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The tears are welling up, still finding light in you

We’re in a quiet fade of two

Goodbye will hurt me, but I’ll let the teardrops fall

Even if I break in regret, I’ve loved us after all

You were the lesson I had to learn the hard way.

Wish you had done what you said you would

But I sleep easy knowin’ that I did all I could

You didn’t appreciate me

No matter how much I care

I couldn’t save you from yourself

I still don’t want no one else

debí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuve

debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que pude

thestorycanresume

Never gets old

nkjemisin

well ain’t this some fuckshit

Just heard about the mess that YA author Maggie Tokuda-Hall has been dealing with. tl;dr, Her publisher offered her the chance to be part of an initiative that would’ve put her work in a lot more stores and libraries. It’s an initiative specifically aimed at amplifying Asian voices… but only if she removed the word “racism” from her author’s note. On a book about the Japanese internment.

I am very glad she rejected this offer, and I 100% agree with her that this is pure cowardice. I’m appalled at Scholastic – or any other publisher who’s doing this but whose authors can’t take the risk of speaking out. This is the kind of crap that marginalized writers have to deal with all the time – and it is also how fascism takes root: “just business” decisions that perpetuate injustice, systematic erasure of targeted groups from their own damn stories, institutions choosing to do what’s easy over what’s right.

(I have been very fortunate to never have a publisher do this to me. Plenty of disrespectful bs from institutions and individuals within the industry, but never from the people who signed my checks. I’m also somewhat insulated from the book ban bullshit because my work is genre and isn’t aimed at kids – though that’s coming, of course. Fascists don’t stop until they are stopped.)

Anyway. Pop over to Maggie’s blog to read the full story – or better yet hop on a retail site and buy her books. It’s up to readers now to support marginalized authors, since it’s clear nobody else will.

tigger8900

Just so everyone is clear, this is the point of the censorship. This is the endgame, to make it so risky(in terms of guaranteed market) to publish such works that publishers will do the dirty work and sanitize works themselves or, better yet, choose to publish other things instead. Attacking libraries, schools, and bookstores are the means, but this is the desired effect.

soft-lovely

mornings like this

gulistan-blog

㋡🥀

peaceful..

mafuyuh

Never trust a soul in Night City.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022–) dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi

#the animation was so pretty #and the colorssss omg

resetme

FLEABAG | season 2, episode 4.

And I know that’s why people want people like you in their lives, because you just tell them how to do it. You just tell them what to do and what they’ll get out at the end of it, and even though I don’t believe your bullshit, and I know that scientifically nothing I do makes any difference in the end anyway, I’m still scared. Why am I still scared?

#just rewatched fleabag s2 and omfg

Me: trying to fall asleep

My brain: hey, remember all the times last week when you forgot how to function in society and were awkward as fck when meeting new people?

Me: 🥲 yup

helloitskrispy

Let’s talk about anti-Asian racism, erasure, and discrimination in online spaces.

(So, I actually wrote this a while back but never posted it here. In light of the recent events surrounding the shootings in Georgia, I thought it would be the right time to post this.)

The Internet is a weird and oftentimes wonderful place. It allows people from different countries, cultures, backgrounds to come together, communicate, and share interests. However, given that anyone anywhere can go online and join a community, sometimes unconscious biases/ignorance can spring to the forefront and lead to discrimination and prejudice.

What we’re going to talk about today is an all-too-common yet rarely talked about form of racism: anti-Asian bigotry.

“But Asians don’t experience racism! You guys are model minorities!”

No, that’s not true.

“Well, even if you experience racism… it’s not as bad as what other minorities go through!”

Let’s please not make “who experiences racism the most” a competition. Pitting minorities against one another does nothing except hurt people from vulnerable groups while simultaneously allowing those in power to avoid real responsibility for addressing racism.

In this essay, we’ll be tackling:

· The Myth of the “Model Minority”

· The Reality of Anti-Asian Racism

· The Co-Opting of Asian Narratives in Media

· The Subtle Bigotry in Online Spaces

· The Simple Things Allies Can Do to Combat Anti-Asian Racism in Online Spaces

Keep reading

#stop asian hate

I just feel so broken right now.

Hullo, it me, Dana! PSA I changed my username (formerly sweet-dissonance). That is all.