#apropriation

[jqcarratello]

https://porterhousereview.org/articles/adoption-vs-appropriation-writing-as-an-asian-adoptee/

Thank you so much to Porter House Review for publishing my essay "Adoption vs. Appropriation: Writing as an Asian Adoptee."

[zondearts]

It's been a while since I've last drawn my ocs, so here they are

[sleep-deprived-luka]

I really find it funny how Ena messes with Mizuki in her trained picnic card

Her Pov is just that:

love it

[dapper-lil-arts]

Some funny ass gartic phones I did with friends on my birthday lmao. Comically predictably themed

[acotarmemes]

ACOTAR tweets // espresso

icon @copypastus

[thelesbiandeli]

THANK YOU @antigonesghosts FOR LINKING ME THE LET ME DIE IN VELVET CLIP 💥💥💥

As promised, here is your Montlie doodle :3 theyre looking at Charlies bug books :D

[chibisfanartcave]

been having a fun time trying to make more ¨bealivable¨ fake vhs OVA style stuff. its so time consuming but so fun

[muse-of-tomfoolery]

Just remembered I don't have a tail to wag...💔

[softcthulhuwu]

kirk is like your cool gay uncle in a longterm situationship and pike is your cool ally dad who doesn't always get it but still gets you your first binder send tweet

[whereserpentswalk]

Wendigos and Golems are two very different creatures, but pop culture gave them the same treatment of taking them away from their cultural origins and stripping them of their interesting themes so that they could be big monsters for heroes to fight. Probably because both of the original stories are from a context of oppression the storytellers faced from European Christans.

While I don't have the cultural background to tell you how to use the Wendigo, I am from the culture that invented the Golem. And I will tell you that I don't personally take offense to people using Golems in fantasy, but I'd much rather people actually understand the context that they came from, and what happened in the original story, rather than just making it a robot with magic. At the very least make it divine magic instead of arcane.

[missvanta-xoxo]

The BopHouse is just the perfect example of the gentrification of sex work and black culture. Skinny barely adult white girls playing dress up in sex worker culture and black culture is the height of gentrification.

It's like cocomelon but like for boys who just discovered porn...

[willshaper]

Cultivation queen of cultural appropriation

[jimplekins]

Did i ever tell you guys about the art school I'm going to next year had fucking art of sans in an anime style on the wall? FULLY PRINTED OUT AND FRAMED

The worst thing, IT WAS PROMO ART FOR THE SPECIFIC COURSE IM TAKING.

[lt-thorin]

Like I said, cunty Charles Xavier. Something we were robbed of by the movies. I went overboard with the helmet but it looks good. One day my charles will actually look like charles but rn u have to use a bit of imagination.🫡

[wheatbearer]

sometimes i wonder if i was a cis woman if i would even be a good looking woman. i probably would have tried to get skinny. but not too hard. and i had like. pretty tits preT.

[problematic-alters-unsilenced]

cw cultural appropriation? descriptions of trauma (including CSEM, stalking, psychosis/mental health)

Not sure if it counts for this blog but three of our main protectors are siblings all of which are a creature from local native mythos, we're bodily white (well, we're technically metis (mixed white+indigenous) but we're just at the cutoff so just white ig) and we always get flack when we talk about any of those alters' source.

the reason they all split was because of a traumatic event where our mother was psychotic and we went through "shared psychosis" (never diagnosed, but we were psychotic while she was, had similar delusions, etc) about the creature(s) stalking us and our mother, about one posessing us (which was very likely just one of our alter's attempting to talk to us, she attempted to tell our mother to take us somewhere safer and get help) and about basically being chased out of the area. The event was traumatic in many other ways (specifically our mother selling nudes of us (at the time 14) for gas money) and anyways it all culminated in them all three splitting.

the issue arises when we tell people their origin without any context, they say we're culturally appropriating, but none of the alters want to "change their source" specifically because the trauma endured litwrally made them trauma holders in a specific way that only makes sense to our brain if they stay the same. we try to use language that's respectful (hence us not naming the thing in question, and frequently just saying they're shapeshifters rather than the whole truth) and its so fucking annoying that its one of our top reasons for wishing we weren't a system

that sucks.. we are white ourself so we cant talk for POC people but i feel like.. we really need to remember alters cant control their source, and they cant control why they were made.