Update: over the last year GT has proven to be another talking head. Lots of words with little action. This is who should have been the mayor after the election.
I realize many people still don’t know about the Tulsa Race Massarce of 1921. I didn’t know much about it until adulthood due to the white-centered spin of history. I’ve included a picture below with a book you can order from Amazon if you want to learn more. It’s fairly academic-centered, but well worth reading to understand this event.
On Monday, which would have been the 99th Anniversary of the Massacre, leaders of the community and Black Lives Matter met with local officials including the mayor and police chief, after a series of protests over the weekend. The community has been trying to convince the mayor to no longer host LIVEPD in the city as it depicts the suffering of the city’s most disadvantaged citizens during possibly some of the worst moments of their lives all for the purpose of white-entertainment, but before now he has persisted to maintain the contract. Guys he not only listened, he put out the below statement. That’s right, a white Republican, from Oklahoma released the below statement— can you believe it?! It’s a small step, but it’s a step towards progress for Tulsans.
This made my heart so happy. I’m so glad my writing helped you in your journey 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️
I hesitated to this, and it will probably dissolve into the void. I’m pretty new to Tumblr/AO3 fanfic world and I’m not sure if this is the right way to do this, but I’m doing it anyways. Ok here it goes.
To @constantwriter85 @wkemeup @certifiedskywalker @a-tale-of-two-comics @write-orflight and so many other authors of the magnificently complex and well-written Bucky x Reader multi-chapter and one-shot fics:
To say I’ve had a difficult relationship with sex is an understatement. Years of intimate partner sexual violence and rape, compounded with more sexual assault experiences all before the age of 22 resulted in a desire to want sex, to be wanted, to want to feel passion—but never finding those feelings.
I wondered if I was ACE or demisexual, or if it was just the residual trauma. Even after 13 years of being with the most respectful and patient and gentle partner whom I love dearly, I still wondered. Still longed to feel that lust. It never came. So I gave up and accepted that I just didn’t like sex.
During the pandemic I somehow stumbled into this world of MCU fan fiction between here and AO3. Originally I stayed away from the smut, thinking it wasn’t for me, instead working through my daddy issues with Irondad and Spiderson fics. And then FATWS happened and I discovered this blessed fountain of Bucky x Reader and I drank and drank and drank. Suddenly I needed to satiate a thirst that I never knew existed. And the more I consumed the more I felt something shifting in me—I was healing. For the first time in my life I felt lust. I wanted to touch. I wanted to be touched. Your words stoked a fire in me that I thought was snuffed out, never to be lit again. I cannot fully explain how powerful that is after two decades of feeling like my body wasn’t for me. Discovering sex again through all of your writing has been overwhelming and beautiful and freeing and so fucking safe and I just want to thank this community from the bottom of my heart. The way you all write smut with such care and consent while still keeping it exciting and exploratory yet intimate healed something in me that I never thought was possible. And for that I am infinitely grateful. Thank you.
Guys look at what I made 😎😎😎. @totallygroovyllama got a vinyl machine and we have been going design crazy. So far we’ve made one Shadow and Bone shirt, and one Bucky Barnes one with another S&B being worked on. (Ps the Bucky design is straight... my picture is crooked 😂)