Drifting

Slowly into the sun

[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.

[pangur-and-grim]

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

[pangur-and-grim]

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[ypsilon42]

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but here it goes anyways. A lot of you are making up people to be mad at.

Let's take sinners for example. There is a white guy with like 2 lines exclusively about hating minorities in this movie. His name is not Ray, it's Bert (I had to look that up on imdb), he is the kkk-vampire and not a single person on earth is writing self-insert fic about this guy. They are writing self-insert fic about the central antagonist, who is also a vampire. Girls like villains, what else is new.

And sure, maybe I am being to literal here, but yelling at people that they are liking a thing in the wrong way is just the fastest way to kill a fandom. The underlying things this post is pointing at are real and they do exist. Societal beauty standards center white people, a lot of (white) people have are harder time sympathising with people of color. But those things are not fandom problems. They are just general problems of living in white supremacist society and they show up in all facets of or society including fandom. But you are not gonna fix them by telling people they are somehow bad for liking the sexy vampire.

I really liked Sinners. But if I look at the top text posts for example 4 out of 10 are wank about how people are problematic or racist for the way they like the movie. And to be completely honest, I think that this atmosphere is also a huge factor in why Sinners fandom is not a big as it could be. Which is really fucking sad.

[blackfilmmakers]

Pick your poision

[dragonfruityyy]

Aint no way you’re sexualizing the narrative personification of gentrification

in a movie where Black people fight to exist and exist unaltered by white oppression through celebration of their culture and their ancestors’ culture

And by virtue of the “join or die” mentality of White American culture, that conveniently only ever allows cultures (like the Irish!) white enough to conform if they leave their history behind, Black folks like those at the juke joint are dubbed “sinners” (as per Christianity) for failing to do what the white folks AND Remmick want? Take the black folk out the material?

And doing so on a website that famously bullies its Black users into silence yet uses our slang, our music, our politics, our humor, our fashion, our innovation, our art?

(The way i can’t even find this line in tumblr’s GIFs? after scrolling through Remmick after Remmick i cant find one of the most important lines in the film? Fuck you!)

[dragonfruityyy]

i think we still have a 24 hour window to connect the tumblr sexyman finals to the death of a world leader so if anyone wants to step up that would be nice

[dragonfruityyy]

bringing this back

[likemonalisa]

Megan Thee Stallion, Entrepreneur Magazine, 2026

[grimmghosts]

every business owner at my local city council meetings ever like

[creatingblackcharacters]

In 2D art I like to show how darker skin tones seem to reflect more light in a scene/show the colors of lighting more than lighter skin tones do. This is pretty easy to do when blending colors. But I was wondering how this same effect can be achieved with 3D character modelling? I'm trying to learn low-poly modelling for gamedev and I've tried messing with various properties like specularity, roughness, and metallic, but the materials always just end up looking wet or something to me. I remember in an answer to an earlier ask you said you're not familiar with 3D modeling techniques but I'm super curious if any of your artist followers have tips!

There's a person on here who posts their 3D modeling of their Black fantasy character with white locs and it's killing me because I wanna direct you to them but I can NOT remember their blog name. Y'all know who I'm talking about! We gotta find em and tag em!

[the-return-of-yagamimi]

So the aforementioned blog is @yagamimi-string, but I think my other character Vita will be a better example of how I portray lighting on darker skin, keeping in mind that I'm going for a retro style - it's not perfect but it gets the point across. Though, this style is specific to the version of Blender I use (2.79) and I wouldn't know how to replicate it in anything else, but hopefully this helps anyway

(Had to upload it to YouTube because Tumblr is stupid about videos)

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[ypsilon42]

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but here it goes anyways. A lot of you are making up people to be mad at.

Let's take sinners for example. There is a white guy with like 2 lines exclusively about hating minorities in this movie. His name is not Ray, it's Bert (I had to look that up on imdb), he is the kkk-vampire and not a single person on earth is writing self-insert fic about this guy. They are writing self-insert fic about the central antagonist, who is also a vampire. Girls like villains, what else is new.

And sure, maybe I am being to literal here, but yelling at people that they are liking a thing in the wrong way is just the fastest way to kill a fandom. The underlying things this post is pointing at are real and they do exist. Societal beauty standards center white people, a lot of (white) people have are harder time sympathising with people of color. But those things are not fandom problems. They are just general problems of living in white supremacist society and they show up in all facets of or society including fandom. But you are not gonna fix them by telling people they are somehow bad for liking the sexy vampire.

I really liked Sinners. But if I look at the top text posts for example 4 out of 10 are wank about how people are problematic or racist for the way they like the movie. And to be completely honest, I think that this atmosphere is also a huge factor in why Sinners fandom is not a big as it could be. Which is really fucking sad.

[the-quasar-hero]

Where am I yelling about “ppl liking things the wrong way”?

Am I “making up a guy to be mad at” if by your own admission you are a fan of a character that fits the hypothetical scenario that I described in the original post? That you brought up, because I didn’t bring up Sinners (2025).

You admit that societal beauty standards favor white people (an odd thing to bring up), and in turn white people have a harder time sympathizing with people of color (a poor excuse for racism), and yet you think this doesn’t factor into fandom? You think white ppl, from the society that you acknowledge has racist biases, will somehow leave those same prejudices when engaging in fandom? You think that the “real world” is a completely separate vacuum from the art that leads to fandom?

“Girls like villains” a very strange, pointedly projective, and dismissive of the main point of the post: racism. You think women of color like racist villains? Or is it just white women? Because that’s what we’re talking about here: racist characters, specifically. With this line of thinking, you put forth that either the women in a fandom, Sinners (2025) by your example, a predominantly Black led piece of media which centers Black women as they’re integral to the story, should categorically like the “sexy vampire” despite the fact that he’s terrorizing Black people throughout the movie just because he’s the villain. Or you put forth that there are no women of color in the Sinners fandom, which would be an odd thing to think given the previous points.

You think that pointing out racism is “killing a fandom” as it brings up things you don’t want to think about, as is described by the original post, that hyperfixating on a racist white character in a piece of media is a reoccurring thing, and that when a Black person (me) or any other person of color points that out; you feel attacked which is clear from your long block of text you’ve added. You need to think about why you feel the need to go on the defensive for a fictional character that represents assimilation and entitlement to Black bodies (a fairly obvious reading of Remmick) and why it’s okay to like him above the rest of the Black cast.

[creatingblackcharacters]

In summary:

[meanmisscharles]

BREAKING NEWS FROM YPSILON42 AND THEIR GENERIC BLOG:

"Fandom for Black media would be bigger if you just let white and Non-Black fans shit all over it and you!"

We're standing by for anything else they felt we were worried about them thinking.