#no definitely not... that can't happen...

[linka-from-captain-planet]

Ashley Williams x Sam Traynor (I have a vision)

[turtledotjpeg]

replayed mnogii a few months ago when the bonkles first wormed their way back into my mind and there were so many cute things I forgot about (or never encountered, because I never actually got past ga-koro before lol)

[sysig]

Can we please have Gaster and Asgore sleeping together? Not voluntarily, maybe something like, they stayed up late in the living room. Maybe Gaster was reading something while Asgore was watching TV. Something completely accidental but at the same time adorable, haha. Something like a sleepover, I guess, lol.

Day 18 - Double dad nappage

[tainebot01]

The metanarrative ridiculousness of all the speculation surrounding The Girl in the prophecy and trying to identify which of the characters we know is supposed to be The Girl based on a simple silhouette - as in, trying to match several incredibly complex characters to an ancient two dimensional mould and seeing if you can get them to fit - is not lost on me.

[infiniteglitterfall]

"blood quantum" vs "one drop"

These are core tools white supremacy uses to dictate who is and isn't white.

During European colonization and enslavement,

African Americans were categorized according to the “one-drop rule,” where one-sixteenth African ancestry might have qualified one as Black. Native Americans, on the other hand, were codified using blood quantum, where one-quarter Native American ancestry might not have been enough to designate a person as Indigenous. ...Both constructions of race were tied to European economic realities, [Dr. Belén] Unzueta says. “African Americans were exploited for labor, while Native Americans were exploited for land. If you’re looking to exploit land, it’s better for people to disappear. If you’re looking to exploit labor, it’s better if the population grows.”

Here in the U.S. -- and in American-dominated spaces, like academic publishing and much of the Anglophone internet -- our understanding of oppression is still centered on controlling categories.

White supremacists focus on silencing discussion of oppression, and erasing oppressed groups.

Opponents of white supremacy often focus on which groups "count." Which ones are oppressed enough to matter. Based mainly on vibes.

The system imposed on Native Americans, blood quantum, was a way to diminish the number of Natives to whom the government owed something in exchange for land.

-- Kliph Nesteroff, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy

Any system of "who counts" that isn't based on listening to a group about their personal experiences of oppression is just oppression quantum.

[annabelle--cane]

according to some sources real asexuality has never been tried

[joyfuladorable]

When you've all been missing and separated for months and months and finally get back home only to be wanted criminals and then heroes and then be sucked into multiversal nonsense and also your dad's alive again but you haven't kept your big sister in the loop and now you're too scared to talk to her. Oops!

[lilianade-comics]

Thinking about how Dani's episode is called Kindred Spirits, which implies that her unique narrative role is to mirror Danny and act as a foil to him, and then the episode is like "Here's some ✨superficial similarities✨. She is now going to leave the plot entirely and be 💖homeless💖"