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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.

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Incredibly confused by you saying tech isn't white. What exactly makes you think he isn't?

hi so i wrote out an entire ala essay response to this and it got deleted. from the start i assumed this was bait but i’m going to be less verbose in this iteration because i am not writing all of that over again just for bait and for tumblr to delete my entire discussion.

first of all, he’s a clone of jango fett, a māori man. jango fett is played by temuera morrison, a māori man. the clones are māori. temuera has put tons of māori culture into mandalorian and clone culture- jango and boba themselves are undeniably māori characters and the same goes for the clones. no matter how whitewashed the clones may be (regardless if this is a whitewashing of indigenous features or melanin), they’re still māori and those responsible for this intentional whitewashing should be held accountable.

speaking of whitewashing of indigenous features and melanin, tech is unfortunately a victim of both. his skin color is deliberately lightened to fit his “nerd archetype” (a horribly racist ideal, more on this and his autistic-coding later) and his features are also intentionally made more eurocentric (as if the clones’ models weren’t eurocentric enough) with changes such as the thinning of his face and lips alongside his pointed, skinny nose.

(photos of hot toy’s hunter and tech figures for comparison. tech’s figure is clearly built upon the typically clone face model, but it’s changed to enhance his eurocentric appearance)

this whitewashing has no basis in canon, there isn’t even an attempt to explain HOW the bad batch ended up looking so different from other clones aside from the fact that they’re specifically genetically modified. even though the kaminoans are known eugenicists, this has never been in terms of racial eugenics, rather mental eugenics. the kaminoans would have no reason to change the appearance of the bad batch, especially when clones are even discouraged from having individuality in looks. this whitewashing is a problem intentionally created by lucasfilm alone when developing their models.

you can’t just clone a indigenous guy and get a white man. even if his animated model is supposed to look completely different from other clones, he still has their kiwi accent which is quite literally part of temeura’s indigenous background. if all clones look like jango fett (which again isn’t completely true in regards to the fact that their models are ALSO whitewashed, but they’re certainly better than the bad batch) and sound like him, a simple aberration to dna in an effort to make tech a hyper-intelligent super solider wouldn’t turn him into kiwi tom cruise.

as i was saying earlier, this lightening of the skin is applied to all of the batch, yet tech seems to get the worst of it (aside from echo who’s his own complete disaster). wrecker and hunter actually can be identified as poc, which is of course good in relation to the fact that any poc character should obviously LOOK poc, but also feeds into stereotypes in another way. if tech happens to be the savant of the group, the hyper-genius, and wrecker is the himbo-ish destructive character, what does it say about their personality in regards to their skin tones? having the clone that looks exactly like a white guy as the genius while the clone that’s obviously poc as violent and aggressive is not a good look.

this racial stereotyping also feeds into tech’s autism-coding. within recent media there has been a standard of the rude, savant white guy autistic that has been popularized through characters such as sheldon from the big bang theory. i often see this comparison being drawn between tech and sheldon as a joke, but it’s quite annoying when taken seriously. as someone with autism myself, i really do adore tech as a character and his representation means a lot for me. he doesn’t feel like a shallow representation such as sheldon, whom just exists to be smart and the butt of the joke, as tech’s autism actively disables his relationships with others and severely impacts his life. he of course still does happen to fall into the “genius savant” stereotype of autism, but his relationship with autism was certainly more thought out; personally it doesn’t really happen to bother me as i tend to connect with “genius” autistic characters whom are actually fleshed out. and yet, his skin is white. it’s so unbelievably abhorrent and prejudiced that i have no idea how it was ever allowed. there can be a genius clone, but only under the condition that he’s whitewashed. there can be an autistic clone, but only under the condition that he’s whitewashed. the mere idea that a māori man could be an intelligent autistic nerd seems so foreign to the modelers that tech just had to be white. it’s consciously intentional and i cannot stress enough how repugnant it is. my heart goes out to all of the poc autistics who’s existence is constantly ignored, minimized and denied, with tech’s design being a result of this bigotry. it’s simply just so horrible that there’s an utter refusal to humanize an autistic man if he’s poc, so thus he’s whitewashed with no repercussions. i could go on and on about this for hours, but the knowing decision to make tech white because of the white boy nerd savant stereotype makes me want to rip my eyes out. it’s a blatant denial and dehumanization of poc that just flies under the radar and the fandom shouldn’t continue to perpetuate it by drawing him as white and ignoring the fact that he’s fucking māori.

last but not least, tech IS considered to be poc in canon. though the melanin on his model is practically nonexistent, his skin is still listed as “tan” in official encyclopedias and forums, the exact same as jango fett and the other clones. take the official designations from tech and jango’s wookieipedia articles respectively:

and though it rarely happens, he sometimes is shown as having the same skin tone as the other clones, notably on his lego figure (thank you lego)

like i said from the start, tech is a clone and thus he’s māori by default. the least we can do as a fandom is collectively acknowledge this and the damage his intentional whitewashing has done to the poc fans of sw. drawing him or interpreting him as white and ignoring the heritage he comes from only further reinforces the bigotry his whitewashing was based upon.

