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Emergency Aid for Ugandan Lesbians that were arrested

Not sure how much attention this will get on here but two women, Wendy Faith, and Alesi Diana Denise, are at risk of life imprisonment and conversion "therapy" in Uganda. Funds are trying to be raised to help them before March 16th, which is when the next court date is.

on twitter #freewendyanddiana is the hashtag being used so if people can share this, or make your own posts about it, with that tag and others to try bring attention to this, it would be appreciated. This is a dire situation, no one should be punished for love

You can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/FreeWendyAndDiana

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒

[taurzza]

Fall spear, into the dark, into the soft, and might echoing

[miu-ki]

Tigerstar, Ravenpaw, Graypaw, Firepaw!!!

[roarinsaurus]

<3

[violynnnn]

[taurzza]

[sileisce]

i started some new adhd meds in may and ran out mid june. and it made me realize i straight up have narcolepsy. which isn't surprising considering how much i hit and been hit in the head as a kid. my only experience with it was people that also had cataplexy so i thought i had something else.

the meds really help me focus and while off of them i couldn't bring myself to write or speak to people much. but now that energy is back so i hope i can now finish my post about katara and adultification!

[sileisce]

seeing zutara shippers go out of their way to make art mocking native american colonization. having katara tell zuko to stop 'colonizing blankets', with what looks like traditional inuit tattoos put on the blanket. when blankets were used to slowly kill so many, and i'm still filled with disgust. our oppression is literally just a joke to some pieces of shit

all this because they're more offended over zuko being called a colonizer, and the ship being colonizer x colonized, than the fact he took part in and benefited from colonization. tied an indigenous girl to a tree overnight, destroyed part of her village, threatened her people with fire, and spent most of his time trying to kill her and her friends, including hiring an assassin

his whole arc, and becoming the fire lord, is about him making sure that the future fire nation won't have the shameful term of colonizers. if he wasn't one it wouldn't be his job to fix things. and people, including zuko himself, wouldn't be scared of him ending up like his father

everyone defending and supporting that racist shit is disgusting. and if you have the nerve to try and use your own people's history of colonization say what 'real' colonization is, you're racist and disgusting. the need to try and erase the 'mean' words using the excuse he changed as if his past self was a different person. being forgiven doesn't magically erase the colonizer status, unless you think abuse victims forgiving their abusers means that we should never call the perpetrator abusive, or that people aren't allowed to dislike those with a past history of abuse or bigotry just because they changed.

it's asinine so many think that's how it works. and in the process use real world colonizer propaganda to defend a fictional character.

[sokkastyles]

This is the second post I've seen today deliberately misinterpreting a fanart the SAME artist made (the other one was made a while ago, but I just saw a post about it today). And it was two different pieces, so I don't think it's about the art in question, but about the fact that this person is a wildly popular creator in the zutara fandom and people have been attacking zutara creators recently because the movie and the live action coming out has awakened the zutara fandom and kataang shippers are mad about that. The artist in question is also waaaay more polite to people than she needs to be.

The art in question was made in response to hate she received, not for her depictions of zutara, but just for shipping it in general.

The "colonizer" accusation gets thrown around not because people are denying his role in the war, but because it is ridiculous (and racist, because it also harms people who are affected by colonization to throw around these accusations over cartoon ships) to use that to attack zutara shippers for shipping it, especially since Zuko aided in ending colonization. That actually does change EVERYTHING about Zuko's colonizer status, whether you think it does or not. Everything. And if you seriously think it doesn't, then I'd question whether this is actually about being anti oppression and anti racist at all. You have a right to how you feel about the ship but you do not have a right to tell other people how to feel or that they're "disgusting" for liking or creating fanart, and the part about telling people not to "use their own history" to talk about how they feel about the ship is also something you have no right to do.

