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@awanderingmimbo
Twisting around on the floor currently, I have forgotten why I stopped/started posting stuff in the first place- but fuck it we ball ♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱
I really wanna make something that I can read/watch a lot.... Augh augh it takes time and skill and I am DEEP in the pits DEEP.
Literally me in the middle of daydreaming: "WHY ARE WE STILL IN A FILLER EPISOOOOODEEEEEE?!?!?!?"
I thumbnail the same way I animate, knowing I'm gonna have o add more scenes in between because I am too excited to pace myself.(This will bite me in the ass.)
That lavendertowne upload has me thinking I'm productive oml....
Been locked in since the moment it was revealed he'd been seeing our moms/silly
why do like all ace/aro characters dress like they're going to church or look like that lil glasses wearing character off voltron. like my black ass doesn't relate to this actually. where are the bad bitches
they should invent an indie animation that’s not made by racists (please tell me any recs you have for indie animations made by Black creators or poc creators in general tbh)
Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl
The Three Tomes
Fly (not out yet but the creator has a lot of great promo posts)
Hey! (also not out yet but. Same thing)
Starview (not yet animated but you can read the script at @welcome-to-starview ). Note that this is the only one to not have a black protagonist, but the show's creator(s) is/are still black.
Fly...oh Fly my absolute beloved
Starview and MatMK are currently script-only (and generally way smaller) so I'll save you the hassle and direct you to the shows' blogs: @welcome-to-starview and @mako-and-the-moon-killers , plus the creators' studio blog, @cosmic-collective-studios ^^
...I misinterpreted what post was being reblogged but. Extra show ig
Another thing about that video that bothered me, of the Asian American man claiming that it would be fine for Black people to stop shopping with them because they don't need us (as if boycotting until we have community support and not murdering our kids is... An invalid reaction...) is the implication that we just... AREN'T capable of running our own businesses, our own nail salons, creating our own clothes and eating our own food. All things that we do, btw.
The entire argument is based in the idea that we are dependent upon Asian stores, as though- as explained in the rest of the video- we weren't 1) stopped from doing so systemically and 2) you weren't stopped from putting your stores anywhere else BUT Black neighborhoods... Legally.
But what really got me was the "make your own shoes".
Because... Asian Americans aren't the ones that make the shoes either. They, too, benefit from the exploited labor of underpaid Chinese workers. So we're BOTH the ones dependent upon someone else's labor!
It was just a really antiblack racist rant 😅 and it's not the first time I've seen or even interacted with a really racist Asian but Jesus... The open vitriol 😅 like why are you that mad
A banshee has been occupying Frans' townhouse(they're a line cook, they sleep at the job). And because everyone else is on their day's off and desperate for something to do they decide having a sleepover at their place is a good use of time(for varying reasons).
Fran's foaming at the mouth, wants everyone to focus on getting the spirit out of their house(and none of their "guests" took their shoes off before coming in, they are livid.)
Ann just wants to poke around the house and get to know more about them, she's also hoping something happen so she can write something for another play.
Ashanti didn't want to left out(again), so even with coming in here going against his own spiritual beliefs he's praying nothing is gonna happen(god did not listen).
Bianca is just keeping an eye on Precious, he doesn't want anything happening that would stop her from performing on stage(him and the five other people who watch those cringe plays).
Tori, shaking in her baby boots is laser focused on forcing a bond with Precious. She doesn't believe in ghost but is convinced someone has just been living in Frans' attic.
Meanwhile, Precious is absolutely locked in. She'll believe in anything mythical and magical. She is NOT leaving that house, until, she has solid proof.
Also that banshee has folded for Bianca under zero pressure.
Based on something silly I wrote a bit ago.
maybe a more heavier question but how do you deal with it all? as a Black artist who's been in fandom spaces for a good chunk of my teenage years its been so exhausting to have constant reminders that I'm in the minority and I am not welcome. I've been pulling out of these spaces more to focus on my own projects, but it still weighs heavily on my heart. Will we always live in a world that doesn't care about us?
My tired answer:
I picture myself as a person covered in an endless amount of battle scars 😅 it is not easy. I am quite jaded, which helps, but at sacrifice. I'm tired too 🫂 it helps to know who I am and my own self value, and that it's not determined by anyone else other than me.
My hopeful answer:
I've moved my goalpost in terms of how I fight my battles. My goal is no longer convincing people, my goal is speaking up. My goal is letting it be known that SOMEBODY said SOMETHING. That people don't have the excuse of ignorance. To me, that means I got a 100% success rate 🤣
But also, I refuse to let these people take my dignity and my pride from me. Point blank. They can't have everything! How much more can they take 😭 Having hope means being vulnerable. Vulnerability hurts, but I refuse to not have hope because they can't have that.
I don't know if we'll ever live in a world that cares about us. I know that I'm not willing to leave this life without having done SOMETHING to move towards that, though! You're carrying the long held, powerful legacy of centuries of Black people and their struggle behind you. Just because you might not ever see the end, doesn't mean the end isn't worth fighting for. You gotta be willing to accept that. That's not a bad thing!
The answer stated much cooler than I did:
Y'all wanna know a trick? A trick as to how you can better understand the mentality of someone who is antiblack (particularly white, but tbh it works on anyone who really buys into antiblackness), if not make them do an Ace Attorney Blow Up? 👀
(Tl:Dr- have a spine and hold the line 👍🏾)
I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:
They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.
Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).
So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!
That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.
And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)
Personally, I wanna live in the world where it's normal to boo racists, not coddle them. But that starts with being willing to push back against the normal we're in.
