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#how long have we been holding on to this one?

[mishalak-deactivated20200713]

I held onto this for six whole months. It was soooo hard waiting.

[windsthroughtunnels]

This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."

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My contribution to Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula this year is that I’m reading The Dracula Tape for the first time ever (at the recommendation of a trusted friend’s mother who is also very trusted) and I need you all to know his explanation for how he clears the table so fast is he just chucks everything out the window off the side of the cliff with the intent to get it later because he’s got enough dinner sets to do this. Which is honestly a logical explanation but the funniest fucking thing I’ve read in a hot minute

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[freak-phone]

A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.

I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.

'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?

'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?

'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!

'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?

You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.

[gammelgaedda]

Server mentioned iguanas so I had to draw an iggy

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[cassandrathevampyre]

Reading Dracula makes you particularly hate the fact that movies and adaptations have been so adamant on putting Mina with Dracula and treating Jonathan as a cold Englishman because that man ADORES Mina. We're only at the very first pages of the book and already, he talks about her all the time. "Get this recipe for Mina", "write about the trip to give all the details to Mina", like PLEASE. There's not one entry in his journal where he doesn't mention her or even dedicate his words to her when she'll find the notebook. This man is OBSESSED with his fiancé !!

(I'm editing this because someone mentioned it in the reblogs, but my introduction to Dracula was the french musical and Jonathan LOVES Mina in that one. It still pretty much adapts Coppola's version more than the book, but they gave a whole song to Jonathan as to how he feels completely helpless and betrayed when Mina cheats on him with Dracula. But he still stays at her side ! She's the one to kill Dracula but he's always around to support her ! He stands on business during the whole musical !!)

(also the musical makes dracula silent and he expresses himself through dance and through three other characters who are basically personnifications of his soul, his conscience and his emotions. that part is dope asf)

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phineas and ferb heritage post

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I never realised that Dracula was fucking with Jonathan Harker from the very second they met. The driving in circles to make it seem like Jonathan was so far away from everyone and everything? The wolves obv, but the way it's all so terrible and scary that Jonathan thinks he might have dreamed it all? "the dead travel fast" the woman in the coach said but Dracula made a point of reaching his destination as slowly as possible, while going fast.

Thank you @re-dracula , i read this novel twice before but only now am I really scared

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wishing my good friend Jonathan Harker the best of luck on his journey 🙏

[miqdadsworld]

Israel is now bombing 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, threatening an imminent invasion of the last “safe place” in Gaza.

Israel is committing the worst crimes in modern history, and Western regimes are calling it “self-defense”.

Never forget. Never forgive.

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in case you missed it (how could you not I’ve been dead for years) I somehow gained a cute sociopath, lost him because of his racist loaded mother, took him back, then dumped him bc Did We Not Just Settle This Why Are You Being A Gaslighting Bastard AGAIN

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I open tumblr, I go to the Kendrick tag, I sort by latest for some laughs and then: posts about Macklemore. Posts about rap beef diverting focus from Gaza. Posts about bread and circuses.

Like why. WHY? As a fan of a rapper that went so far as to call their professional colleague a colonizer in the same vein as colonial powers like America (seriously, he made that 1:1 comparison!) I promise you I am aware of what happening in Gaza, I’m protesting and marching as I’m able, and I’m donating to relief funds. Why is it that you assume that people who care about Kendrick Lamar do not care about Gaza?

Even more bizarre because….. black Americans overwhelmingly support Palestine, civil rights leaders going back to MLK Jr. have spoken out against the colonial regime of Israel, Kendrick himself has written two songs that became spontaneous protest songs. Whats going on here lmao

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There's a lot to unpack about this phenomenon but from my POV there's a few things intersecting that leads to these reductive ass takes.

You have people that can't hold multiple opinions at one time assuming other people also can't so if they see you talking about something else, they can't possibly have thought about anything else. This is also wrapped in with the fact that a lot of people think that your activism must always be on 24/7 when that is harmful, impossible, and will burn you out over the long run. People need rest and normal activities for maintenance of themselves. I think part of historicizing activists means that we forgot they were humans too and in turn we only remember the activism part and not the whole person because a lot of y'all sound like y'all would be moralizing MLK for enjoying pool instead of being on all of the time.

Some only see "activism" online. If it's not online, it doesn't exist. Not everybody posts their views online. People can and do get doxxed and everything else. Some people are just not chronically online. Before cell phones, people were not online this much and while there are some good things about getting more information now that's not filtered through biased state sources, there's a lot of folk that's not used to that framework.

Some of it is racism.

I don't remember this level of dissent for other major pop news this year that wasn't focused majorly on black culture specifically.

People's memories are significantly shorter when it comes to black people's activism and forget the fact that the consequences are much worse for black people. J. Cole and Noname have both mentioned Palestine well before the October 7 genocide.

Zack Fox said "free Palestine" in his "Jesus is the One" rap in 2019 (he's not the only one just the one that comes to mind) and y'all want me to praise Macklemore for riding the culture vulture wave to release this performative ass song right now? Ok.

Not to mention what happened to that black student protester at Ole Miss this past week. Someday we'll have to talk about the expectations y'all have of black people to do all of this activist work without the same level of reciprocity and without nuance and regard to intersectionality. A whole thesis can be made on how y'all can go from " black women will save us" in 2020 to being mute or deliberately obtuse during incidents of anti-blackness or misogynoir. I really need y'all to unpack that, especially those of us in the community who have internalized that bullshit.

Macklemore ain't release a response to people's blonde fave with high school poetry laid on top of elevator muzak but he inserted himself in black cultural business for clout and now we have to listen to people who just started listening to rap 20 minutes ago moralize to us about kiki-ing at a rap beef destroying a colonizer. I'm glad he's donating the money to a good cause but he's performative as fuck and so are people with that dumb ass take. Some of y'all new rap fans have been here for 10 minutes, learn some fucking decorum and do some research before you speak.

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