#POC spaces

[milkhoneyrose]

‼️ PSA ‼️

There is a Puerto-Rican owned Art Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY called the AM:PM Gallery which hosts events showcasing and supporting local artists. They have an amazing team and it is a very important part of the community. I had the privilege of meeting two of the people who run this gallery and they are AMAZING. Unfortunately due to the gentrification going in Brooklyn they are facing price-rocketing and are being threated to get evicted if they do not have a minimum of $10,000 USD by TOMORROW, MARCH 13.

Luckily they are a little over $8,000 USD which means if even just 50 people could donate $40 USD they would reach their goal.

If 60 people could donate $35 USD they can reach their goal.

If 80 people could donate $25 USD they can reach their goal.

If 100 donated ONLY $20 USD they can meet their goal and save this space!

It is vital for the survival of artists, especially POC, to have a safe space where they can be seen and heard. Without places like this it trips us of our creativity and our humanity.

I am sharing this in hopes it can help the slightest impact in saving this place.

They are also throwing a RENT PARTY tomorrow night so any NY peeps definitely pull up!!!!

[prinnay]

Spectacles

[sysy-studyblr]

monday 06/05/24

looked into housing, worked on my cv + applications!

♫ spite - omar apollo ♫

[hrhmimieucliffe]

IF YOU'RE A BLACK LADS FAN, MAKE SOME NOISE‼️‼️‼️

Appreciation post for my fellow Black LaDS fans. Show off your pretty MCs in the Reblogs!! (+ with your fave) Let's engage with each other and follow each other!! Let's help each other be seen!!! Share your content, whether it's LaDS related or not, or NSFW or SFW, Fanart, Fanfiction, Renders, etc!!

[lottsoluv]

Imagine hating the main character and the main love interest of a book series, and the author of the book series, and the writing of a book series, and still continuing to read said book series and complain about it online for no reason

[deepspacedarling]

Xavier girlies! Come get your juice!!

I have been losing my mind editing cards to make the MC black. Here's some for the Xavier girlies. Big thanks to @ariyai for helping me figure it out! Feel free to use these cards however you like!!! Rafayel girlies, I'm coming for you next!!!

[thatharemlifestyle]

Random 4 star memories in PoC

PoC edits for my Delulu

Zayne: fragmented dreams

Rafayel: Dangerously close.

Xavier: shining light

Edits by CybillaFräulein

Trying hard for that max Harem Lifestyle delulu stat

[ghostocrab]

Why are white queer people shipping Sammie and remmick together. Like why are we shipping someone who wants to steal from black people being shipped with a young black boy who is trying to discover himself. Like did you guys not get what this movies about!? Like every time we get a black movie it also ends up getting ignored or taken over by white people who don't get the message. I want everyone to enjoy joy black media but instead people are just being weird. Please, just please can yall not come in an center white characters every minute.

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wednesday 14/07/2024

today was an absolutely beautiful day

♫ bestfriend - satellite lovers ♫

[beifong-brainrot]

Hi there! I recently came across your blog and I really have enjoyed your takes and analysis on Katara and Aang’s relationship. I was wondering if I could hear your thoughts on a common thing I’ve seen antis bringing up a lot lately. So I’ve been seeing antis talk a lot about how the creators have apparently said in interviews or whatever that Katara and Aang’s relationship was conceived as a relationship where Aang has a crush on her but Katara sees him as a little brother and is akin to a kid having a crush on his babysitter. I’ve been seeing this take a lot lately about how creepy it is that the creators themselves have said that Katara and Aang’s relationship was like a kid with a crush on his babysitter and how weird it is that they wanted to turn such a dynamic into a romantic one and basically ahving been using it as fuel to go ‘see even the creators acknowledge that Kataang has a creepy/weird mother-son type of relationship that suddenly turns romantic!’

As for me I feel like if the creators really have said that that’s very weird of them to do that and it seems like they have some major dissonance between those comments they made and what they actually portrayed in the show. I never got the vibe that Katara is acting like Aang’s babysitter in the show.

Sure sometimes Katara has to take charge and remind the others of their responsibilities when they’re getting a little too distracted by having fun but she also joins in on the fun most of the time. A lot of friends groups have that one friend who takes on that role that Katara sometimes does where they go “okay we’ve had our fun but we need to focus now”. Even Sokka takes on that role sometimes.