Apologies if this is off topic, but I'm finding it really frustrating how posts like this only go around in response to discussions around racism in regards to these creators. Like I don't know much at all about gooseworx, but I know Toby Fox was very lightly criticized for not having an official spanish translation after 10 years of undertale being out and relying on fans to translate it for him (in the form of fan translations) and the utter disregard that shows for fans that speak spanish
How are we even supposed to have discussions around racism in fandom if it just gets dismissed out of hand to preserve the comfort people have with the material they're fans of.
I'm not sure how to even approach things like this. I don't support dogpiling obviously but people criticize indie creators because they like them and want them to improve and to have conversations about race in fandom. How is that lolcow behavior???
We have had this conversation numerous times by now. You can't force people who want willfully overlook (and contribute to) racism to be reasonable. Just remind yourself that there is no Not Talking About It. That's just tolerating bigotry for the sake of comfort, like you said. It's the Book or the Brick, my friend!
The situation: confront said person and tell them that their behavior is racist, and they-
Book: -make the choice to acknowledge the situation and learn to do better. It's hard, they're upset, but they recognize they have to learn to do better. This person has accepted the book (knowledge and antiracism!)
Brick: -decide to blow up and make excuses and 'theyre not racist' and everyone in the world is blaming them and deflect and blah blah blah... And get hurt when people treat them like the bigot they have chosen to be. This person has chosen the brick (public derision + more!)
These people have chosen the brick, to me. 🤷🏾♀️ If they want to defend themselves with "it's lolcow behavior you're chasing people away", let them say that... While you treat them like the bigot they are. Maybe if you think racism is funny, you SHOULDN'T be a creator. 🤷🏾♀️ I thought we kicked Nazis out of bars.
But that's me. I'm just over being told shitty cartoons are somehow culturally important enough to sacrifice my people's dignity.
with the fact that the uk race riots are happening in belfast too perhaps white usamericans/canadians can stop pretending that being irish or having irish ancestry inherently makes someone progressive or anti racist lol idk why they became convinced of this but it does my head in
It's wild to me how this is perfectly applicable to today and this was written in 2024. Which means y'all didn't listen the first time because it kept happening 😭 second times the charm? Abeg? For people's lives?
Caine is 100% evil based on the info we have about him and his behaviour. But Goose and his VA and the show want to believe Caine is just a misunderstood baby. This dude:
Had their brain scans all along.
Made them bodies that mock their issues irl.
Lied about a lot of things.
Is probably the reason abstractions happen (Scratch the fist abstraction line from Kinger). Meaning he tried to mindbreak Scratch to fit his wishes.
After 20+ years with humans somehow “doesn't understand them”. He doesn't understand them but knows how to hurt them and mock their issues very well.
Named himself after the first human mortal sinner from the Bible. The fact that he named the puppet in ep 7 Abel means Caine is indeed aware of Cain and Abel. Which also means Caine is aware that he “killed” his brother, the other AI. I know Caine stands for something else, but this show is badly written and that info is on Goose's social media so it doesn't count. His name being a reference to the Bible is a meta thing that doesn't make any sense in canon and if you take this seriously then indeed Caine is aware of his actions, has killed his brother, and is a bad person but doesn't care and plays dumb. Acts like a silly willy, refusing to change anything for 20 years.
Says he wants humans to like him, yet spends all his time with Bubble instead of actually communicating with humans. Meaning he wants others to do the job while he just gets praise.
Despite there being several adventures that the characters like, Caine doesn't seem to care even though his main motive is supposedly to be valued for his adventures. Ragatha says adventures are good for humans and keep them stimulated, Jax enjoys the adventures because he can do whatever he wants during them. But for some reason Caine, “I just want people to like my adventures,” doesn't give a damn about this. Once again it's because this show and Caine's character are written badly.
In ep 8 he tortures everyone after getting a cringe personality switch. Plus in this episode Caine sings his song in which he's pretty clear about his bad actions while simultaneously torturing the characters more.
"Seems our regime has plummeting south"
"So just play the games and ignore the pains"
"Not enthused just feeling used? What a goddamn shame"
Blames innocent people for his misery.
I should also include him keeping the blue AI hostage for 20+ years just so he can achieve his goals.
Butttttt at the end he just removes the blue AI (it's not a person for some reason even though blue and red are equal in their development as we see in the first scene in episode 8), sends it to fly in the void, and comes back with a therapyspeak monologue and everyone accepts him.
Another thing that's interesting is how blue AI is his victim and it's shown as an object. This is not the first time in this show that the abuser gets sympathy and the creator wastes all time on their "development" while their victims are getting jackshit. Of course nobody hates Caine! Blue AI is just an orb it can't say anything! Good thing it's just a thing isn't it?
Yes Caine, it's good to have you back, says Zooble. Yes, this dude is redeemable! Oh the abstractions? The fact that nothing about them is resolved? They are still stuck as shallow husks of themselves after a severe mental breakdown? Everything Caine did throughout his existence? Um, who cares, he's chill now🫶 What a redemption arc. He just didn't know how to understand humans, guys😢 Good thing he randomly got WiFi and looked at their social media so he gets it now for some reason.
All of these are the consequences of Caine getting that personality switch in ep 8 just so he can have his Temu AM moment. He was such a cool reverse AM AI character who was driven by his love for humans, but then in ep 8 he just becomes evil and it's revealed he had their brain scans. He's a malicious person. But then they still redeem him. It's not even a redemption; he can't fix everything he's done, he just goes "my bad blue AI I let you go after controlling you for 20+ years! sorry guys I won't be like this again". We are supposed to think he's one of the friends now. He's having fun with them at the end too. Bruh
They are married your honor.
"I need to fall in love so I can finally write for my couple ocs oh my god the lore is in danger if I don't figure out love! MY OCS ARE IN DANGER!"
