#black to basics

[leikeliscomet]

Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:

I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.

Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we're not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don't complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.

Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don't just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. 'Roadman' has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav') with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug'. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people's violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road' means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture'.

But it isn't all doom and gloom. There's so much history and culture here in our spaces. I'd be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I'll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I'll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.

EDIT: Wow this blew up. If you're an American or non-British person and you wanna know more I linked some videos that talk about Black Britishness in an easy way, like a Black Britain 101. I have a sideblog for history posts and I have a lot of Black British history stuff on there, mainly post-war if anyone's interested. Also made this list of Black British music recs x

[botanyshitposts]

if i had a partner i would wake them up right now and i would say babe wake up im thinking about the plants that went extinct in the kt boundary comet blast again. babe the world has ended 1 million times and i want to grieve for every single one of them and its really messed up except for immediately after the kt extinction event when the ferns had so much sex they left an observable stripe of spore-dense matter fossilized in the rock forever, like that part was kinda funny. i think i have a stmoach ulcer again btw

[fishymom-art]

I blacked out yesterday and made a Cookie Run AU, because there is something fundamentally wrong with me

It's called Fix a Beast! (I wanted to call it Kindly Beast, but that's the old name of the developer team who made Bendy, so meh)

The whole premise is that the Witches saw that the Beasts are going rampant again and decided to get rid of them completely. Shadow Milk Cookie, obviously, didn't really like the idea of dying, so he suggested the idea of taking away the remaining part of their Soul Jams and then sending them off to Crispia for redemption, this way guaranteeing that they won't do any harm anymore. The Republic and the Heroes. as well as the Witches, aren't really sure about it, but GingerBrave and Pure Vanilla turn out to be ecstatic about this idea and support it.

So just like that, the Beasts are rid of their powers and are now assigned to different Heroes to be redeemed. The rest expect Shadow Milk Cookie to have some kind of a plan and he does say that he has a plan, that they'll rule again and will take the Heroes' Soul Jams for that... but it feels like he kind of forgets about the plan, because he starts liking it in Crispia. Mystic Flour Cookie also finds herself enjoying her new life in which she doesn't have purpose, while Burning Spice Cookie HATES it. He'll have to deal with it, of course.

SO YEAH THIS IS THE AU AHLIEUGHLAIUEGHLEI WHAT DO YOU THINK

[deadpoolsmom]

as far as one piece antagonists go Crocodile truly gets absolutely scooby-doo’d at unmatched levels

He immediately falls for a phone scam and from basically little garden to rainbase he doesn’t even know the strawhats are alive (and clowning towards him at incredible speed). As soon as he does, they’re in his house tearing at his walls and bringing marines into his villain lair.

He uses a literal floor trap door over a gator pit to catch them, gets phone scammed again, full scooby-doo chase scenes after Chopper through the streets while still missing him, and suddenly his prisoners have escaped his impossible cage, and his giant bananagators are dead. and Nico Robin saw it all happen.

He then spends rest of the arc complaining about those meddling kids and their dog “strawhat pirates and their weird pet” and at no point does he even know how many strawhats there are.

Like yeah he keeps having plans on top of plans to stop everything Vivi can do but also she keeps coming up with a new thing to do (Tom and Jerry ass dynamic).

Part of it is that he’s underestimating them and keeps grandstanding villain monologuing but also teens keep killing hundreds of his grand line bounty hunters and he straight up does not know what is happening.

Cause he IS trying to kill them he’s sending top assassins after them and ripping out luffy’s organs, the whole time he’s yelling HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?? DIE. as whack-a-mole Luffy keeps inventing new ways to hit him.

[silverameco]

Sirius who very anxiously comes out to a very confused James who thought him and Remus were openly dating for like 3 years, while Sirius didn't even know Remus was gay and Remus himself was convinced James and Sirius were a thing.... anyway they're all idiots (affectionate)

[mummer]

announcing a new The Dynamic for 2025 which is “why do you get to be free” and “why cant you just be free”. All compelling relationships can be sourced to this single well

[spaceprincessleia]

Come on. You can't stay out here. (Andor 2x12)

[firstfluke]

Best friend’s loser little brother x Older brother’s oblivious best friend

[unrelatedsideblog]

very dangerous question

it's basically a very lazy redraw of that one rarijack comic by bixels lol

[hyydraworks]

Someone on Pinterest suggested doing black tip reef sharks, and I was like man, what a great idea. Cheers to you Pinterest commenter.

[thebrainrotsreal]

Eve, Kate, Mark and Rex! Nailing some ideas down on how I wanna draw them in the future, and enjoying messing with their designs like usual! Not a fix-it whatsoever just fun + ref for the future! I cannot do realistic styles so translating them into something I can do while still being recognizable is peak. I will mess with Rex's suit more. Trust. I Kate so much now. Look at her <333333

[deswhomst]

regulus didn’t speak much but not because he didn’t want to. he just didn’t know how to. what the right thing to say would be, how he will be perceived, etc.

james spoke too much but not because he wanted to. he just felt the need to do so because he could never be at ease when he was quiet. he had to be louder than whatever went on in his head.

but when james and regulus were together, regulus would talk for hours on end and james would finally be able to relax and just listen.

[isjasz]

“We’re spending time together. Planned, unplanned, off-the-rails, distracted - together. That’s the point of it all, isn’t it?”

- a scene from @boonbeenblade 's snippet distractions <3

[moeblob]

Drawn from memory only. Zero references used. I'm scared to check accuracy.

[its-the-sa]

i have a confession to make:

the reason i have disappeared from the rainworld fandom for so long is because i have become obsessed with minecraft. specifically, the warden and the deep dark.

i only mention this because i recently returned to rain world to play the watcher dlc, and now if i had a nickel for every time i have obsessed over a sentient colony of black mold i would have two nickels

one has the mental capacity of a godlike supercomputer and the other has the mental capacity of an autistic grizzly bear. i love them both dearly .

[coyotelip]

james: my talents? well, for example, I know how to swear in five languages! English, Spanish, French, Polish AND Welsh.

sirius: oh, French? how? I don't speak French outside of that house.

james, who learned it by making regulus swear loudly in bed: haha... duolingo