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Zeo. 36. any pronouns. they/them preferred. I'm an adult, it's an adult place. NO CHILDREN. Children blocked on sight. Ageless blogs not allowed. Go away. This is a polycircus friendly space. I want my clowns to smooch each other.

[thehealingplum]

My emotions are a mess right now... someone who has been a peer support specialist for a while told me that i would be a great peer support specialist despite me currently feeling like i... mean nothing to the world. It's always so confusing when people believe in me. They don't see all the ugly sides of me so I'm just worried I'll let people down....

I just want the best for people and I'm... not the best. Never was. Never will be.

[thethreetomes]

If you like These types of shows.

You'll like The Three Tomes! Check out the Animatic Pilot on Youtube and KICKSTARTER FOR EPISODE 2 LAUNCHES JUNE 19TH The disposable Black girlfriend, the undate-able Black girl, " why is a Black person in ( insert fantasy story) , that's unrealistic!". Let's smash these tropes into the dust. Tammy Harris was just an ordinary 17 year old girl in the 2010s midwest. Then one night while making a short horror film with her best friend Sia, she gains the powers of a witch from an ancient tome with spirits inside. Now she'll have to capture them and face off against a mysterious foe that sends its vampire minions after her and her friends. However...she'll have to try to not fall in love with two vampires along the way. Will Tammy and Sia’s friendship survive this supernatural summer, and will Tammy's romantic endeavors with two vampires be more than she can handle? A Bi4bi romance between teen two vampires and a teen witch, a sapphic romance between a human nb teen and a lesbian witch, a gay romance between two adult vampires. And an overall story about dealing with grief, and coming to terms with changes in your life as people come and go .. and grow. A queer YA coming of age story about a black magical girl witch , and vampire romance awaits. Check out the Trailer for episode 1/The Pilot now and give the full episode a watch if you like it!

Follow the Pre-launch page on kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thethreetomes/the-three-tomes-episode-2-a-vampire-romantasy-animatic?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=The%20Three%20Tomes%20&total_hits=1

[creatingblackcharacters]

Itd be cool to see more Black characters in all sorts of stories, but are there any roles/genres/story types(?) that you yourselves would personally be especially excited to see more well written Black characters in? (also interested in the answers to this from the Black readership of this blog in the replies ofc)

This is no reflection on you personally, but y'all ask this question like every two business days 😭 I feel like we should consider that Black people want EVERY type of story everyone else wants. The answer is not to make more of any specific niche, because every Black person is gonna want something different. It's not for pandering to Black audiences. It's writing something respectful.

The answer is that we want EVERY story, and more particularly, we want to be treated as HUMAN BEINGS with feelings and nuance worth understanding and respecting within EVERY story. No point in us being there in every story if we're gonna get treated like shit either from the narrative or from the biased readership!

[creatingblackcharacters]

For communication purposes: I'm going to start linking this answer when I get this question from now on.

[drekasal]

I return from the dead purely to make an appreciation post because holy shit-

I am being fed.

[blackfilmmakers]

They Are Black:

All Members of The Thorns Team

Notable members include: Jett Fillmore, Will Harris, Modo Olachenko, Olivia Burke, Archie Everhardt, Lenny Williamson

Y’know, there was a brief time where I was willing to be a bit more lenient with how folks portrayed some characters in Goat 2026. Not all of them stood out as particularly Black to me. I just figured y'all at least knew which characters were undeniably Black, as in, it wasn't left up to interpretation. But apparently, no matter how obvious the writing and portrayal of the character is linked to their Blackness, y'all still had the audacity to depict them as white, of all things, when reimagined as human beings.

So now I have to say, nah: they are all Black. Every team member here. Meaning when you draw them as humans, they better be Black. This is already a Black sports genre story anyways.

“But what can I do about Olivia’s hair?” Either make them into afro-puffs, use the concept art where she is drawn with Black hairstyles in mind, or base it on Y2K straightened Black hairstyles. Either figure it out or don’t do it, I'm just at that point.

Edit: Thanks to this addition in the notes: We now know that Modo's style is based on a former Black basketball star. Please read

Literally, I can’t imagine watching a movie like this and forming the conclusion that someone like Will Harris is a generic white boy. Truly, what were y'all smoking? So for this series, I do want to point out some possible reasons, some of ya’ll don’t want to see these characters as Black. We know it’s due to antiblackness, but we gotta dig deeper into some of these reasons.

