Raven'sWritingDesk

A 90s babe, reblogging and shit.

[itscyran]

REBLOG IF YOU USED TUMBLR IN 2011 - 2013

If so, you knew how turnt Tumblr use to be

[ohyoubuggin]

[seaglassdinosaur]

The affection between Black men in Sinners!

Smoke and Stack hugging and saying ‘I love you’ before they part ways in the corn field

Stack’s excitement and cheering as he listens to Sammie’s music while the two of them cruise down the road.

Delta Slim playing with Sammie and mentoring him by explaining the historical and spiritual significance of music to their community.

The way Smoke and Delta and all the others place their bodies in between Sammie and Remmick when the cards are laid before them, holding out an arm to stop Sammie from sacrificing himself; insisting that they’re going to die before they let Sammie leave through that door.

The protective and desperate way Smoke clutches onto Sammie in the final act; Remmick burning up in front of them and Smoke wrapped around Sammie to shield and comfort him and provide another barrier between them and the vampires just in case.

Stack showing up, telling Sammie he’s been following his career the whole of his life, collecting his albums because that’s his little cousin! He’s known him, they’ve known him, and isn’t it amazing to see how far he’s come?Supporting him from a distance, but supporting him nonetheless.

The option Sammie is given at the very end, and the way his choice is honored. Because as much as Stack (and Mary) love him, theirs is not a possessive love. It’s the selfless kind, that they will not try to hold onto Sammie past his time, but instead make sure he knows how important and loved he has been in life.

[carouselshotgun]

and he left you to watch the door??

“you think i can’t handle it?”

😒

[babyibeenbad]

Nawl , he don’t think you can handle it?” 😂😂😂😂

[submersero]

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Hands down, best scene I've seen in a film for years. Fucking art of the highest caliber. This will NEVER get old to me.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[nahimjustfeelingit-writes]

Sis... my sisters and I have a theory that Stack once was in love or enamored by Annie... But Smoke got her in the end. "You gonna let her get BETWEEN us AGAIN?" And how he bit her... man you ain't telling he wasn't being sensual af. He was ON her and when he looked her in the eyes and bit her a second time then drooled into her MOUF?! My sister said "that fool dry humpin' her?!" Lmaoooo

This is actually a good ass theory

🤣🤣🤣 chile I’ve been trying to rake my brain with why he would say that? Like was he jealous of Smoke and Annie bond? Did he not like the fact that Annie had her beliefs and he didn’t like Smoke dealing with it? None of those made complete sense but weren’t far fetched.

I honestly did not consider this as a theory but it’s believable!

That scene was sensual!

[nire-nacheal-writes]

and how he mad was at Smoke when he killed her. C'mon now! Lmaoooo

[nahimjustfeelingit-writes]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhh I gotta see this movie AGAIN! 😅😂 because the way he was PISSED! The way he mounted her! That subtle jab “you gon let that which come between us again?!” Like wait a SECOND! 👁️👃🏾👁️

[uzumaki-rebellion]

@nahimjustfeelingit-writes @nire-nacheal-writes

Did y'all clock how in the flashback scene at the end that it was Stack who ran over and opened the door for Annie to get out of the truck and not Smoke? He dashed all the way over from another vehicle to help her get out out (tipped his hat to her also) before his brother had a chance to get out of the truck to do it for her himself. There is some tension between them about her and I am here for all the theories about that. Like it feels like a Day 1 issue, especially when Annie cried out "Not you..." when Stack went down on her...to bite, hee hee. I know he did it to get Smoke to give in, but the way Stack was on her and Smoke saw that shit...whew. Some backstory and history is there. And I'm scribbling notes, lol!

[just-shower-thoughts]

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

[blogtitletaken]

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

[castiel--for--king]

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

consider the coconut

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

[kascaban]

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

[heartgemsona]

listen if an immortal feels brave and supported enough to come out we should respect them

[baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

This post is a journey

[virtuous-thing]

1 Reblog = 1 Respect

[dovewithscales]

I maintain that humans started attempting classify animals, and some god or another made the platypus, and is still laughing.

[eldbitch-horror]

Zeus: *hits joint* okay so like. It’s gonna have a duck bill right. But an otter body okay? And then a beaver tail. It’s a mammal. But. It lays eggs!

Hades: wait wait dude. Give it. Give it poison. Make it poisonous

[dovewithscales]

Athena: You mean venomous, and make sure the eggs have both reptile and bird traits. Hermes: *takes the joint* Give it extra senses. Poseidon: It should be aquatic.