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sorry guys. have to reconstruct my personality around The Character. hope you understand. *my bones crack and twist in unnatural ways and my rips splay open like the hood of a cobra while my whole body makes odd squelching sounds*

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i can’t stand “it’s not that deep” attitudes like even if it really really isn’t that deep just PLAY WITH ME. just fucking PLAY. have a meaningless but deep analytical conversation with me. just like think about shit for fun. does anyone else like to think about stuff for fun. it’s so lonely

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if you grew up liking harry potter and want an alternative story about a cursed orphan child exploring a magic world with his friends may i reccomend: any shounen anime. no more wizarding world. we watch naruto now.

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life is hard but at least there's dykes and fags

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it is so important that you are a little bit ugly. please get comfortable with having unplucked eyebrows and nonexistent jawlines and wrinkles. let your blue hair grow out into an uneven pale green and your clothes be old and mend them and modify them until they’re unique to you. wear lipstick which doesnt compliment your skintone and mismatched outfits which went out of fashion 5 years ago. be a little bit too loud and a little bit too passionate and as weird as you can be because oh my god there is nothing more disturbing to me than perfection. beauty is manufactured and sold to us and you need to realise that you are a fucking animal to live a joyful life I am so serious. you cant obsess over aesthetics forever please just live messily and make your body your home however you please.

if you dont do it for you, do it for all the teenagers who will see u in the street and know that they are not obligated to be attractive

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Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

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i wish i could point at my mom and be like ah yes thats the tool that gave me social anxiety but comically my parents were actually fairly chill. like i was never threatened with punishment but kid me decided to construct my own rules and then lived in constant fear of breaking them. like girl at least it makes sense when the catholics get haunted by guilt. what was my excuse.

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someone on this website can make the mildest anti-work post like "i hate having a job i wish i could stay at home playing games" and the replies will inevitably be like "well if you want a TRUE COMMUNIST UTOPIA you'll need to PULL YOUR WEIGHT you cant be a USELESS LAYABOUT consuming EXPLOITATION you need to put aside your selfishness and ORGANISE with your COMMUNITY" and its like. okay i agree but have you never heard of 'wishes' and 'fantasies' before

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the biggest loss of animated movies trending towards sympathetic villains/no villains is that we dont get enough crazy death scenes anymore. stuff like tarzan's villain accidentally hanging himself or help i'm a fish's villain drowning and floating away silently on screen. sometimes your movies just need stuff to scare 8 year olds shitless. its good for the enviroment i think. probably.

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not only is it pride month, but it is also mens mental health awareness month

take the time to check in with the trans men, nonbinary men, intersex men, queer men, disabled men, and men of color that you know

let them know that you support them

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there is something sooo embarrassing about everything i have done and will do

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SNOWCROW UNI AU DUMP!!

all of these are reposts from my twitter, and some never seen before doodles :p ive got so many brain rot for this au but i dont have the time to draw them with me being a uni student myself, so i'll use this as an outlet to yap

ofc yes snowcrow are roomies duhhhh. the other boys are included as well but its primarily focused on snowcrow. both of them are nerds, sy just doesnt fit in the stereotype appearance wise. he also rarely leaves his room (bc hes in IT) so hes mostly wearing nothing but his optimus prime boxers. zayne has 5 outfits maximum and repeats the same ones depending on the day, and its either a collared button up shirt or a hoodie. all his pants are identical except for one pair of jeans he wears for special occasions aka going to the mall

in this au, zayne's autism shines more. he's more clumsy and awkward and doesnt get social cue. naive at some times, ESPECIALLY when it comes to ppl tryna hit on him. sy is less macho suave here, chillaxed in a teen core way and an idrgaf attitude. much more of a loser too. and more immature (in comparison to his canon self)

their dorm room: a disaster. its a 2 pax room so both their beds are singles across from each other. only two weeks into the semester sy's space is already full of his stuff to the point he cant even sleep on his bed. robot stuff from his club, personal collection of trinkets and other stuff he COULD throw out but doesnt want to bc he's a hoarder. so now he either sleeps on the floor or on zayne's bed. usually on zayne's bed when he's out for class during day time since his own classes are at night. zayne didnt mind but it meant sy owes him so sy buys him a lot of stuff especially sweet treats and mixue. he also has to drive him everywhere on his motorcycle. "i wanna go to that dessert shop" "you mean the one thats deep in the city full of traffic and hidden in between the alleyways where u have to go through the 7 layers of hell for parking?" "yes" "..................kay."

