[stventricle]

blake ✦ 27 ✦ black ✦ any pronouns

❥ basic dni + no minors please

❥ currently rolling ldpdl between my molars

❥ please do not repost my art without my permission

have you done your daily clicks?

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[feluka]

July disability pride month. Please don't forget about disabled Gazans.

Noor's little boy, Muhammed, is physically disabled. His condition is worsening as he is unable to get the regular physical therapy he requires while his family is barely able to keep shelter. He is regularly missing his medication which is scarcely available at too high a price.

This July, can we please give their fundraiser the push it desperately needs?

Vetted at #421

[idktbhlols-stuff]

lwk broke and im kinda pregnant at like 16 (which i didn’t want) (tumblr plz don’t nuke me)

i will be opening drum roll please

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EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS!!!

here’s some examples of stuff i make

ok bye

[coldeveryseason]

crossposting this here- life got in the way for both @reticentvampyr and me so we had to delay our plans for this but it'd still be a cool idea to do a louis and claudia/jacob and delainey appreciation week to fundraise for a charity supporting black dv survivors. channel this energy into some material good yk

[blackjame]

https://www.instagram.com/staydancingdave/?hl=en

Patricide (Button Poetry)

Dave Harris, 2019. Harris' stellar debut collection of poetry takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity.

Kearney Blvd. | A. Zell Williams | Substack

I'm A. Zell Williams and Kearney Blvd. was the first place I called home, hints the name. I'm a playwright, TV writer, podcaster, a dog dad,

https://www.instagram.com/azellwill/

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[jeunesseoubliee]

A gothic horror show with a chilling twist: the horror is reserved exclusively for the Black characters.

Are you into watching Black characters suffer for no reason other than shock value? Are you into watching Black characters be tortured, then made to apologize to their abusers? Are you into Black characters being told that slavery is in their DNA? Are you into watching Black characters be branded like cattle by their torturer and abuser? Are you into watching Black characters be brutalized, humiliated, and blamed for their own suffering? Do you enjoy victim-blaming? What about abuse apologia? Are you drawn to narratives that seem more interested in excusing these things than condemning them?

If so, then The Vampire Lestat, streaming on AMC+, is the show for you. You'll love it.

And don't feel bad. After all, it's just fiction, and fiction has nothing to do with the real world. We all live in a vacuum, right?

[tv-kiki]

with few exceptions we have only seen black characters graphically get brutalized. they had closeups of louis’s body and face after lestat tried to murder him showing the extent of what was done, we saw just how burned and disfigured he was after her suicide attempt, claudia’s death is one of the most graphic i’ve seen on any tv show, we got closeups of their ankles slashed and shots of louis being kicked in the head and claudia being shoved into a box of live rats by the coven members. the majority of louis’s scenes in episode 7 were of his decapitated head on a pike, forced to look at his body as it flailed, begging to die, forced to apologize in something so close to a saw trap that it was bordering on copyright infringement while being painted as cruel and deserving of the abuse and then branded by armand.

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

the extent of what we saw of the brutality of black characters now feels almost fetishistic. at the end of episode 105, lestat is floating in the air looking dreamy and louis is beaten to a pulp on the ground; episode 207, lestat is put together in a suit with his hair done and louis and claudia have been severely beaten. like, after this season, the rest of the show just looks weird.

[stventricle]

Claudia wasn’t at the table at all…you have to fucking laugh

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"Claudia isn’t here because she’s said all she had to say" how convenient

[stventricle]

And then you brought Paul back just to comfort him there are no words

[stventricle]

Claudia wasn’t at the table at all…you have to fucking laugh

[certifiedlurker]

incredibly sorry for the black writers and directors of the previous two seasons who thought they were building something. I am so sorry that your work was not respected and now dismissed by this new season. I am so sorry that the love and care with which you crafted the characters, especially of Louis and Claudia was so resented that the current writers' room chose to dilute all. I am so sorry that you are having to see the anti blackness in full force on a formerly black led show and everything you worked on- your vision- it was all wiped off. I am so sorry to Jacob and Delainey for having to work with those scripts.

[lolitamadeo]

she would not fucking say that like im sorry amc stripping claudia down to only her most miserable qualities & the fanonized version of her saying that she hated louis more than the men who raped & lynched & violently abused her what bc louis was weak & pathetic? thats fucking disgusting im sorry. thats absolutely disgusting. trying to burn out all the love from louclaudias relationship & skimming over lestat helping mind u LYNCH HER. what the actual holy fuck

[stventricle]

oh I get it now this isn’t the Lestat show this is actually the frame the abuse victim that we’ve followed for the last two seasons in the worst possible light at every turn show. What a creative and meaningful way to engage with all the groundwork we’ve laid out for years how could I or anyone else have ever written anything this high quality just stellar television all around 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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[youmustdotime]

feather limbed lovers

[crithir]

Another thing I haven’t forgotten about

This is a screenshot of a video story in which Ryan Kattner ~joked~ about how this shirt is “controversial” and that costume designer Lex Wood was “trying to get him canceled”

And yes, Salamander is actually wearing this shirt in the show during the Big Boss scene in e4, it’s just hard to see it clearly because of a vest and the guitar