#racial issues

[grumpysskatesncrafts]

quarterly reminder to the white folk that just because you know racism is bad doesn’t mean you’ve stopped internalizing racist standards or ideals

take some time to consider the racial biases society has conditioned you to subconsciously subscribe to and have a good day 👍

[murfpersonalblog]

IWTVL S3 Ep6 Musings - ghost!Claudia & Merrick

My strongest emotion this episode: The thing I EFFING HATE most about this is season is how GabriellA takes up TOO. MUCH. SPACE.

THAT'S IT?! 😡💢 That's all either of you have to say?! Y'all just aren't gonna talk about Claudia cussing y'all out AT ALL?!

WHO CAAAARES!? 🙄 AMC had the nerve to have Loustat sit on that park bench & INSTANTLY start talking about EFFING GABRIELLA again, like OMFG!?And STILL not even properly explain HER, either?! Loustat just goes: Welp! that was that! Claudia's miserable alone in Hell & she hates us--so, how about that incest~?! 🤦‍♂️

The seance should've been its own episode; the same way the Trial was--that y'all STILL haven't discussed yet WTF?!

Y'all aren't gonna let Lestat explain his BIGGEST sin against Claudia?!

WTF did this even mean?!

Why is she bringing up Antoinette & Tom Anderson in the Trial? (Tom Anderson wasn't even mentioned during the Trial--the projection was WRONG because it OMITTED Tom; and just showed Lestat with a bottle of poison, no Tom Anderson at all. 🤨) What else did Lestat make up in the script? (I mean, yeah, he lied on her A LOT, about her having a defect & not mentioning Charlie & burning herself just for attention & etc etc; but what else is she getting at here? 🤔)

Merrick!Claudia opened talking to Louis, but she KEPT looking directly at Lestat; cuz that's how she DIED, staring HIM down:

And like Delainey said, Claudia died not knowing for sure if Lestat loved her at all. She KNEW Louis loved her, but Lestat was a giant question mark. So IMO this CAN'T be the end of the Claudia chapter, because we STILL have no answer for WTF Lestat was actually up to in Paris, before, after--or heck, DURING--the Trail. WHY didn't he warn Louis & Claudia (or even Madeleine)? WHY didn't he torch the Theatre during those rehearsals? Is ghost!Claudia right, that he let them get kidnapped & tortured & lynched ON PURPOSE, for revenge? Or is she wildin TF out for all the wrong reasons?

Loustat said Claudia spared them the ambiguity, but I wholeheartedly disagree--there's ambiguity up & down the whole seance, cuz it seems to me like ghost!Claudia literally doesn't know WTF she's talking about. And I feel it in my bones that AMC's gonna reveal that Lestat was forced to be in that Trial against his will, now more than ever; specifically because he's REFUSED to say ish about it this whole time, all season, even when Louis accused him in 3x2 and now Claudia's accusing him in 3x6. 💀 So either Lestat did all that ish in the Trial on purpose, OR there's no objective truth here and ghost!Claudia's WRONG. Which one is it? 🤔

This deeply bothers me, cuz I don't think Lestat's "hallucinations" were him just going crazy--there's clearly some level of clairvoyance going on with "my first soul...the oracle" Baby Jenks, plus Magnus predicting "the Drummer" TC being turned, plus bb!Lestat predicting that Louis would call. SOMETHING special is going on with these visions, cuz they KNOW things. But CLAUDIA doesn't know A LOT. 👀 I think her ghost's just lashing out cuz she's assuming the worst about her p.o.s. fathers, BECAUSE they chose each other over her again--or so she thinks. 👀

Cuz she IMMEDIATELY opened with this:

It instantly reminded me of this fanart I recently reblogged, cuz I had a gut feeling it was gonna be relevant:

Cuz Louis's always been a Pick Me to Claudia, constantly pickling some trifling man over her; and she told him so to his face in 2x1 AND 2x4 AND 2x7.

So I KNEW seeing Loustat "together" again was gonna piss her off. And again: she's making assumptions, cuz they're NOT even together! (But they WANT to be, ofc--trailer parks in Utah, bleh.)

As for the lashings themselves; the way people were talking; I actually expected FAR worse. 😅

I thought AMC was gonna stick to the books and STAB Louis; tryna kill him for good the way book!Claudia's poltergeist did. Instead she just smacked him upside the head--or rather, the glass of alcohol did.

Cuz like I suspected, there was nothing in ghost!Claudia's truthbombs that we hadn't already heard in some shape or form from Claudia in S2 already.

In Season 1? This isn't true; her diaries during The Easy Times explicitly said what she thought about Louis & Lestat--BEFORE everything went to Hell post-Charlie.

