–west–

any pronouns | nineteen | W

[west-youngman]

NAME: West

AGE: Nineteen

PRONOUNS: Any

INTERESTS: DC Comics, Buffy, SPN, Fem-focused horror, North American History, Music, Digital Art, Poetry, Animals, etc.

OTHER PLATFORMS: you won’t find me anywhere else

[spaceshiprocket]

Superman by Bruno Redondo

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black people will never stop talking about this, but when we are on sites such as Tumblr, where so many of the white people feel that not only are they not racist, but that calling their racist behavior racist is emotional warfare on them, they will make sure to keep Black voices as silenced as possible.

Also, a lot of the Black people who got deleted or run off of the site weren't even accused of any type of Russian anything. A lot of them were just run the fuck off by the white Tumblr base on harassment shit.

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[slewfootwitch]

If a person's friends are racist and they don't care because it doesn't impact them or they try to reframe their buddy's racist behavior as something else, they are also racist, okay? 🫶

[slewfootwitch]

Also if your friends are saying racist, antisemitic and otherwise heinously weird things about people, you may want to consider just not being their friends instead of just sending anons to the people they're talking about. 🫰

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Not only is it okay to stop being friends with someone because they're racist, it's the bare minimum thing to do.

And just so we're clear, if you stick around with racists, you can't get upset that you're associated with racism or that people think you're a racist too. Because if your friend's racism isn't enough to end a friendship over, that means you're okay with racism. Being okay with racism means you're racist. Just so you know.

[hood-ex]

It's frying me that they rebooted Batman only for people to be like ngl Fraction's Batman kinda sucks.

[delphissoracle]

the exact moment I knew

Batman 2025 #1

[inkpotsprite]

This comic is so stupid istg.

If Batman doesn't believe people are capable of changing then he may as well just start killing all his villains right now. Without the belief that people can change, Batman's no-kill rule becomes hollow as it doesn't have the main reason for that fueling it.

[yasyart]

Jedi Duke Thomas

[meangreenspaceman]

man I sure love that character I wish the writers did too

[west-youngman]

I should read some Blue Beetle comics but Jaime Reyes beat my ass too many times in Injustice 2 and I’m fuckin petty

[thehighnecromancer]

Catwoman (2018) #13 | Jones/Blanco

[west-youngman]

I always read the comics I’ve learned to hate on before verbally and/or publicly hating on them, which is why after Batman and Son I’m not touching another Grant Morrison comic. Can’t force me, I’m not doing it.

[west-youngman]

What would ya’ll say would be the best way to get into X-Men? Comics, movies, shows, etc. whatever you think the best intro would be for someone who knows next to nothing.