And considering that this comes on the heels of people saying blatantly racist shit to zutara shippers of color because of posts like this that give them permission to do so, I think there's someone else here that needs a reality check about how they talk about fictional characters, and it's not zutara creators making content for a ship they like. The things you are using as "evidence" that we need to take this so seriously (while at the same time dismissing any disagreement with "it's a cartoon) are cartoon violence that you are blowing out of proportion because you know that this discussion is inherently ridiculous and dismissive of actual real world atrocities. No, Zuko did not tie Katara up all night. She's tied up for like, a few minutes. The scene is pretty much standard cartoon "villain ties girl up and she is not cowed by him at all and easily escapes." That alone should tell you that this comparison to real world atrocities and abuses is tone deaf at best, and if you are going to deliberately use the zutara tag because "you motherfuckers need a reality check," here is your own reality check.

[sileisce]

genuinely fuck off unless you're a native american none of you ghouls have a right to talk about it. especially as there are inuit upset as well because it's making light of NATIVE AMERICAN OPPRESSION. especially when the artist's defense is that their country is a former colony. which means NOTHING when natives are still being colonized and killed

the themes of the show are based on real genocide and colonization. if zuko wasn't a colonizer it wouldn't be HIS responsibility to end it. and i do have a right to talk about their bullshit when they use their own countries history TO DENY CERTAIN KINDS OF COLONIZATION. some of you disgusting dingbats were saying the southern water tribe wasn't colonized, when they WERE. denying that alone is fucking racist. acknowledging zuko is a colonizer, and that's why he wanted to end colonization, hurts NO ONE. he was the prince of the fire nation.

and that's on top of people using black zutaras fans to try and demonize kataang, while calling black kataang fans performative, and then proceeding to coddle a cis woman that followed and reblogged from terfs. using the claim she didn't know the post was transphobic meanwhile someone else that spoke her language disproved that.

[sokkastyles]

I'm not sure what discourse you are referring to or why you think you are entitled to speak to me this way, but no, you fuck off. Nobody is denying anything, you decided that they did and that is why you are being called performative. Again, you have a right to not like something or even find it offensive, but that does not mean it is to everyone and you don't have a right to call people disgusting or "ghouls" (the fuck) and speak over people about which voices matter. You don't speak for every native person and claiming to is what makes you performative. As well as the rhetorical fallacies in your argument which I pointed out above, including "it's all a cartoon and doesn't matter unless I say it does."

[truemetis]

Hey OP Canadian indigenous person here (I generally object to being called American anything but I've a feeling you wouldn't know what Metis means so I'll keep things simple) since that's apparently a card you feel I need to play.

Genuinely fuck off on using the actual genocide of my ancestors as a gotcha against some fucking fan art.

[sileisce]

if you think it's a gotcha over some fanart and not multiple native americans upset over people that AREN'T native americans, making light of our colonization, including TELLING US WE NEED TO GET OVER COLONIZATION BECAUSE IT WAS "IN THE PAST" go fuck yourself. i DO know what metis is, but of course someone coddling racists would have the nerve to act like another indigenous person is that ignorant. or let me guess, your dumbass assumed i wasn't indigenous? you disgusting dingbat. gonna ignore the inuit upset at the shitty joke? ignore that part of the reason for the upset is that the fire nation is based off of ww2 japan politically? and japanese soldiers put indigenous americans in internment camps? maybe things like that is why MULTIPLE indigenous people from the usa found it offensive.

and i said native american BECAUSE indigenous people from places like canada usually say first nation, metis, or inuit. funny how quickly you went to use a term you don't normally use just to try and tell another indigenous person to shut up and reduce our people's upset to a gotcha attempt lmfao

[truemetis]

Let's be clear, I don't know if you're indigenous, nor do I care. YOU are the one that made playing the indigenous card important. I don't give a fuck if a person is indigenous when they give their opinion on fan art about people who aren't actually indigenous. And I'm not convinced you actually know who THE Metis ARE, because if you did you'd know the word is a proper noun and should be spoken of as a group.

