Drifting

Slowly into the sun

[househatke]

[househatke]

maybe the best comic i ever made. i should have quit after this one.

[importantcatpics]

[importantcatpics]

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

love how tumblr staff has time to censor words like “paint mixing” and “my face” and yet they can’t get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017

[ssexsophie8127]

fuck you

[ssexsophie8127]

i won

[aidashakur]

never forget that you are someone’s most legendary fumble

[yamcha]

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 23 July 1967, one of the biggest rebellions in US history occurred in Detroit, following a police raid on a bar in a poor, majority Black area in the early hours of the morning. Black and white residents fought police in the streets and looted goods while snipers took potshots at officers from windows. Police, National Guard and US troops retaliated with outright brutality and intense violence. By the time it was over, more than 40 people were dead, 7,000 arrested and over 2,000 buildings destroyed. General Baker, a Black auto worker at the Dodge Main assembly plant in Hamtramck said that he and his colleagues "learnt from the Detroit Rebellion… When the Detroit Rebellion took place, and the National Guard and 101st Airborne was sent in, and they imposed curfew, if you got sick, you couldn’t go to the doctor. If you got hungry, you couldn’t get no food. But if you had a badge from Chrysler, Ford or General Motors, you could get to the police line, the National Guard line, the army line, all of them to take your butt to work. The conclusion we draw from that was that the only place in this society that Black people had any value was at a point of production. That’s why after the rebellion, we turned all our efforts into organising inside the plants." The following year, Baker and others formed the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), part of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Learn more about the group in episodes 61-62 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

[nixcraft]

[beesmygod]

also at the end when they ask you "any questions?" and you can't think of anything: ask about parking. even if you don't have a car.

[madelinelime]

ASK WHAT THE 30 60 90 DAY PLAN IS. It's asking about training and they always love it

[wishingforatypewriter]

Also, if you're being interviewed by a panel, have an out-of-industry friend stalk the panelists' LinkedIn profiles and find out what you have in common with them. Casually bring up areas of similarity (career, background, etc.) during the "tell me about yourself" question. It will make them see you as a "strong culture fit" (whatever that actually means 🙄).

[checkyourasianbias]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Shit, the way things are going, racial slurs, racist jokes, and the N word have become socially acceptable too. The bar, already in hell, has gone lower and still!

[creatingblackcharacters]

White Fear has always been funny (ironic) to me. It's like, imagine a white person walking in the room, perpetually paranoid of everyone of Color around them, of being The Murderer because "look how strange they're all acting around me, they must be suspicious. And yet, THEY'RE the one covered in blood and holding the knife, the body count number floating over their head.

Like, Buddy, yeah we're acting weird, YOU'RE the one that WE gotta be worried about 😭. I'm scared of YOU.

[creatingblackcharacters]

To use a US specific example, it's like how there's so much fearmongering of being victims of Black and Latino men with guns and gun violence, a violence that white people usually don't even experience because they're not even in the same spaces.

But the demographic most likely to be a domestic terrorist, the mass shooters, the ones that find diverse places and murder people... Are white men. When I go to the store, to church, to work, to the movies, to school, the odds that the person who will walk in and decide to Let Fly is a white man! That's something we have to keep in our minds every day!

But somehow this has not made everyone that "matters" (I.e., other white people) deathly afraid of white men, despite actually, statistically fitting the mold, in comparison to the heightened stereotype of Black and Latino men being gun wielding thugs. Goes to show the power and projection of white supremacy.

[neshatriumphs]

On principle, if I am in a space and I see a white man with a backpack, I go to another space.

[leikeliscomet]

Sinners is a great commentary on what it's like to be Black on tumblr but instead of playing banjo the Remmicks give you a speech on how they cant be racist bc they're queer and reblog 'POCs' and accuse you of bullying right before you shut the door.

[twixnmix]

Eartha Kitt during a fitting with Zelda Wynn Valdes in New York City in 1952. Zelda Wynn Valdes is the creator of the original Playboy Bunny costume. In 1948, she opened “Zelda Wynn,” her design and dressmaking studio   was the first black-owned business on Broadway.

