#we still exist

[l-the-alien]

Hey, just a reminder,

Just because LGBTQ+ pride month is technically over doesn't mean we disappear.

The companies will take down their rainbows, their pride merch will go on sale, but we're still here.

Just because pride month is over doesn't mean we cease to exist.

Continue to be openly and unapologetically queer if you're able to, now more than ever.

We're still here, we still deserve our sunshine.

And happy disability pride month to everyone as well.

[thequintessentialquest]

[unsp0k3n-desires]

alleawame te ho’emiam taewai!

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ✊❣️we ain’t going nowhere.

[dumbputalostheraccount]

had to endure having a stereotypical racist white man tell me the aztecs are dead and that they never had descendants or anything of that nature and that they spoke azteca, and every time i corrected him he just got angrier to the point i had to come up with an excuse quickly because i felt he was going to become violent..

first of all the aztecs were an empire, not people, the mexica were and still are the people. the mexica spoke nahuatl, not “azteca”, azteca is not a language. mexica are a sub group of the nahua people, the nahua people are called nahua because the language we speak is nahuatl. we don’t have the common U.S system where we have tribes or clans, we have pueblos (and even then so many have been lost and erased) which are territories of where our people lived. we still exist. we are still here. the teachers that go preaching in classrooms “the aztecs all died” are wrong. history being taught is whitewashed and always has been. it needs to change. we were enslaved, murdered, and raped, most of us are mixed, and it was never a choice, with the way history is taught today most mixed indigenous people (specially nahua) are told we no longer exist and are told that they are not native when in fact they are. there’s more of us then people realize, more then most of us even realize, especially when we’re taught to mark “white” on censuses, when we’re taught we’re a dead group anyways so not to bother, when we’re taught that we’re barbaric and savage. it was genocide then. it’s still genocide now. we are still being actively erased, even when we’re standing directly in front of you, as i’ve experienced tonight clearly.

black people recognize me as latina, natives recognize me as native, latinos recognize me as latina, asians recognize me as latina, white people are the only ones that don’t recognize me as something fully nonwhite, they only recognize me as something exotic and mixed, but never fully white and it’s obvious, my color fluctuates but currently i am pretty lightskin now and i have green eyes so white people think they can get away with shit in front of me because they don’t think i’m connected enough to my culture(s) and connected enough to myself to say anything, the problem isn’t that they think im also fully white, the problem is that they are openly racist and hateful, and even more racist and hateful around those that can be seen as atleast half white to them. they still think they are superior, and some of these allies out here think like that too and don’t realize it. i’ve had white friends that know i’m native and they would still call hangouts “powwows”, they would mock native dances and native singing, they would ask me disrespectful questions fueled by misinformation and carelessness as if it was everyday knowledge, asking me “oh my god, did your people really cut hearts out and sacrifice people?? that really is so barbaric, i can’t believe that!, your so calm and reserved for being a descendant of people like that!” you believe the colonized classroom knowledge you were taught, and it’s led to me getting in some verbal and physical fights before, i am no longer friends with people like that, i don’t want to hear how i’m reserved and calm when my ancestors were like that.. i’m sorry becky, i don’t like being talked about as if i was a literal animal. and sacrifices were always consensual and sacred for the person being sacrificed and everyone else in the pueblo, unless it was an enemy of the empire the person being sacrificed had a choice, it was a sacred important role and a very honored role. so white people.. LISTEN TO THIS. and also no one owes you any info about their indigeneity unless they offer it, and in that case be respectful and be willing to listen. you tried to eliminate us once, do not do it again, in any form. do not silence us. and when we call you out on something do not get defensive, listen, accept it, take it in and figure out why it bothered you being called out and then fix it to the best of your ability.

[never-go-out-of-swift]

I hope everyone (not just us south asian swifties) would agree that we need to make the reputation tour happen in our countries because we also deserve it like how 😩 can 😩 I 😩 stress 😩 this 😩 enough 😩

[finemanegemmy]

Just a reminder that The Crystal Family still exists

And we also have a wikia. Would be really helpful if we could have some people to help us out with it. 

 http://the-crystal-family.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crystal_Family_Wiki 

@p3p0t0 - Vladimirite

@lilac-bloom - Celestine

@megademencia - Margaritasite 

@scrabdoodle - Kutnohorite

We also have a discord pm me if u wanna join

[clickforbehaviour]

So...

I just added a shit ton of photos to the queue. Basically just a lot of stuff I’ve taken in the past few months and never posted. Depression made it hard to go out and take photos... and keep up with social media... but ehh.

[glosssed]

Anti said makorra shippers are basically nonexistent now and called that a beautiful thing, but I hate to burst your bubble, I don’t think the makorra fandom is nonexistent. I think it’s just dormant. Most shippers are either underground or only casually visible, like I am. My personal theory is that the biggest reason it’s stayed dormant is the lack of active fan artists. Artists create the content that gives people something to engage with, rally around, and get excited about. Without a steady stream of new fan art, a lot of shippers stay underground until someone sparks the fandom again by creating it.

It only went dormant because the artists we did have eventually left. This is just my personal opinion, not a fact or me speaking for them, but I think some probably left because of the embarrassment or hate, while others may have realized they were lesbian or bisexual themselves and naturally gravitated toward the canon ship. Those are just my theories. Once the artists left, the fans who mainly consumed content were left with nothing new to engage with, so many of them gradually drifted away because they no longer had artists to rally behind.

But I still think the mass harassment played a bigger role in why it became dormant. Back then, antis flooded the makorra tag with hate so much that some shippers felt the need to create a separate space just to safely post about the ship. The harassment definitely contributed, and that was honestly a big reason I left the fandom for almost a decade until I finally felt comfortable coming back.