[hyratel]

I MEAN where’s the lie

[dovewithscales]

Demeter: … And where exactly do you expect me to put this? Everyone: Australia.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[koko-blueturtle]

A coconut and a platypus are now related. Because tumblr is science. Behold the word of tumblr.

[ravendbenson]

I got to do some shadow work and improve. There are ugly things about my character I’m not feeling that no one nor I deserve. Got to get it together.

[hermajestyimher]

I wouldn't recommend any woman to get in a relationship if they haven't first established themselves economically. Women become easier targets for abuse and control when they lack the resources to provide for and sustain themselves. The last thing you want is to invest your time in a man, become vulnerable and open up to him, only for him to use that to his leverage to belittle you and make you his servant.

Create something of your own, build a name for yourself first, that way you'll be able to date the man you truly want, not the one you need. You'll be able to dictate when/if to leave at your own say without being tied to or dependant on him.

[swedepea]

Solid advice for young women

[starinyourhand]

And keep your money separate from his money. Do not have your checks deposited into an account that he has access to, because the moment shit gets hairy, they will drain that shit so fast in an effort to keep you around. My sister made all the money in her marriage and her husband didn’t work at all while “studying” and became mentally and eventually physically abusive. He drained her entire savings from 15 years of marriage to leave her penniless, with 5 children to raise alone.

[hermajestyimher]

^^^

[tashabilities]

Also, I don't trust men enough to have more children than I can physically and financially handle on my own.

Men will get you pregnant, then reduce their role in their children's lives to that of visitor, and they do it EVERY day, like,

After all y'all done seen your moms and aunts and friends go through,

Do you really trust a MAN enough to bring more than two kids into the world?

These stories are numerous like, so many actually married women are still single moms because men like the LOOK of a wife and kids,

But patriarchy says they can be useless around the house and treat the performance of household and parenting duties as a li'l treat they give their wives occasionally, and everything is all good.

Men get married to have a live-in maid, Sis-- somebody gotta cook my food and do my laundry!

Patriarchy beats the love out of these men, and they don't truly know how to love, anyway, and the misogyny they're ALL raised with says that we were born to be their support staff,

And I ain't wit it at all.

[mindsandimages]

”James Earl Ray did NOT kill Dr. King”

~Judge Joe Brown

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[tashabilities]

We already know James Earl Ray was the fall guy, and the US GOVERNMENT was found guilty of Dr. King’s murder. We will never know the names of the CIA operatives who actually pulled the triggers, but all these li’l eekings out of facts is just gross and unnecessary to me.  Judge Joe Brown goes into REAL detail about Dr. King’s mortal wounds, so don’t push play on this unless you’re ready to hear that.

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

For example Frederick Douglas’ wife did so much for his ungrateful ass. She helped him get on his feet, gave him her last name, and supported him financially and took care of house and home. And in return was does this nigga do? He lets white abolitionists tear her down and treat her like a slave in HER HOUSE. Moved two bitches into HER HOUSE over a span of 20 years. Belittles her for being illiterate while using HER MONEY. Not even in death does she get the respect she deserves. His last wife is more recognized as being apart of his life than she was. Just trash. And y'all still normalize that shit as if it’s a black woman’s job to struggle. Fuck that.

[lovableshade]

Fuck Frederick Douglas.

That negro was a massive hypocrite. How the fuck you wanna abolish slavery and support women’s rights, then treat your own wife like shit?????????????????

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

^^^^ history left her out of his story too. Claiming his parents have him money to start up when it was her.

[aawifde-deactivated20181224]

Don’t forget MLK and Malcolm X

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

My heart broke a little but I’m not surprised. What did Malcolm do ?

[blackgirloutrage-deactivated201]

I don’t know about Malcolm X, but I know that Martin Luther King was in love with a white caferteria lady name Betty that he was seeing while he was attending college. The only reason why he married Coretta and not the cafeteria worker is because his dad frowned upon it. Not only that but his best friend Ralph Abernathy and Jackie Onassis exposed him for being a sex craved phony that loved cheating on Coretta. I guarantee that if black women from the civil rights era could talk now, our heads would explode. 

[ambelle]

I mean if we’re gonna spill tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UG7YCgkXTo

Our community has always treated us like shit no matter what. Not to mention Miss Claudette Colvin who was the actually pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus 9 months before Rosa but she was a dark skinned single mother so she wasn’t good enough. 

[blackgirloutrage-deactivated201]

Let’s not forget Black Panther’s leader Eldridge Cleaver and his famous book “Soul On Ice” where he recounts how he practiced raping black women because he knew no one would care and when he “mastered his craft” he starting raping white women. Also let’s never forget that he said that there is no more love left between black women and men and that everytime he embraces a black woman, he embraces slavery. Y’all gon’ get this history lesson today!

[ambelle]

Wow… and somehow I’m not even surprised.

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

I knew all of that. Martin was constantly cheating with white prostitutes even a German exchange student while protesting civil right. Cleaver was the worst. Preying on and raping young black girls in the hood as practice for raping white women. Claudette is still referenced as “the other rosa parks” when the light bright brigade “NAACP” weren’t gonna let her share her story to begin with.

[angel-of-death-2015]

Let this post never die. Black women were NEVER respected back in the day, and we’re STILL getting disrespected every minute.

[raimagnolia]

Wow….

[futurewitchdoctor]

[reasons why I think most Black dudes r performative when it comes to being *proBlack* n only know how to mirror yt ally theater/chase yt validation. n nonBlack ppl better back the fuck off this post and start combatting the antiBlackness before they even think of comment.]

[kimreesesdaughter]

Just a reminder that Claudette Colvin didn’t get pregnant until 3 months after refusing her seat on the bus. She was a poor dark skinned girl. In her words “they wanted someone PEOPLE would sympathize with and I didn’t look like that.” Colorism AND Classism waaaay before Instagram 🙂

[walksoftlytay]

Bruh I learned all of this and more in my civil rights history class last semester. My professor actually got her doctorate in black women in the black power movement. Even though two black men from California started the radical group as we know it, black women did most of the work and kept the group afloat. By the 80s it was largely female led. Also, elderidge cleaver wrote an essay after getting out of prison where he recanted everything he said in soul on ice and this was largely due to the fact that women were running the bpp and told him he couldn’t join if he was to co tibie to perpetuate this rape nonsense.

Also also claudette Colvin wasn’t the only one who was forgotten during the Montgomery bus boycott. Do y'all know who Jo Ann Robinson is? Home girl was the backbone to the whole movement tbh. Yeah rosa (a trained activist btw) was the igniting flame and yes in her documents and Jo Ann’s Claudette was credited as the inspiration, but jo Ann really kept the movement running. She organized car pools for all the black folks in Montgomery. Y'all the Montgomery bus boycott lasted for a year! People still had to get to work and shit. Jo Ann was on it! Plus she had a whole committee that was pushing for regulation changes and the end of segregation in busing. And hell, Montgomery buses were damn near reliant on black commuters so they eventually had to give.

Plus my all time fave is the homie Ella baker. Home girl ensured the founding of sncc when fuckboy Mlk tried to make them the youth chapter of the sclc. SNCC is the group that made sit ins a popular form of protest during the early civil rights movement. They founding students had their first sit in in 1960. Ella baker was like these students need their own separate movement and the sclc ain’t it. Plus she was a true proponent of self determination which was clear in everything that sncc did.

Basically what I’m trying to say is black women been the backbone of society and they still are.

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Let’s also talk about how Huey P Newton, the founder of the BPP ordered the severe beating of Regina Davis. Regina Davis was an administrator at a BP school and was literally jumped for reprimanding a male BP member. She was beaten so bad that she was in the hospital for a broken jaw and had to flee to LA for her own safety. Her attack was a deliberate message to all female BP because the men were getting  upset with the increasing power black women had in the party and wanted to put them in their place.

In 1974 Huey P Newton also shot and killed a 17 year old sex worker in Oakland named Kathleen Smith in the face for calling him “baby” and because she didn’t give him the “respect” he wanted (x) 

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

and who could forget good ol’ Harry Belafonte and how he treated Ertha Kitt way back when 

Ellen Holly was a super light skin soap opera actress who claimed to have a similar experience with Harry Belafonte before he married a white woman and called him out in her autobiography about his behavior towards black women

[andreseward]

THIS IS WHY WHEN PATRICIA ARQUETTE SAID WOMEN HAVE HAD TO TAKE A BACKSEAT TO OTHER GROUP´S PROGRESS SHE WAS RIGHT! 

BUT Y’ALL WERE SO UPSET WITH HER

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

That white woman ain’t got nothing to do with this. We’re talking about black women’s treatment here.

[hatingeverything]

How dare you bring Patricia Arquettes white feminist ass on a post about the treatment of Black Women

[feministories]

That was a much needed thread. Reminds me of the first time I discovered Tumblr and learned so much about feminism and women’s history. To add my 2 cents to this, I put the pictures of most of the ladies mentioned above (I couldn’t find a picture of Regina Davis, if you have one that’d be great), so that anyone discovering these wonderful women can put a face to their name. 

