🌩the.6th.Raikage🌩

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[urie]

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

no

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

[celestialbodyshaming]

One of the girls from the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is now on a YouTube commercial for GEICO and I feel like the only person in human history other than her that knows that



[skinoutqueen]

Anti-blackness is global in a way that I’m getting to the point where I’m okay not travelling to a single country. It’s always “everywhere is racist, don’t let that stop you from seeing the world” okay sure. But what the fuck do I look like going somewhere, where if I was on fire the people there would throw bananas at me instead of pouring water on me.

Black people are expected to take the high road every single time. Even in our own predominantly black countries, tourists will have the nerve to be upset that you’re black IN YOUR OWN BLACK ASS COUNTRY.

What the HELL do I look like giving my hard earned money to motherfuckers who want me dead, for no reason, other than that I was born black and I’m happy to DIE black.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[celestialbodyshaming]

white ppl are so annoying lmao

[creatingblackcharacters]

Now, a question for my Black followers ONLY:

The rest of you can (and really ought to!) reblog, but it's not your turn to talk. Just listen and reflect!

What DOES a good apology for antiblackness look like, to you?

Not a shitty twitter apology that dodges accountability. Not a genuine apology made to white fans to soothe their embarrassment and egos and maintain white solidarity.

What does an ACTUAL apology for antiblackness consist of, to you?

What actions do you need to see from people who claim to be better, to deserve your support despite a history of being unsafe?

Why do you think nonblack people feel they're entitled to grace, and what would actually EARN them your grace? What makes you not want to offer it at all?

I think there's a disconnect between what the group being harmed needs, and what people think the group being harmed should settle for. We've been forced to know the latter. How do Y'ALL feel?

[xeebop]

And if I said I feel like there’s no such thing as a genuine apology for antiblackness-

[celestialbodyshaming]

you would be correct. they benefit from immunization one way or another either directly or indirectly. They can’t be sorry. It’s kind of like cheating. You could be sorry for how it makes you look. you can be sorry for the consequences it has on your life (if any!)…. But you’re not sorry for the nut you got off. 

[ruesdeluxe]

[littleguysdaily]

[sincerelysoft]

theres a blue light in the kitchen it feels a little eerie at night

[b0tster]

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

[celestialbodyshaming]

Damn. the woman that played Dawn, the man that played Xander and now the man that played Giles?

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

posting about being a "sensitive white boy" in 2026 just makes you sound like this

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

[demaparbat-hp]

Handprint

[bunnycuriosity]

[fluoresensitives]

(smoking a cigarette) the average american is afraid of what is new and what is foreign, and especially of what is adult. they are trapped forever in daycares of their own design, reading books and watching shows made for children. And while there are interesting things made for children, by and large, they tend to stick to inoffensive, intensely juvenile things that won't challenge them much. And worst of all, if you suggest to your Average American that they should try to step outside of their narrow box, especially if they're trying to become artists, animators, film makers, novelists, etc, everyone acts as if you've just bombed the daycare. Wow.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Another example of this is when Black people aren’t sorry. This is one of my favorite and most commonly used tactics against racists and racism- and it always works. I’ve stopped apologizing for respecting myself, for pointing out when I’ve been mistreated and standing on that, for demanding that I’m the one who deserves respect.

You would not believe how angry that makes a lot of people! If a Black person is not willing to be demeaned or is nonplussed, it throws off the equilibrium. Socially we’ve taught Black people to lower their heads and be non-intimidating for the sake of maintaining order- not peace, order. But at this point, if you’re already intimidated or insulted due to my Blackness, then there’s no point in lowering myself any further!

Lesson 18: “The Advantages of Being Quiet”- The Policing of Black Emotions

Is now up on the CBC Website for off-Tumblr reading! Check it out to see this quote in context and more!

[creatingblackcharacters]

I have grown to realize a lot of you severely underestimate just how much antiblackness we have to swallow for the sake of our personal peace and our livelihoods. I'm not saying that to be mean or to make you go into a guilt spiral- that would be a useless reaction anyway- but I do want you to consider it. That what you believe to be peace is not just because it "is".

"Well if it was important why didn't anyone say it sooner?" "if it was important, why didn't they say it was racist?" peer, a good 75-80% of what I might say to the white and/or nonblack people that offend me directly goes swallowed for the sake of my paychecks and running water, or God forbid to avoid a bullet. Or if I'm online (where that number shrinks significantly), to be left the fuck alone 🤣

Y'all are very used to not having to hear that feedback bc we've been forcibly socialized into accepting that you won't take it well and often have the power to make it not worth our while to speak. Retaliation is common. That's why it's perturbing to folks when Black people DO speak up. Interrupts the status quo 😅

[creatingblackcharacters]

COMFORT & FEAR OF CONFLICT

This page explores our cultural assumption  that I or we (or the ones in formal and informal power) have a right to comfort, which means we