#never cared

[classycookiexo]

[murasaki-cha]

Me when I get asked who would I prefer to be the one that dies in The Prisoner's Throne

[ro-is-futile]

Is Drake not black? I don't listen to his music so only ambiently know about him as a Canadian, and he's always sold himself as black

@sirpeppersto answered your question better than I could (the tags are from my original post).

My thoughts are under the cut. TLDR at the bottom.

Here’s what I’ll say, Drake is mixed. Mixed or Biracial people might be considered Black depending on where you’re at in the world. Many mixed people identify as Black in the US. But it’s not about whether or not Drake identifies as Black. Having a Black Canadian parent doesn’t entitle him to appropriate Black American cultures.

He appropriates Black American rap styles and cultures, down to the city, depending on what’s popular at the time. He steals flows from other artists. And flows are usually geographic. A rapper from Memphis is not gonna rap like dress like or act like someone from Chicago or someone from Brooklyn or someone from LA or someone from the DMV or someone from Atlanta. This has shifted a bit since the advent of social media. But rap is still deeply rooted in geographic traditions. Most rappers would agree that a city makes a rapper not the other way around. Rap is a very geographic thing because it’s shaped by lived experiences and communities. It’s a form of music that is inherently based in the community.

Drake steals culture not even just from Black Americans, he dabbled in afrobeats when it was on the up, he hung out in the UK for a bit and sidled up to Drill and Grime artists there (according to people over there).

Drake slips in and out of various black cultures like they’re costumes in a way that his contemporaries don’t. Yeah, it’s fine for music artists to update their sound based on what’s popular. We’re all shaped by our environments. But Drake does it to such a degree that it’s disingenuous plagarism. It’s a hustle to him not a craft.

And because of that, it feels deeply unserious for nonblack people to call him the king when he’s only ever been a tourist.

Rap is a Black American music tradition, rooted in Black American experiences. I’m not trying to invalidate other rap traditions from other parts of the world (like UK Drill or Grime). I respect it, but know the roots.

And other music traditions don’t get treated this way. Nobody is lining up to hear Reggaeton from a Spaniard. An Irish person probably wouldn’t take an Englishman’s attempt at Irish folk seriously. There’s distinctions between Jpop, Kpop, and Cpop.

And the rock genre wars? Oh you’d probably get jumped in the early 2000s if you called Avril Lavigne the best rock artist, or even a rock artist at all back then. (You can tell my knowledge of non-Black music is limited lol.)

My point is that Rap is a Black American music tradition. It’s a music tradition. Well over 50 years in the making at this point. But then it leaked into the mainstream, it got popular outside of Black American spaces. And now anyone with a DAW and dream is a rapper. People who don’t know jack about the culture. People who have never been in that environment, never cyphered, never battle rapped, can’t freestyle, etc. are calling themselves rappers. It’s frustrating.*

I’ll cut myself off before I go on about how most Black American music traditions have been apropriated and detached from Blackness. But hopefully I said something informative for someone with this long ass rant.

TLDR: Drake is a mixed race Canadian. Not a Black American. Rap is a Black American tradition so he was always gonna be a tourist. Also probably just watch FD Signifier’s videos about it. There are many good ones on this topic, I’d start with the one from 3 years back called “Drake and the Death of Hip Hop.”

*That last bit wasn’t specifically for Drake. Drake has weasled himself in Black American spaces at this point. That was for all the dull uncultured derivates popping up left and right like whack-a-moles.

[mo0nr1se]

[idorelyss]

"it's wrong to wish death on people like trump."

want me to wish death on you too? 🥰

[darkpoeticsoul]

Every time I opened up about how I feel, you acted like I was attacking you. Instead of hearing me, you defended yourself. I wasn't asking you to be perfect. I was asking you to CARE! :(

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[carlyraejepsans]

tragic! trans person no longer merely tolerating the act of existing just now realising their entire wardrobe is ass

[xminhaxx]

How convenient.

[starridge]

also deciding to make stuff that 12 year old me would have wanted to draw

[beebfreeb]

[frosthetix]

some dudebros: tom hardy must be held at gunpoint to still be doing these sony venom movies

tom hardy: WRITES the movie, PRODUCES the movies, repeatedly states how much venom and eddie means to him, reads all the comics, #1 veddie shipper

[chloesimaginationthings]

The bitterness kills Michael Afton in FNAF..

[idorelyss]

"it's wrong to wish death on people like trump."

want me to wish death on you too? 🥰

[baambastic]

I see your “Apollo agreed so easily because he doesn’t care about Odysseus” and raise you “the god of prophecy knows that Odysseus is going to make it home, so he’s not going to make much of an effort to stop him.”

[egophiliac]

sorry guys, you're like twenty feet from shore, you're basically dead already.

(also I choose to believe that Malleus just spends the rest of the event with ham on his face. it's better that way.)

(seriously, I can't wait for this poor couple to excitedly get all dressed up in their wedding best and embark on the most romantic day of their lives, only to suddenly have Malleus Draconia pop up out of nowhere, covered in ham and Grim spit, and scream "BOAT! BOAT! LA LA LA" while gently misting them with a dinky little novelty water gun...in the name of LOVE)

(this event is amazing)

(RIP Grim though)