Mrs Steve Harrington @lutes-and-dandelions - Tumblr Blog

one way to read this is "this man has no idea what he is saying"

another to read this is "this man is terminally online and has excellent comedic timing"

#I love videos like this #the museum I did some work experience in #the comms manager tried to get some of the older volunteers to do one of these #but they wouldn’t #forever sad about it

fearlessplatinums

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

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Reblog if you've found friendship because of your fandoms.

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pinketine

The way tumblr users talk about racism makes it really obvious they learned about it from Harry Potter's muggle born wizards plotlind

pinketine

This is to say, they take the same attitude JKR does: racism is wrong because it's factually incorrect on a pedantic level and not because it inherently places a certain group of people as inferior, a wrong belief to have no matter what.

For example, in the third Harry Potter, Hermoine gets called a slur by Draco. She goes to Hagrid, upset, and instead of saying Draco's wrong because he's bigoted and hateful, Hagrid starts talking pedantically. Not all muggle borns are inferior because Hermoine is academically gifted, and Neville, a pureblood, isn't. So therefore, racism is wrong! 👍🏾. Of course the implication is that if Hermoine wasn't good at school she'd deserve it..? And that's how tumblr users speak about racism.

My real world example is how some tumblr users tried to defend rap music by saying, not all of it is about drugs, sex and violence, so therefore it shouldn't be dismissed. But, what about the rap music that is about those things? Does that deserve to be belittled and mocked?

pinketine

Astute observation as always. It's the subconscious belief that everything white is naturally superior because white people made it. While black art is naturally uncomfortable/hard to emphasise with because not only is it not white, it's black, and there's always an underlying sense of percieved aggression attached to blackness. For it to be liked, white people often project their own whiteness onto it (see things like how fandom treated Miles Morales after the Spiderverse movies). And when something, like rap music, does have an aggressive element to it, white people use that as an excuse to express discomfort while listening to heavy metal because white anger is the status quo and black anger is always a threat.

pinketine

I didn't go far enough in describing the whitewashing as I'd like so here's my elaboration: fandom will often ignore a black character's aspects to their black culture and give them interests more aligned with white people (example: the fandom surrounding Tyler, the Creator's alter egos, where some of them lose their swag era fashion and get replaced with notoriously anti-black movements like (modern) scenemo), remove any "rough" edges to the black character to act "soft", tiktok softboi style (example: the woobification of Miles Morales), turning it into a big joke to laugh at and then call cringe (examples: Drake vs Kendrick rap beef, "brainrot" words that are just AAVE) or even just straight up ignoring the black context to music to fit their own white experiences (example: 'Wavy' by SZA being used by white girls to complain about not being blonde, the 'Black Barbies' by Nicki Minaj trend on tiktok being hijacked by insecure white girls, and ad nauseam).

This all just ties back into seeing black art as inferior and "fixing" what black art they deem just about good enough to be more white and ie more acceptable

pinketine

Yup. And it's always just some bad opinions

ingridverse

"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

capricorn-0mnikorn

Oh, dear. I can't reblog that fast enough.

catboycrack

If I was a vampire I'd always go for the femoral artery so I could feed from between the thighs and stick my face in my victims crotch and lick and drain them and the other vampires would all think I was weird and I'd say stuff like "no bro it's just slightly less oxygenated so it has a better flavor it's more subtle" and they'd all say it's just a weird sex thing and they'd be right

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cryinginribs-deactivated2026051

i’m not mysterious, i’m just really tired

creekfiend

kangaroos are like what if a scary muscle man occupied the ecological niche for deer

well I wouldn't like that very much. is what

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love triangles can’t exist without at least 1 lgbt person. cishets just don’t know how shapes work

peachy-pumpkin-deactivated-deac

I’ve created this helpful info graphic

ros3quart2

Most of the characters that people call a love triangle is really just a love corner. And the woman is usually backed into it.

javaelemental

“And the woman is usually backed into it.”

Okay, wow. You just turned the lights on for me on that one. Damn.

wizardarchetypes

“he would not fucking say that!” then put him in a situation that makes him say it, we wanna see him squirm

gallusrostromegalus

It's good old fashioned characterization practice when confronted with "he would not fucking say that" to go "under what circumstances WOULD he say that?" And then go "and how would he get into those circumstances?" And boom. You have a MUCH more solid character.

It's also a fun magic trick as a writer to write a guy so well you get people foaming at the mouth on the comments going "HE WOULD NOT SAY THAT BUT HE *DOES* AND IT *MAKES SENSE* FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!"

Three weeks a go my best friends 5 month old kitten, Cheddar, was diagnosed with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). It only recently became treatable and because of this, treatment is expensive. They’ve maxed out their insurance reaching diagnosis and for his first round of intravenous medicine. Treatment is two round of IV and then three months of oral medication. He is responding well to treatment but isn’t out of the woods yet. They’ve set up a gofundme and to (hopefully) help raise money for his cause so far this month I’ve been crafting at least an hour a day to make cat blankets for my local branch of the Cats Protection, I’ve made five so far and I’m hoping to make 2-3 more over the last two weeks of February.

Any donation, no matter how small would be greatly appreciated and please share this post if you can.

Link to Cheddar’s gofundme

Thank you 💖

#cat #knitting #ginger cat #gofundme

gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180

u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit

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captainlordauditor

i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall