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Happy Dragon Striker release day !! I hope everyone enjoyed the show.

I drew my man and his team to celebrate.

I can't begin to express my thanks to Charles, Sylvain and Silas Carson for bringing Sunspear to life. ♥ He means so much to me it's not even funny.

#dragon striker

lilblueorchid

Happy Dragon Striker Release day!!!

Dragon Striker is out on Disney + since today! It's a wonderful anime-inspired serie that has completely stole my heart from the moment I started working on it. It's definitely worth the watch so please check it out!

I haven't been posting much these past years, well, it was because of these two trouble makers above, the drama twins, Casper and Callista! It feels silly to say, but, they have come to mean so much to me in ways that is hard to explain. I'm so excited to be FINALLY able to share these HUNDREDS of fanarts and comics i've made of them these past years and couldn't show you until now!

But most of all, I hope that you will enjoy the show, and that you will love them too.

#dragon striker

seashellisinmyheart

They've kept this one under wraps for a long time.

#animation #dragon striker

librarycards

people on here who have been on 10-15+ years like myself...i don't know how they claim that there were never any Black bloggers on here, or that it was always such a white website. trudy gradientlair was on here. thisiswhiteprivilege was on here. there was a feminist citation project sara ahmed was involved in on here. there was someone on here whose username was wretchedoftheearth and that was how i learned who fanon was when i was 12, by googling those words. tumblr was the only place i knew i could go to get accurate & compassionate info about what happened to trayvon martin, when everyone around me irl was rabidly racist. the amount of reportage and scholarship that happened on here before the first big wave of bans was so huge and so much has been lost. where were you when it was happening??? why weren't you paying attention??

neshatriumphs

Every time people speak about how all the "problematic" people left the site and went to Twitter, I simply presume whoever says it is racist. Everyone who wanted to try to discourage people from returning here when Twitter was overrun, I presume was antiblack. Twitter became unsafe and Black people STILL kept at it, because it was literally still more productive for them to do work there than it was to try doing it here.

There were folks here that I know elsewhere now who literally help save lives in their communities and have online safe spaces in other places that they were able to build and cultivate. Seeing Black people who became huge when they left here will always be my perception of Tumblr. It is a place that Black people started great work and were put out because the work wasn't valued by the white Tumblr population or was straight up sabotaged by them.

I FINALLY got back in touch with Cashawn, who was the first person who got "Black Girls are Magic" poppin. I hadn't been in touch with her for nearly a decade! Because she fucking left here. And there are a few, very few who tap in and see what's up over here every now and then. But a lot of them simply let Tumblr kick rocks and they were correct to do so.

And it was the central place, not just for Trayvon's story, but everyone's. When other sites were not giving information or giving construed information, there were so many boots on the ground activists who used THIS SITE to communicate their situations and tell you what was real. In fact, one of the main points of the purges were getting rid of activists who were using the site to keep others informed.

This WAS the site people came to for things, and then it had to become Twitter and there are still ignoramuses on here who chuckle "Twitter is having old convos from Tumblr lol" Twitter is having PRESENT convos that many of the same people who were having them on Tumblr had to go have them on Twitter instead, because Tumblr became unsafe for the work that they started here. Twitter is STILL having conversations that Black people have had to have in every space we occupy and are often run out of.

But, because Tumblr IS full of white people, their arrogance makes them think they are special and smart and revolutionary. They don't even know how much of the shit they say has been picked from the bones of something that Black people originally grew on Tumblr before they were deactivated or jumped ship.

#important

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red vs. Blue Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dexter Grif & Sarge, Sarge & Dick Simmons, sarge & Lopez, Franklin Delano Donut & Sarge Characters: Sarge (Red vs. Blue), Dick Simmons, Dexter Grif, Franklin Delano Donut, Lopez (Red vs. Blue) Additional Tags: Team as Family, Fluff and Humor, Team Bonding, Drinking & Talking, Hopeful Ending Summary:

Life on Earth is a big adjustment, and Sarge is not dealing with it as well as the others... still, Simmons wants to encourage the old man to at least TRY, otherwise he'll miss some important moments. This is illustrated~ (in a scenario where everybody has returned to Earth, trying for "retirement" again, but this time on a planet full of people instead of an isolated moon. They're also out of their armor, which is a whole other thing that takes getting used to)

#red vs blue #rvb #rvb fic

numartian

having to feed myself the sarge crumbs i desire

#awesome art #red vs blue #rvb sarge

creatingblackcharacters

Hello and good Day Mr and Mrs CBC!! Ive been starting to follow this Black youtuber recently, and two days ago he was victim of a hate crime, so i wanted to share his gofund.me in hopes this reaches more people who might be able to donate, thank you for your time!! (heads up as there are pictures of injures) https://gofund.me/6361cd53b

Hello all, my name is Ceros. I've been going through some insanely rough… Ceros Whaley needs your support for Support Ceros After Ca

#important #help

creatingblackcharacters

https://youtu.be/SPyiNgAXEKg?si=25-_QSh4BpfG4KGR I liked this video a lot and I think you will too (if you haven’t seen it already)

The thumbnail being Scarlett O'Hara of romanticized Confederacy, Southern Civil War rewritten narrative, Gone With the Wind fame.... Oh boy let's see what we're getting into here.

Oooooh okay! Starting with an explanation of how they somehow managed to turn the inhumanity of the enslavement of Black people into pretty tourist destinations and wedding venues and something we're all supposed to just slide by instead of... Ya know. The site of endless amounts of suffering and spilled blood.

The husband and I actually went to a really nice place this spring, that turned out to be an old plantation house... Had to pour out libations and pray in apology for a bit before we walked in. God knows the amount of untold suffering that got left out of all the inn history 😅

But they made a movie about the suffering of the enslaved- 12 Years a Slave. It's a hard one for me, because I don't particularly want to see those stories anymore, not because they aren't important, but because it bothers me that they don't seem to move our society to do better. It would be different if y'all actually learned but... do you? But I mean... When you're the descendants of the people who owned my ancestors, who thought this was normal, necessary even for the sake of their comfort and even yours... Why would you wanna acknowledge that?

#video #audio #important #history #racism