Hi, you can call me Serendipity, Seren or Trinket. I'm 16 as of writing this. I go by it/it's, I'm aroace and I'm a furry-therian currently questioning my theriotype, though I feel as though I might be dragonkin. I'm also fictionkin! My kins are Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Moonwatcher, Steven, Rose Quartz, Legoshi and Moth Flight <3
I think that this is actually my third attempt at making a tumblr blog? My first got semi-popular back in 2020 until I privated most of my posts and forgot the password to the account and the second hardly had any posts to its name. I've avoided posting on the internet since 2021 due to general anxiety, but I'm tired of just being a lurker so it's time for me to actually participate!!
This is just a little filler post until I become un-lazy enough to make a proper intro/meet the artist thingy. Anyway.. here's some random things about me!!
My (main) fandoms:
My Little Pony (all generations, but mostly g3 and g4)
Beastars
Brand New Animal
Warrior Cats (and every Erin Hunter book in general)
Wings of Fire
Percy Jackson
The Lion King/The Lion Guard
Steven Universe
I like..
Animals & plants (and just nature in general)
Shiny things (especially gems)
FRUITS!!
Drawing and writing stories
Studying (whenever I actually have the energy to do it lol)
Academia, heisei retro/juminocore, scene, cottagecore and tropical aesthetics
I don't like..
Loud noises
Germs
School :(
People who are stupid/annoying on purpose
Things I'll post
Art
Fanfics and original stories
Moodboards
Um I don't even know I'll just post shit and see what sticks XD
Please don't follow me if:
Your blog centres around nsfw topics (I'm underage)
If you're a pedo, zoo, necro, or any of that weird stuff
If your blog centres around any kind of hate speech (nazis and terfs, I'm looking at y'all.)
If you're a Trump supporter (why are you even on tumblr??)
If your blog centres around queer discourse (I'm trying to avoid as much negativity and drama as I can thank yew 💅)
Notable members include: Jett Fillmore, Will Harris, Modo Olachenko, Olivia Burke, Archie Everhardt, Lenny Williamson
Y’know, there was a brief time where I was willing to be a bit more lenient with how folks portrayed some characters in Goat 2026. Not all of them stood out as particularly Black to me. I just figured y'all at least knew which characters were undeniably Black, as in, it wasn't left up to interpretation. But apparently, no matter how obvious the writing and portrayal of the character is linked to their Blackness, y'all still had the audacity to depict them as white, of all things, when reimagined as human beings.
So now I have to say, nah: they are all Black. Every team member here. Meaning when you draw them as humans, they better be Black. This is already a Black sports genre story anyways.
“But what can I do about Olivia’s hair?” Either make them into afro-puffs, use the concept art where she is drawn with Black hairstyles in mind, or base it on Y2K straightened Black hairstyles. Either figure it out or don’t do it, I'm just at that point.
Edit: Thanks to this addition in the notes: We now know that Modo's style is based on a former Black basketball star. Please read
Literally, I can’t imagine watching a movie like this and forming the conclusion that someone like Will Harris is a generic white boy. Truly, what were y'all smoking? So for this series, I do want to point out some possible reasons, some of ya’ll don’t want to see these characters as Black. We know it’s due to antiblackness, but we gotta dig deeper into some of these reasons.
Why can’t Will be Black?:
He’s goofy in a corny way
He’s considerate
He’s small thus “non-threatening”
Typical underdog story you associate with scrawny small loser white boys
“None of those reasons only apply to non-Black characters,” and yet time and time again, y'all demonstrate you believe that to be exactly the case. Your actions speak louder than words here, remember that.
See, Will shares a similar demeanor and appearance to the character Miles Morales: a young inner-city Black boy with a humorous personality, fro-ed out hair, love of sneakers, you get the gist. Hell, there’s talk that Caleb McLaughlin may end up voicing Miles in the next Spider-verse movie(don’t quote me).
The thing with Miles, however, is that he isn’t an anthropomorphic animal or anything like that. He’s visually a normal human Black boy. Unfortunately for non-Black fans, many didn’t know how to engage with that fact. Miles’s character was funny and charming and sweet and all, but they just couldn’t imagine a Black boy having those traits, while also being unapologetically Black. I’ve seen attempts to whitewash his character on the account that his mother was Latina, but then stump themselves learning she’s Afro-Latina. People tried depicting him as a troubled Black youth who steals art supplies he can’t afford, which no…he doesn’t do that. His dad is a cop(awful), his mom is a doctor, and he goes to a private school; they aren’t struggling financially. So when all of those attempts to sanitize his Blackness were met with criticism, non-Black fans then turned all their focus onto Gwen Stacy. That's sadly the common tactic for these guys when they enter a fandom focused on Black stories, they focus on the token white.
Now, because Will is depicted as a goat person, some of y'all decided that was a perfect opportunity to say he can be white, cuz “no one said he couldn’t be,” thinking y'all are clever. We already went over how stupid that logic was, so I won’t say much here again. If you are out here believing that a character looking like this, in a Black sports movie genre is white: skill issue.
What I will talk about are the characters yall WILL agree are indefinitely Black…but only due to bigoted biases of preconceived notions towards Blackness.
