#all of us are here

[theaustralianfrog]

Warning, this post talks about racism and is also rather long

Honestly I always was aware of the fact that I was going to be treated as different from other kids my age, but I don’t think I’ve ever truly thought everything out.

My friend, she wears a hijab when she goes outside. When she’s in public spaces like shopping malls and such, strangers give her dirty looks. You know how old she was when she told me that? She was twelve fucking years old. She was twelve and desensitised to this, to the point where she said it with a smile on her face, not an ounce of hatred or anger in her voice.

My little sister, she has gorgeous, black curly hair. Other than that, she is just the same as her friends. She loves to draw, and she loves to play, and watch cartoons. But she is convinced that her stunning, curly, natural hair is not beautiful unless she goes at it with a flat iron. She hates the noise and feeling or hair straightening tools, but if she goes to a salon, and leaves without straight hair, she’s going to cry, and she still believes in the tooth fairy. She’s that young. And when I was that young, I held that very same belief, that I was ugly because of the texture of my hair.

I should be able to go to my high school, without expecting to be called a slur. This expectation simply being common sense. I shouldn’t be able to laugh along, and go “haha yeah I did 9/11! That’s so funny!” I shouldn’t have been raised knowing that I would have less opportunity, less love, less of everything than someone exactly the same as I am, except with pale skin.

I realise that in responding to things people say, that they shouldn’t say, that I am enabling that sort of behaviour. So I can stop doing that, I can make posts on the internet, but other than that, I don’t really have any power. I eventually reported the kid who called me “Osama Bin Laden” to my head of year. Nothing came of it. “Telling a trusted adult” means nothing.

(Also something is going on with the tags, so idk just ignore the repetition its not letting me delete)

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[dragontummy]

Tumblr would literally rather arbitrarily delete the accounts of trans women on this site with uncharacteristic amounts of speed than address even one genuine instance of harassment. They've already lost one harassment lawsuit and they immediately decided it was more worth their time to continue on the exact same path. They KNOW what they're doing. With staff like this, the only way to see genuine change on this site is going to be to make it more of a problem for them to not address this issue.

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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creative notes:

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all my other comics

store

[charon-cries]

y'all this post is untagged ai. a lot of people aren't realizing it, but if you take a second to look at it, it becomes very clear

tumblr keeps showing it to me and OP has refused to tag it, so when you go in the reblogs it's a bunch of people who don't seem to realize that it's ai either. i recognized a lot of usernames in the reblogs, from people who i definitely know are against ai stuff. so if you've reblogged this thinking a human made it because OP refuses to edit the original post for transparency— now you know.

[iwasbored777]

Barbie movie never said "we need to stop men" it said "we need to stop toxic masculinity" and if that made you feel called out I got some news for you

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

[stellarspecter]

joey richter + being held at gunpoint by a love interest

(+ bonus: when he wasn't actually shot)

[lotus-pear]

"i haven't worked you like a dog yet, as promised"

[canisalbus]

Side note, managed to sketch this dog's silly little bike seat head from a challenging angle and then got immediately terrified of potentially goofing it up in the inking stage.

[xumoonhao]

assorted Palestine web graphics 🇵🇸

PALESTINIAN OWNED BUSINESSES /

HOW YOU CAN HELP PALESTINE

[piived]

I am such a slut for Danny having supernatural strength and being able to kill someone with a single slap because he’s used to fighting ghosts who are built Sturdy (and literally can’t die, that is very helpful in a sparing partner) so he has to learn such meticulous control when he moves to Gotham where he starts regularly getting into scuffles with humans who think he’s an easy target (he looks like he has the sturdiness of a wet newspaper) and the whole time he’s more stressed about not drawing the Bats attention by being too good or accidentally killing someone so he has to walk that fine line of acting like a scrawny loser and dipping out at his first chance without being clocked as a meta.

Danny, laying on the ground and getting kicked repeatedly by a thug: *tries to angle himself so the guy can kick out a knot in his back*

Danny: *deadpan* oh, ow, stop that hurts, oof

Robin, watching from the rooftop and recognizing the dramatics from the Supers: father there is a meta

Batman, also watching and having flashbacks to Clark’s earlier days: *so so tired and already mentally getting the adoption paperwork ready*