But in Season 2? ABSOLUTELY. Delainey already explained the complexities of this during S2. Esp. since Claudia's exasperation was loud & clear, which Daniel called out himself in 1x7, that she hated Louis' guts by the time they got to Europe.

"Slave" & the Train Scene

Her repeatedly calling Louis a slave GAVE ME LIFE--that's precisely what she repeatedly said about him and "Massa" Lestat in S1; and THEE most consistent thing that came out of her mouth.

All the hype over the Train Scene, only for it to not be revisited at all to prove that NONE of it "NEVER" happened; and for her to literally confirm what I BEEN said:

Threatening to "do WORSE than rape" is NOT the same as threatening TO rape; or threatening her WITH rape! 🤦‍♂️ This does NOT prove that NOTHING from that Train Scene never happened. It just confirms that Louis wasn't there, and HE never lied on Lestat at all ("cancerous jackal" WHOMST?). Claudia HATED Lestat, and SOMETHING went down after the Bench Scene; that made up her mind to get Louis to join her Murder Plot to KILL Lestat. 🤷‍♂️ Her liking Lestat more or less is immaterial to the FACT that there is no "proof" of LesDaughter bullcrap that she never wanted Lestat dead or "she hated him for no reason" in Rue Royale. No, she hated Lestat for VERY valid reasons CUZ SHE THOUGHT HE WAS AN ABUSER AND LOUIS WAS HIS SLAAAAAAVE; so she used underhanded tactics to beat him--BRAVO, I say! 👏😤 KILL HIM AGAIN!

"Nappy Little Head"

Which is precisely why the "nappy" line makes no sense. I might have to make a separate post about it, cuz it's mighty hypocritical of her to call Louis' head nappy, considering the GODAWFUL straightened weaves & wigs AMC had S2 Claudia in with those Caucasian AF Victory Rolls--in direct contrast with what Bailey said about S1 Claudia REFUSING to conform to white beauty standards by straightening her hair with product; and in contrast to everything said I myself about Louis who DID conform to white beauty standards and processed his hair all the way up until the 1970s (during the Black Power Movement when Black people finally started embracing their natural hair and being proud of their afros). S2 Claudia was conforming to white standards the whole time she was in Paris; hence: THE COVEN. She felt ashamed of her Blackness in Paris her daggone self, so coming at Louis tryna check him on his coonery rings hollow when she straightened her hair too. Clearly the writers didn't think this line through, OR it's just another testament to ghost!Claudia not knowing WTF she's talking about cuz she's not legit at all. 🤔

Killing Louis

She also contradicted herself when she said she didn't kill Louis cuz she doesn't want him stuck with her. That actually makes no sense. Cuz she's all alone in Hell--no Madeleine, no nothing (she almost made me CRY, you better ACT, Delainey! 😭👌). So if damned souls are alone in limbo/oblivion, then it doesn't matter if she kills Louis or not.

ghost!Claudia's Hell is literal Vampire Loneliness: vampires have NO ONE when they die. They're DAMNED: ALONE & forsaken in the pit. All they have is companionship ON EARTH. There's NOTHING beyond it. So Claudia wouldn't be with Madeleine or Louis or Lestat or anyone when she died--that's the whole point. 🤷‍♂️

So I'm unconvinced that that's the real reason she didn't let Louis die--but I ALSO believe that she never called Louis' name in the first place. I DO think he was tweaking TF out cuz of his PTSD & "crippling guilt."

I think these lines are gonna be MIGHTY relevant when Akasha starts really talking-talking ("It's not the blood, it's what you do with it!"); Loustat both constantly using a woman as an excuse for their BS--Louis with Claudia, and Lestat with Gabs/Akasha/Antoinette/etc.

TL;DR: I'm unconvinced, fam 🤷‍♂️

I seriously suspect that ghost!Claudia is yet another manifestation of their shared guilt ("dress on the wall, song on the radio")--just like Louis explained about DreamStat at the very start of the episode.

And I think Lestat was right, that the wind blowing and items smashing was misleading--esp. since the dress kept returning right back where it was every time she disappeared--in or OUT of the circle.

So it's not that I DON'T think there wasn't something preternatural afoot with ghost!Claudia--but I doubt it's as simple as accepting ANY of the hallucinations/ghosts at face value--even book!Merrick warned against fully trusting ghost!Claudia. 😬 So I'm still waiting on AMC to give us the deets on the Trial, before I make up my mind about whether ghost!Claudia was real; let alone if Merrick (of all people--read the book, cuz she's evil--but granted, that could've just been Anne Rice being racist AF making the voodoo practitioner a giant con artist jezebel) is legit or not. 🤷‍♂️

All in all, I'm not disappointed or upset by the seance at all--esp. since I expected way worse. And Delainey already said what I already know to be true: ghost!Claudia is NOT the full breadth & depth of the REAL Claudia's feelings for EITHER of her fathers.

