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Will Sheldon

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Jonah Magnus has been dead for one slutty slutty year

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"whatever, nureyev, i don't have time for you or your stupid games" my brother in christ you opened the journal

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currently thinking about how well the Juno Steel series captures that unique feeling of growing up in a poor small town and how you have to make a choice between being forever tied to the surviving members of the friend group you grew up with because they are the only reason you survived vs leaving them forever when you leave the town so you dont have to carry the burden of what you all went through together anymore

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same character

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it's not "self destruction " it's cosplaying season 2 peter nureyev

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“my child is completely fine” your child just spent the last two days learning to pick locks, spin knives, and slight of hand because their favorite gay podcast man can

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Tens of thousands of Black girls and women go missing every year. Last year, that figure was nearly 100,000. Yet their cases hardly ever grab national headlines.

A journalist in California is doing what she can to try to change that, by telling as many of their stories as she can — and hopefully helping them get the justice they deserve.

Our Black Girls centers on the often-untold stories of Black girls and women who have gone missing or, in some cases, were found dead under mysterious circumstances. Launched by journalist and activist Erika Marie Rivers in 2018, the website is a one-woman show: Rivers spends her nights combing missing persons databases, archived news footage, old articles and whatever other information she can find to piece together these stories. And she does it all after her day job.

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I’m going to be a dad, but I can’t afford my baby: help support a gay trans guy. https://cash.app/$GabeDevaux

Hey all, my name is Gabriel. I am 23 and about six months away from graduating college. I am writing this post because my IUD has apparently failed and if my math is right I am about 1 month pregnant. After several conversations between me and my long-term partner, Nathan, we’ve decided to keep the baby.

The problem is I currently work minimum wage in food service… Nathan is a warehouse employee at Amazon. Our current household income is not enough to raise a kid but we really want to make this work financially.

I need help raising money for ultrasound appointments, pre-natal vitamins, etc. If anyone can spare even a few dollars we will be so fucking grateful. I do not know how we are going to float this while also paying off student loans, but we must. I am estranged from my parents so unfortunately I cannot look to them for financial support.

Thank you so much.

-Gabriel

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My other post died but I need help paying off the last $600 of this bill

In addition to this I have several essential impending doctors appointments I expect to be around $300+ I greatly and immensely appreciate past help I have received but I still very much need help. Thank you so much.

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please help me protect myself against my landlord and ex-roommate

for those who don’t know, my roommate fled the country with 10,000 USD worth of rent debt. i co-signed the lease with her and the landlord has already served us documents outlining the beginning of a legal procedure. my ex-roommate was my friend and she deceived me and fucked me over until she ultimately fled the country. i’m still here, and i have hired a lawyer to help protect myself so i don’t get compelled to pay my roommates $10,000 debt.

please help anyway you can. i have begun the next stage of my life: i want to move to amsterdam and my ex-friend has left me in a really traumatizing position where i’ve had to deal with our landlords and lawyers and it’s just all too much. they already are withholding our security deposit that was supposed to be used for my immigration to the netherlands…

the lawyer i’ve consulted and will hire for services is charging me 600€ and it would mean the world if i could raise this amount to at least cover my back legally in the coming months

please consider reblogging if you can’t donate. i’m in a really vulnerable position and i’m already so overwhelmed. this would help me tremendously alleviate my expenses as i’m already struggling just to pay for my immigration.

0/600€

https://www.paypal.me/rociodsanchez

thank you 🙏🏼

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Hello! I finally set up a gofundme for me and Jordans moving/car/basic survival funds! Please reblog if you can!

Also my payment stuff if you want to give direct to me are @cfacundo at venmo, $kittyfacundo at cashapp and Paypal.me/corycf

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$5,525 raised of $40,000 goal

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Hey idk if you’re the best person to ask and I’m not trying to start anything, I don’t mean this disrespectfully but why is the new poster artist art problematic?? I’m just not very educated on the subject :)

first of all, i'd recommend looking at this post from thegrinningwheels going over the mistakes people make when drawing peter because this definitely plays into some of them. also, disclaimer that i am white, and if anyone else wants to jump in, feel free. before i start, i'd like to mention this screenshot:

[id: a screenshotted twitter thread containing three tweets. 1. jay onetiredboy (@onetiredb0y) can i ask why you'd want to distance the official art from your previous artworks? is there a particular criticism you'd like to directly address? or... ... 2. Ellison Estephan (@/ellisonestephan) I like to draw goofy stuff as a fan! I thought it would be more professional to make sure people remember that stuff isn't "official art" or something now, just because I'm drawing some posters haha!! 3. *sighs* hyperion city... (@junosteel [rest is cut off]) with all due respect, you can just say that your art perpetuated racism/transmisogyny/ableism without hiding behind "haha its goofy." better to at least be transparent and address it than dancing around the issue an acknowledging it as goofy. own up to your mistakes pls. /end id]

as well as this response to harley kaner saying that people sometimes called others racist to justify bullying them (a post made about an hour or so after the artist was announced)

so they know they messed up but... yeah they're not gonna apologize

(a link to the junoverse designs for anyone who wants to follow along)

for starter’s, the way peter is drawn feels a bit like a caricature, to the point of drawing on transmisogynistic stereotypes. (stereotypes that are like, ten times more visible in their art of vespa, who is actually trans fem which i’ll get to in a second) the intersection of what it means to be a feminine gnc person and being a poc are many and varied, and there is definitely a lot to say about femininity being seen as wrong and shameful. there's a lot of history in how Asian men's femininity has been portrayed and sexualised, both in fandom & in the world at large, and sometimes white authors just aren’t capable of handling those points with care. as much as i would love to celebrate a gnc character design,  i think it's safe to say that this artist's depiction of a hyper-feminine nureyev feels like a mockery rather than honest representation

