[creatingblackcharacters]

Is it okay for nonblack people to casually say the n word?

Yes

No

No, but- (nuance)

Voting ended onMay 25

It seems we are not all on the same page about this, and I would genuinely like to know why. I thought the answer was obvious, but mayhaps we didn't all grow up with that understanding.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Is it difficult to not say the n-word as a nonblack person?

Yes

No

No, but- (nuance)

Voting ended onMay 25

Like is there a temptation? A benefit? A gain that one might receive by saying it while nonblack?

[creatingblackcharacters]

Final question!

Would you trust a nonblack person who casually says/said the n-word?

(Black users only!)- Yes

(Black users only!)- No

(Black users only!)- Depends

(Everyone else)- Yes

(Everyone else)- No

(Everyone else)- Depends

Voting ended onMay 25

If you believe that person is still trustworthy, why so? If you don't, why so?

[creatingblackcharacters]

Lot of votes on this with not an equivalent amount of shares lmao folks are not trying to find out about their peers huh 🤣 it can be scary!

[themainspoon]

There's so many horror games about having to try to weed out and deal with inhuman imposters, but I want one where the script is flipped. You are something inhuman, you are an imposter, and if you want to survive you have to blend into a world that is trying to hunt you down and destroy you. You aren't human, but you must masquerade as one and infiltrate their world, or you will die.

[themainspoon]

I actually think we need to start inverting more Horror premises/tropes.

Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."

I feel like there's a lot of Horror tropes built off of the fear of the other, when in reality it's actually often the other who is in danger. Maybe we could start recognising that more.

[themainspoon]

Interesting how the first half of the post has picked up popularity while the second part, which perhaps clarifies the idea of the original post, hasn't.

It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.

Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.

But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."

This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.

Overall, it's just interesting to see who gets it and who doesn't.

[jayalaw]

This is being marginalized, hands down

[drachenmagier]

Scanned this a while ago and it's been sitting on my desktop for the whole time. :D I guess I won't do anything more with it, so here you go~.

[redstonedust]

it's a little thing but it annoys me that both blue marble and hello world (photos of earth taken from the apollo 17 and artemis II missions respectively) are South pole up but people often crop and rotate them to be the 'correct' orientation. appreciate our beautiful planet in all her directions smh.

[lateleviathan]

Unedited "Blue Marble":

Unedited "Hello World":

[troutreznor]

text transcribed under readmore

SMALL DOG SYNDROME 

small dog you’re so funny when you snap small dog you’re so funny when you shake small dog you’re so bad when you bark small dog you never learned the rules

small dog lays flat on the floor  and sighs and whines  while it waits for you to come back from wherever you go  all day small dog doesn’t know if you’re coming home small dog hides under the bed to puke does it quiet eats its shame before you ever smell it  small dog’s bark is worse than its bite  small dog you are so funny when you bite  small dog it’s so funny when you’re mad  so by all means pick it up throw it around  lock it in a cage while you laugh small dog you are so funny when you cry

small dog can’t remember being a wolf  can’t remember being big  howling in harpstring harmony  like a plucked and quivering note in a catacomb  sleeping in a warm pile of bodies in a dry place that smells like family  the taste of fresh hot blood and wet bone iron fire honey salt 

small dog run free beneath the moon in your dreams

small dog is so happy you’re home!! small dog loves you!!!

JMGD

[troutreznor]

i cant believe this crossed 1000 reblogs i have peaked as a poet this is better than any of my vanity publications

[fudgeciclez]

My revelation from earlier: i think dream smp is like. The opposite of slop. I think everyone's definition of slop is different but to me its media that doesn't stimulate any cognitive parts of the brain and is entertaining in the same way as a baby sensory video. Just shapes and colours and buzzwords. And that makes me infuriated that ive heard the dream smp called slop because the dream smp is the most gutwrenchingly beautiful story with the worst viewing experience known to man. Its a multiple-hundred-hour Minecraft roleplay thats functionally impossible to watch. The acting is amateur. The storytelling is clunky. The medium is unconventional and difficult to make immersing. The canon is inconsistent. The lines determining what IS canon are blurry at best. The writers and actors and designers and artists are a bunch of improv-ers who barely cooperate with each other. The plot is so good it will ruin your life. Its bad in every way except the way that matters, and the worst thing about it is that its good. That's why everyone who loves the dream smp talks about it like its the worst thing thats ever happened to them. Its the opposite of shapes and colours and no substance. Its all substance.

[worldwright]

tragically project hail mary was grown in a test tube for me specifically like. woman who fucking did all that and history will call her a villain but there will be history books to do so and that is her victory. scruffiest man alive who cries constantly and can't keep his glasses on to save his life and who is so so scared. the alien who is on its species' very first space exploration mission and who is so so alone and reaching out to the completely unknown life just for any chance that it won't be, anymore. and everything is ending but we still stop and gaze in awe at these beautiful, terrible things that are killing us. and we never call them evil.

[likecarillonbells]

Is anyone still in the building. Anyone at all.

[managerx-stupidblog]

the color green was made up by the corporation to sell more enkephalin

[managerx-stupidblog]

the Head doesn’t want you to know but we also invented the letter L. before that the aphabet was a ittle ackuster

[managerx-stupidblog]

the color green was made up by the corporation to sell more enkephalin

[managerx-stupidblog]

the Head doesn’t want you to know but we also invented the letter L. before that the aphabet was a ittle ackuster

[saucefunk]

launch day

[nocturnal-stims]

Flexible feather armor

🪽 Miscreations_us on IG

[wanderingrestlessly]

eva stratt genuinely makes me froth at the mouth what do u mean she has to hold herself back from the very people she wants so desperately to save what do u mean she makes herself less human in some ways so she can save all of humanity what do u mean she stays strong and never cracks because if she breaks then so does everyone else and that cannot happen what do u mean when she lets down her walls just a little bit for one man she ends up having to send him to his death what do u mean she's the world's whipping boy what do u mean she's going to jail for the rest of her life all because she did what she had to do to save all of humanity and what do u mean she was right the whole time. and that the project she sold her soul and humanity to, that she gave all of herself to, succeeded. what do u mean it was all worth it.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

hottest fucking thing one can read, really (x)

[ramenyul]

project hail mary is like i'll make you believe that friendship will save the world. i'll make you remember that our society rests on the backs of teachers and scientists. i'll make you see that even the most cowardly can be brave. i'll make you horny for sandra huller. thank you greatest scifi film of the last 10 years

[stargirl-and-potts]

Still thinking about how Grace was always treated as disposable. Kicked out of his passion field for his honesty—underpaid as a (very good) teacher, to the point he can’t afford a car—left alone in a room full of argon with a sample that might kill him, while all the indispensable guys who put him there stood on the other side of the glass and watched. Shoved screaming into a mission that would kill him. And then, then this bonkers little alien who just met him gladly trades years off his life (via extended return mission) to save him. Runs burning through deadly air to keep him from dying. Chooses finally to weave their lives together forever and recreate Grace’s best dreams of Earth to make him happy. No wonder Grace told Rocky he doesn’t have to get him a gift, he’s given him everything. To one little spider guy, Grace is irreplaceable. That’s love.

[pop-squeak]

in less emotionally destroying news i also appreciated a lot of rocky and ryland’s great one liners including but not limited to:

“no understand do puppet show” “do you still need the puppets” “yes yes showtime”

“thumbs up baby” 👎

”do you have to sit right there?” “is usually closer”

”not half bad!” “is full good!”

”bad no good grace die rocky die all earth die we die we die we die”

”how do you know when hug is over” “you just feel it” “oh okay. are you feeling it”