She's an ugly mirror held up to Loustat's faces, and they needed to hear that ish, truth or not. Whether she understands the full depth & breath of THEIR love for HER or not--or what REALLY went down at Rue Royale, Paris, the Trial, etc. At the end of the day, she's angry cuz she's HURT. Facts are irrelevant, FEELS are everything. Cuz she felt like neither one of them loved her enough--and they didn't. 😔 So I can't even get mad at anything she said, not really.

I'm more concerned about the overall writing/organization of the episode itself, cuz it was messy AF; with A LOT of dangling threads that worry me if AMC actually thinks they're in any way "done" with Claudia now. 😬

I think AMC rushed getting the Claudia situation squared away, so that Loustat could move on to The Plot™ of whatever TF DM is up to, without the loose thread of their dead daughter still not being addressed as we the audience get swept up in the consequences of the Great Conversion & Akasha's awakening. The pacing was terrible.

Like I said, the seance should've been its own episode, a la 2x7. The Daniel Dinner, Brutal Love, the Lioncest Reveal, all of that should've been its own ep AFTER 3x6, to give Claudia's fallout time to breathe and be absorbed & processed by Loustat, before they'll inevitably be distracted/preoccupied by their effing decapitation.

(I'm also BIG mad that we were robbed of Lestat & Cortland Mayfair meeting, omfg I KNOW those two queens would've been hilarious.)

[nagi-kirima-style-cateran]

There’s a tendency is some progressive circles to enforce racial hierarchy of moral damages. Not dissimilar to the class hierarchy in the weregild system.

I was once told Poe’s racism against the Dutch wasn’t a valid criticism of one of his stories because the Dutch were involved in colonialism in Indonesia. Sure the Dutch East Indies company perpetrated a lot of war crimes but that was irrelevant to the question of Poe’s use of ethnic stereotypes. It’s the same vain as claiming Christianity as a whole is a fascist ideology but dismissing almost identical ideology in right wing Islam as is found in right wing Christianity.

I think it’s this way of looking at social problems that lead to the amount of Nazi talking points about Jews being adopted in communist circles. If Nazis claim that Jews are privileged in capitalism then any attack against Jews isn’t worthy of the weregild of community support or community retribution. It’s certainly an interesting problem with this system that I wouldn’t have anticipated.

However I’m also fascinated by the similarities to the weregild system despite such a system not being used in Europe for probably a thousand years there must be something about it attractive to i assume a white mostly Anglo-American political culture.

[hudconbeliever]

In defense of Hudson

Ok so, this youtuber (D'Angelo Wallace) has made a video in defense of Hudson. He's a very good youtuber, he talks about serious stuff but also silly stuff. He's also a poc and a couple of years ago he was racially bullied online so much that he had to close all his accounts and both his youtube channels bcs he was receiving death threats, so he clearly knows what's happening with Hudson.

I was really really scared of checking the comments... But I was so happy to discover the majority of them are DEFENDING Huddy (even a few Jewish people). People outside of Twitter and threads believe in Hudson's innocence and good faith. The GP is not that stupid and malleable, thank Goodness!!!!

The person who published that picture on threads (the profile name is @truthsosad please report it) should be INVESTIGATED and CHARGED for racial discrimination, attack on reputation and psychological damage and arrested 😡😡😡 but American/Canadian laws suck so it never will happen and this person will go on with their life like they did nothing...

Anyway, go give D'Angelo a thumbs up and leave a comment in defence of our boy ❤️❤️

[fandomluver-101]

Being Black or any POC and having White friends is fucking difficult. We have to make so many concessions for even the racially aware and accepting of the bunch.

Because I should NOT have to go line for line to defend why I don't like any White-washed Heathcliff and I shouldn't have to educate people about history and prove that it's possible for Heathcliff, who is treated the way he is for his race, to NOT BE WHITE, that him being a White man RUINS the entire story while simultaneously ignoring it.

Nor why I didn't support the Hunger Games when it was in theaters and am still annoyed whenever Rue comes up because she was ALWAYS Black the same way Katniss and Gale and HAYMITCH were NEVER White. That my issue with Amandla as Rue was that she wasn't DARK ENOUGH because she is DARK in the books, the same shade as Thresh. And Katniss and Gale, most of D12 in fact, should've been played by NATIVE AMERICANS or someone who wasn't pale skinned White when the Hunger Games is ABOUT CLASS and their skin color and features are IMPORTANT TO THE STORY!

Nor why I don't like vampires made Confederates for the sole purpose of being a fucking Confederate and then treated by the narrative that it's just FINE, that no one questions them ok their past and those that do are admonished or condemned for it!

