City In Paint by Mateusz Urbanowicz

if i act like an asshole tell me i’ll try and fix the behaviour.

a beginner’s guide to fandom racists

This is by no stretch of the imagination a finished list, nor will it probably ever be. But over my years in Tumblr I’ve started to Notice some Things…

Basic Racist

“so NO poc characters can die????”

purposely misinterprets your argument

“blackwashing exists too. if mj can be black then aang can be white”

“why don’t they just make a NEW black superhero/princess/franchise?”

“stop making fun of xyz writer; they’re probably a much better writer than you’ll ever be”

alternatively “have you written a book? then you can’t have any opinion whatsoever”

alternatively “if you want to see diverse characters then write your own story instead of complaining”

“you should be grateful for the one side poc who died in the first episode”

“imagine if i said the same thing about poc. that’s reverse racism”

Smug/Oppressed Racist

makes several posts expressing their dismay and sadness after being called out for racism

assumes victim position whenever possible

lowkey/highkey an anti-anti

thinks and acts like they are oppressed by the existence of antis

*approaching their mutual of color (or a blogger of color in their community) after writing/reblogging a problematic post* “hey just wondering, why did you block me?”

makes fic/edits/headcanons/art that relies on racist stereotypes and characterization

“i miss the days when you could just be racist write whatever fic/like whatever character/post whatever headcanons without people getting mad :/”

“some people just don’t know how to have FUN!”

“don’t you have anything better to do than run a HATE BLOG about this poor writer?”

part of a network of white mutuals and followers who supportively affirm each other that they’re Not Racist

refuses to acknowledge anything you say unless it’s written in standard white grammar and falsely cheery affect

Schrodinger’s Woke

usually a white lady

has some posts about intersectionality on their blog

doesn’t support any movies/shows/books written by and for poc

never reblogs bloggers of color

alternatively, only reblogs bloggers of color who agree with their opinion (which 90% of the other poc in the fandom disagree with)

goes hard in calling out misogyny, but “can excuse” the racism of the author

alternatively, *about a problematic white female character* “you have to excuse the racism in her narrative. just because there’s racism in it doesn’t mean she’s not a feminist hero. it’s not her fault that the writers wrote it that way”

generally expecting all fans to put the representation of white women before any other representation in terms of importance

“why can’t this strong woc just be single?! she’s awesome without a man”

selectively calls out racism in fandom/content when it makes their preferred character/blogger look better in comparison to the “more racist” character/blogger

repeats what bloggers of color say but in a cheery tone and more watered down; gets heaps of praise from mutuals and followers for being a woke queen

assumes position of authority on all social justice issues, especially concerning gender (and sexuality if they are lgbtq+)

“the writer knows what they’re doing. i give them the benefit of the doubt because we don’t know how the story will turn out in the end”

may or may not have written elaborate posts about racism and race theory

definitely stans at least one extremely problematic white author and defends them and their “genius” to the death

thinks that calling out white cis/het women for their racism/homophobia/transphobia is sexist

i don’t have a source but i’m fairly sure this was a pun about an opposing theatre’s sewers (the rose) also his theatre was called the globe and he wrote all the worlds a stage so yeah shakespeare did puns

alsoyoulookgreatidontmeanthisasaninsult

“What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

#anonymous

(at Cooch Behar Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHV2bLdBd2Spkj3zhWE32KPmeik-llYkKzUZ3s0/?igshid=19c4rc3jwt2dt

eggs are most delicious when least touched by fire (so poached, sunny side up, etc declining in quality to over easy, hard boiled). this is because fire cleanses the egg of sin (primary source of flavor). this is also why the objectively most delicious egg is soft boiled (hardened purified exterior traps the delicious sin inside the soft gooey interior), and why scrambled eggs are morally ambiguous

Genuinely think that every school should have few nonsensical rules just for the purpose that students can break them. A forbidden room, a wall you aren’t allowed to touch, a bowl of rocks you aren’t allowed to pick up or something. The thrill of breaking a rule is something that teenagers should be able to experience and learn how to experience. And there should be genuine, unpleasant consequences for breaking that rule, but not the kind that will affect your academic record. The kind of where it is instans detention because you picked up the forbidden rock. And yes, the teachers will be angry at you.

I think a lot of teenagers (at least in my school) would benefit from learning how to handle the feeling that comes from the fact that: yes, I am suffering consequences for my actions, but it is not the end of the world. I will serve my sentence and then it will be over and I am not a bad person for that.

And also for leanring to recognise that sometimes there are rules that are arbitary and breaking them can be fun and that sometimes there are rules where breaking them might genuinely hurt someone and breaking those is not cool and fun at all.

One of the bigger problems in our school at the moment is that a lot of teenagers have decided that hitting unssupecting others in the face with snowballs (which can be pretty darn hard and sharp in a right weather) is the coolest thing, and one child got a black eye and almost a trip to the hospital for it. And the logic of the troublemakers sounds to be “rules are stupid and boring and I want to be a rebel”. I suspect that if we had a statue or a wall that you weren’t allowed to hit with a snowball under the threath of immediate detention, we wouldn’t have so many human victims.

Also, I genuinely suspect that 90% of our ‘good girls’ would benefit immensely if they at some point ended up accidentally breaking a stupid and artificial rule, had to take detention for it, and then noticed that that was that. No end of the world, no lasting hatred from your teachers, no change of your self just because you fucked up something meaningless.

Can’t wait for The Magnus Protocol to just be this with spooks and horrors thrown in

i think it’d be hilarious if you named a pet God. imagine the dialogue you could get from that.

have you ever read an erotica novel with a plot far too involved for its own purpose because let me tell you,

Like I’m not saying erotica shouldn’t have a GOOD plot. A lot of people want that.

But for me, if the plot’s overall purpose in a novel is to move you from sex scene to sex scene, I need the sex scenes to have narrative cohesion with that plot, if that makes sense.

Instead, I just read a series recommended by a friend with a plot so in conflict with the many, many sex scenes that I was descending into madness.

Every time the characters started making out I was like oh my god you guys do NOT have time for this. How could this possibly be on your mind in this moment!!!!!!!!

It was a murder mystery and also sort of a survival thriller and author would build up the biggest most time sensitive life or death stakes and you’d be on the edge of your seat and then you’d just be in a sex scene like HUH

I ended up so compelled by the plot that I read all four books in two days. I started just skipping all the sex scenes by the end of book two because I needed to know what happened next.

I felt like I was reading two different stories. The overall reading experience was deeply funny honestly but I’m hiring a personal injury lawyer for the whiplash

*opening a book* this better not have any themes or motifs

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Basira and Daisy??? CHILLING??? more likely than you think

anti-social media.

the concept of tumblr popularity is so funny to me. not once have i spoken to anyone on this app who wasn’t sincerely upset and angry at the fact that one of their posts got notes and drew in all the deranged illiterate users from every corner of this app. tumblr isn’t even social media bc it’s incredibly bothersome to get notes and anon asks from some of god’s worst creatures wanting to argue with you for no reason