But then you think the Fire Nation are seriously Japanese in any significant way so I'm not expecting much serious analysis or understanding from you. All you've got are claims or racism and attempts to shut down discussion.

(And even if they were that doesn't even get into how weird it is to talk about Japan putting "Native Americans" in internment camps. Which Native Americans? Where they an actual group or where they just some generic Native Americans? You mentioned specifically the Inuit having cause to be upset so I guess they were Inuit, weird you didn't specify that. Oh wait no, they were the Unangax̂. So the Inuit weren't specially attacked by the Japanese, so why the fuck would I care that some Inuit are upset? As far as I'm concerned this flattening of indigenous people into one group is far more offensive than any fan art could be, because you're doing this to actual fucking people)

[sileisce]

aww trying to be the grammar police when i don't even capitalize the first letter of any of my sentences. i didn't capitalize inuit or first nation either don't see you whining about that? although i'll admit i said 'what metis is' because my first thought is how it's used in french and then i forget to correct it

anyways, is your ghoulish ass that braindead that you think that there were NO inuit that knew aleut and they were completely isolated? that there was no crossover or care by other native americans that some were being put in camps? especially when we know the usa government doesn't value us? that is a backwards ass mindset to act like these things are entirely separate when native communities often interact and intersect. so if MULTIPLE native americans are upset we have a right to speak up and no racists can change that lmfao. not every native american tribe was given blankets, not every black person was part of the tuskegee experiment. but these things still affect our groups as a collective. so some dingbat having a character based on native americans talk about 'colonizing blankets' with a colonizer (scary word i know 😢) then yea we have a right to be upset. especially the people whose culture inspired the water tribes.

the fire nation politically takes from imperial japan. so people have a right to be uncomfortable if something hits close to home. and i can't speak on inuit tattoos but one inuit was upset about the blanket design clearly being based off them. and knowing how voodoo works, even altering symbols is seen as disrespectful. to respect native americans, the artist could simply change the text. intent doesn't erase impact no matter how much you clowns deny it. especially as zutara fans have a history of being disrespectful towards native americans. to the point y'all try to tell both black and native americans what 'real' colonization is as if settler colonialism is the only kind. all because y'all can't handle zuko being called a colonizer

but can't expect much from someone ghoulish enough to claim something they're not just to try and shut an actual native american up. genuinely more embarrassing than anything i've seen. and while i didn't in the first place, i'm especially not gonna take a cornball like you seriously lmfao.

but if you like, since my post is such a grave offense to y'all. i can start posting the racist, ableist, and transphobic things i've been sent from, and seen zutara shippers say, in the tag? i'm not going to use anti-zutara because i'm not against zutara. like y'all need to understand i don't give a fuck about some racist ass fandom etiquette. what are y'all gonna do besides block? continue to whine in my mentions? it'd take me valuing your opinions to care. flood the kataang tag? don't see how that would affect me and i'd just find it funny y'all are unable to handle one person's post 😂

like i said before, if you're not native american, stfu. because other na's are the only people whose thoughts i'd hear out. i don't have to play nice with clowns trying to speak over us, especially someone so desperate to tapdance that they claim to be, all because y'all act like fiction exists in a separate dimension. 90% of y'all responses have been 'well you're mean so why should i care if something's racist' or 'how dare you tell me not to speak on something that affected native americans just because i'm not one', which is, racist!