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

unfortunately there are no known or publicly available pictures of Regina Davis or Kathleen Smith

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Keep this thread going and share the stories of how Black women have been degraded by black mens sexism 

Just to add some more, let’s not forget the importance of Shirley Chisholm. She was an unapologetic black feminist who fought for the rights of women and the poor in her community.  She was a founding member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Women’s Caucus. 

She was the first black women ever elected to the US congress and was the first woman and black american to ever run for the president of the US. Her campaign to be the democratic nominee was treated like a joke, and although she had the support of her loyal husband she received NO SUPPORT  from black male leaders. Her campaign went underfunded and the men of the black caucus rallied around white male candidates instead because they were pissed off that she was getting attention and wanted a black male candidate instead.

“They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn’t mean the black woman must step back.“(x)

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Don’t let this thread die! Keep commenting and bringing to light the stories of black women. Just adding more about the black panthers, a lot of people don’t realize that black panther chapters spread across the world to unite black and dark skinned people. 

In 1972 Dennis Walker, a black aboriginal Australian cofounded the Australian Black Panther Party (ABPP).

As always black women made up the back bone of the movement, organizing, protesting, and working in the ABPP schools/medical centers. Marlene Cummins, one of the first black women leaders in the movement recently spoke about about the abuse she and other women endured. Marlene and Dennis dated for some time and she has admitted that he was verbally abusive, violent, and cheated on her with white women. She once saw him smash a broken bottle onto a women’s face, which eventually led to their breakup.

She also revealed that she was raped by two indigenous leaders at the time (one aboriginal and the other torres strait islander) which was recorded on tape.

“There were men who are immortalized in history as heroes. Some of them are and some of them aren’t. [Some of them] are not heroes. They were rapists and perpetrators.”

“There were no support systems and women’s refuges weren’t as prevalent as they were today. Women’s rights were not voiced…[So can you imagine] what it was like for young girls with no support networks in those days, when those things – rapes by uncles – were not spoken of. How can you deal with that?

“…Even if you did report a crime, you were questioned whether it happened to you because you contributed to it: you asked for it!”

I’ve see a lot of people leaving comments asking for more information/resources to look into these women. A bit a googling will bring you plenty of reliable resources.

Marlene has a documentary out which can be seen here for free (x). I would also suggest reading this books by black panther women (x), (x), (x), (x) and this book that actually details the work some black men such as Fred Hampton did to address misogyny in the movement. 

[quietstorm-73]

LESSONS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

[terrablaze514]

Keep spreading this thread…💯

[reverseracism]

If you have ever felt nervous about what people think about you or have had Social Anxiety I 100% on my mama suggest the podcast episode “UnF*ck Your Brain” it’s “Episode 55: Social Anxiety”! It’s by Kara Loewentheil.

I listened on Spotify, she has other places where she’s posted too!

Honestly, you don’t even need to have major social anxiety! It’ll open your eyes about opinions and what other people are thinking about you… which *spoiler alert* there’s a big HUGE change they’re not!

To keep it short, she described it as ‘what we fear people are thinking negatively about us are just our own insecurities being projected’. It’s what we think of OURSELVES. You never stress that someone will think a quality you perceive as positive about yourself is being negatively thought about in someone’s mind. Only qualities you think are negative about yourself.

Ex) I NEVER think someone thinks I’m too short, because I’m 5’2 and I do not perceive my height of 5’2 as a negative quality about myself. BUT!When my nails aren’t done, I start feeling that people are judging the manicure upkeep of my hands. I believe they are thinking negatively of my groomimg habits, because I PERCIEVE MY NAILS NOT BEING FRESHLY MANICURED AS A SELF NEGATIVE. People have their own lives/problems and probably won’t give my nails a 2 second thought and there are people who think 5’2 is too short.

Afterward, she tells you how to get over the fact that, yeah, there are times where people are judgey because humans judge… its what we do. But human qualities are subjective and opinions aren’t facts. Humans perceive other humans from their own pre conceived notions. “You can be the most delicious peach in the world and there will still be someone who doesn’t like peaches”.

[butterflikisses]

[ravendbenson]

Something that really irks me is people telling you what to do with your money without knowing your financial situation. This week alone someone told me, while I was complaining about my student loans, that they heard of people paying theirs off in 2 to 3 years. Like I can get rid of 30k + just like that. And it was my supervisor, who knows what little I make, who told me this. And someone now is telling me to own 2 cars just in case something happens to one of them. All this talking and no one is putting up any money for this shit.

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[porterr-robinson]

[mathvevo]

My man to me after coming home from work

[thiccassvince]

PLEASE UNMUTE!!!!!!