[dorkhellbside]

cats love sleeping on or next to you and slowly bake you like an oven roast chicken

[enangelic-deactivated20260228]

"y/n brushed her thin, petite fingers through her long and lustrous golden hair"

yeah uhmm that aint me

[atagrrl]

i, as a black person, am very—very tired of black folk constantly being watered down to the baseline of stereotypes created about us over the years, by our oppressors, in fanfiction.

imagine how tiring it is to read jabber/reader, jabber/literally-anyone fics and realise, “oh, this is just the mandingo stereotype,” every single time. you non-black people characterise him as insatiable and voracious, aggressive and primitive to satisfy your sexual fantasies surrounding him.

your fanfics are minstrel shows.

please, do better. we’re more than that, and you know it.

[heavenlyshadowhunter]

I love them

[spardxa]

[greelin]

crazy how you can be hanging on by a thread for like four months. Or your entire life

[iwilleatyourenglish]

"sometimes you absolutely ARE required to do things in life for the good of other people, even if you hate it" loud incorrect buzzer noise

pure individualism is a disease that kills communities, isolates individuals, and leads to things like the anti-vax movement.

you are not so important that you aren't bound by social responsibility and decency.

others are not so insignificant that they don't deserve help and sacrifice.

[modelsof-color]

Anok Yai at New York Fashion Week S/S 26

[idroolinmysleep]

The New Yorker already has a new cover (art by Edel Rodriguez).

[femaledaily]

MEGAN THEE STALLION via TikTok (October 31, 2025)

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[unbotheredmuse]

[berdyayeva]

Am I allowed to post this

[plateofpie]

[darkaviarymc]

Pretty sure this is what he said, right?

[froggos-are-superior]

A little in love with the Black Lagoon fan theory that Revy loved Rock for his innocence, the way he was absolutely street stupid and freaked out at the mere idea of doing something illegal or violent. The fact that she was his exact opposite in that manner and therefore had to protect him from everything. That she loved him a little less and less every time he proved that he was in fact capable of doing such things as Roanapur sunk into him. By the end of the anime series, she had begun to realize that he was no different from her and she no longer knew how to love him.

[crystallinee-waters]

Imo, Revy as a character represents the ultimate female rage, the female revenge.

Balalaika's character, among other things, is the one who settles down, learns to take advantage of her situation driven partially (only?) out of care for her personal in-group, with the help of the substantial tools and resources she has been given on her path.

Like Revy, a part of her truly enjoys this lifestyle. On some level, she genuinely does not care about what happens to her, same as Revy. On another level, like Revy, Balalaika has deep contempt and suppressed sorrow and rage about her past, her life and where she ended up. She hates her life, deep down.

Both Balalaika and Revy represent the person who gives in to their worst impulses, because what is there to lose, let themselves act without conscience or regret, while Balalaika's capacity for destruction spans across countries, organizations, clans, companies, large groups of people as well as countless individuals (many of these who willingly got into the game and knew what they were doing), while Revy targets individuals and her own abuser.

Balalaika is always embedded within her supportive social in-group, who are nothing less than family to her, while Revy has always been entirely on her own.

They end up in the same place with a similar kind of destructive behavior and motivation, (queens of compartmentalizing) but Balalaika's thirst for and capacity for violence even subdues/shocks/affects Revy, a character who has no problems killing civilians. I think that is so interesting.

They also represent a very interesting case of nature vs nurture. Balalaika and Revy have completely different backgrounds and attachment styles. Yet, they both started their lives with parental abandonment (daddy issues /mother wound likely) but Balalaika had a stable parental figure. Both of them endured horrific, long-lasting physical and mental trauma. In the end they end up with with the same lifestyle, more or less. Their capacity for empathy was likely reduced due to the extensive trauma they endured but it is not gone.

In short, I find they represent different things but their characters bleed into each other often.