pets!! sy had mephisto even before entering uni. then later adopted a bearded dragon named bartholomew, mew or bartie for short. zayne took in a stray black cat from the streets. cats rarely like him so when this one didnt run away, immediate adoption. claudius galenus is his name after a greek philosopher, galen for short. obv sy made fun of his name choices, but then again he named a bird after the devil and a reptile "bartholomew". theyre both idiots. sy also enjoys finding random geckos or lizards, and frogs, and snakes. he'd probably own a scarab too. but zayne never allowed those bc galen is a gluttonous hell spawn and eats everything. at one point he started chewing on sy's mattress. no, pets are not allowed in dorms. they got off with a warning the first time. so every time theres even a hint of a spontaneous dorm check, sy asks his mom to babysit their kids. his mom being the sweetheart she is helped them out, though she wondered if her son will ever grow up and be at least acceptable in a professional setting bc she cant imagine him having a corporate career with the way he is now.

money. zayne has a scholarship and during their dorm year, it was easy to live on. he didnt have many assignments that needed money to be spent on, and he was never the shopping type, for clothes or other stuff he cant eat anyways. but ever since they moved out to rent an apartment, money got tighter. sure both his parents are doctors and has no problem giving him extra pocket money, but he prefers to not burden them. so he now he part times at a vet as the clerk! easy click clacking on the monitor job and he gets to meet cute animals. sylus doesnt have a scholar but he's applying for one. in the meantime he gets his money from a website he runs. what website? no one knows. is it legal? most likely no. zayne assumed the site is just an illegal movie streaming platform with how sylus always invites him to watch a new movie on his laptop seconds after its release. but he could be running more than one.

neither of them have that of an exciting social life. theyre either nerding out in their room, or taking a mindless stroll to reconnect with nature. sylus collecting rocks and yapping about the history (or drama) of the british royal family and explaining how the monarchy works, zayne identifying different types of clouds and pulling out candy from his pockets every 10 minutes (they never seem to run out). though at one point, sylus knew how important this stage of their life is. theyre not gonna be young forever and they needed friends, people to socialize with and make connections, mingle with people their age. zayne didnt mind having sy as his only friend, but he did think it would be nice to have a small clique. also the networking thing is important too. so whenever theres an event or festival, they'd always go out with intentions to meet people. it was NOT easy. 1. they dont know how to start a conversation without being too pushy or awkward. 2. they both have resting bitch faces and above 6 ft which makes them seem intimidating. 3. even if they did manage to chat with someone, they would quickly realize how different they were from them. most people who join these social events have **been** social, already in big group of friends that go out partying, clubbing, drinking yadda yadda. not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just a very unfamiliar territory for these two nerds who rarely (or during this point, never) let themselves touch alcohol, couped up in their room with a pigeon, a lizard and whatever the hell galen is, watching pirated movies while wearing matching rocky and bullwinkle socks. so after every attempt at making friends, they'd always walk back to their dorm, just the two of them.

are they dating? no. not yet at least. but do they like each other romantically? maybe. i can vouch for sy tho. the first time he saw zayne he was already smitten by how handsome he was. handsome, but not well put together. baggy clothes, his glasses were slightly crooked, looks like he doesnt know what hair gel is. he didnt know if he was even attracted to men, he did know zayne was the most interesting person he's ever met so far. he brushed it off, thinking its just simple admiration. even if it was a crush, it wasnt a big deal. tho as their friendship grew, he got bolder, casually flirting with him from time to time, just because. zayne being the dumbass he is caught none of it. if sy ever reached out to hold his hand, he's like "oh yeah cool bestie activities" or if he gives a quick peck on the cheek before leaving for class "he must be in a good mood haha" or if he stares longingly while zayne yaps about the history of styrofoams, scooching closer, leaning a bit too close, trying to memorize every detail of zayne's face as if he recognized him from a different life, one where theyre both soul bound, sharing the same last name, melting into each other every night "oh wow he's a really good listener".

yk maybe they are dating. zayne just didnt know about it until it was too late.

that's all i have for now!! sem break is right around the corner so i'll expand this au then :)) pray for me final assessment is biting me in the ass im an animation student and i regret everything

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i love sluts i love perverts i love dykes i love faggots i love aromantics i love freaks i love librarians i love ibuprofen

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