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any pronouns - 20 - #1 sonar worshipper

[sprinklespiice]

HELLO THERE

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current interests: dispatch (especially sonar), cookie run kingdom, cookie run ovenbreak, fionna and cake, probably other things idk i forgot

[sprinklespiice]

i recently watched the backrooms and i really enjoyed it but it also rubbed me the wrong way because it really just ignores how clark's blackness would impact his behavior and story

(MAJOR SPOILERS WARNING)

clark is a black man (hold for applause). but not only that, this takes place in santa clara valley, california, during the 1980s-90s. this was a predominantly white area. there has historically been redlining and segregation in this area, particularly against it's very small black population.

i bring this up because clark's behavior throughout the movie does not reflect this at all. he is a businessman working in a predominantly white area, selling to white customers and employing them. yet, he is openly hostile and angry with the people around him. the culture and social rules would not allow him to find any measure of success with this behavior.

it feels like this role was written for a white man. or at least, a man in a monoracial community. the writing completely disregards any of the complex dynamics that a black person would have with working/living in a predominantly white community.

i know the movie wants me to see clark in the wrong, but i can't help but question it because im not blind to his race the way the writing is. i'm seeing that every single person he interacts with is white, that he has a failing business in a white community, that he wanted to pursue higher education but couldn't. his frustration, to me, comes from a very reasonable place. because I've felt that frustration. and i think many others in the black community have also felt that frustration.

the movie constantly tries to make the point that clark won't take responsibility for anything...which is really weird when you take into account that he is a black man in a society that Does bar him from achieving success! especially in an area that has a history of sidelining segregation laws and doing sketchy things for the sole purpose of putting people like him at a disadvantage. this doesn't mean he's completely exempt from the conseuqences of his actions or that he does no wrong, just that this feels like a bad point for a movie written by white people that mostly stars a white cast to make.

i think his relationship with his wife especially rubbed me the wrong way because i don't think it is a good idea to portray a black man abusing his white wife in this day and age. it's not that these kinds of relationships don't or have never existed, but that when you portray these things it doesn't exist in a vacuum. black men being accused of abusing and harassing white women is a very real rhetoric that has led to the murder and unjust arrest of many black men throughout history. i think it was irresponsible to portray an interracial relationship like this while not taking into account how that would impact their dynamic or how it might play into broader stereotypes and racist rhetoric.

i guess to sum up my point, raceblindness in writing is not a good thing. because, unfortunately, our societies and cultures are not raceblind. i liked the movie, and i was really happy to see a black horror protagonist get so much love, but after seeing it i'm wondering why it took said black protagonist being abusive and victimizing only white people for that to happen. it comes across as people liking a black character only when the effects of their blackness are entirely ignored.

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[t4timekeeper]

“we shouldn’t be holding indie creators to the same standards as bigger media“ i agree on principle but like this only seems to ever come up when the indie creator in question is being racist for some mysterious reason. So

[t4timekeeper]

idgaf if youre transgender stop saying the n word

[m-ndfang]

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

[colorisbyshe]

Seeing soooo many people bringing back the terms kiwifarms and lolcowing and dogpiling for the sole purpose of trying to stifle discussions of like… public figures publicly doing bad things

Reacting to bad behaviour with disgust and like… expressing said disgust isn’t lolcowing

And I think the people bringing back those terms know that and are intentionally using those words in bad faith. Just an attempt to guilt people into not criticizing someone they like

[colorisbyshe]

Lolcowing is digging through someone’s entire history—on and offline, often including doxxing not just of the individual but everyone in their sphere—to tear it all apart and dehumanize this person.

And it’s not done on Moral Grounds, lolcowing isn’t finding a bad person and mocking them, it is finding a person they find annoying and easy to target (ie marginalized people) and calling them slurs and maybe sometimes including times where they were morally bad as part of the whole “nitpicking their entire life” thing.

It’s a targeted, prolonged harassment campaign that is centralized in one place (like kiwifarms), though often parts of it is done less publicly, in an attempt to run someone off the internet and sometimes make them lose their job/prospects.

A subtweet is not lolcowing. Pointing out someone has done something wrong is not lolcowing. Not even YFIP posts of old are lolcowing, though they might come close depending on execution. Though, lolcowing would include being trans or a woman or autistic or black as “problematic,” so you understand how wide the schism is here.

They are hate campaigns, not just someone getting canceled for, idk, publicly admitting to being a lolicon or writing a racist book

[redstonedust]

big fan of when a character is dead and the narrative frames them in a very angelic, soft, gentle manner but then it turns out not only are they still alive (plot twist) but theyre alive in the most gruesome and horrific way. your loving kind mentor who motivates you to fight in their memory came back wrong and theres blood and dirt under their fingernails from clawing they way out of the grave.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[lustingfood]

Caramelized Onion & Chili Oil Pasta (x)

[sprinklespiice]

Hey so re: the "genuine racist" thing, that's a Midwest dialect quirk. It's not "there is genuine racism which is bad, and ingenuine racism which is fine," it's there for emphasis. It's like saying "are you seriously doing this right now?" Fills the same niche as "seriously."