I just really do not understand why the creators made that bizarre babysitter comment but I am constantly seeing antis bringing it up now and it’s frustrating. I would love to hear what you have to say on the matter as I really love to read your defenses of Kataang.

From what I know, the clip that is being referred to is in description of the original concept for atla. You know, the one where Katara was Kya, Toph was a buff 16 year old boy with a soul patch who was meant to be in a love triangle with Katara, and Zuko's scar was on the wrong side. Safe to say, not the best indicator about the atla we actually got. Maybe Katara and Aang's relationship was originally meant to be such, however, as they grew from those original concepts, their relationship also became much more fleshed out and nuanced.

Because really, when watching the show, you really need an agenda to force Katara and Aang into that Mother/Son relationship. I'll focus mostly on Kataang rn, but I do wanna one day talk abt how "Momtara" hurts other characters as well, particularly Sokka, who has been done SO DIRTY by certain parties, it's ridiculous.

I think a lot of Momtara "rethoric" relies on minimising Katara's childish qualities, while magnifying her "motherly" qualities, and doing the reverse to the rest of the Gaang (sans Zuko, who also often gets the parentification treatment). Which often feels rather insulting to all the characters involved. It, of course, minimizes Aang, Sokka and Toph, all capable in their own rights, to Katara's helpless dependents. And it curtails a lot of Katara's strengths too.

For example, the Desert is often shown as an example of Katara being the motherly one, as the rest of the group are out of comission, and Katara is the one to keep them all together. But presenting it as "everyone is incompetent so Katara obviously had to pick up the slack" takes away from what an Amazing character episode this is for Katara. I don't wanna repeat myself, but here's a post of me gushing about the episode. But I think Katara calming Aang out of the Avatar State is such an amazing crowning jewel for how she was focused on in the episode, and it is an attocity to flatten this momentous scene into a "mother comforting her tantrom throwing child" situation.

Katara and Aang connect over their grief over the genocides they are both survivors of, and Aang's avatar state is often a manifestation of the anger, pain and sorrow of that grief. The first time Katara pulls him out of it, she is directly speaking to his grief and empathising with him over it- something she does with many other characters. So, unless she was also mothering Haru, Jet, Zuko and fucking Hama- this argument rings hollow.

If we want to play semantics with chore splitting, almost every member of the Gaang (and especially Aang and Sokka) have been shown to bring the group food, or provide the group with drinking water and do other chores around the group. Yes, while we see Katara do the "domestic" chores often, and it is important to give her ber flowers for it, it is important to note that she is not the only one putting in the work to keep the group taken care of. Outside of the chores usually mentioned around camp, we see that Sokka is the one who does a lot of planning around timetables, and Aang seems to be the one with the most geographical knowledge and ability to chart courses due to being a nomad.

Katara : So Toph, usually when setting up camp, we try to divide up the work. Toph: [Shrugging casually.] Hey, don't worry about me. I'm good to go. Katara: Well, actually what I'm trying to say is, [Holds arms out in gesture.] some of us might fetch water, while someone else might set up the fire pit, or put up the tent. [Momo flies over to her, dropping several berries he had collected into her hands.] Even Momo does his fair share.

Similarly, the Gaang pass around the role of voice of reason, depending on who is the most predisposed to be in posession of the sacred braincell at the time. They all have their moments to shine, not because those surrounding them are idiots or incompetent, but because everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and the reasin the Gaang is such a good unit is because they are a group that works together well and fills in for each others weaknesses and strengths.

While we call them a found family, and rightfully so, they aren't an actual family unit. There are no set providers and dependents, and there are certainly no parents. They're children forming a shockingly well rounded community, and they all have their bouts of childishness.

While Aang is known for his childishness and immaturity , he also has displays of shocking maturity and wisdom for someone his age. This duality is honestly one of my most favourite aspects of him.

I also find it interesting that Aang has actively been posited to parallel both of Katara's parents, which is an aspect of their relationship that is rarely discussed. The scenes of Kya and Aang sacrificing themselves to the fire nation are incredibly similar, their dialogues lining uo hauntingly well, even in how they reassure Katara when they are the ones about to be harmed. And, in the Awakening, we see Katara's abandonment issues surrounding her father also apply to Aang, which is a wonderful aspect of her character that doesn't get discussed nearly enough.

