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(PT: Y'know, like Nya)
Quick warning: My rentry does have weirdcore images and quotes that could be considered unreality/dereality! So please be careful!
Rentry link here!
people who think that their dehumanization of other people is justified and safe because they are a marginalized group need to read more on the Rwandan genocide. You Are Not Immune To The Genocidal Mindset No Matter How Justified It Feels.
nothing will save you from being a human monster except yourself. there is no identity, no social status, no experience, nothing that will give you some immutably upright moral standing. all that stands between any of us and horrific acts of violence is our choice not to do that. of course some of us have more access to greater acts of violence than others. but NEVER start thinking that you are exempt from making deliberately ethical choices, because your mission is just so so pure and good that anything done in its name must be justifiable. that is the devil talking. no one is that damn special
When it comes to helping loved ones in abusive relationships, saying anything like "you should've seen this coming", "I told you so", "I know better than you", or "you're too young to make these decisions" (especially at someone with a significantly older parter) NEVER HELPS.
Making an abuse victim feel guilty, shamed, embarrassed, judged, or otherwise attacked pushes them away from supportive loved ones and deeper into the abusive relationship. It also gives the abuser the opportunity to frame you and the victim's other friends and family as enemies who are just trying to attack their relationship and take away their happiness, further isolating them from anyone who could help.
Your loved one does not need your unsolicited commentary on how stupid or foolish you think they are for being abused. They need you to be kind and supportive, a safe haven they can turn to without fear of being judged or hurt, and someone they can trust to really help them when they decide to leave. Don't become just another person who hurts them.
FACTS!
Additions: if your viral load is suppressed by medication to the point it’s undetectable, it’s considered untransmittable, even without condoms. Children with HIV+ carriers are usually given medication when they’re born, to make sure any of the virus doesn’t take hold (which we also do to adults who fear they’ve been exposed, it’s called PEP ((Post Exposure Prophylaxis)), which is a month of medication and must be started within 72 hours of exposure).
(There’s also PreP - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, which is taking medication if you feel you are at risk of being exposed to HIV, whether through sexual partners or sharing injection needles)
This is why we need universal free healthcare - so people can go on and have happy, healthy lives despite the HIV diagnosis. Nobody should die or live in fear when the treatment is so damn simple and effective.
HIV is not as deadly as it once was in the 1980s-1990s.
There’s been a lot of progress in this. So long as you’re taking your medications (anti-retrovirals), it’s essentially become another chronic disease like diabetes or COPD etc. HIV patients nowadays are living into their 60s and 70s and are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease rather than opportunistic infections or AIDS defining illnesses.
If the HIV viral load is undetectable, then your CD4 counts (your white cells that are affected by the virus) should normalise. Such that you’re no different to the general population when it comes to infection risk.
Yes, we should all still be precautious, but it’s no longer a death sentence.
Stigma remains because of how it is transmitted.
We need to share this information as widely as possible.
Silence still Equals Death.
[image description: a widely smiling black woman hugs a black man and their two children, who are also smiling widely. The woman holds a sign reading “HIV+” and the man and the children hold signs reading “HIV-”. This image is on a tweet by bucci jenkins @/Glorico who says “bruh what”.
There are 2 replies to that tweet, by GEM @/Rozthecreator reading “the woman is hiv positive, she takes her meds which makes her count low, she can’t pass it off to her husband which makes her still able to live her normal life and reproduce. The stigmas of hiv has to stop, and as Blacks especially we have to educate each other.”
The next reply is by t a y l o r @/G14_Classified_, reading “people on this app talk about sex 24/7 but are completely ignorant when it comes to stds and how they can/can’t be contracted. Yikes”.
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Since the mob seems to be finding its way to tumblr, I would like to say some things about Hazbin Hotel:
Alastor is good black rep. First of all, he's biracial (Creole specifically) so chances are his skin wasn't the 'correct' shade of brown while alive either. Also he's fucking dead. Pale black people exist and we deserve representation, maybe if it was normalized to show a wider range of black people in media people wouldn't piss their pants when somebody looks more like me in a show.
Angel Dust is good survivor rep, and his story isn't fetish material. Survivors can be hypersexual as a result of their trauma, fuck off.
Removing a character's ethnic features that you label as antisemitic doesn't make you a savior.
Sure the cursing is excessive, but who cares? People curse in real life and maybe if you went outside you'd know that.