See, for me, Jett Fillmore is a Black woman because her VA, Gabrielle Union, makes her sound like a typical, old-school auntie who knows how to smack-talk and got game. She was also characterized as someone who had trouble expressing emotional vulnerability and was always hardest on herself. I often see this happen to Black women irl, as we tend to keep to ourselves and close ourselves off, figuring no one actually cares to help us (which does happen more often than not). We live under a system that puts us under constant pressure and hypersurveillance, waiting, and cheering for our downfall. We are expected to help everyone, but at the same time, never to express our thoughts, as that makes us appear aggressive, threatening, and hysterical. That was just an interesting storyline they gave her, and I would have liked to explore that more (how was she not the main character???), but for what we got, the signs were there.
Also, she’s literally a black panther wearing her own Jordan brand; it’s honestly not that hard to conclude that this is a Black character. So for a time, I was impressed to see the fandom depict her as a darkskinned Black woman, cuz fandoms never go that far unless - oh….oh boy
Yeah, so imagine my disappointment to learn the fanbase seems to only agree she’s a darkskinned Black woman, because they see her as an aggressive and angry individual who is “masculine” because she doesn’t have a “feminine body.”
Idk about y'all, but it’s funny how every other day on this website, we talk about how women should be allowed to express their emotions, allowed to express anger over personal injustice, and allowed to have varying body types without being demeaned or questioned about their gender expression. But when it comes to Blackness and Black women, we all of a sudden can’t find ourselves to extend that same grace and consideration. Why does Jett need to be considered a masculine figure for being a Black athlete? Why does Will’s race AND his gender need to be questioned by non-Black people for not meeting the assumed image of Black boys?
Misogynoir in women’s sports is so disheartening to witness. Our bodies are already masculinized (or called animalistic) enough as it is. You then have to add on top of the fact that we aren’t allowed to scream, get angry, get energetic, be happy, or show any visible disappointment with a turnout, lest you be deemed the villain.
Similarly, we have the character Mane Attraction that fandom will also not argue is Black. You would think it’s because of his inner-city AAVE, his use of diss tracks, or his cornrowed mane he takes great care of (even if they might be extensions, which gestures). But no, looking at how y'all treat Jett, I can only assume it’s because Mane is a big, strong, and aggressive individual bullying the “meek, frail, and feminine” main character. I’m being sarcastic with those traits I used to describe Will btw, because that's how he’s all of a sudden framed when it comes to shipping. No, he's just smaller than the average Roarball player, that was kinda the point. Which you should ask yourselves why being small = petite and feminine...and white. Had Will been built like the other large animal players, I’m very certain yall would label him aggressively masculine for speaking AAVE.
Basically, a lot of y'all in the fandom are phony for encouraging this behavior, honestly. All this talk of how we want media to stop portraying everything as an assumed binary, only to show y’all want the status quo to remain. So until further notice, everyone on The Thorns is Black. “Everyone?”
Hey, if you can somehow find a way to make Will a white boy, I’m sure y'all can find how to make the other guys Black.
By the way when I say people, I mean all animals not just humans. It makes talking about the world a lot less complicated, it’s how I’ve spoken my whole life, and it really bugs me when humans speak as though they are the only ones who have personalities.
edit - I understand not wanting to be called a person as an alterhuman because most humans still use it to refer exclusively to themselves, I just think language should shift away from that generally :]
another edit haha - everybody was very kind I just get worried that I hadn’t made my meaning clear enough. Honestly I didn’t expect this post would get the much attention ^^
I wish alterhuman and nonhuman identities were taken seriously. I want literally any good representation in media, I want people to realize we're not just kids playing pretend, I don't want to be seen as something to laugh at, I want to be able to come out to my family, I want to see documentaries and news articles about us that don't boil down to "wow haha look at these weirdos" or "stupid liberals want litterboxes in schools"
(Pretending to be a real person) yeah I love talking to people. I love social interaction with other members of my species. Conveying meaning to fellow humans through words and sentences is so fun. I voluntarily spend time in the same physical space as another person at least once a week
I wish not having friends wasn’t seen as such a loser, weirdo, and lame thing. I wish having a lack of emotion and empathy wasn’t seen as creepy or cruel. I wish being aplatonic and not having platonic attraction or being aromantic and not having romantic attraction wasn’t seen as some undesirable thing.
I’m not a robot. I’m not boring and uninteresting. I just experience the world around us much differently to you. I’ve seen things you couldn’t even dream of. I’ve experienced things you wouldn’t wish on anybody.
‼️This isn't about ALL aspecs, just ranting about a pattern I've noticed that irks me‼️
I've always found it a bit odd how some aspecs try to "make up" for their lack of attraction by placing more importance on other kinds of attraction, like aces placing more importance on romance, while aros place more importance on friendships.
As well as allos trying to justify our existence by saying we can still date, have sex, have friends, have qprs, and have families n such.. some aspecs have done this too and.
Why???
Just why?
It's not doing you any good doing this
Not only does it in a way paint your identity as a bad thing (which it isn't), it harms other aspecs.
There are aspecs who experience NO attraction, and that shouldn't be forgotten NOR should it be "justified" in one way or another, because your identity isn't something you should be ashamed of.
You don't have to make sense to everyone.
You don't owe everyone an explanation.
Love is not what makes us human, and it never will be. People are complex, and can't just be bunched up into one group.
You matter, and don't let exclusionists tell you otherwise.
I turned the loveless flag into an emote
Feel free to use it however you wish
Apologies if this post is incoherent, and lmk of I forgot a label in the tags!