Katara: Aang. He just took his glider and disappeared. He has this ridiculous notion that he has to save the world alone, that it's all his responsibility. Hakoda: Maybe that's his way of being brave. Katara: It's not brave; it's selfish and stupid! We could be helping him, and I know the world needs him, but doesn't he know how much we need him, too? How can he just leave us behind? Hakoda : You're talking about me too, aren't you?

This is not to flip the cat on its head and start claiming that Aang is playing the role of parent to Katara, but rather to add to the fact that Aang is one of the only characters to fully acknowledge Katara as a child, like him, and help her attempt to heal that inner child. Aang is also one of the most encouraging characters towards her, supporting many of her endeavours. And no, not in a manner a child idealises their mother. He's capable of disagreeing with her, they just seem to share many interests and goals, like most compatible couples lol.

Aang trying to make sure Katara feels included, supporting her, helping mitigate her insecurities are not the actions of an unaware toddler, but a kid who intuited his friends needs and is keepubg them in mind because he cares for her. We see Katara gets very insecure that she's not "fun" and Aang has been shown joking with her and encouraging her to join in on fun. We see him reassure her in her waterbending abilities multiple times because he know her identity as a waterbender is very dear to her.

Of course everyone talked abt the penguin scene, but it really is such a good basis for their relationship.

At her core, Katara is a young girl. A brave, talented, strong, kind girl with too much on her shoulders and too much pain in her past. But still a girl. She has her bouts of childishness she doesn't fully know how to express her feelings and articulate herself, she can be naive and immature, and silly and playful and that is all ok. Frankly, it makes my skin crawl to see that part of her identity stripped away in fanon.

Last year I made the observation that to those who care only for Katara the woman, Katara the child means little to nothing. The little girl she once was is perceived as long dead, and to be avenged, not a dormant part of her that can be nurtured back into bloom. Yes, Katara had to grow up faster than most, play at being an adult for the benefit of those around her. But that doesn't mean she isn't young, that she cannot heal from that, especially with the war ending.

And yes, that healing will involve Aang, because the role he played in her life is crucial.

Many have pointed out that presenting Katara as a motherly figure falls into the uncomfortable trend of presendinh girls of colour, especially black and brown girls, as more mature than their lighter peers. I don't think everyone who likes this fanon interpretation is a horrid misogynistic, I think many people, particularly women and girls, who experienced some form of parentification see themselves in Katara and find a noble sacrifice, or some manner of catharsis in the idea of her being a longsuffering, neglected mother figure. Which, if that floats your boat- indulge in that, enjoy it. But it is bending the text rather massively, as Katara and the group act more as a balanced community than standard family unit, and Katara states multiple times that she is uncomfortable and upset by the "mother" label being placed on her, and it doesn't describe her perfectly either, which is highlighted several times.

[punkeropercyjackson]

🩷Space Girls💫

[dommnics]

I felt it was time for a new profile picture! This is my OC, Cosmo from my upcoming graphic novel, and he's the sweetest, bravest alien boy!

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[simpfornegan]

just recently seen sinners and wanted to get a feel of some ships through their tags, so imagine my surprise when i opened the sammick tag only to see people reducing sammick shippers/fic writers to "tone-deaf white people"... like i understand the sentiment and the caution surrounding the power imbalance, but as a black shipper it definitely irked me ngl...

a lot of what i saw was just ppl conflating queerness with whiteness. like the whole "white queers always yaoifying something" thing? yeah, it definitely gave fuck black queer people lmao-- acting like we couldn't possibly exist in this fandom space?

[madmanii]

Your stinking baby

Piccolo's new full-time job, reminding Goku that he has kids while involuntary raising them x'

That's how I see it at least, probably relating too hard to the frustrations of an absent parent and so just doodled whatever crossed my mind hehe x'

8.11.2024, commission Mani

Bonus

He was there for Goten too c':

[thatharemlifestyle]

Sylus Solar Pair: Abyssal Blossom & Abyssal Mark

PoC MC edits

PoC MC edits by CybillaFräulein

Delulu for to too