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[victimhood]

How to be antiracist in fandom, and other spaces: identifying white supremacy culture and stepping away from it

Fandom has a major racism problem, this was always evident in the migratory (white man) slash fandom

But the question is—what can you do as an individual participating in fandom, which by and large is decentralized? Fandom decentralization should be one of its biggest strengths—and the act of choosing whose voices to amplify or whose to suppress determines the culture of the fandom at large.

Tema Okun’s (divorcing) White Supremacy Culture is an extremely helpful tool to reviewing cultural norms within an organization. This is something you can use in other aspects of your life as well, in your workplace, community, or any organizations you belong to.

In particular, I’d like to highlight below points for reflection with regards to fandom participation. If you find yourself falling into any of the characteristics mentioned, please take a step back and consider the ways you may have inflicted harm.

DENIAL & DEFENSIVENESS ​The habit of denying and defending against the ways in which white supremacy and racism are produced and our individual or collective participation in that production.

[personal note: defensiveness often manifests in fandom in the weaponization of social justice language for the purpose of harassment. this ties in with many other aspects mentioned in the white supremacy culture framework, such as fear of open conflict, paternalism]

RIGHT TO COMFORT & FEAR OF CONFLICT ​The internalization that I or we have a right to comfort, which means we cannot tolerate conflict, particularly open conflict. 

[personal note: comfort is a whole different animal from a safe space. In fandom, we should strive to uphold safe spaces, but safe spaces cannot be places where people feel comfortable reproducing harm.]

URGENCY Applying the urgency of racial and social justice to our every day lives in ways that perpetuate power imbalance and disregard for our need to breathe and pause and reflect.

[personal note: urgency manifests in fandom most frequently in the form on anonymous messages and asks, where anons bombard Tumblrs with large followings and demand explanations, acting in bad faith, looking high and low for the smallest infraction to go “gotcha” as if this one gotcha cancels other valid points.]

Please take some time to read Tema Okun’s work (pdf linked), and consider its applicability to a situation you might find yourself in. 

[Image description: illustration of the 15 points of white supremacy culture as bottles of poison, with warnings not to breathe in the poison. The antidote is the link to the webpage on dismantling white supremacy culture. The 15 points are not described due to brevity, but can be read in full in this PDF.]

Please reblog if you found this helpful!

[taahko]

i love killing lanternflies season. the camaraderie it breeds is incredible its like i share a hobby with the entirety of new york city

[taahko]

put one spotted lanternfly in the path of a group of random modern day humans and they will immediately fall into complex neolithic hunting party tactics. theres a pointman, a second gunner, three guys blocking all exits. thing of beauty really

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

my baby doesn't belong to any white man

North of North is about a young Inuk woman who gets sick of her narcissistic husband's macho BS and moves in with her single mom. that... probably makes it sound like one of those shows, doesn't it.

well, maybe it is, maybe it's not (it's not). while Siaja (Anna Lambe, gorgeous, absolutely stunning) runs around trying to put her life back together and find herself (but first find and hold down a job and learn to coparent with her almost-ex - yeah of course she has a kid, she's 26!), there is life happening all over place in the tiny Nunavut town. Ice Cove is the kind of tight-knit community where your people won't leave you alone - but they also won't leave you alone, you know?

the show doesn't preach, but while you're laughing, it still quietly, casually shows you how colonialism doesn't really end.

how it lingers.

here's your white mayor. here's your language being slowly forgotten and now you need a translator to understand your elders. here's your town's lack of funding and what it gets it has to fight for (and how do you fight for it when there's another town (the Shelbyville to your Springfield, the Woodbury to your Stars Hollow) that even has a sushi place?). here's a French Canadian man who calls you Snocahontas. here's your mother's self-sabotaging old trauma.

*sigh* fine, there's also walrus dick baseball. if anything, watch it for the walrus dick baseball

[inthesensethat-deactivated20240]

[gatheringkeepsakes]

[youngalientype]

[curlyboys]

this video is really fucking good. fuck big tech companies, fast fashion, modern auto, and those initial inhibitive greedy lightbulb fucks. planned obsolescence, creative waste, consumer engineering. 