Photos by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine

[antidisneyinc]

white tvl fans are like why are you watching the spooky gothic monster show and expecting NOT to hear severe racial slurs? don't you get it, these are FUN racial slurs. you didn't have a problem in seasons one and two where the black characters fought back. why don't you like their heads mounted on spikes as they apologize to their lynchers? 🙄 louis got called a BOY in season one, but getting called a nappy headed slave is too far suddenlyyy? 🙄🙄 I guess you're not a real fan of gothic horror. you loved a black girl when she killed whites in the jim crow south, and now that she's burning alone in hell forever it's too much, wowwwww 🙄🙄🙄 this is the problematic character show and you're attacking every character for punching down on marginalized groups now that it's those groups' turn to get punched down on 🙄🙄🙄🙄 stop mentioning the current u.s. president it's unrelated. you can't accept that the black lead is a selfish lying pimp and the brown lead is an evil smelly gremlin and the white lead has come to spill truth as the real main character 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 they hated jesus for the truth too

[murfpersonalblog]

"stop mentioning the current u.s. president it's unrelated."

"stop mentioning the current u.s. president it's unrelated." 🤡

The Vampire Lestat – Plastic Fiends

[Verse 1] / Congratulations 'M-M-Merica / You really Babe Ruthed it this time / Oh, straight up vampin' is so easy now / I can't tell if any

"stop mentioning the current u.s. president it's unrelated."

This so-called media literate Gothikkk literature fandom, ladies & gentlemen. 🤡

[tendeadrabbits]

i still cannot believe the writers let lestat off that easy wrt to claudia… he participated in her lynching and helped turn it into a spectacle for a majority white audience to watch his black daughter burn to death and chose to let her die 100% of his own volition after being an abusive parent to her for decades and claims to feel oh-so bad about it in s2ep8 but i’m not seeing that at all in s3… claudia doesn’t seem to haunt lestat at all until we get to the episode with ‘stained glass eyes’ which as a story beat is wildly unearned considering we haven’t seen him grieve her or confront his role in her death at all in s3. and her and louis’ hallucinations are silent which rubs me the wrong way but claudia’s especially like there’s no way she would be tenderly pressing her head to the glass like that… so many ppl are claiming it was character assassination for LOUIS to portray claudia like that in s1 and s2 actually! and it’s like wtf are you people talking about… louis doesn’t see her 100% clearly but the narrative never lets him forget that and it certainly doesn’t allow him to fabricate a more palatable version of her to comfort himself thru his grief, because when he tries at the end of s1 (saying claudia just couldn’t burn lestat) DANIEL AND THE AUDIENCE SEE THRU THE BULLSHIT. we know this is what louis wants to believe happened to make himself feel better but ultimately his arc is about confronting his past and making peace with his immortality so he isn’t allowed to stay within that delusion. lestat on the other hand is allowed to be as delusional as he pleases. there is nothing and no one forcing him to get his story straight so he gets to portray claudia as demure and quiet as she presses her forehead to the other side of the studio glass.. lestat gets to tell us she is openly hostile to louis at the seance and calls him a “nappy headed slave” that she hates more than her rapist but says that lestat was always her favorite because “that’s her blood that’s her maker,” going so far as to almost praise his lynching of her, saying she would’ve done the same herself… all of this is coming from lestat completely unverified there is absolutely no outside perspective and yet some of yall are telling me this is “the real claudia”??? i knew that people would treat lestat’s perspective as inherently more reliable than louis’ because they’re racist but at this point it literally feels like the writers didn’t bother having daniel or any other narrative device there to unpack lestats skewed perspective because they don’t think it’s skewed or in need of unpacking… they treated louis’ perspective as unreliable and in need of interrogation and dissection because to them louis is just a lying pimp liar who lies but lestat who LYNCHED THEIR DAUGHTER is allowed to tell himself this story about secretly having been her favorite the whole time… like what exactly is lestat’s character arc? louis has to realize much of what he believed about his past wasn’t accurate and he played a larger role in claudia’s suffering than he would’ve liked to believe in s1/s2 (ofc has to realize armand has been lying for close to 80 yrs and lestat saved him at the trial but that’s realizations about other people) but what does lestat realize in s3? that his evil bitch mother is the problem and that louis will always believe he needs to repent and thus will always come crawling back to lestat? that he can do whatever he wants to louis and it’ll be the love he “deserves”? that claudia is proud of him lynching her and proud of being his blood? why is louis’ character arc about facing his mistakes and “humbling himself” after the loss of a child and going thru two different decades long abusive marriages, while lestat’s character arc after abusing his black husband and daughter and LYNCHING THEIR BLACK DAUGHTER (I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH) and showing no contrition and taking no accountability for it is about “self love and forgiveness”???