Nor why I stopped watching anything MCU and have given up on MANY live action adaptations of comic books because Magneto, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Nightwing, Talia al Ghul, Hellboy, DOOM, none of these characters are WHITE. Why should I just be fine a White person is playing them, erasing them!? Ed Skrein backed out of playing Hellboy BECAUSE he knew it was whitewashing! Why the actual FUCK do people just accept White Dick Grayson as if him being Roma isn't part if his story, like it doesn't influence EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS BACKSTORY (because yes, it DOES)

Nor why I HATE all the adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess" because Sara Crewe is legit described as having a "little brown hand" and a "small dark face," she becomes insecure and finds herself unattractive because the White girls around her are fair skinned with lighter hair and eye colors - and these adaptations strip that away and make her White when she SHOULD BE INDIAN!

Nor why a Black, dark skinned Green Lantern being played by a lighter Black man is still a problem because when we get ANY representation, it gets filtered through all the systematic racism and colorism enforced by society at large. Because yes, I'm happy for Aaron - but I'm also pissed that a character created for the sole purpose of showcasing a dark skinned character in a time where every non-White character was lighter than a brown paper bag AND KEPT DARK DESPITE BACKLASH THE WHITE CREATOR FACED is being lightened up.

Having to explain shit like this over and over, having to hear "but there's a lot representation" is pissing me off. Why the fuck are people allowed to be upset about characters they decided to imagine as White in their heads when THEY'RE NOT, why are people allowed to claim they can't recognize with Rue's death because "oh no, she's a Black girl, I imagined her as pale and blonde" and they're appeased by the masses, but I can't complain about color erasure!?

[digitalinfernofox]

Avoid Fable's iSluts Server - Masterpost

I've had a lot to say on the subject that the In Sluts and Time Server is not a safe place to be. It turned out to be much more than a post or two could cover, so I've had to lay out a lot more of it this way.

If you prefer reading on google docs, including the transcripts and image descriptions, you can read the full script here.

Posts in Order:

Avoid Fable's iSluts Server - Part 1 A Warning About Circusfable - Part 2 * Clarifications -> Server reaction to Part 1 - Full Transcript * Context -> Reaction to The Bitter Ocean Situation -> MiraDile Fairy AU and its Racial Implications * Lost Trust in Fable - Mod Leaves -> The Big Dogpile - Full Transcript * The Non-Apology -> The Apology Meeting - Transcript A Warning About Circusfable - Part 3 * The Truth About the Ex-Mod's Departure A Warning About Circusfable - Part 4 * Final Recap * Resolution * Words of Advice

Edit: Please note, this is NOT an encouragement or invitation to harass members from the isluts server, including Fable. This was originally to warn people about the dangers and harassment in the server that I and several other anon members witnessed or experienced.

Please note that as of June 17, Fable has deleted their tumblr and left isluts. The server is under new management and I genuinely hope they foster a better environment than what it had become.

To everyone who has struggled or been afraid of speaking up, I hope you find some peace. And to those who have left the server, taken a break, or pulled back for the sake of their safety and mental health, I genuinely wish you the best.

Be safe out there.

[this-is-whitemisia]

welcome to this-is-whitemisia

whitemisia: negative attitudes, hostility, or unfair treatment directed at white or white-passing people specifically because of their perceived race, coined by @taboowinters winterpunk ❄️: our operational definition of winterpunk is an anti-racist and anti-racial-supremacy movement aiming to destigmatize being proud of being pale-skinned. it's also about destigmatizing white guilt, fear of poc, and racial anxiety,

rules

pro palestine, anti ai, anti transmed

radqueer/syscourse/shipcourse neutral, no opinion and anyone is welcome here

please do not be whitemisic of course

inspired by blogs such as @this-is-ageism @this-is-classism @this-is-deformimisia @this-is-ableism-proper @this-is-depressiomisia

mods

mod aeryn (she/it/snow) - lightskinned french and native (1/8th cherokee) american, disabled so responses might be slow

mod leuko (they/them, tme) - working class eastern european brit

mod ivory - (it/he/they) irish-italian german american whose ancestors have been prosecuted on basis of race, minor

[rictthesilly]

am I the only one concerned that since tadc episode nine is releasing on juneteenth (I believe it is. Correct me if im wrong) the holiday will be almost completely thrown under the bus in favor of tadc?

like i like tadc, but I also know that the majority of the fans are white, and the primary fanbase is on tumblr. Which is also majorly white. And I think that could have some, annoying affects on such an important date to black Americans

[ note since someones informative tag reminded me: im not accusing the glitch/tadc team of doing this on purpose , i just noticed an overlap ]