[joenicolo]

Nicky's sass standing there with his hands in his pockets scalding his husband for going to see Booker fucking sent me sky high. Joe looking like he was about to burst into tears?? Omg give me strength. It would have taken everything and more for him to tell Nicky that he needed 'alone time' to cover up the fact he was visiting Booker. Nicky was like, alone time?? Every morning for a thousand years without fail he tells me how much he has missed me while we were sleeping - alone time my ass... Nile, girl, get in the car....

[pandabibble]

Congratulations to all AO3 users! Important Milestone reached!

Bookmark database overran!

[gentlesleaze]

Not much of an exile if you're dropping in to deliver groceries... And you were the one screaming for his head.

[upinyourcortex]

joe elbow deep in the sébastien and yusuf bestie groupchat telling nicky "i'm texting my new boyfriend" was insane though. and i mean that in the best way.

[classycookiexo]

[spirit-of-science]

Anytime you're interacting with your child, but especially when angry, say to yourself "how would I feel if their future partner treated them the way I am currently treating them?"

You are creating their 'normal'

[mixupmycota]

People need to read the UN Conventions On The Rights Of The Child before becoming parents and regularly while parenting and I am so serious about this.

Everyone SHOULD read it, and it is often a distressing experience to do so. Back in 1929 it was internationally recognized that children in particular needed to have a codified set of rights, it has been improved on since - in many ways it is still not perfect but it needs to be understood that the rights contained within are the BARE MINIMUM.

If any of these are breached - whether on the home scale or on the cultural one, particularly for signatory countries - that is a fundamental issue.

I promise that learning what the established bare minimums are in universal human rights frameworks will enable you to cut through so much propaganda immediately.

Children and teens are full human beings and by becoming parents an immense responsibility is applied to treat them as such. They need open and clear communication, not to be talked down too, and to have their questions answered. They have the right to autonomy and life.

[animentality]

[trekscribbles]

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

[supop]

What do you mean by taehyung’s lyricism is peculiar?

I meant Taehyung’s self-written/self-composed songs are bland and have no substance outside of “ARMY” (or whoever the subject he has in mind when he writes). If you’re an army, then yea you’d love it because he plays on the whole “I wrote this for army”trope. So, you get in your feelings and go “awe Taehyung wrote this for me uwu let me listen becasue he worked hard”. But if you’re not, we’ll then, it’s peculiar. The only song of his I’ve heard non-fans/causal listeners actually like is Singularity. And that’s all thanks to Namjoon’s pen game. Don’t get me wrong, Taehyung has a nice soulful voice (when he sings within his vocal range), but his lyrical ability is light years away from rapline’s.

[victimhood]

I enjoy that OP has critical thinking and writes well, however I beg to differ on a few points, the one here being that, I agree that Taehyung’s lyricism is peculiar but the reason for it is that he’s not allowed to fully express his feelings.

“For ARMY” has always been a convenient stand in for things they can’t say, but watching the 20190810 live one might gather who Winter Bear is truly for, especially if you know the London and Amsterdam lore, and the Winter Bear video is full of London and Amsterdam scenes.

[artbyflor]

moments in the brownstone🩷

[byebyesandwich]

vhope

[chaewnu]

[amelianotthepilot]

[Travel Itinerary] BTS Bon Voyage in New Zealand

BTS recently traveled around New Zealand in their recent season of Bon Voyage.  The following Itinerary is what I could guess from watching the episodes/behind cams.

OVERALL

Christchurch

Castle Hill

Tekapo

Kinloch

Queenstown

ITINERARY

D1 (Christchurch > Castle Hill)

Fly (Seoul > Singapore > Christchurch)

Jin flys separately (Seoul > Auckland > Christchurch)

Rent camper @ Britz

Lunch @ Speight’s Ale House

Address: 2 Troup Drive, Riccarton, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand

Shopping Hiking store @ Kathamandu

Address: Tower Junction Mega Centre Blenheim Road, Foster Street, Riccarton, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand

Korean store @ Kosco

Address: 227 Blenheim Road, Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

?also maybe went to the alcohol store in this shopping mall?

