Hi Peoples

Most of the posts on here are rebloged I reblog what I want to, so it is kind of a hodgepodge here.

[sergal]

my favorite mashup emoji is this one and i wish it was real so bad

[coastal-mangos-one]

[maalidoesart]

every miku is canon…..

[baby-yoda-is-baby]

what if you were POOR and then you got a GIRLFRIEND who was always SINGING and then she DUMPED YOU and then you got elected PRESIDENT and then some district 12 rando ALSO HAD A GIRLFRIEND THAT SINGS and then he tries to BLOW UP YOUR CHILD DEATH ARENA and then ANOTHER district 12 rando can SING AND BLOWS UP YOUR CHILD DEATH ARENA and then she doesn’t SHOOT YOU but you still DIED

[kaijuno]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hewwo, I am creating a game with some friends, and the team has unanimously decided on having a Black main character. The game will feature a futuristic space station, but we want to have the people living on it be based on Black cultures or religions.

I'm currently working on some concept art for the main character and have been starting my research reading into traditional African religions, and I wanted to pick one out that may have themes in it that resonate with me in regards to the vague themes we have currently discussed.

Is this the right approach for me? Do you maybe have something in mind that you would recommend me looking towards, like some literature?

I unfortunately haven't had much contact with Black cultures throughout my life, and I want to be respectful. If the answer is: don't do it, then that would also be very fine with me

As long as you are respectful and don't appropriate from things that are closed practices, inspiration is fine. Reading mythology is always fun!

Get SPECIFIC when you look these things up! Don't just type in "African religions". Type in the names of countries, discover what ethnic groups there are, things like that. It is really annoying when you just get "generalized Africa" as a character or theme design, especially because it's never even had the chance to be specific.

I feel like no one ever listens to me when I say this, but find some Pan-African/African Studies programs and reach out to their libraries! "Hi, I'm looking for resources on mythologies within the continent, would you have any recommendations?" Even finding one online, if you don't wanna talk to a real person; there's been so many times where I was searching for something, and a collegiate program popped up and showed me their reading lists- online is one hell of a resource if you actually dig!

[anh3-donia]

insane goodwill pickup

[juju-fisher]

✨Are ya ready, kids?✨

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[valtsv]

had an edible and am now explaining goncharov to the party guests

[valtsv]

they've invented a minor character named ernesto who's only role is to follow goncharov around and say "nice one boss!" whenever he does anything. im so proud of them

[throwsahammer]

I feel like boiling Ernesto Cagliari's role in the story down to "guy who follows Goncharov around and says nice one, boss!" Is really doing his character a disservice. Yes, he's a very on-the-nose parody of the sorts of nameless henchmen and "right hand men" that you see in other mafia media, but he's also a subversion of the trope who embodies the way that powerful men who surround themselves with yes-men eventually find themselves trapped in an echo chamber where they can't separate their own delusions of grandeur from the real world. The entire carnival chase sequence in Venice ends with Goncharov leading himself into a literal funhouse where he's trapped with an (actually nameless!) assassin and surrounded by distorted mirror Ernestos all equally unable to help him find the exit because all they can do at that point is encourage the boss's fruitless andmisguided efforts. It's only once Ernesto is killed by reality violently reasserting itself in the form of the assassin, and the funhouse mirrors are broken in the ensuing fight that Goncharov even begins to confront the immediate reality his actions have created and the broader reality of those people who live outside his self-important bubble.

[ceejoules]

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

[lady-grace-pens]

letting my stories spin around my head like a microwave

[pastel-pink-psycho]

[comikbook]

thinking about egregious dykery deltarune tweet

[helenvaughans]

[quasi-normalcy]

No source, but with your help, we can make this true.

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[typhlonectes]

[erebusvincent]

[everythingfox]

Most unserious animal

[ceescedasticity]

That looks like an "I'm going to run through all my tricks until you reward me for something" to me.

[liberalsarecool]

Israel holds the cards. They have the Epstein blackmail details on Trump.

Most elected Republicans are on the same boat. You can't get that level of subordination to a much smaller country without some sort of extortion. Robert Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell made their fortunes blackmailing.

You do not infiltrate without the goods.