[aisatsaa]

and the house learns to laugh again

[sileisce]

i can't stand the promise and plan on writing my thoughts on how it could have been better written. because zuko, katara, and aang were really ooc. and when you look at the writers interview you can tell where zuko and aang's characters become distorted. because it's being viewed without properly taking zuko's story into consideration and not understanding aang in a way that removes part of aang's personality.

especially as he views the runaway as aang being caught up and following friends, and not an active participant that was fine with scamming. the writing makes characters like zuko and katara seem lesser than aang and it's why i can't stand when people use that comic as proof ships doesn't work. all three of them were ooc on many parts. the goal of the writing was unnecessary conflict just for conflict sake, and keeping aang's role as strictly saint-like with everyone else in the wrong at some point.

aang wouldn't ignore katara or be so emotionally dense, katara wouldn't let others disrespect her, and zuko wouldn't be so aggressive towards aang or katara, he especially wouldn't grab katara like that (or if he would, it'd be under slightly different conditions)

the writing is good where it's not forced, which is the sokka and toph subplot

[sevgiyagsin]

ZIRAAAA

^ early November last year

[incoherent-orca]

prettiest couple in the world fr

alt version below

i wanted to give them more jewelry and try a different coloring style but 1) my limp wrist gave up on me and 2) i couldn't decide on the shading/tint

and im sick of tweaking opacity so im gonna call this done!

EDIT: i hope it's obvious it's a jewelry swap

katara's earrings + her piercings are based on nuniwarmiut / nunivak island people (labret piercings, long beaded strings with wooden??? stops)

while aang's necklaces are tibetan (turquoise, coral, metal filigree). also i found out that tibetan fashion has wildly intricate hairstyles with braids and hair jewelry and beaded hats and GAH you can't tell me aang wouldn't do that for katara's hair loopies

[ozempicofficial]

[mela-site]

theyre so cute SOBS

same exact thing but the other way around. if you care

[sileisce]

seeing zutara shippers go out of their way to make art mocking native american colonization. having katara tell zuko to stop 'colonizing blankets', with what looks like traditional inuit tattoos put on the blanket. when blankets were used to slowly kill so many, and i'm still filled with disgust. our oppression is literally just a joke to some pieces of shit

all this because they're more offended over zuko being called a colonizer, and the ship being colonizer x colonized, than the fact he took part in and benefited from colonization. tied an indigenous girl to a tree overnight, destroyed part of her village, threatened her people with fire, and spent most of his time trying to kill her and her friends, including hiring an assassin

his whole arc, and becoming the fire lord, is about him making sure that the future fire nation won't have the shameful term of colonizers. if he wasn't one it wouldn't be his job to fix things. and people, including zuko himself, wouldn't be scared of him ending up like his father

everyone defending and supporting that racist shit is disgusting. and if you have the nerve to try and use your own people's history of colonization say what 'real' colonization is, you're racist and disgusting. the need to try and erase the 'mean' words using the excuse he changed as if his past self was a different person. being forgiven doesn't magically erase the colonizer status, unless you think abuse victims forgiving their abusers means that we should never call the perpetrator abusive, or that people aren't allowed to dislike those with a past history of abuse or bigotry just because they changed.

it's asinine so many think that's how it works. and in the process use real world colonizer propaganda to defend a fictional character.

[sokkastyles]

This is the second post I've seen today deliberately misinterpreting a fanart the SAME artist made (the other one was made a while ago, but I just saw a post about it today). And it was two different pieces, so I don't think it's about the art in question, but about the fact that this person is a wildly popular creator in the zutara fandom and people have been attacking zutara creators recently because the movie and the live action coming out has awakened the zutara fandom and kataang shippers are mad about that. The artist in question is also waaaay more polite to people than she needs to be.

The art in question was made in response to hate she received, not for her depictions of zutara, but just for shipping it in general.

The "colonizer" accusation gets thrown around not because people are denying his role in the war, but because it is ridiculous (and racist, because it also harms people who are affected by colonization to throw around these accusations over cartoon ships) to use that to attack zutara shippers for shipping it, especially since Zuko aided in ending colonization. That actually does change EVERYTHING about Zuko's colonizer status, whether you think it does or not. Everything. And if you seriously think it doesn't, then I'd question whether this is actually about being anti oppression and anti racist at all. You have a right to how you feel about the ship but you do not have a right to tell other people how to feel or that they're "disgusting" for liking or creating fanart, and the part about telling people not to "use their own history" to talk about how they feel about the ship is also something you have no right to do.

