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duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber
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the strange greeting is really adorable so i tried to recreate it in pixels
The Three Tomes Kickstarter is Live. Check out the trailer and let's help tell the story of this black magical girl witch and vampire romance. Tammy Harris was just an ordinary 17 year old girl. Then one night while making a short horror film with her best friend Sia, she gains the powers of a witch from an ancient tome with spirits inside. Now she'll have to capture them and face off against a mysterious foe that sends its vampire minions after her and her friends. However...she'll have to try to not fall in love with two vampires along the way. Will Tammy and Sia’s friendship survive this supernatural summer, and will Tammy's romantic endeavors with two vampires be more than she can handle? A queer YA coming of story about a black magical girl with witch powers, and vampire romance awaits.
A queer YA coming-of-age story about a black teen witch girl in the 2010s, fighting monsters and falling in love with vampires.
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insecure meets bob's burgers. your new favorite couple.
A queer YA coming-of-age story about a black teen witch girl in the 2010s, fighting monsters and falling in love with vampires.
Check out @thethreetomes here on Tumblr and check out the pilot out now on Youtube. Support my brother Tariq's kickstarter and be on the look out for mine coming up in June for episode 2!
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please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future.
I know I've been talking about the fandom way too much, but genuinely it's stuff like this that makes it exhausting being black. A show made and voiced by people who've said disgustingly racist things in the past can be held to such a high acclaim and supported by people I looked up to even after all this stuff has been aired out, but heavens forbid a black woman *checks notes* not like cats?
Before somebody comes into the notes saying "erm, it's just a show, focus on real issues!" Tiny steps like this are what contributes to our current political climate. Media and fandom spaces like Arcane, Hazbin, and TADC normalize this type of behavior. Most racist people, especially queer racist people, don't think that they're racist. Their racism mainly shows in their prioritization of queerness over racism and other forms of bigotry. For example, people using Gooseworx's transness to defend her racist actions. Pushing the bar of "what's acceptable to be upset about" all the way to physical violence only makes it so that it's far easier to get to that point.
Also mildly off topic: while I don't view The Owl House and it's fandom anywhere near as bad the aforementioned shows, I still am critical of how black characters (Gus especially) are sidelined far more than their white counterparts in the series. Even non-explicit racism, like the "undateable" black character, or how often black characters in shows aren't allowed to be fleshed out nearly to the same degree as other characters, contributes to racism as a whole.
I wanted to speak a bit on the VA situation with TADC, and I guess about Glitch too. I have a lot of feelings and thoughts about this, so bear with me while I try to organize them. I was in the industry for a huge chunk of my adult life and like 5 years of my childhood--20 years total--at first as an online voice actor, and then mostly as a voice director and sometimes in casting, with a few personal or commercial projects in between as a writer or director. I have bounced around a number of creative roles. The traditional entertainment industry is structurally, incurably racist and misogynistic. I have first-hand experience with the personal compromises and sacrifices good people have had to make in the past to make a show within the traditional television system. I have been actively made fun of for refusing to tolerate the n word. I have been bullied out of groups. I have genuinely lost count of the amount of times someone has sat me down and said something to the effect of "I'm sorry, but you're making the people in [group full of creators] feel really uncomfortable with this. I pride myself on cultivating a comfortable space for creators and I don't agree with restricting the creativity of anyone here" because I objected to people saying whole ass slurs and making racist or misogynistic jokes. I fought this. I pushed for inclusive casting, advocated for the work-life balance of others (but never myself, lol), etc. You learn to put up with it in order to make the thing you want to make, and hope that the putting the thing out in the world does more good than compromising yourself felt bad. After a while, you do become a bit dead to it. In a way, I think the entertainment industry is incompatible with genuine growth. Not even (just) because the environment is toxic and you're rewarded for being an asshole, but because growth requires your brain to cycle out of being miserable and stressed, and you can't until you're between projects, but that's when you're not making money, so you're stressed about that instead. This is all a bit of a tangent, but what I mean to say is that this is a big part of why it seems like none of these people ever change at all. Personal growth is both discouraged and impossible. It's especially bad if you have deeply-embedded shame, because you feel bad about bad things and bad about good things and both of them are 10 times too strong and don't really feel different. It feels really reassuring and safe when your boss and coworkers are not limiting you, and are in fact encouraging you to stop feeling that shame. This is a trap that many fall into, and it can take many wasted years to realize that it won't actually solve your problems.
I'm out of entertainment now, and I don't really feel like I was able to make a difference, but I hoped someone would. I left when the online creator market was fairly young. When YouTube became a way that people could actually make money, I was really excited. The whole promise of all this was supposed to be that people could make things without having to make those kinds of compromises. That's why this kind of stuff disappoints me so much. Hearing how Glitch treats animators and other team members and what the internal culture is like is very much deja vu, and I find that a miserable waste. You created an entirely new system just to what, copy the old one exactly but with yourself at the top? That's pathetic.