Drive

Cafe stop with sheep @ Highway Cafe

Address: 5695 West Coast Road, Springfield 7681, New Zealand

Drive

Stop @ Lake Lyndon

Address: Castle Hill 7580, New Zealand

Sleep @ Porters Lodge

Address: Porters Ski Area Access Road State Highway 73, Castle Hill 7580, New Zealand

about $57 a night per person

D2 (Castle Hill  > Geraldine > Fairlie > Tekapo )

JK hikes to get snow

Jimin small hike

Group hike up the trail

Breakfast @ Porter’s Lodge

Address: Porters Ski Area Access Road State Highway 73, Castle Hill 7580, New Zealand

Drive

Gas Station @ Z Petrol (Jhope left behind)

Address: Cnr Waihi Terrace &, Pine Street, Geraldine 7930, New Zealand

Gift Shop  @ Kiwi Country (Jhope left behind)

Address: 38 Waihi Terrace, Geraldine 8751, New Zealand

Drive

Lunch @ Farm Barn Cafe

Address: 4 Mount Michael Road, R D 17, Fairlie 7987, New Zealand

Drive

Grocery shopping @ Foursquare

Address: State Highway 8 22 Rapuwai Lane Tekapo-Twizel Road, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand

Playground @ Foursquare

Address: 5 Lakeside Drive, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand

Drive

Lake Tepako lookout

Address: 2F67+JJ Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand

Lake Tepako Astro Cafe

Address: Godley Peaks Road, Lake Tekapo 7945, New Zealand

(they were hanging out here before they did the Observatory)

Look at stars @ Mt John Observatory

Address: 2F77+VM Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand

Drive

Campground cabin on the lake 

Address: 2 Lakeside Drive, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand

about $70 a night

Dinner @ Cabin

Look at moon

D3 (Tekapo > Ben Ohau > Mt Cook > ??? )

Leave by 8:00am

Food shopping @ Four Square Lake Tekapo

      -Address: State Highway 8 22 Rapuwai Lane Tekapo-Twizel Road, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand

Playground @ Foursquare

Address: 5 Lakeside Drive, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand

Drive

Address: 5098 Tekapo-Twizel Road, Ben Ohau 7999, New Zealand

Drive

Hike Mt Cook @ Hooker Valley Track

Address: Hooker Valley Track, Mt Cook National Park 7999, New Zealand

3 Hour hike with 3 bridges and lake

Camping @ special site

Address: ???

Set up tent @ campsite

Address: ???

Dinner @ campsite

Address: ???

(Supposed to stargaze but fell asleep )

D4 (??? > Omarama > Gibbston > Queenstown > Kinloch)

Wake up by 7:00am

Pack up

Drive

Go to spa @ Hot Tubs Omarama

Address: 29 Omarama Ave, Main Omarama Twizel Highway, Omarama 9448, New Zealand

Lunch @ Hot Tubs Omarama

(it sounds like they did the hot tub and also did the sauna/spa part after and it wasn’t shown)

Drive

Bungee jumping @ Nevis Swing

Address: 3170950, Gibbston 9371, New Zealand

Drive

Food Shopping @ Countdown Queenstown

Address: 30 Grant Road, Frankton, Queenstown 9371, New Zealand

Korean store and clothes store

Address:

Drive

Camping @ Kinloch Camping Site

Address: 876 Kinloch Road, Kinloch 9372, New Zealand

Dinner and Mulled Wine @ Kinloch Camping Site

Clean up at midnight and sleep

D5 (Kinloch > Glenorchy > Queenstown area > Queenstown)

Clean up

Address: 876 Kinloch Road, Kinloch 9372, New Zealand

Drive

Helicopter @ Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters

Address: 35 Lucas Place, Frankton, Queenstown 9348, New Zealand

(BTS met the helicopter on a field but the company usually has you meet at their Queenstown location and then they bus you to the helicopter and back)

Flight 107: Land at lake and land at snow

Picnic Lunch @ Glenorchy Wharf

Address: 4 Islay Street, Glenorchy 9372, New Zealand

Split up for activities

(V/Jimin)Horseback riding @ Dart Stables

Address: 59X9+W7 Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand

(Jin/JK/Suga/ JHope) Fishing @ Lake Wakatipu

Address: Queenstown Fishing, Sugar Lane, Frankton, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(RM) Working @ Kinloch Camping Site

Address: 876 Kinloch Road, Kinloch 9372, New Zealand

Drive

Settle into Queenstown House @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