also, it may not be intentional, but when you have a line-up & you're drawing the lighter characters (or at least nureyev and buddy) much more sultry & sexual than the darker ones.... that tells me something about how you view people of color. especially when the sexual way you draw those lighter characters has nothing to do with their character

a line up like this is supposed to give you an indication of character personality. this is supposed to be how you're going to present them to the world. both buddy and peter use their charisma to their advantage sometimes, but that charisma is based on their personality! though he's absolutely flirted to get what he wants, peter tries to give off the vibes of a suave gentleman. if he’s wearing a tie, it’s not going to be haphazardly put on, because he cares about his appearance. peter can be sexual, but it’s not really the way he presents himself to the world at large, and this version of him goes so far it feels like some kind of parody of ouran host club or something, which makes me feel like it’s mocking him rather than trying to honestly portray his character. 

buddy meanwhile has never flirted with anyone but her wife and gets her way with confidence & force. that exaggerated body type would already be a bad look on its own because of the hypersexual way people view women of color, but with added context, it kind of feels like there's the implication that the only way these characters could be as cool & charismatic as they are is if they get their way with sex, which is just... incredibly racist

some of it is just an issue with the art style in general. a lot of cartoonish styles have exaggerated features, but there's a limit to how much you can exaggerate those features without just drawing actual stereotypes. alessandra's design makes me uncomfortable for the exact opposite reason as buddy's: cartoonishly gigantic muscles aren't really a great sight when black women are constantly seen as hypermasculine. i might be a bit too critical on this one? i feel like it was worse when i first looked at it, but there's still the fact that exaggerating an asian character's eyelids is racist. it's like. racism 101. both people and quanyi have incredibly slitted eyes in the majority of their art & personally the way quanyi specifically is exaggerated makes her seem more…. manic, somehow? the way her eyes are lidded aren’t only racist, but make it seem like she’s constantly giving everyone bedroom eyes which is just. Oof

vespa i wanted to talk about in more detail, because there is literally not one element of this design that doesn’t scream bigotry. It reminds me so much of every terrible caricature of a trans woman i’ve seen in horror. The wild bloodshot eyes, the bloody nose, the dagger, the unkept hair & hairy armpits, the wardrobe malfunction revealing a bare chest for no other reason than shock value alone—because how else are we supposed to know what kind of woman she is? There’s already been so many films & just, media in general linking trans women to mental illness and violence. We absolutely didn’t need a vespa design that looks like she belongs in silence of the lambs. If this was just vespa holding a knife, that’d be fine! She does, canonically, have a knife that she uses. But everything about this vespa is designed to look as offputting as possible. She doesn’t look dangerous because she’s part of our cool crime family, she looks out of control. Which is exactly how vespa worries the world will see her! Taking a character who says, pretty up front that she wants to be seen as more than her violent urges & mental illness and then drawing her in a way that screams “look out! This person is dangerous and mentally ill!” is honestly unforgivable. Add that to the fact that everything about her appearance implies she’s doing womanhood “wrong” (obviously, not shaving should be considered a neutral thing, but when it’s only a trans woman character you show with hair, it’s worth considering why you feel the need to do something like that) including the fact she’s going around with her shirt slipped like that, which looks obviously oversized to fill a chest she doesn’t have. One of the first things i learned about writing trans characters is that you should never reveal a character is trans by taking a moment to emphasize how different their body looks from a cis person, be it through having someone else walk in on them in the shower or this. It’s voyeuristic and serves no purpose but to make someone’s gender seem like a dramatic twist instead of an identity that deserves respect, and if a trans artist can’t even understand that, then there’s no hope of them accurately representing literally anyone else.

according to a friend, this art had been drawn before vespa was confirmed as trans (but reposted after, so clearly they didn’t see an issue either way) but that just means they saw an angry, schizophrenic woman & decided to not just make her a harmful stereotype of a pyschotic person, but add insult to injury by making her trans as well.

This has gone on too long & i can’t type anymore, but i wanted to say the second citadel designs really aren’t any better. Every character they chose to make a poc implies something negative, such as making marc and tal the only knights of color & then placing them as nothing more than comic relief. Maybe i could believe this was part of an effort to show the white characters as part of the oppressive class if it wasn’t for didn’t seem clear that we’re supposed to see the brothers as a pair of bumbling fools. Not to mention every single other bad thing they did

And remember, this is the second time they’ve worked with an artist with blatantly bigoted art when tumblr user disasterscenario was the official artist, and i remember plenty of people explaining exactly what was wrong with that art as well. Whatever chance you think they have to learn and improve—they had it! And in response, this is what they gave us

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Link to a google doc for BIPOC Penumbra fan creators

For anyone who no longer feels comfortable supporting The Penumbra Podcast after the recent hiring of Ellison Estephan, I’ve created a google doc to compile BIPOC fan creators to support instead. If you’re a BIPOC fan artist, writer, zine maker, cosplayer, whatever, please feel free to add your ko-fi, Patreon, cashapp, etc.! And if you have any questions or feedback for me, please DM me to let me know. This is a community-sourced doc, so anyone can edit it, but I will be monitoring it to make sure people aren’t just typing random stuff. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10vYEE1eQhJQCMBTK0v1MT3fWvzsaS0DHLPeaL8wZFyg/edit

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i will no longer be posting ab the penumbra on here,i'll keep talking ab other podcasts and probably turn this blog into one for all my interests rather than just podcasts

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Statement of y/n regarding being sold to the music group one direction, original statement given on wattpad, audio recording by Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institution, London. Statement begins: I woke up and pulled my messy brown hair into a loose bun-