I don’t think that’s really applicable here. I’m pretty sure a lot of people online also use genuine/genuinely in that same way, it’s not just a Midwestern dialect quirk. even I use it to give statements emphasis, same with seriously and actually.

the whole statement was “genuine racist hateful things”, not only genuine racist. it was used as part of a descriptor rather than emphasis. the same issue would still be there even if you replaced it with other words. to clarify, I don’t think this was some evil thought out racist plan of hers or anything, just a slip-up that I’ve seen many people with similar takes make when it comes to addressing racism

[milktea-grn]

caught up on bobs burgers and i miss my family

[sprinklespiice]

hello i am a random internet stranger and i wanted to talk about one of gooseworx's tweets bc this whole drama is really frustrating

ive noticed over the years that a lot of these sort of centrist edgy humor types like to create a false dichotomy between "real" racism and "fake" racism. other examples that come to mind are critikal and idubbbz.

i think the choice to differentiate "genuine" racism from "ingenuine" racism is very intentional, because she is well aware she has participated in racist jokes and behavior. so, like other content creators who have participated in racism and edgy humor, she has to draw a line between the real racists and the fake racists as a way of defending herself. either that or offload the responsibility to society/culture as a whole at the time (i.e., "no one cared about edgy humor back then," "everyone was doing it")

a lot of people have been using this tweet as proof that gooseworx is not racist. after all, how could she possibly be racist when she's taking such a clear stance against it? well, she isn't. she, like many other people, is acting like the only form of racism that matters is when it comes from a KKK member calling for black people to be lynched on the street.

making a statement like this is extremely surface level and safe. it's like someone saying they hate rapists in response to being accused of mocking sexual assault victims. that's not actually addressing the situation, all it is is an attempt to distance yourself from a group that is universally disliked. saying stuff like this is about as radical and supportive as saying "i hate people that are big meanie heads!"

on another note, one of the most frustrating things about calling out racism is how much people will cling to plausible deniability to make you out to be the unreasonable one. they will constantly beat around racist talking points, but stay just vague enough that if you say anything they can frame you as being the unreasonable one for noticing the underlying intent of what they're saying. they can berate you for being mad over a shortened form of the word "negative," because clearly that's what they were laughing about when they kept repeating the word "nega." it has nothing to do with the fact that it sounds like the n-word. in fact, multiple characters are called nega! clearly they were laughing about nega-eggman, you dumbass! yeah, it's just the whole "i'm not touching you" argument.

and before someone brings up the "it was xyz years ago" argument, i do think people can change. what i dont believe is that content creators that refuse to give up their platform after using it to perpetuate racism, whether intentional or not, have really changed as much as they insist they have. especially when they've done no active work to make up for those behaviors outside of toning it down so they don't get flack for it.

you dont need a social media presence to live. you dont need to be an internet microcelebrity. plenty of people live their day-to-day lives as average joe internet nobodies. if you have proven yourself irresponsible, just leave. you can improve and become a better person Outside of the internet.

[black-fandom-culture-is]

Something that deeply unnerves me, and likely a lot of my audience too, is how often people bring up the fact that Gooseworx is a trans woman, as if that somehow excuses her behaviors recently with the "nega" jokes and her old, frankly disturbing, tweets.

Marginalized identity is not a shield against accountability. She is still a white person, and being queer does not exempt anyone from perpetuating anti-black racism. This situation alone shows a desperate need for a BASIC understanding of intersectionality.

Being a woman does not erase her white privilege. Being a trans woman does not exempt her from anti-black behavior. Neither is calling those things out misogynist or transphobic.

And even if she weren't white, like the friends she was laughing with, identity defenses still fail: being a POC person doesn't erase anti-blackness when you are not a Black person. Non-black POC people can, and absolutely do, perpetuate anti-black racism.

P.S.

Now that we have heard gangle is revealed be Indian (or black, mixed reporting).. lots of questions as to why exactly your (you, Gooseworx) self insert, Jax, is so comfortable humiliating and harming gangle who is found out to be that in your canon...

Feels like another Vox and Rosie thing with Alastor situation that Viziepop suspiciously of her only black ace character.

But I digress...

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[sprinklespiice]

i think it would have been a lot better if soul jam was just what caused the CRK timeline to exist rather than being an essential part of cookiekind.

like maybe the witches created them to govern and shape cookie society specifically, rather than the flow of the world in general. perhaps the other timelines didn't because they wanted to see the cookies develop independently. also, the dragons and guardians should be significantly stronger than them (beasts included!)

[venusmage]

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