Why can’t Will be Black?:

He’s goofy in a corny way

He’s considerate

He’s small thus “non-threatening”

Typical underdog story you associate with scrawny small loser white boys

“None of those reasons only apply to non-Black characters,” and yet time and time again, y'all demonstrate you believe that to be exactly the case. Your actions speak louder than words here, remember that.

See, Will shares a similar demeanor and appearance to the character Miles Morales: a young inner-city Black boy with a humorous personality, fro-ed out hair, love of sneakers, you get the gist. Hell, there’s talk that Caleb McLaughlin may end up voicing Miles in the next Spider-verse movie(don’t quote me).

The thing with Miles, however, is that he isn’t an anthropomorphic animal or anything like that. He’s visually a normal human Black boy. Unfortunately for non-Black fans, many didn’t know how to engage with that fact. Miles’s character was funny and charming and sweet and all, but they just couldn’t imagine a Black boy having those traits, while also being unapologetically Black. I’ve seen attempts to whitewash his character on the account that his mother was Latina, but then stump themselves learning she’s Afro-Latina. People tried depicting him as a troubled Black youth who steals art supplies he can’t afford, which no…he doesn’t do that. His dad is a cop(awful), his mom is a doctor, and he goes to a private school; they aren’t struggling financially. So when all of those attempts to sanitize his Blackness were met with criticism, non-Black fans then turned all their focus onto Gwen Stacy. That's sadly the common tactic for these guys when they enter a fandom focused on Black stories, they focus on the token white.

Now, because Will is depicted as a goat person, some of y'all decided that was a perfect opportunity to say he can be white, cuz “no one said he couldn’t be,” thinking y'all are clever. We already went over how stupid that logic was, so I won’t say much here again. If you are out here believing that a character looking like this, in a Black sports movie genre is white: skill issue. 

What I will talk about are the characters yall WILL agree are indefinitely Black…but only due to bigoted biases of preconceived notions towards Blackness. 

See, for me, Jett Fillmore is a Black woman because her VA, Gabrielle Union, makes her sound like a typical, old-school auntie who knows how to smack-talk and got game. She was also characterized as someone who had trouble expressing emotional vulnerability and was always hardest on herself. I often see this happen to Black women irl, as we tend to keep to ourselves and close ourselves off, figuring no one actually cares to help us (which does happen more often than not). We live under a system that puts us under constant pressure and hypersurveillance, waiting, and cheering for our downfall. We are expected to help everyone, but at the same time, never to express our thoughts, as that makes us appear aggressive, threatening, and hysterical. That was just an interesting storyline they gave her, and I would have liked to explore that more (how was she not the main character???), but for what we got, the signs were there.

Also, she’s literally a black panther wearing her own Jordan brand; it’s honestly not that hard to conclude that this is a Black character. So for a time, I was impressed to see the fandom depict her as a darkskinned Black woman, cuz fandoms never go that far unless - oh….oh boy

Yeah, so imagine my disappointment to learn the fanbase seems to only agree she’s a darkskinned Black woman, because they see her as an aggressive and angry individual who is “masculine” because she doesn’t have a “feminine body.” 

Idk about y'all, but it’s funny how every other day on this website, we talk about how women should be allowed to express their emotions, allowed to express anger over personal injustice, and allowed to have varying body types without being demeaned or questioned about their gender expression. But when it comes to Blackness and Black women, we all of a sudden can’t find ourselves to extend that same grace and consideration. Why does Jett need to be considered a masculine figure for being a Black athlete? Why does Will’s race AND his gender need to be questioned by non-Black people for not meeting the assumed image of Black boys?

Misogynoir in women’s sports is so disheartening to witness. Our bodies are already masculinized (or called animalistic) enough as it is. You then have to add on top of the fact that we aren’t allowed to scream, get angry, get energetic, be happy, or show any visible disappointment with a turnout, lest you be deemed the villain.

