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A fine stew of PO-TA-TOES, Tolkien fangirling, life commentary, random ranting with a cottage core garnish.

18+ here & there so if that’s not your “thing” consider yourself warned. I don’t come here to babysit so if you’re under age or easily offended consider yourself warned. Narmárië.

evergreen-femme

had to share this

wizardshark

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

bees-with-swords

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

hearnoweevil

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

dykewonder

crazy how such a huge chunk of people in fandom dont treat "i dont write black characters in my fics because im afraid the big mean scary aggressive angry black people online are gonna Get Me" as the statement of vile racism that it is

dykewonder

all you people are going to hell and i mean it

theamityelf

The screenshotted comments are so annoyingly smug and rude about it, too. 😫

The frustrating thing is, the things they're saying are almost useful for the conversation, but they're working backwards from the conclusion they want to defend ("These findings are unrelated to race.") and so keep missing things– either deliberately or through accidental bias.

"People just want to bang a hot vampire. People just want to bang a villain."

First of all, there are hot vampires of many races in the film, and there are characters from many different places on the moral spectrum. The broad popularity of the trope Mafioso X Reader makes it pretty clear that people love a Smoke or Stack character when he's white.

Second of all, THIS IS THE CHARACTER TAG BREAKDOWN.

Not the shipping tags!

This isn't comparing how many X Readers each character has; it's literally how many fics INCLUDE each character. The disparity we're seeing here isn't the shipping disparity (which could easily be another conversation, because yes there are way more non-villain ships that get popular, in fandoms where there are white characters who aren't the villain). If your Remmick X Reader fic had any of the canon black characters in it, IT WOULD STILL BE INCREASING THE COUNT for their character tags!

The problem isn't that you don't want to bang Smoke or Stack. The problem is that in your brain, it's not just important that you bang Remmick; it's also important that the black characters have no role or involvement in the story. And the problem is that this is true on a wide scale.

The original poster wasn't sending personal letters to people who wrote X Reader, as much as each commenter seemed to take OP's observation as a personal slight. They were pointing to fandom-wide trends. This happens in every fandom, and these same excuses always pop up.

It's not about what you're drawn to. Literally just look at your own behavior and adjust it. That's what "doing better" is!

fangshazzard

I bet raising your arm and summoning a weapon for you to grasp feels good as fuck

guerrillatech

thenextdraft

Company's morals and products are both sh*tty.

transcyberism

in case you didn't know it, this is also related to how cyclosporiasis spreads. when farm workers are not given adequate bathroom breaks or access to restrooms, they have no choice but to relieve themselves directly into the fields, especially if they are already suffering from diarrheal disease and have been made to work while sick. the pathogen ends up in irrigation ditches and, eventially, all over your food. this is why human rights like sanitation need to be available to everyone in order to be effective for anyone.

depsidase

blackcatobservatory

Thinking about how Zuko wasn’t even fazed by Katara’s impossible demands (reconquer Ba Sing Se, bring my mother back to life) at the beginning of The Southern Raiders, because he wasn’t deterred by Ozai’s impossible requirement to find the Avatar, either. But this time his insane level of devotion is actually aimed at someone who's worth it. 😭🌊❤️‍🔥