While I'm here, I want to make something else very clear while I'm here as a natural consequence of what I said above: every non black voice actor says the n word for fun. it would be easier to list exceptions. It is critical that you do not interpret "non-black" as "white" in this context because it would be a mistake to think that brown voice actors do it even fractionally less. This is an issue embedded deep in the cultural foundations of voice over as an industry and creative field. I have met voice actors, plural, who say the n word at the beginning of every session as a way to break the initial tension in a booth and remove mental restrictions on the performance, so they say, because it's taboo. It's essential that they feel absolutely NO restriction on their performance, you see, and the n word taboo is the GREATEST restriction on casual speech in our society. Ridiculous. If you have to say slurs to get out of your own head, that's a flaw in your acting process and you need to get better at your job. But genuinely, that's how casual it is. So whenever I hear that SoAndSoVA said a slur somewhere, I'm not particularly surprised, and I'm not really sure what to do either. This is something that I've watched Black actors put up with. Reasons vary. It can be as simple as not wanting to negatively impact their career, or often genuinely not wanting to risk cutting off income for other marginalized actors "just" over this (because let's be honest, Black queers show up for White queers in a way that never really happens in reverse). Or sometimes they just seem to really think it's funny. I don't know how to show up for them, but I try to do the best that I can. I ask.
It just... persists. It all persists. No matter how many times things change hands, how many companies "revolutionize" indie, it's always the same. I'm so disappointed.
Damn, this is some real shit to come out and say, especially when so many people want to blatantly disregard the racism that persists in indie. We see it time and time again, and yet we’re supposed to act like we don’t see nothing.
Well you saw it from within, and I can see it clearly from the outside.
I’m under the impression that the standard of indie can and WILL change. It just has to, cus I got shit to do and I don’t have the time nor the will to pander to white bullshit. It’ll be a challenge for sure, but with new technology and new faces arriving on the scene every day, there’s an infinite possibility for growth and change.
But the fact is is that the industry itself needs to be overhauled, it just does. The foundation is rotten, and that’s why it continues to pander to so many bigoted individuals, because the space was built for them first. If we’re going to set a new standard, then we need a new space.
This sentiment can often times be intimidating and even discouraging to some, but it can still be performed. Prove your own brains wrong. To all the projects that you want to see be put out into the world, don’t wait for them to be picked up by larger studios that can swallow up their ideas and restrict their freedoms. Pour your energy into these creators DIRECTLY and watch them flourish.
Black indie animated projects that you should check out!
I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh
Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!
The Three Tomes - a vampire love story
DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings
Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism
Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates
The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series
I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway
Please reblog with any that I missed!
edit: check the comments for more recs as well!
when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language
I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..
“ ..we had to climb over the bob wire!”
“Dude, did you just say ‘bob wire’?”
“Yea man, that spiky shit!”
“You actually think it’s called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it’s called Robert wire?”
“Well what the hell do you think it’s called?”
“It’s BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!”
*the third guy* “Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED.”
“Oohhhhh!”
“Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys.”
I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.
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Honestly I find it cute how Zira is a moon and Miss is the earth and before Zira met Aika she'd always hover around Miss because Miss was her only friend at the time! I think its really cute ^_^
Back in high school, i had a teacher who I'd hang out with all the time. She taught english though! I'd hang out with her in the mornings, during breaks, and even after school, she was sooooo fun! Im in college now and were friends, which is so AWESOME!! So Miss and Zira's dynamic really reminds me of the one we had!
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so about the “isn’t she lovely” sequence, if there wasn’t such mistreatment of black characters and black fans, do you think it would still be appropriate for tadc to reinterpret the song’s meaning?
No.
The concept of trying to reinterpret the song's meaning is exactly what I have an issue with.
"Isn't She Lovely" is a Black song, made by a Black man for his Black daughter. It is a song about Black joy, about Black fatherhood and beautiful Black baby girls. It is about Black people. It is for Black people.
Yet again, the issue is not with gender, but it is about race. To take that song out of its original context and rehash it into something whiter is what I take the most offense to, it's completely disrespectful and it doesn't even pay homage to the original culture. It's a form of whitewashing that is incredibly sinister, because it often follows along the logic of "wanting everything to be for everybody".
But you can't possibly partake in other cultures if you do not understand those cultures first, if you don't take the time to listen and be generous. To them, the song is just a song. Like most facets of the show, they take these brilliant works and strip them down to scraps, then try to spin that into something brilliant by telling people to look at the "abstract" and what isn't there. Then people go and theorize and completely overwrite the original intention, they erase the meaning, and it's very painful to witness.
The mistreatment of Black people both in and outside of the show is WHY they used the song in the first place, certainly part of it. If they had respect for Black people then this wouldn't even be a conversation.
I hate how many YouTubers are framing what's happening with TADC as "fandom drama", and I hate how many people are framing people calling Gooseworx out on her past comments as "canceling her for no reason". Yes, it's sad that Goose lost motivation for a piece of art that once brought her joy. However, there's a difference between "canceling" someone and pointing out that she's said misogynistic and racist things. Misogyny and racism are not "fandom drama", and Black people are not being overdramatic for being upset with Gooseworx and Michael Kovach and Ashley Nichols. I don't know how to explain to people that yes, it IS racist to laugh about repeatedly almost saying the n-word as a white person.
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Episode 01: "I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl"Aika is excited to start her new, normal high school life. She even makes a new, normal frien
