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Tumblr users are often so arrogant and it shows. They can draw a full cast of POC characters but when POC say "Hey we want more than just our skin tone" they're suddenly deaf as shit.

Representation on Tumblr has become a way for white people to win brownie points just because they took a Hershey's bar and slapped it onto a person's skin tone.

The most disgusting thing is that they insist on making JUST African-Americans. They insist on making JUST one facial type, one nose type, one lip type, one hair type, one slang type, one skin tone.

And when they make a person Asian, it's Japanese. And when they make a person Hispanic, it's Mexican. And when they make a person indigenous, they never specify on which tribe/nation they came from, but you'll bet they're Native AMERICAN.

But my favorite part is when other POC demand representation and those same fucking white people are like "But but but look at all my black characters!!!!"

POC isn't just confined to America.

POC isn't just black.

POC isn't just Japanese.

POC isn't just Mexican.

POC isn't just Native American.

It's from the Miskitu in Nicaragua, from the highlands of Ethiopia, from the deserts of Saudi Arabia, from the mountains of Indonesia. It's from the arroz con gandules, from the folk music, from the festivals. It's many cultures blending, it's speaking more than just English, it's dealing with racism unique to our countries of origin.

It's more than just one universal experience, and white Tumblr isn't willing to show that.

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the fuck

Cutting out the CDC from hospital COVID-19 reporting also means the data will not be publicly available. It’s not just to CONTROL the data, it’s to BLIND medical researchers.

“But the Health and Human Services database that will receive new information is not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on C.D.C. data to make projections and crucial decisions.

“Historically, C.D.C. has been the place where public health data has been sent, and this raises questions about not just access for researchers but access for reporters, access for the public to try to better understand what is happening with the outbreak," said Jen Kates, the director of global health and H.I.V. policy with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.”

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like what the fuck are we preserving and protecting their dead body for? are we supposed to dig them up later for a visit??? jesus christ

that uniquely american cultural drive to preserve the corpse after death…. utterly horrid I tell you

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Hope y’all don’t mind if I leave this here.

(tw: surreal body horror, excessive alcohol abuse)

Every now and then I think about that post I made in high school, back when I was coping with a mom who was lowkey an alcoholic. It went something like “if you need alcohol to have fun you should see a therapist” and everyone and their mother were all “um sweaty actually i use alcohol to cope so shut the fuck up and die.” Like. 

I was never wrong. Ya’ll shouldn’t need to get completely blasted to have a good time. Idc if it helps you “unwind” or whatever. It’s not a coping mechanism. Like yeah have a few beers with the boys or whatever, but if you’re getting drunk just so you can take it easy, you need a therapist. 

Anyways alcohol culture is toxic. Go to therapy.

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romance isn’t dead it’s just very sleepy

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what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume

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Short comic, while I work on something bigger on the side. It is nevertheless a very important topic. A lot of seabirds die because they eat plastic. They feed their chicks with the waste. It’s really tragic.

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Oh my g-d??!!!!!!

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Just a little something I’ve noticed. Both autistic and trans headcanon posts always get people in the notes screaming about how wrong you are.

Image description: the handshake solidarity meme. Over the left arm it says “trans people” and over the right arm it says “autistic people”. In the middle, over the clasped hands it says “people just not letting us headcanon characters in peace”.

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Why hasn’t this been done before?

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We’re OK with letting them have this BAR though:

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the aang/sokka friendship is criminally underrated tbh