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[shemightbefantastic]

intro post <3

hi, im gia! not my real name, i'm quite fussy about privacy online

i don’t much care about pronouns (she/he/they, whateverr), & i'm under eighteen! currently super into vampires smp. pry me kicking & screaming out of oakhurst

no dnis, just be kind & respectful!

tag guide:

my posts -> "textpost tag"

chatting with my mutuals (reblog threads, reblogged asks, long discussions, etc) -> "beloved mutuals”

posts in irish / about the irish language (usually reblogs! is fearr gaeilge bhriste ná béarla cliste, ach tá mo ghaeilge go huafasach. tá brón orm!) -> “as gaeilge”

answering asks -> "ask"

reblogs -> "reblog"

textpost memes -> "textpost memes"

posts about a character -> "[fandom] [character name]", eg "vampires smp apo"

posts about a mcytber -> “[name/commonly used nickname] [username]”, eg “gem geminitay”, “cleo zombiecleo”

posts about a romantic pairing (i’m a bit of a “mcyt romantic ship names should be a portmanteau of the characters names and duo/group names should get funky with it” purist) -> [fandom] [character]/[character], or [fandom] [name combo], eg “vampires smp legundo/louis/owen”, “vampires smp pyrapo”

posts about a platonic / otherwise non-romantic pairing -> “[fandom] [duo/group name]”, eg “vampires smp apple blossom duo”

[debaucheryandexcess]

having a belly outline while wearing a dress is a very beautiful and sexy accessory. anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is getting put in the shredder

[mycotoxin]

Shout out to mediocre black people actually. Shout out to black people who are bad at shit. You don’t need to be the best for your life to matter.

[thegamewhiz]

I’ve said this! In a similar vein, equality is not perfection. Any group shouldn’t HAVE to earn their humanity by being neuroscientists or gods of beauty, By appealing only to the good aspects we often reinforce that in order for “x” group member to exist and be protected they have to walk on clouds and speak seven languages.

The true benchmark of equality is a nuanced acceptance of problems. A member of the group is just ALLOWED to be lazy, or be selfish and not be used to dehumanize the group.

Of course everyone wants angels, truly great artists and work horses, but how many of us will rush to defend those who tell some occasional lies, don’t run marathons, decide to stay at home and eat Cheetos? Those that have “ugly” features and aren’t beautiful works of art?

Without the allowance of bad in a group it does not have true freedom. I guess a similar argument with the Garden of Eden. To only be good means they’re not given humanity, free will and choice. If they must be perfect to be human then those that don’t do these things are not perceived as human.

Not carte blanche excuses mind you, plenty of horrible people in oppressed groups, but a nuanced look on humanity and the innate worthiness of life, whether or not the person was an angel of brilliance and hard work or not.

If you’re murdered, you should not have needed to be the paragon of good and beauty in order to not have deserved that

[despazito]

really loving this fake AI scandal of trump secretly meeting with the volturi

[ravioliet]

yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend

[ravioliet]

they're not "dating" they're not "a couple" they're intrinsically connected and intertwined with each other for eternity. they're bound together like the stars. get with the program

[creatingblackcharacters]

You want an example of finding fandom antiblackness in the wild, OUTSIDE of Tumblr? I get TVL updates because I watch the trailers, and one of the "original Anne Rice" fans was talking about why she didn't like the new series. And one of the things she did was make a decent argument that it should have been an original series.

But one line just sent me into hysterics as I realized that I was back in KKKaren territory.

"Changing Louis from a reluctant slave owner to a willful pimp alters him from a tragic Byronic anti-hero caught in a net of despair, to a strong willed black man who willing sells women for profit. Again, a fascinating story, but not Louis’s."

RELUCTANT SLAVE OWNER.

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE VALUE OF THE NARRATIVE OF A RELUCTANT SLAVE OWNER 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that poor poor owner of human beings who feels so bad about it 🤣 bruh. I'm sorry. Like. No please, actually. I dont think that between the Black man running a brothel, and a white man who owns human beings, that the one who owns human beings is the one whose perspective I should value equally 🤣

Also, "strong willed" is crazy when you consider all the bullshit Louis has let slide 😭 like this entire argument is racist in and of itself (as if Louis too, is not tragic and caught in a web of despair in everything he goes through, diminished down to an Angry Black Pimp in this white woman's eyes) but to suggest that somehow I'm supposed to feel more sorry... For the slave owner... OKAY! Sometimes character analysis... Is incorrect and racist...

It's the #wickedwomenauthor, btw. The content creator who shared this tiktok.

[nostalgicmermaaiid]

Black indie animated projects that you should check out!

I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh

Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!

