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[kod-lyoko]

[annabelle--cane]

[exhuastedpigeon]

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

[dogpuppy]

[patrochilles-or-bust]

This Karmelo Anthony situation really reminds me that white Americans really think self defense is only for them. These white male school shooters and crowd shooters will literally aim at defenseless people and get it called "responding to bullying" (i.e. being socially isolated for being a white supremacist at 14) and "self defense" (despite showing up to a protest against racism to threaten and commit murder).

But a Black kid stabs a racist white one for threatening and attacking him at school, and suddenly it's "why does he have weapons at school" (which is apparently legal to an extent in Texas) oh NOW we wanna act like people should turn the other cheek to bullying. White kid's brother threatening to "shoot monkeys" at the school, but we supposed to believe this is unprecedented behavior. Mkay. Crazy work.

Like I've never been a proponent of guns period, but this is why I'm not mad when the response to racists acquiring guns is us acquiring guns. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Be damned if I sit there as a waiting duck just so I can be dead with "the higher moral ground".

[patrochilles-or-bust]

I had a whole Nazi (power/burial) and his gang get mad at me for this. And some weirdo sending me racist poetry in gaelic about it. Folks will do anything other than stop being racist 😭

[creatingblackcharacters]

AND his father called Karmelo a "watermelon felon". Like. Y'all are gonna keep acting like white children don't learn racism at home that they take out on their classmates of color. "It's just a phase" well clearly it isn't, not when they're having it reinforced at home!

[mortalityplays]

you can stay indoors all day when the sun is out, and sometimes it's nice like a cool draught from a tranquil spring, but watch out because if you stay indoors for two days in a row while the sun is out you start doing odd gothic literature things, stalking the halls and passages and muttering to yourself and parting the blinds to gaze down at your neighbours with a haunted look before turning away to contemplate your mannequins #yourmannequins. three days and you're basically fucked. you have to throw a towel over your head to scurry as far as the store for milk and people jeer at you like frankenstein's monster.

[my-dailydreams]

[drangel76]

another one of these scams, just more 'official-looking.' if you get tagged it's not real! block and report.

[depsidase]

[thefighter2-deactivated20200212]

[sighingballoon]

#luigi after developing amnesia being interrogated by toads

[sweatervesto]

i had an idea

[flugelwhisper]

Comic #2 of this series can be found here

[reasonandempathy]

[seedysys]

[tolbre]

I think we need more posts where mario and luigi are actually best friends.

They are def colourblind and think they got matching outfits.

[seraphtrevs]

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

[hail-the-villainess]

It's literally cutes when a girl's weapon is as big as her whole all of her

[nonbinary-jakey]

shit you can't make up

[kaban-bang]

[dogpuppy]

[sprakcomic]

Fodongo: Hells Bells

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[boccher]

i think every british journalist should just be gunned down

[maidthings]

On the small soggy wet archipelago that makes up the modern day united kingdom, sunny days are a rare phenomenon. As such, the peoples of england cherish each and every one, even going so far as to write songs about them in their local music. With sunlight in such high demand, to block it deliberately is nigh unthinkable, hence their cultural confusion at the invention of the parasol.

[cythraul]

So if you read the article, (1) you'll see the reporter is Japanese, and (2) the article isn't even about the sun.

Across much of the world, umbrellas are simply used to shield people from the rain or to shade them from the sun. And while visitors to Japan may see many locals using them for these purposes, parasols also serve a far more powerful role in Japanese culture: they're spiritual vessels. According to Tatsuo Danjyo, Professor Emeritus of humanities at Beppu University in Japan's Ōita prefecture, Japanese tradition holds that certain objects – including umbrellas – can serve as yorishiro (an object that attracts gods or spirits). This belief is deeply rooted in history. Umbrellas first appeared in Japan between the 9th and 11th Centuries, but instead of shielding people from the weather, they served as symbols of spiritual or political power. Early umbrellas, such as the long-handled sashikake-gasa, were reserved for religious and political figures and were held by attendants over the elite.

It goes on.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I vividly remember this happening a few years back, when a Tumblr user posted a screenshot of a published journal article about why Indian food tastes particularly good. "White people spend all this time and money trying to work out why someone else has better food than them to discover the answer is 'spices'," they sneered

And I remember someone tracked down the actual article and discovered that (a) the authors were Indian, and (b) the answer was actually a super cool exploration of how Indian cookery uses spices to create contrasting flavours, unlike almost every other cuisine, which tries to pair similar/harmonising flavours.

Something something when your desire to dunk on white/British people makes you erase the work and cultural discussions of POC

[ecl1psical]

ok this was originally gonna be a tagdump but the last comment made me think. this socially interests me enough to ramble a little.

it intrigues me how some people are so focused on calling out racism that they inadvertently circle back into having a white-centric mindset, just instead of glorification, it's demonization to the point of not reading what's being said or even who said it. i wonder if it's related to journalism speak and how people assume based on the writing style or think that the news site,,, indicates the journalist's whiteness? i don't know.

there's something about the fact this happened enough times that two instances are noted in this post, two journalists of specific cultures making articles explaining an aspect of their culture, but something about the wording or the site it's hosted on or SOMETHING made people immediately assume a white person wrote it out of ignorance or hate. it makes me wonder how many other articles detailing real history or culture were ignored because the author was assumed white.

it confuses me more when it's white people saying these things. if you cared so much about the potential racism of what's being said/written, wouldn't you want to know exactly what it is they're saying so that you can think critically about the author's intent, motivation, and background in relation to the article? or to at the very least see who the author is if you plan to form an opinion on their work?

on the other hand i can kind of understand it from the standpoint of "white people historically appropriate cultures they get their hands on and colonize the shit out of things" so it's not like i blame people of colour for being on-guard about the idea of white people writing about "why does this culture do this?" or "why is this culture's food/invention/status so good?", but if you don't know who wrote what you're criticizing you might, as the last reblog said, erase the work and cultural discussion of journalists of colour aiming to share their experiences and history.

people of all cultures live everywhere, just because it's an american or british news site doesn't immediately mean the authors are all white colonizers who want to appropriate or make fun of the culture they're writing about. don't get me wrong i'm white myself and not very scholarly-educated, so who knows, i could be way off the mark, so sorry if i spoke out of turn, but it interests me enough to talk about what causes people to jump at things like this without thinking twice.