That is all. You're allowed to dislike a show but I swear people who dislike Viv's work make it their whole personality💀
Question: are you black? You cant tell people what is and isnt good representation of their group. Also the problem with Alastor is that he has zero black features whatsoever, no textured hair, flatter nose or fuller lips and the same is true for the other black characters in hh such as Emily, Sera and Velvette. Ppl have said that Viv only said Al is black to justify him using voodoo which is probably true.
Interesting question, lmfao. I bring up being black in the post, so that makes me think you didn't actually bother to read it properly.
'Pale black people exist and we deserve representation'
Anyways, the lack of the features you mentioned can be attributed to a simple case of art style, as far as lack of full lips goes at least... as well as the overall style being angular in multiple aspects contributing to nose shapes. And bringing up Sera, her hair seems to be an attempt at locs:
ID: a woman with dark skin and hair in a style that appears to be long locs, which have a top to bottom white to grey gradient. her head is adorned with a white halo, which also appears to be a crown of sorts. She wears a flowing white dress with a diamond pattern, and she has three pairs of large, feathery wings. Her eyes are prominent with large, dark eyeliner and eyelashes. the background is dark. end ID
I will go ahead and agree here that Viv's style does not seem to be able to portray black people spectacularly at times, due to the overall lack of texture and liplessness. however, it's still pretty annoying to hear people whining that the characters themselves don't 'look black', because at some point it just sounds like people want to erase biracial blacks. and in case this needs to be said, while biracial people ARE included in media and it is 'normalized' on that aspect, people flipping their shit when we're called black is also something I, unfortunately, see too often ('think of the REAL black people!').
moving on to the topic of Alastor, look up what creole people looked like in the 30s. His hair looks similar to some of the hair styles I see on these people, and his nose shape seems to match too, just accentuated by, again, a more angular art style. As for his voodoo usage... that just sounds like an excuse to call Viv racist.
I don't follow Viv drama too much, but I end up being made aware of some things through my inner circle, which has a few people who find certain criticisms toward her work to be annoying in the very least. this is what led to the original post in the first place.
anyways, if you actually read through this post, hope this helped.
Sera's hair isn't meant to be locs and even if they are they did a really bad job. They are most likely meant to be corkscrew ringlets/sausage curls, a popular hairstyle for upper class women during the victorian era:
Today’s CDV shows us a sweet faced woman with some
Can you give a source for Alastor's hair looking similar to some hairstyles of creole people in the 30s? Because black or white no person had a hairstyle like him in the show, he looks far more like a scene kid from the 2000s than a man from the 20s and 30s.
As for voodoo, Vivziepop didnt do any research on what voodoo is and like Disney's "Princess and the Frog" thinks its just spooky scary magic rather than a real religion practiced by people.
I considered the possibility of ringlets, but at the end of the day it actually does not matter. and since you clearly know how to use a search engine, I'd think you'd be able to find your own 'sources' and, to be honest with you, I am not interested enough in this conversation to put more effort into this than google images, but I can show you what I found.
To clarify what I meant by 'His hair looks similar to some of the hair styles I see on these people', I was referring more to the top half, really. the lower half could just be exaggerated sideburns or something, but I don't know nor do I care.
sorry, no ID, can't be assed.
help me god that second image is pixelated as hell. anyways, here are photos of supposed creoles because, again, I am not engaged enough to go deep diving more than google images. now for a quick look at Alastor:
regardless of if a literal demon in a cartoon looks exactly like these examples though, does it matter really? what do you get out of this conversation other than being annoying?
as for the voodoo thing, I'm not creole nor from Louisiana myself, but have a Louisianan acquaintance so I'm basing this next part on what they had to say about this conversation and, like them, I'm having trouble believing you actually care about Louisianan culture and voodoo and all that. voodoo is an open religion, so if Alastor was really just 'black to justify him using voodoo' and if Viv really said that (which, with all the misinformation on her, I sort of doubt), that's stupid on her part. I find it funny that you only seem to be focused on the villain from Princess and the Frog for your little comparison, too.
anyways, this convo is over now. I've allowed you to waste my time enough.
Hi! White-passing creole here!
Voodoo is actually a closed religion, however, many aspects of voodoo are celebrated and sold, even to white people. Voodoo is not a specifically black religion and white people have been adopted into it. In fact, even the Voodoo Queen was biracial!
It would actually make sense for Alastor to be a voodoo practitioner, if he's so heavily influenced by Louisiana culture, and what I adore about him is the fact that he's not super overt, but it's written all over him if you look deep enough.