And considering that this comes on the heels of people saying blatantly racist shit to zutara shippers of color because of posts like this that give them permission to do so, I think there's someone else here that needs a reality check about how they talk about fictional characters, and it's not zutara creators making content for a ship they like. The things you are using as "evidence" that we need to take this so seriously (while at the same time dismissing any disagreement with "it's a cartoon) are cartoon violence that you are blowing out of proportion because you know that this discussion is inherently ridiculous and dismissive of actual real world atrocities. No, Zuko did not tie Katara up all night. She's tied up for like, a few minutes. The scene is pretty much standard cartoon "villain ties girl up and she is not cowed by him at all and easily escapes." That alone should tell you that this comparison to real world atrocities and abuses is tone deaf at best, and if you are going to deliberately use the zutara tag because "you motherfuckers need a reality check," here is your own reality check.

[sileisce]

genuinely fuck off unless you're a native american none of you ghouls have a right to talk about it. especially as there are inuit upset as well because it's making light of NATIVE AMERICAN OPPRESSION. especially when the artist's defense is that their country is a former colony. which means NOTHING when natives are still being colonized and killed

the themes of the show are based on real genocide and colonization. if zuko wasn't a colonizer it wouldn't be HIS responsibility to end it. and i do have a right to talk about their bullshit when they use their own countries history TO DENY CERTAIN KINDS OF COLONIZATION. some of you disgusting dingbats were saying the southern water tribe wasn't colonized, when they WERE. denying that alone is fucking racist. acknowledging zuko is a colonizer, and that's why he wanted to end colonization, hurts NO ONE. he was the prince of the fire nation.

and that's on top of people using black zutaras fans to try and demonize kataang, while calling black kataang fans performative, and then proceeding to coddle a cis woman that followed and reblogged from terfs. using the claim she didn't know the post was transphobic meanwhile someone else that spoke her language disproved that.

[sokkastyles]

I'm not sure what discourse you are referring to or why you think you are entitled to speak to me this way, but no, you fuck off. Nobody is denying anything, you decided that they did and that is why you are being called performative. Again, you have a right to not like something or even find it offensive, but that does not mean it is to everyone and you don't have a right to call people disgusting or "ghouls" (the fuck) and speak over people about which voices matter. You don't speak for every native person and claiming to is what makes you performative. As well as the rhetorical fallacies in your argument which I pointed out above, including "it's all a cartoon and doesn't matter unless I say it does."

[truemetis]

Hey OP Canadian indigenous person here (I generally object to being called American anything but I've a feeling you wouldn't know what Metis means so I'll keep things simple) since that's apparently a card you feel I need to play.

Genuinely fuck off on using the actual genocide of my ancestors as a gotcha against some fucking fan art.

[sileisce]

if you think it's a gotcha over some fanart and not multiple native americans upset over people that AREN'T native americans, making light of our colonization, including TELLING US WE NEED TO GET OVER COLONIZATION BECAUSE IT WAS "IN THE PAST" go fuck yourself. i DO know what metis is, but of course someone coddling racists would have the nerve to act like another indigenous person is that ignorant. or let me guess, your dumbass assumed i wasn't indigenous? you disgusting dingbat. gonna ignore the inuit upset at the shitty joke? ignore that part of the reason for the upset is that the fire nation is based off of ww2 japan politically? and japanese soldiers put indigenous americans in internment camps? maybe things like that is why MULTIPLE indigenous people from the usa found it offensive.

and i said native american BECAUSE indigenous people from places like canada usually say first nation, metis, or inuit. funny how quickly you went to use a term you don't normally use just to try and tell another indigenous person to shut up and reduce our people's upset to a gotcha attempt lmfao

[kianamaiart]

real life college losers