toes" thing–that was playful. and a joke. and annabeth and rachel are literally friends at this point. calm the fuck down.

while i am on this subject of annabeth chase slander, can we please k*ll the jokes that imply annabeth is a tr*mp supporter, a racist, or a homophobe? if ur a poc and u enjoy those jokes i won't gatekeep u from making them but please remember that a lot of those jokes have hella heavy implications and are very out of pocket. people hate on her because of that page in moa where she says she hates the fact that she's blonde, but i raise u this:

annabeth chase is highly insecure as a character. THE ONLY THING SHE IS SECURE IN IS HER BRAINS, SO OBVIOUSLY THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE MAY THINK SHE'S INFERIOR OR DITZY BECAUSE OF HER HAIR COLOR WOULD MAKE HER FEEL INSECURE! it's VALID of her and y'all literally took it and turned her into a racist who'd spit on me and call me a terrorist and i just–i don't get it.

also just because i think annabeth slander should end doesn't mean i don't think y'all need to stop attacking other female characters as well specifically hazel and piper because y'all seem to just constantly attack these female characters and i am so tired of it.

thank u for coming to my ted talk 😁

#pjo #annabeth chase #hoo #percy jackson #annabeth crit

[g3nosarchive]

before you scroll !! THIS LIST IS BEING CONSTANTLY UPDATED.* please tell me if a link is broken by commenting.

STOP USING AAVE IF YOU AREN’T BLACK.

-> read this post first !*

-> why

-> carrd on aave

-> google doc on aave

-> some other words u need to stop using

some people are confused with this ^ list: yes i know it's a joke, it's sarcasm and etc. should you still listen? yes! the words listed there are aave words that any nonblack person should stop using, especially since a good half of them are now deemed 'cringy' and weird to say after it was taken, misused, and overused by non black people.*

why you should stop saying ‘simp’ and ‘pick-me’ esp as a non-black person

twitter thread of black trans people’s gofundme

black trans people donations masterlist

stop asking people of minority/oppressed identities when you need to learn about said identity + dear (white) people and white friends

-> it’s micro-aggressive, stressing, annoying and dehumanizing. if you need someone to spell out to you every possible mistake you could/have/will ever make regarding handling issues around that identity, that’s an issue. the point of telling people these things at first is so you can start thinking critically for yourself, and google is very free and available. we aren’t your walking web search, and there are hundreds of posts/sites/carrds/articles on these same issues...

why being pansexual is inherently biphobic and bisexuality is not transphobic

-> more on pansexuality*

-> if you are reblogging this just to say u don’t agree with the shit on pansexuality shut up or make a different post for that yourself.

about the indian farmers protest 

stop ‘other-ing’ trans/ non-binary people

-> trans women are women, they are not some new category of people. the same applies to non-binary people, trans men, and other trans gender people.

xenophobic/racist incidents against east asians & ways to help

asian-targeted violence post*

-> some more on this

-> even more

-> examples of asian targeted micro-aggressions

-> “japancore” and some other things (referring to the part with light skin. yes any light skinned person of any culture including east and south asian cultures are privileged compared to their darker skinned counterparts. but light skinned asians are not poc-lite and do not receive the same treatment as white people.)

stop using blm centered terms and black struggles for your own racial struggles

-> black people are not your enemy or reusable resource

trans resources for transitioning and name changing

with a single click you can help

stop watching and supporting wandavision

admit aot is problematic (and stop watching)

DROP AOT AND OTHERS LIKE IT COMPLETELY

stop supporting artists listed + a little on why gender bending is transphobic

why you should stop supporting y*gami yato (her fetishization of multiple things such as the blm movement, latinos as a whole, minors, abuse, self harm and etc) and if u ever supported her block me

taylor swift

white women are still oppressors

please read ++ some reminders below

stop saying w/ch/igga (a stand in for saying nigga to non-black people when it’s basically the intent of saying it without experiencing social consequences)

white people should be calling nobody and nothing ratchet (for obvious reasons)

poc does not mean specifically black & latino and black culture is not interchangeable

don’t comment on boundaries set by black people if you’re non-black

hold kamala harris and joe biden accountable (kamala held early release prisoners for forced labor + more, joe biden is...)

you can never have too much knowledge on social issues, please stop quoting everything from tik tok, stop glorifying things in general, it’s a lot better to realize your mistake and change your behavior than to ignore the problem or apologize and do nothing.

stop using black people/ black struggles to make yourself seem cool and approachable. stop using aave regardless of whether you can use it correctly or not if you aren’t black. talk on the internet like you actually speak (so don’t force a blaccent).

be critical of the media you consume. (it’s impossible for me to ask everyone to drop problematic media but don’t defend or support it and realize why it’s problematic/dangerous instead). if you enjoy aot get off my blog no matter how you watch it you are still consuming media meant to spread a dangerous mentality by a disgusting man.

#read pls before commenting or anything #not trying to start a discourse #thought of making this bc usually when i rb multiple posts nobody sees #updated

[the-hellsing-organisation]

Ordinarily I do not indulge in callout posts, unless a person's mental health might be in serious danger - and it's not a petty lie somebody made up, providing no screenshots, or simple ones taken out of context.

I have received multiple messages now, proving to me that the Hellsing Discord server 'The Hellsing Fanserver' lead by 'Artillery' is unfortunately a place people need to be warned about.

