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More nonblack artists should have black ocs just because black characters are so fun to design like come on! regular ass black people get so creative with their style and you 🫵🏾 should draw them!!

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wait sorry is epic specifically antiblack? was unsure what that meant (did vote julian anyway cause he deserves the win !)

I've explained this before! It's the entire purpose of this blog, right? To create your Black characters with intent. And that includes knowing what happens when you thoughtlessly characterize. You can cast race blind all you want, but no one is blind to the race of the character once they are chosen (thus, why there's a backlash every time a character people like is Black).

So if I take a character that is deemed sexually aggressive, sexually threatening, sexually desirable and yet not meant to be desirable at all onto the (anti-)heroic white leading man that is trying to get back to his narratively Good white wife, trying to seduce him away from his wife because she wants him... And I cast her as a dark skinned Black woman. And this sort of narrative has historically been used to oversexualize and sexually abuse Black women, to deem them as (hint!) Jezebels in comparison to Good Pure White Women... What have I written?

If I take a character that is a violent, sexually aggressive, predator whose goal is to defile the narratively heroic white woman who is trying to save her home and herself for her (anti-)heroic white husband returning home from battle... And this sort of narrative has historically been used to oversexualize and target Black men as (hint!) rapacious beasts worth subduing (and even killing) to protect the sanctity and safety of White Order... What have I written?

These are two of the oldest and most violent stereotypes that have been projected onto my people, that persist in how we are treated to this day. And my disgust and upset with that lack of consideration, especially in something everyone is supposed to enjoy, is part of why I do not want to consume that piece of media.

And even if they were written with nuance, I can say with full confidence that White Fandom will still happily view these characters through that biased lens because we live in a world that is still informed by those stereotypes (they'll do it with Black characters that AREN'T these things).

I'll pass. There's no level of entertainment I'll get out of it that is able to overcome my distaste at that part. I've been able to let certain things roll off to have a good time, but this isn't one that beckons enough for me to do that. I hope the people who enjoy it continue to enjoy it, though I'd at least appreciate it if they were aware, but. Oh well.

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happy juneteenth♥️🤍🩵

read a Black American's fic today

support some Black American artists

send your Black American friends some money and listen to some Chaka Khan!!♥️🔱🖤

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

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happy Juneteenth to black fans in fandom specifically 🫶🏿 love yall

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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A boy can dream, can't he?

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Please don't get all your political info from Tumblr. If you want to learn about Palestine, please read scholars and poets and activists, do not get your information from me. I post quotes and articles as supplementary, not as substitute--even following Palestinian Tumblr or Instagram users who post cool infographics multiple times a day is not a substitute for education.

We are all doing our best, but please use the resources that are available.

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i know i shouldnt be suprised but sinners being out for less than a week and already tumblr is fandomifying and 'poor wet pathetic cat'-ifying the main white man villain of the movie is so... disapointing??? like did the fucking point of the movie really go over your heads that badly or are you just willingly ignorant and stupid?

AND BEFORE ANYONE STARTS; im not saying you cant like remmick, he's a very interesting character, a great villain, and jack o'connell gave a great performance playing him, nor do i care if you think hes sexy, I think hes sexy

but i think to come out of a movie where vampires serve as a metaphor for how black american communities have the life sucked out of them by white people via cultural appropriation (remmick wanting to use sammie's gift to summon his own ancestors) and forced assimilation (all the turned vampires singing and dancing along with remmick's irish folk song and dance juxtaposed with the blend of cultures during sammie's song in the juke joint) and for your main take away to be 'aww the main villain is just a misunderstood sadboy' or 'idc abt the atrocities he looked sexy doing them (when the atrocities in question were racism)' then youre just being so disengenuous and antithetical to the whole point of the film?

and dont come at me with the 'let people enjoy things' bullshit, sinners is a movie FUNDAMENTALLY about racism and racial dynamics in the united states, and i do think focusing on your little y/n x [whiteboy of the month] fics and 'hes so babygirl' posts do actually stunt your own critical engagement with the message this movie was trying to convey to its audience

i think its also a disservice to remmick's character; the moral nuance that comes to light when you consider his position as an irish immigrant to the US, a victim of the colonialist british empire just like the black main cast (although in a very different way) and how, whilst his desire to reclaim his ancestry and heritage is understandable and even relatable, his pursuit of sammie and willingness to kill literally everyone else at the juke joint is allegorical for how, regardless of their own marginalisation, white people will prey upon and steal from black culture(s) and destroy/disenfranchise black communities to serve their own interests, and the movie is NOT subtle about this either, delta slim literally lays it out for us "white folks like the blues just fine, they just don't like the people who make them"

idk im yelling into the void here, the ppl im complaining about are never going to give a shit about racism or even just critically engaging with art when theres a new cute whiteboy to write fluff and angst about, but its just soooo annoying to see, yet again, how fandom spaces, which SHOULD be about uplifing and celebrating art in all its diversity and complexity, once again is nothing more than people ignoring anything that actually makes them have to confront reality and filing off the serial numbers to slot characters into pre-determined fanon molds so they can pump out incorrect quotes and coffee shop AUs en masse until the media iliterate heat death of the universe

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I promise I'm not just talking out of my ass lol. I do feel passionately about the topic. And again, I can't make anyone do anything, and every Black person may not feel the same. But if you're going to write to me directly to ask me for help about my identity, show respect to my identity by capitalizing the B in Black 🤌🏾☺️

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Aminta Nefore and Aliet Sarah by Alfonso Anton Cornelis for L'officiel Brasil Magazine September 2024

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Some of my favorites of the night …. I love black women

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I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

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