ten million fireflies

BFA. Super Intern. Multi-fandom. Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist.

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American education

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riri

[kny111]

White Gaze did Miles Morales & Blackness Wrong

I’m typing this up all anxious so excuse the typos. Did yall see the recent issue of Miles Morales/ Afro-latinx spiderman being written by Michael Bendis? I have high hopes for characters like Miles but not when it’s written under white liberal bias view of blackness. In Spider-Man #2, the writer Michael Bendis gets the chance to insert Miles point of view on how he’s seen as the “Black Latino Spiderman” and drops the ball entirely. Peep:

I honestly don’t care about the Bendis fan appreciation that throws on they “I dont see a problem” goggles when he fucks up like this because this is a touchy sensitive subject for Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx folk who are constantly being erased in stories. What ever your personal views on the guy or his intent, forget it, his delivery of Blackness under white gaze failed Miles Morales badly and you can’t convince me otherwise unless he undoes this fuckshit in later issues that address the topic more maturely and further away from whiteness. Like I went into a heated discussion with my non black latino friend who was urging that because some non identifying Black, Latinx, Afro-Latinx folk exist (and I know they do trust me I come from a family of them) that should give Bendis enough reason to represent THAT type of Blackness to the world.

BULLSHIT!

You can’t just give these white writers a pass just because you feel represented and like the space is welcome to you. Oh! they at least got Miles reppin his Latinx side tho!

Interesting so Bendis has him openly identifying as ‘Hispanic’ no problem (even though younger ‘Hispanics’ mostly identify as Latinx - not that other reagan ass moniker) while getting all weirded out that someone is praising him for not being another white super hero. He [Bendis] clearly made the youtuber/fangirl of this fact seem like an annoyance, like her point of view is too much for Miles (in reality Bendis though cause he writting him..). I don’t give a fuck, that fangirl is all of us Afro-Latinx, Black, Latinx folks who were jumping at the fact that they encompassed a bit of all of us in the new Spiderman. She had every right to be excited of seeing a Spiderman that was Brown/Black, that’s a real world reaction of today! That was sadly minimized to a supposedly annoying caricature of fans. It’s unfair to those of us who have been clamoring to be represented. Most fucking government applications wont even acknowledge we exist, give us a damn break! It’s a slap in the face to those of us who already deal with that Miles Morales set up where you weren’t excited about being Black.

You coulda tactfully used those pages to incite excitement in other little Black babies and grown folk in general about being Black but nah you chose that white liberal garbage “Why does it matter?! Blackness should be nonexistent in anything ever cause make me uncomfortable when it are not about me!!”. It’s so aggravating. Marvel needa stop letting white people write Black characters if they’re gonna make us into the people they wanna see rather than who we actually wanna be. Like it’s so easy to be far removed from this issue and read right past it but it’s like how many times are you gonna allow yourself to be erased cause it makes a white person more comfortable to box Blackness into simplicity? I’m so tired of this and I’m more tired at the fans who jump at us for trying to talk about this. Give Miles Morales his Blackness back.

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agentfelicitysmoak:

Superheroes subtly describing their powers

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[whywidow]

She wants to dance like uma thurman

[parksandwreckedsahn-deactivated]

why is this in the exact same beat i hate it

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HELP IT’S ON MY DASH AGAIN I’M

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To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. The Jaeger program was born.

[yepperoni]

we should all stop participating in april fools day and start celebrating inuyasha’s birthday

[yepperoni]

just a reminder april fools day is canceled this year and we’re celebrating inuyasha’s birthday instead

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[honeynut-feeelios]

See you on the ice rebel scum

[cloudfreed]

why isn’t his stick double sided

[motherfuckinghaunter-blog]

It’s got 130,000+ notes. No one has shopped it to have a double bladed hockey stick yet? I find your lack of faith disturbing.

[professionalcat]

1 minute in photoshop. Took longer to remember my imgur password than to edit it.

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reblogging for the second picture

[randomstillinski]

There’s never going to be another scene between Reid and Morgan 

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[jovan]

me logging off after I cause drama

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God

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[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet G Yamazawa nails what it’s like to grow up in the U.S. as the child of immigrants.

[yourbigsisnissi]

you gotta get to that point where a man who disrespects you becomes unattractive. that you become disgusted by a man who doesn’t treat you like you deserve to be treated. where it’s such a turn off to be with a man like that that no matter how you felt before, you know it’s time to get up and go. it’s a part of working on your self esteem, even when you’re not single

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Thomas Sanders has the best vines tbh. 

[thatsthat24]

This is one of my favorite vines I’ve ever made because, whereas a lot of viners rely on racist stereotypes to make jokes, I LOVE breaking those stereotypes, providing humor but also showing how absolutely freaking awesome anyone can be.