$1200 a night

Dinner @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

Play Uno @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

D6 (Queenstown)

(V) Wake up punishment @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

Get ready and Clean up @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

Drive

Skyline Gondola

Address: 53 Brecon Street, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(they showed them getting on this but not the ride)

Ski lift to luge

Address: XJFW+MX Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

Luge

Address: XJFW+MX Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

they did the Scenic and Advanced tracks

Drive

Lunch @ The Views by Touch of Spice

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

Split up for activities

(V) Art Gallery @ Ivan Clarke Gallery

Address: 39 Camp Street, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(V) relax under tree @ Park next to KFC

Address: 27 Camp Street, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(Jimin/JHope/RM) Biking to Cafe @ The Boatshed

Address: 9300/847 Frankton Road, Frankton, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

40min bike ride to The Boatshed from their house

(Jin/Suga/JK) Fishing  @

Address:  ??

(Jin/Suga/JK) Fishing Take 2 @

Address:  ??

(Jimin/JHope/RM) facetime @ park

Address: Lake Wakatipu Ride, Frankton, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(exact address is 45°01'13.6"S 168°43'43.5"E )

about a 1-hour ride from their house

(V) walks around Queenstown

(V) eats a burger  @ McDonald’s

Address: O'Connells Shopping Centre, 23 Camp Street, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(V) goes to store with fur bed @ Remarkable Gifts

Address: Shop 4/13 Camp Street, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(V) goes home and learns UNO

Address: 3 Whitbourn Place, Fernhill, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(Jimin/JHope/RM) food shopping @ FreshChoice Queenstown

Address: 64 Gorge Road, Queenstown 9300, New Zealand

(sidenote I’m still confused how they got all the groceries back cause they biked. I’m guessing the cars picked them up from their bike ride.)

Everyone meets at home and cooks and has dinner and drinks

Play BTS UNO

outro interviews

Last Update: 7 Jan 2020

to be continued (ill finish updating it tomorrow sorry)

(the ones with ??? im working on pls be patient/if you know where it is DM me)

coming soon: Check out my BTS New Zealand Photo Spots post to find out where you can take the photos BTS did!

[amelianotthepilot]

BTS London Photo Spots

These are all the spots BTS took photos at in London. It is organized by location and shows the image first and then the says the location and address and a small description. If you scroll to the bottom I included just a plain list of the locations as well as a google map :)

 Light Pole near Burberry

121 Regent St, Mayfair, London W1B 4TB, UK

The closest tube station is Piccadilly Circus which is also a really cool spot.  I recommend taking the tube there and then you just walk down the curved street and the light pole is in the middle of the street at a crosswalk.  The street is called Regent Street.  There was no line to take a photo when I went. Taehyung took photos facing both directions of the street.

Flat Iron Restaurant

 17 Beak St, Soho, London W1F 9RW, UK

If you keep going down Regent Street it is a right turn onto Beak Street and the restaurant is right on end of the street.  It’s extremely small inside so either get there early or be prepared to wait.  Inside there are about four picnic tables that you will be seated at with strangers.  Taehyung sat at the 2nd table closest to the door with his back to the door. However, I don’t think you can request to sit here since the restaurant is so small.  The only food they sell is steak and it is only served in one cut.  You can also get a really small side salad(as seen in the photo) or side of chips(french fries).  It was not too expensive and was quite good food but I don’t recommend it if you are a vegetarian/vegan cause there is literally no veg option.

Beak Street

50-54 Beak St, Soho, London W1F 9RN, UK

A little further down Beak Street where Flat Iron is on is the location Hobi took these photos.  The green tile building is called Rag and Bone which makes it easy to find.

Disney store

350-352 Oxford St, London W1C 1JH, UK

Hope took two photos here in the Cinderella carriage.  There may be a small line for the carriage.  The mickey plush he is holding is part of the Mickey Memories collection and may not be there when you go.  However, when I went I found it in the back of the store on the right. When I went, the lighting was weird so my photo came out a little weird. I don’t know how he got that great lighting in his photo. The closest tube station is Oxford circus but it is only about a 15 minute walk from where Hope took the other photo on Beak Street.

The following locations are not close to anything else so I suggest going to them when you go to other tourist locations.

