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Can’t stop thinking about this category 5 old Jewish man moment my dad had when we called and I greeted him with “shalom! :)” and he said “What do you mean shalom? There’s no peace in this world!”

johnnycrass

whoever this woman is maybe my soul mate idk. beverages.

tributary

average conversation on tumblr.edu

retrogamingblog

journeymanfool

memewhore

decellie03

nothing will ever be funnier to me than the 30-50 feral hogs joke phase, I think about it at least once a week

remade-lol666

havingfurrythots

this fish is what we should be remembering on memorial day

the-sapphic-raven

brucesterling

mandaloriangf

tockthewatchdog

#this gets funnier the more time goes on

heritageposts

happy anniversary

thebootydiaries

me: wakes up

me: ahh what a lovely day

me literally ten minutes later: i have no future and will never be able to pursue my dreams

angelsaxis

I genuinely do believe that if the only media you absorb is white centric popular visual media (i.e. marvel movies), and that you insist that any books published now or in the last are written by white men, and the only secondary media you engage in is fan content based on that incredibly white media, you’ve developed probably the worst lens possible for analysis of fiction in the real world, your entire understanding of the role of fiction in the past and today and what even counts as fiction is warped and also racist, and you don’t have a single opinion I could possibly benefit from.

rizblogs

counterpoint: able to access content. absolutely some amazing diverse media are footnotes on streaming services that are not widely available, and if they do exist they are barely marketed

if one is privileged and white then they need to make the conscious effort to diverse but let’s be honest there is an issue in being able to access diverse content by everyone

books are a lot more diverse lately but again marketing issue comes up again as well as the fact that the problematic white authors still remain the most successfully powerful and also the most harmful (ie. jk rowling)

angelsaxis

I understand this but at the same time: if you know how to pirate any MCU movie u know how to pirate the less popular POC-led/made movies

Also googling “adult/YA poc led books [year]” or “ya/adult authors of color [year]” will pull up a lot. Don’t wait for these things to come to you.

My critique was at mcu fans but this extends to white readers as well who’d rather hold on to overused drawn out white-written media than even glance at a cover that has a Black person on it; if anything, parts of this work better because nobody is out here pirating books as much as they pirate movies (in lots of ways irs even harder imo). BUT people do go to libraries, and they do buy books new or used. And finding a good book via marketing is a terrible strategy, which these readers know. So if anything the readers have even less of an excuse because while one might try to avoid paying for nine separate subscription services you can get a used book by a PoC about a PoC for like ten bucks and it’s yours forever.

geshertzarmeod

Also after a few minutes of googling (or come ask me I can send recs) you can find websites, and social media accounts, that are entirely dedicated to promoting diverse books/other diverse media. And then that’s the “marketing” you’re seeing - like honestly at this point I don’t recognize any of the straight white YA coming out that’s apparently super popular, but I do know the titles of a lot of the books by queer authors and authors of color, because that’s what I’m seeing on my social media and the websites I check.