#afr

[forgedblack]

[louis-of-nola]

Not all interpretations & analyses of media are valid. You should be able to support your assertions about themes and characters with textual and/or contextual evidence; if you cannot, then your interpretation/analysis says more about you than the source material.

If you did not form your conclusions using textual or contextual evidence, then you must have gotten them somewhere else (be it from the fandom or your own personal biases).

So, of course, when you have an interpretation of a marginalized character that cannot be substantiated with evidence & just so happens to align with historical and popular biases against the marginalized character's identity, I am going to think your interpretations have very little to do with the source material & the character themselve and much more to do with your own personal biases and/or the biases of the fandom.

Because, If you didn't get that interpretation of the black character as an angry irrational liar or a hypermasculine brute or a bumbling clown or a self-sacrificing mammy or manipulative Jezebel from the text (please cite your sources), where did you get it from?

[solaeclipse]

SoHo, New York City.

[tozettastone]

This ad from the Australian Financial Review has a caption that reads "Markets shift. Forecasts turn. Margins matter. Staying informed isn't optional — it's an edge."

To me (as a copywriter, for whatever that's worth), this screams automatically generated text —

"Nouns verb. Nouns verb. Nouns verb." appearing in a set of three.

"It's not X, it's Y."

There's no strong conceptual relationship between something being "optional" and something being or not being "an edge" — these are presented as opposites, but they aren't.

... similarly, what's the relationship between "(economic) forecasting" and "turning"? You had two words and those were the ones you picked?

But I guess my question is: why would a paper that prides itself on snobbery lower itself to autogenerated ad text? Does it know CEOs can't read?

[pinkpaletta]

Drawing ocs in cute outfits I find online is extremely therapeutic and everyone should do it

[peculiar-shardscape]

I FORGOT YALL EXIST HERE hi here’s some dumb stuff i made for an upcoming Adventure Forward Rewrite ive been indulging in lately :] (theres extra images at the bottom of the document btw)

[414graffiti]

Shorewood, WI - May 8, 2025

[eurafricafetish]

African American girls are so Beautiful.

So cute.