^^^ this is what the white show runner thinks about these characters and the end of their arcs this season btw. lestat needs self love and forgiveness and louis needs to stop playing the victim card… here’s the full interview if you wanna read but every new thing that comes out of rolin jones’ mouth is worse than the last

‘The Vampire Lestat’ Finale Explained: Rolin Jones on That ‘Queen of the Damned’ Tease, Armand’s Endgame and Paul's Return

The Vampire Lestat cast and creator Rolin Jones unpack that finale, from Lestat and Paul's reunion to that Queen of the Damned tease.

[murfpersonalblog]

claudia doesn’t seem to haunt lestat at all until we get to the episode with ‘stained glass eyes’ which as a story beat is wildly unearned considering we haven’t seen him grieve her or confront his role in her death at all in s3.

WILDLY UNEARNED OMG

and her and louis’ hallucinations are silent which rubs me the wrong way

mighty convenient that the 2 ghosts with the most grievances against lestat ave EFF ALL to say to him, yup!

but claudia’s especially like there’s no way she would be tenderly pressing her head to the glass like that… so he gets to portray claudia as demure and quiet as she presses her forehead to the other side of the studio glass..

FACTS--Delainey even said it was sus! 👀

so many ppl are claiming it was character assassination for LOUIS to portray claudia like that in s1 and s2 actually! and it’s like wtf are you people talking about… louis doesn’t see her 100% clearly but the narrative never lets him forget that and it certainly doesn’t allow him to fabricate a more palatable version of her to comfort himself thru his grief, because when he tries at the end of s1 (saying claudia just couldn’t burn lestat) DANIEL AND THE AUDIENCE SEE THRU THE BULLSHIT. we know this is what louis wants to believe happened to make himself feel better but ultimately his arc is about confronting his past and making peace with his immortality so he isn’t allowed to stay within that delusion.

SAY IT LOUDER! 👏😤

lestat on the other hand is allowed to be as delusional as he pleases. there is nothing and no one forcing him to get his story straight... all of this is coming from lestat completely unverified there is absolutely no outside perspective and yet some of yall are telling me this is “the real claudia”??? i knew that people would treat lestat’s perspective as inherently more reliable than louis’ because they’re racist but at this point it literally feels like the writers didn’t bother having daniel or any other narrative device there to unpack lestats skewed perspective because they don’t think it’s skewed or in need of unpacking…

truly the worst narrative flaw in the whole season was amc nerfing daniel. 🤦‍♂️

lestat gets to tell us she is openly hostile to louis at the seance and calls him a “nappy headed slave” that she hates more than her rapist

that's when i completely checked out and realized oh yeah, this some bullcrap; there's no way in hell that anyone could go through everything that claudia went through with bruce and the coven that killed her and honestly hate anyone more than them, like bffr 🙄

"b-b-but it's book accurate~!" STFU, cuz bruce raping her isn't book canon at all, and book!claudia never joined the theatre or played baby lulu; so that whole argument is null & void

going so far as to almost praise his lynching of her, saying she would’ve done the same herself…

insanely tone deaf--but amc was the racist cowards who refused to acknowledge or call it a lynching anyway--JACOB had to be the one to come out and confirm that it was a lynching!

lestat’s character arc after abusing his black husband and daughter and LYNCHING THEIR BLACK DAUGHTER (I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH) and showing no contrition and taking no accountability for it is about “self love and forgiveness”???

sheer & utterly kkklownery in amc's writers' room, exactly

[coldhandscouldholdme]

Chlöe Bailey via Instagram 💙

[alnitaks]

juliaedwardsmakeup

[nyokoko]

People get so bothered when you don't ascribe to being self-deprecating and it's so interesting to see, especially as a Black woman.

Why would I talk down on myself or my hobbies and skills? What purpose does that serve other than to demean and debase myself in front of others in hopes of garnering some kind of affectionate and coddling response?

And it's not like it would work since no one ever gives Black women the space, grace, and time to be anything but perfect and poised and never allowed to be messy, angry, or make mistakes.

So I choose to own and celebrate and revel in my talents, my achievements, my looks, and everything about me. I dip my head and lower my eyes for no one.