Tramshed Restaurant

2 Rivington St, Hackney, London EC2A 3LX, UK

This restaurant has multiple stores but the one that Namjoon went to is this one on Rivington Street with the cow sculpture.  The closest tube station is Old Street Station.  There’s honestly nothing else to really do in this area but the restaurant was really neat and not too expensive. It’s in a cool old renovated warehouse and has lots of art in it including the large cow sculpture seen in Namjoon’s photo.  The cow sculpture is Damien Hirst and he’s a really cool British artist.  Namjoon sat in the back area on the left about two tables away from the sculpture.  My friend and I were not seated there but we went for lunch and since it was not too busy after we finished our meal we quietly, quickly, and politely went and snapped a few photos at the table before we left.  You can also do this or request the table if they’re not busy but please remember to be polite and kind and to not be a rabid crazy fan.  The food was good and not too expensive but yet again I don’t think there were any vegetarian or vegan options and there was only chicken or cow products because that was their whole theme.  

Top of Tate Modern

Bankside, London SE1 9TG, United Kingdom

The closest tube station to the Tate is Borough Market which is a really cool market food place I recommend going to.  The food is cheap and really good and it has a great vibe.  After going to Borough Market walk over to the Thames river and walk along the river to the Tate. You will pass Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and also the Millenium Bridge(featured in the beginning of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film).  The Tate is a large brown building right next to the Millenium Bridge and it used to be a factory.  Entry to the museum is FREE unless you want to go into certain exhibits.  It’s really big and full of modern art(which is eh if you ask me).  Namjoon took the photo on the balcony on the riverside of the building.  I didn’t have time to go and recreate this photo but I’m pretty positive he took it from the gift shop balcony on the 4th floor.  If not there is a top floor you can pay to access that he might have taken it from. (please message me below if this is incorrect!)

Ye Olde Green Hut (green shed cafe)

10, Kensington Park Rd, Notting Hill, London W11

Taehyung posted this photo along with his other London photos and I stumbled upon the shed while wandering Notting Hill one day.  Notting Hill and Portobello Road market are super cute and instagrammable and I highly recommend going to them.  

However, the closest tube station to this shed is Notting Hill Gate Station and the shed is right next to Kensington Temple.   However The cafe has really weird hours so if you want to get food from it it’s open weekdays from 8:30am to 3:30pm but it closes randomly.  I visited a few times and it was closed both times I went.

Right of the Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP, United Kingdom

Taehyung took sooo many photos here. This is on the ~right~ bank of the tower bridge.  Aka the side that doesn’t have the Tower of London(castle).  There are two tube stations that are pretty equal distant walk to get here. You can take the tube to Tower Hill Station and walk across the bridge and then up the riverside. Or you can take the tube to London Bridge Station and walk along the river to the spot.  I recommend going to the London Bridge Station because the Tower Hill one is hard to get to.  This photo location is on the area with a ledge that you can sit on but then also a little further for the pictures with the fence.  I don’t really know how to explain where it is precisely and I just recommend you walk up and down that area until you think it looks right.  This area is constantly crowded with tourists so expect to wait a little bit to get the perfect shot!

~BONUS~

Olle Korean BBQ

88 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6NH

Jin, Jimin, and Jungkook were seen eating here! I did not get a chance to eat here. It’s pretty expensive and I’ve heard mixed reviews about the food. Let me know what you thought of it if you go!

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MAP

Locations List:

Disney store

350-352 Oxford St, London W1C 1JH, UK

Beak Street

50-54 Beak St, Soho, London W1F 9RN, UK

Tramshed Restaurant

 2 Rivington St, Hackney, London EC2A 3LX, UK

Top of Tate Modern

Bankside, London SE1 9TG, United Kingdom

Right of the Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP, United Kingdom

Light Pole near Burberry

121 Regent St, Mayfair, London W1B 4TB, UK

Flat Iron Restaurant

17 Beak St, Soho, London W1F 9RW, UK

Ye Old Green Hut (green shed cafe)

10 Kensington Park Rd, Notting Hill, London W11

Olle KBBQ

 88 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6NH

Have you been to any of the locations? Let me know down below! To check out my BTS recreated photos check out my photo gallery!