I've Given Up on Titles

They/Them This used to be my "anything goes" blog, but I am REALLY trying to keep it focused on my writing. Please be patient with me.

[khalifaziz]

First Impressions Masterpost

I’m Khalifaziz, a writer of the Afro-Speculative. I write fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and psychological stories rooted in Black experiences and culture. 

My Website (For news, updates, short-stories, and purchasing print-outs)

My Wattpad (Where I post ALL my content)

Afrovana (A site for Black creators to post their comics, webnovels and fanfiction! All content also posted here.)

Patreon

My Batman fan project, A Maroon in Midnight Blue (Tumblr)

The sample chapter of HBCU: Delinquents, Awww....Sookie, Sookie, Now!

Mitochondrial Assimilation on the Nightlight Podcast

My horror anthology, Obsidian Shards

My superhero anthology, An Urban Legend Has It

As more content is released, I’ll add more links to this post. I hope everyone finds something to enjoy in my stories!

PS: I think that I’m pretty good as a writer, but less so as a visual artists. If you’re a really good visual artist with amazing scenes and character designs but can’t get that story quite right? I’d love to discuss collaborating, slide into my DMs. Requests for collaborations, commissions, and service exchanges are always welcome, especially from artists of color!

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[khalifaziz]

This last one is tricky for me. It really depends on how the museum is using AI and how well it's being implemented.

[textsfromsuperheroes]

Texts From Superheroes

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[khalifaziz]

Sorry Jim, but I agree.

Batman finds out who's an active threat, finds them, stops them from being an active threat, and then delivers them to you.

It's your job, as the police, to find evidence tying them to the crime.

It's the DA's job, as the prosecutor, to make an argument in court that shows beyond a shadow of doubt that the person you arrest is guilty.

The Joker literally goes on the news to announce his crimes. We live in the age of facial recognition and mass surveillance. If you can't make charges stick to Joker just because Batman brings him to the station, you're just incompetent.

[diallokenyatta]

ICE List Wiki

🧊

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

ICE agents forced to flee Minnesota neighborhood due to car alarm alert system

Frustrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fled a Minnesota neighborhood after residents alerted each other by triggering car a

Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.

This is effective for several reasons:

Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.

ICE loses the element of surprise.

If one person hears a car alarm go off, they can trigger their own alarm, alerting even more people, but also making it really annoying for ICE. Annoying sounds petty, but it can be effective. Have you ever been in a building when a super loud fire alarm went off? It's very hard to concentrate. You can't hear much else. You just want to leave. ICE experiences this when a whole street if car alarms go off. Which means they make mistakes.

[eddieisanidiot]

This was how we were alerted to ICE attempting to gain access to our apartment building. This 100% works.

[beardedmrbean]

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Someone put a very annoying post on my dash, so I'm just going to reiterate how comical it is that VoteBlue type american liberals on this website keep repeating that line about how revolutions are basically the rapture for leftists and patting themselves in the back for being hard-nosed pragmatists with #realistic politics when ultimately their political strategy only has the *vibes* of being pragmatic and realistic, and once you get past the vibes there's nothing about it that makes it any more actionable than "twiddle your thumbs and wait for a Revolution that will solve every problem in the world"

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Their political strategy revolves around expecting the american voting public to suddenly decide to behave in a way they haven't done once in the entire history of their country so that Democrats are able to win every election without having to make any changes to the way they campaign or govern, and then blaming internet leftists every election when this miracle doesn't happen.

[khalifaziz]

Rabble: I can understand machines but not your suit. Why?

Miles: I'm not telling you why you can't understand my Wakandan suit!

T'Challa: 🤦🏿‍♂️

Shuri: 🤦🏿‍♀️

Anansi: 🤦🏿‍♂️

Kamala: My "Miles just did something stupid" senses are tingling! 😮

Uncle Aaron: 🫩

Jeff: 🤦🏿‍♂️

Rio: 🤦🏽‍♀️

Ganke: 👀

Peter: What? What'd he do?

[ladydisdain5]

That space between allyship and homophobia

You know what I'm fucking sick of? Those people who don't support queer people but you can't quite call homophobes because they're not mean enough about it. The "I don't support your lifestyle but I support you" type people. The "I won't say a thing against queer people but at night I try to pray the gay away." The people who are genuinely nice no matter your gender or orientation but say shit like "hate the sin not the sinner."

They can't accept all of me, support all of me, view me the same as they did before, but god forbid I call them homophobic because at least they don't bully me over it!

[khalifaziz]

Back in my day we called those homophobes.

[peter-aaa-deactivated20260316]

[khalifaziz]

The Hybrid is a Fetish: On the Short Sighted Progressiveness and Racist Romance Dynamics Present in Doctor Who (2005-2025)

[khalifaziz]

Okay hot take:

I don't like reducing non-binary people to fem or masc, amab or afab, or tme and tma.

BUT! I will absolutely suffer it if it means no one ever again has to play the guessing game about what someone means when they say a space is for "women and non-binary folks".

Cuz y'all be meaning different shit and it's impossible to predict except to predict that I'm probably not intended to be there.

[snorlax]

i got violent flashbacks from this image alone

[snorlax]

*piano music intensifies*

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[melyzard]

As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.

FIRST:

The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform v

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi

It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).

Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).

Sick of AI in your Windows 11 PC? Here's how to get rid of it

Microsoft wants to put AI everywhere on your PC, but you can take back control.

Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:

No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).

Stop Windows 11's most intrusive ads with these 9 easy tweaks

Tired of Microsoft pushing ads throughout Windows 11? Here are the settings you can tweak to turn them off and reclaim some privacy.

The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.

Bonus:

Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)

Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)

How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)

[yasmin1000000]

pisses me off that 90% of art criticising the US maade by USamericans does the thing where theyre like "this isnt the real america. something changed and the america we loved has turned bad" and still pushes patriotism as a good thing and an important thing for americans. die die die die die!

[khalifaziz]

A thousand times as annoying when you're Black, and see other Black people making such art.

"This isn't the American dream our ancestors fought for."

They fought to not be enslaved, and then to not be murdered in the streets. American identity was, at best, a secondary concern (and not one universally shared by everyone that was doing such work).

[willgrahamscock]

“I would die for my kids” your children want an apology

[willgrahamscock]

your made up scenario isn’t real (shocker) and makes no difference when your kids are starving for your acknowledgment of the pain you caused them. you’re only performing the role of a good parent, without having to actually do any heavy lifting

[willgrahamscock]

[holy-muffins]

[makesomenoise]

Honey, I think the TV is talking to me...😳

➡️ Watch the Make Some Noise season four premiere now only on Dropout

The Noise Boys Ride Again - Season 4 - Dropout

Josh, Zac, and Brennan name mobsters and try to hide their bald spots. Content Warning: Comedic Gags Implying Suicide - [2:00-3:13]

[khalifaziz]

If I was watching TV and saw a political ad where a politician called out a random first name and said "Why won't you vote for me?" And it was clear that either

1. This ad was for a very specific person

Or

2. Said candidate was just goofing by pretending 1 was true

...then I would absolutely look up their website and consider voting for them.