The Three Tomes - a vampire love story

DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings

Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism

Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates

The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series

I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway

Please reblog with any that I missed!

edit: check the comments for more recs as well!

[memories]

you wouldn’t download a #transmasc.

[imjunebitch]

if I didn't know anything I would not think a baby was a little person I would think it was perhaps a small goblin or ghoul! I used to be one of those thangs :O

[orchuris]

op disabled reblogs but i still want this

[thegremlininyourcloset]

what do you think is the most v!apo coded mythical/supernatural/etc creature? and no you cannot say vampire.

[morningsaidthemoon]

Tag! You're It! - My 2nd year film :D

[redstonedust]

its silly but it amuses me when a media has a masked character and its built up as a big mystery what they look like under the mask and then 3 seasons in they take off the mask and they look like: a normal brown haired guy. like well i don’t know what i expected i guess but thanks for the build up i guess.

[hairscare]

just saw art of a guy with a curvy rugby body on pinterest and i was like ooh la la allow me to ogle at you sir so i clicked on it and it was a fucking roblox character. the utter humiliation

[hairscare]

sorry i forgot i was on the dan and phil twink lovers fanclub website. i must flagellate myself for looking lustfully at a man over 130 lbs

[hairscare]

oh so its just genuine hate of the game okay i can respect that. as for dan and pill..... maybe this website is healing after all

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

The Art of the Deal

By wearing this watch you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor

The Fence has published an exposé on Stuart Semple (of Anish Kapoor 'feud' notoriety) which they have been working on for six months.

investigation reveals Semple / his studio / his partner Emily Mann (who's described as acting as his 'enforcer' in his business) :

mishandled £400k grant of public money intended for a public gallery, allowing the money to flow freely between the public project, his own personal studio and personal projects such as Culture Hustle (his online business selling paint etc)

underpaid or failed to pay many of his assistants to the tune of several thousand pounds each.

former assistants have taken him to court and he simply hasn't bothered to show up and he's threatened to sue former assistants who asked for their back pay

repeatedly funds ambitious projects that never see release eg Abode, an 'Adobe-rivalling' suite of creative software (he claims he still intends to release this)

encouraged a cult-like atmosphere at his studio in Bournemouth

was frequently in debt and having to negotiate with bailiffs etc for his debts while at the same time crowdfunding various projects

ran fake social media accounts boosting Semple and his work

The portrait that emerges is one of decades-long scam artistry tbh and someone who's juvenile, manipulative, narcissistic.

The Fence btw is a decent fairly small-circulation quarterly magazine from the UK which specialises in satire, investigative journalism, culture, and fiction. You can read the piece in its entirety if you register (which is free).

a few links:

The Fence's newsletter from April discusses this article & how Semple has tried to muddy the SEO waters

Semple threatened to sue The Fence for publishing this story - many of you are American so here's the relevant UK law on defamation.

& the subreddit r/culturehustle is worth a look to get an idea of just how badly run his paint business is

[prismatic-bell]

Holy fuck.

I had a feeling something was up with him, but like, I assumed it was going to be something slightly sketchy, not...this.

[beowulf22121]

I got some of his paints when he first announced the mirrored paint.

The first thig that put up a solid red flag was the shipping material. It's cool that he has custom boxes for his studio, it looked really neat. Then I opened it and sae things like "Not for bean boy" printed all over the inside of the box.

Between Mirror, hyper pigments, and black 2.0, none of them were as extremely out there as the videos on his site made them seem. The colors are vibrant, the black is dark, and the mirror is shiny. But the level the videos showed them at are not levels I can recreate.

So like, he exaggerated as an advertising scheme. Alright, shame on him.

But reading that... Yeah. I don't expect him to sell anymore stuff.

[risenshiney]

Paint’n studies I did on my Wii U gamepad earlier in the year.

[sony-official]

on your what

[thegremlininyourcloset]

I’m beginning to realize that my favorite thing to do with post-Oakhurst Apo AUs (regardless of how much of the canon ending she’s experienced) is very much horror creature

not quite in the sense of Pyro—not exactly “look at this beast you’ve made of me”

a little bit more… “The forest swallowed me while I was bleeding. My wounds have closed, but the liquid in my veins isn’t quite the same.”

because, whatever this Apo-to-the-left has faced, she survived it

barely, yes, and they emerged broken and sorrowful and hollowed out—but new things live in empty bodies, don’t they?

It’s not that these Apos are possessed, or something. But they are…different. They are still kind and brave and loyal. They kept those traits, hid them away in the pieces of their heart even as it was torn apart.

Apo’s first response to danger has always been to fight. Apo will never stop getting back up again.

Apo will keep going, again and again and again. Till she’s not sure the body in her place is quite her, anymore.

But it was, once. It could be again.

Apo keeps going