Frickles

Fried pickles and other things I pay attention to. ENFP. She/her. I want a smol sibling let me adopt you.

[0ddevilz]

Also a Lest fanart because she’s so cool I love the transfem representation🙏

[hmyrine]

on everyone's soul this is what happened

[cloudchomps]

grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

[molabuddy]

the important thing is to make characters who are fucked up in similar ways to u and then to give them the strength to keep going. so that even by thinking of them u may be able to gift urself this strength too. the other important thing is to make hot women

[awkwardsonicphotos]

[akalaaelias]

Please let this be a real screencap

[akalaaelias]

Shit, dawg. Maybe it's time to come back.

[akalaaelias]

Shoutout to @jellynjamslam. You still got the same phone number? Been thinking about you, homie! I have no linear time concept anymore and I'll think it's been a couple months since I talked to someone and it's been like 2 years. I am ze worst. Hope you are well!!

[akalaaelias]

Good things continue in my life. Still at this job after 3 years but now I get to be yeeted off the call center into developer projects. Still hanging out with that cute boy. We like music and video games and cooking for our little brothers and smooching. Life is a little stressful too. About to fully support my mom financially due to her illness, but she supported me my whole life on way less income so we should be gucci. Anyway. Wee.

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[akalaaelias]

Reading your old angst on here like 😬😬😬

Update. I'm off birth control and have been over a year so I'm no longer constantly suicidal and am actually a pretty happy person. I've just been on shit meds since I was 17 for an issue that was caused by being allergic to fucking wheat. So many years wasted. Trying not to think of it. Gonna get the first paycheck since my giant raise. I also like a boy and he likes me too and we are taking things massively slow because we are smol and shy and trying our best. I'm hoping for good things.

[renfrisolo]

If this isn't the biggest mood

[akalaaelias]

OOOOOOOOOOOOF

[atmospheric-minimalism]

Erin Hanson

[mellowgalaxyduck]

So I saw Rise of Skywalker

[tovio-rogers-deactivated2023021]

Princess Bean, Elfo, and Luci from Matt Groening’s new show on Netflix Disenchantment. I saw nothing but bad reviews online and the biggest gripe most them had was “this isn’t Futurama.” I watched it myself and loved it. Go check it out if you haven’t already.

[akalaaelias]

Fukkkiiiiin this Korean beansprout salad I made is putting me on a journey to flavortown. Boobye 👋

[akalaaelias]

People say "check on your happy friends," but they don't check on me

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

china, 2500 years ago:

guy 1: hey what should we put in this boiling water

guy 2, an absolute fucking genius: uh……………..

leaves.

[wheresmyphonemp3]