Also people seriously forgetting that Mama Odie from Princess and the Frog was a voodoo practitioner too, but you choose to focus on Dr. Facillier. Interesting, it's like you only want to focus on the bad side of fictional voodoo and not the good side.
Anyways, about Viv "not doing research"? Yeah, actually she did. A lot of the symbols she uses around Alastor are extremely similar to voodoo symbols, and let me tell you, most people are not going to be privy to those symbols, since you don't see them a lot, especially outside of the voodoo practice. She may have also researched some practices of the religion, if some things I see about Alastor are correct, but I'm not going to put what I know about a closed religion to someone who will disrespect it. It's closed to protect it from people like you.
Please please PLEASE stop trying to erase biracial rep, especially pale biracial rep. The casual erasing of one's racial identity because they're "too pale" is racist, colorist, and a white supremacist tactic. All it does is normalize racism and colorism more and more.
Tumblr, where if you're wrong and genuinely wonder about what a post means, you deserve to be mocked and wonder where you were wrong with absolutely no guidance, leading you to stew in your ignorance with no correction.
hello, white tumblr user. before you is a serious post by a blogger of color about racism. if you are able to quietly reblog it without adding any bullshit, especially not anything starting with "as a white person-" you will be allowed to go free. the hardest challenge in your entire life begins now
i see some of you are already failing the challenge
?????
[ID 1 from alt: screenshot from tags with an overlay making it appear to be underwater. It reads "#'as a white perso-' SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP YOURE GONNA MAKE PEOPLE HATE US EVEN MORE AND WE ARE GONNA DESERVE IT" The "US" and "WE" are underlined in red. /end ID 1]
[ID 2: tags: #as a white person… y'all (including me) need to shut tf up #this was a joke btw but seriously don't talk over POC /end ID 2]
Making fun of someone and then blocking them for not understanding something they don't understand or experience isn't the way to go about this.
If I got the wrong idea, I'd love to hear where and how I'm wrong.
Making fun of people for being genuinely ignorant and misunderstanding something they don't know isn't the way to go about this.
[ID: A swirly, pink and blue background on all slides. Text reads; I'm laughing with my queer friends. We talk about queer love and queer sex. "God, I am such a lesbian, I'd literally throw up if I saw a dick irl!" I shrink back. She'll wonder why she doesn't have many transfem friends. "Women & AFABs" is written on a bright, rainbow sign. There's a trans flag on one corner, an intersex one on the other.
I sigh and walk inside.
They all wonder why so few transfems attended the meeting today. "AFAB Healthcare" is the title of the breast cancer awareness post on my for you page this morning.
They'll dare to wonder later why "all our beautiful trans women" are dying so young. There's a reddit post asking trans women what they think of the flag. There's 100 comments.
3 of them are trans women.
All of those have replies, telling them they're wrong.
They'll ask why trans women don't voice their opinions enough. I notice, quietly, I am far more acknowledged in conversation, with my longer hair and visible chest, than the girl across the table with buzz cut and a t-shirt.
They'll wonder why she doesn't keep contact with the rest of the group. My voice is too harsh, too loud. I don't qualify as a girl because or hairy legs or a weird nose.
They ask why so many transfems worry that much about passing. My mutuals repost and talk about punching terfs & kicking transphobes. They have never posted a transfem positivity post. They comment how little their transfem following is.
They scream predator at the trans girl in a collar and cat ears. She is 16. They comment how little they see trans girls in public these days.
I've been called a rapist, a groomer, a creep, for existing in online spaces since 14. It gets worse in short clothes or posts mentioning sex. They keep asking where to find good transfem voices online.
You drown, and you kill. You shout, and you maim. And you have the nerve, the audacity, to look me in the eyes and ask,
"Where are all the trans girls these days?" End ID]
This is so well written and true.
I love you, transfems<3
hello, white tumblr user. before you is a serious post by a blogger of color about racism. if you are able to quietly reblog it without adding any bullshit, especially not anything starting with "as a white person-" you will be allowed to go free. the hardest challenge in your entire life begins now
i see some of you are already failing the challenge
?????