Similarly, we have the character Mane Attraction that fandom will also not argue is Black. You would think it’s because of his inner-city AAVE, his use of diss tracks, or his cornrowed mane he takes great care of (even if they might be extensions, which gestures). But no, looking at how y'all treat Jett, I can only assume it’s because Mane is a big, strong, and aggressive individual bullying the “meek, frail, and feminine” main character. I’m being sarcastic with those traits I used to describe Will btw, because that's how he’s all of a sudden framed when it comes to shipping. No, he's just smaller than the average Roarball player, that was kinda the point. Which you should ask yourselves why being small = petite and feminine...and white. Had Will been built like the other large animal players, I’m very certain yall would label him aggressively masculine for speaking AAVE. 

Basically, a lot of y'all in the fandom are phony for encouraging this behavior, honestly. All this talk of how we want media to stop portraying everything as an assumed binary, only to show y’all want the status quo to remain. So until further notice, everyone on The Thorns is Black. “Everyone?”

Hey, if you can somehow find a way to make Will a white boy, I’m sure y'all can find how to make the other guys Black.

[hypernousnight]

Went and saw Goat today. Absolutely fantastic movie, love the colors, love the designs, but top of the list:

The deep love and respect it shows specifically for black culture and black communities. (Mane Attraction's hair. Literally the best)

No Anthro Boobs. None of the ladies were struck with the standard "We gotta give them human sexual dimorphism" shtick

Completely coed sport teams. I cannot express how fucking powerful that is in 2026

The backgrounds feel like an actual living city/settlement. Not the crisp clean theme-park Zootopia wonderland stuff, actually lived in and incredibly detailed to my peasant eye.

No romance. Solid platonic cross gender relationships built on respect and comradery

It's so good and I really wish it became the same level of hit as K-Pop Demon Hunters. It won't because it's a completely different genre of movie but holy cow. As someone who has next to no interest in sports this movie is a gem. Beautiful to look at, solid story, incredible set up and pay off. I wish it could crush zootopia like a fucking bug, it's so much better than zootopia one (I haven't and don't want to see the sequel I don't care).

TLDR: If you have the ability go see the movie it's so good.

[leapdayeveryday]

There are a lot of reasons I liked GOAT.

One of them is because it’s a movie about a co-ed, full-contact sport where the most legendary player is a woman. And a young boy is seen idolizing that woman so much it’s a defining part of his character, but no one ever gives him grief or says he should look up to a boy.

Sure they’re all animals but I still appreciate the message.

[p0p-rockz]

The characters from GOAT 2026 are black asf. That’s just a canon fact. Some of yall gotta accept that.

[were--ralph]

artists adding heterophobia to their oc’s eyes

[magicalkoalaphantom]

*Heterochromia

[were--ralph]

i said what i said <3

[merumely]

Another flipnote gif ☺ hopefully I'll eventually do longer and more animated ones 🤞🏼

[beggars-opera]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[formerlyanon]

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

[dabouse]

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

[tomboy014]

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

[dabouse]

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

[tomboy014]

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

[digitaldiscipline]

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

[kabretoss]

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

[doubleca5t]

All these tourists having a great time at the World Cup isn't surprising b/c the first rule of America is that this place rules if you have money to blow and it's a nightmare if you don't. The prohibitively high cost of attending the World Cup filtered out all the ppl who don't have money so all the people who actually made it to the U.S. are basically guaranteed to have fun

[doubleca5t]

America hates the broke and woke and so every rich chud from abroad who comes over here goes home singing our praises. Tale as old as time.

[mellosdrawings]

Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?

[comedydoctor18]

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

[cherribet]

“just one wrong choice”

there a many ways that could go wrong once your involved with the circus

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[a-wizard]

What do you mean you can’t find a job? Have you looked on Indeed? What about Linkedin? You should try Upwork. How about Rise? Have you tried Jobera? Take a look on Dribbble. You GOTTA be on Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

[jackabbot]

[wiigiwaamcore]

Wait I have a real version of this

THOSE ARE ALL REAL WEBSITES

[were--ralph]

personally i think miucrosoft should be sued for what they're doing to the game industry

[were--ralph]

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

The future of Senua, which Xbox just announced, is unclear.

Game sold badly? Fired

Game sold well? Fired

Game just came out? Fired

Game not out yet? Fired

Game literally just announced? Fired

Xbox is an active hindrance to the games industry and i think we'd genuinely be better without them and their shitty console no one buys

[were--ralph]

[Source]

Death to Xbox