While everyone could assure me they do offer good scans of the Hellsing manga, the members of the server indulged in:

- Purposefully misgendering people

- Making fun of triggers, trans people and people with severe mental illnesses

- Purposefully using triggers against other server members

- Manipulating other people to use the triggers against the person they concern and shifting the blame on them afterwards

- Bringing explicit sexual themes to a server with minors

Afterwards they would celebrate their 'success', making fun of the people they hurt.

The so called 'trolling' (though I wouldn't dare to call such a hurtful behaviour this) was encouraged on the server, so I would deem it an unsafe environment for everyone whose mental health might be affected by such things.

Please be careful if these things concern you and please do not encourage such behaviour.

It's not only hurtful, it is downright cruel.

The invitations, though the links are expired.

Here you see some of the accounts that were directly involved.

Please be careful.

Tumblr Accounts

Discord Accounts

I can only assume alts mean something like alternative accounts he and his friends created in order to do these things, engaging others on the server to do the same.

He then proceeds to share the success of the hurtful behaviour on before mentioned Discord server, commenting such:

^ The “he” they are referring to is a demi girl. And yes, on the other server the pronouns are clearly stated and everyone is asked to respect them.

He is downright admitting openly to have his friends manipulated other people to use the triggers against another person.

(For context: A server members triggers were ‘Borderlands” and ‘Kingdom Hearts’.

He stated this trigger a few hours before and unfortunately the mod, after a sleepless night, was unable to memorise it during that time so ‘Abd’ took advantage of it.

Another mod quickly drew attention to her mistake and of course she apologised to the person she triggered and was forgiven.)

Unfortunately many screenshots - involving the sexual advances and the 'making fun of transgenders' are missing due to the default ban option of the server, but several eye witnesses were able to confirm them.

There was a person pretending to be a transwoman to make fun of transpeople (The person was introducing themselves like: ‘Hello, I am a man, my pronouns are he/him, but I wish to be a woman’ It didn’t sound very genuine to the trans people on the server), people making up all sorts of triggers to make fun of people who have triggers, a person pretending to be a kin, and people, who were trying to spread paedophilic messages with spreading the news that ‘age is just a number’.

And in case people still believe it was an accident:

They deliberately threaten people and plan to hurt them, while making fun of their triggers.

I’m truly lost for words…

For everyone who didn’t know: It is not your place to judge triggers and for the love of God, please don’t make fun of them.

You don’t know the history behind them. It’s good if you have none yourself, it really is, but it shouldn’t make you blind to another person’s suffering.

And you certainly shouldn’t encourage other people to “hunt” people with triggers “down” and “go to war” against them.

Also the owner of server is openly hostility against lgbtq + people - especially trans people - , PoC and antisemitic jokes are the norm there.

They too use nationalist-socialist symbols as emojis in their servers, so people who are triggered by such symbols should be careful.

“Jew Alert”

Blaming one group for the action of singular people should us remind too much of darker parts in history.

I know people with the same experience, that doesnt mean they should actively seek out ot destroy the mental health of all trans people, because one of them hurt them.

Let the submitted texts speak for themselves.

And just in case if anybody believes those are fake:

As soon as Satan saw them, he pmed another person:

Those screenshots are real. They are not fake, like he claims they are and he admits that making fun of trigger and trans people was part of his “troll introductions”.

And just in case anybody is wondering if there are truly toxic trolls on this server? This is a submission I got:

When the original is:

Im sorry.

What they did should speak for itself, but don't try to add lies here. Lies that are obviously having their origin in the server itself.

If you still believe the attacks on this blog didn't come from the server:

This is what Artillery posted as soon as he found this post.

After this the attacks started [as you can see here], so don't tell me your server is not responsible and keep your NSFW implications out of a server with minors and away from this blog!

Also you being an immigrant has nothing to do with the fact, that your server is not safe for minors, lgtbq+ people - especially transpeople - people with trauma and poc.

Even if you claims are real - your and your friends prejudices against the other groups remain.

Satan apologised openly and promised to take better care of people mental health.

The emojis however will remain, though we have been told they have specific channels for offensive jokes.

“In our discussions with the tumblr group, we realized that the situation was far more complicated than we realized. There is a a third party, not associated with us or the tumblr group, who is deliberately spreading false information with the presumed agenda of causing drama and conflict between us. With this in mind, we've agreed the best course of action is to mutually end the escalation of conflict and apologize for what occured. Following that, I want to again make clear that nobody should be going after the tumblr group, their discord server, or anywhere other online spaces. We don't know where the tumblr trolls came from, but we do not support them. Their statements were racist, antisemitic, and violent. What we did in their server was wrong and a mistake. 

I want to personally apologize to a few specific people for what happened. Their server got raided, and during all of it we did not take their mental health into account, causing a lot of people to have panic attacks. Their triggers were invalidated, and people were manipulated. There were also a lot of innapropriate and offensive statements involved. While many things happened without my knowledge, it spiraled out of control because of the initial server raid, and I want to offer my sincerest apologies for that, and for everything else.”

Update:

He lied. He doesn’t regret anything.

Do you remember how he claimed he never ordered an attack on anybody?

Yes.... that was a lie.

He did plan to attack, though one member - the one they would later throw out of the admin team stopped him from attacking more people.

It should have given us red flags they would ban the only member from the team who was actively against the bullying.

And as we see here they did attack the second time as soon as the opportunity arouse when Artillery were sending people after us after saying we should suck his d*.

So he didnt learn a thing. Please survivors stay save.

#Hellsing Fandom #Hellsing Discord #Discord #Warning #call out post #callout post