[ID 1 from alt: screenshot from tags with an overlay making it appear to be underwater. It reads "#'as a white perso-' SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP YOURE GONNA MAKE PEOPLE HATE US EVEN MORE AND WE ARE GONNA DESERVE IT" The "US" and "WE" are underlined in red. /end ID 1]
[ID 2: tags: #as a white person… y'all (including me) need to shut tf up #this was a joke btw but seriously don't talk over POC /end ID 2]
no one told me the couple of months before you turn 18 where you basically have the same level of maturity but half the rights of an 18 year old is the most excruciating point in time you will ever experience
hi welcome to being 17. we expect you to act like an adult and if you dont we'll get mad at you. oh you want to have the same rights and freedoms as an adult? lol. lmao. fuck no. your rights and freedoms extend basically as far as a 13 year olds. you have to wait until you are 18, when you become a Fully Fledged Adult who can be trusted to make decisions about themselves by themselves. no i dont care that its your body. youre a Minor so youre obviously not Mature enough to decide wether you want that tattoo or not. youre a Minor so obviously we cant let you vote, even though our policies affect you. also we're allowed to pay you sub-minimum wage Just Because. fuck you. enjoy the torture labyrinth
Just remember if you turn 18 on or before November 5, 2024, you can register to vote now. Being 17 sucks but you can make a plan to exercise your rights.
Whoops, my bad, sorry. Election year brainrot.
all good 👍
As someone who lives in a country that faced a 20 years dictatorship ~courtesy of the USA~ when someone threatens dictatorship you best believe them.
And if you don't know what that means, in general lines: you won't be able to vote, you won't to be able to exercise the right of free speech especially when it comes to the government, music, art and literature may be banned especially when they are critical towards the government, people may be exiled or killed and they will make it look like suicide or an accident or straight up own up to it.
So do yourself a favor and vote. Brazil has dealt with multiple dictatorships (one of which was military) and I can guarantee you don't want to know what that's like.
Whatever happens, two things remain true: 1. Trump might be distancing himself from Project 2025, but his Agenda 47, which is on his website, is basically the same thing. 2. Third party voting is useless without ranked choice voting; it's mathematically impossible to elect a third party candidate. DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE.
We will never be free from oppression as long as people consider identity to be a moral indicator and not action.
You're right and you should say it.
Everyone right now please read The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde please please please please this is not new theory and it was written by a 📣 black lesbian feminist 📢 in the 1980s and has been expanded on by others since then.
As said before I can pretty much directly quote some of these known, established feminist writings in the black community and somehow people still think it's incel behavior. Meanwhile I continue to hear black activists using the same language I'm using to discuss our politics. Make it make sense.
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#"this identity is an inherent danger to me" is right out of the fascist playblook #it doesn't suddenly become hip when you say "well statistically these people cause harm!" #because again! that's fascism! #word for word the same justification used for a whole host of atrocities #you cannot punch up with fascist rhetoric
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"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" is an essay by Audre Lorde (famous poet and black lesbian feminist) written in 1984 when she was invited to speak as part of a panel in a NY Uni conference with a focus on feminism. It is 3 pages long and widely available online, but just in case, [click here for a link to the PDF]. PLEASE read it.
While the essay is free, the book (which contains further dialogue including the response to her speech and additional social commentary) is not, but I think still is valuable to understanding what's being said within. So I definitely recommend reading the speech in its essay format, but I still think the book is a good investment for true unserstanding.
#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.
“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”
Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.
I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance
please try this on for size:
there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present
My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.
My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.
Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary. And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to participate in this system. If that means I go to Hell, so be it. Going to Hell now.”
(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.” Interesting guy. Sorry for the long parenthetical.)
Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.
And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.
Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It's going to be vitally important.
Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn's creation.
Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won't. If it's made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.
Yes, the hard-right's ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn't their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.
Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.
Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they're financially desperate -- is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the "but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive," but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it's legal or not. But when it's legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it's illegal.
Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It's that simple.
"But it's demeaning!"
That's a you problem. No, really - it's your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I've had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and "proper". Just because a job involves sex doesn't mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.
To quote the great John Waters.
you know those posts that are like
INCORRECT way to draw a fat body ❌
CORRECT way to draw a fat body ✅
I saw someone use an example of a body that had a round potbelly and slimmer limbs for the INCORRECT version, saying it looked bloated or pregnant… when it literally looked exactly like my body.
yes it’s important to know the dynamics of body fat on characters, how it hangs, how it folds, etc. because a lot of people draw fat characters as Skinny Lite™️ and that’s a representation issue.
but as long as a character is big and round?? that’s a fat person! fat people look like that too!
