*catboy-ifies your president* nya~

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[winterbirb]

babygirl I'm parasocialing politicians you've never even heard of

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[primaius]

[lamignonette]

[huariqueje]

Ripple Effect - Antonia Tyz Peeples

American , b. 1957 -

Oil on linen , 30 x 40 in.

[zillanovikov]

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

[cloudabserk]

“fujoshis are harmful to gay men” not this gay man.

[cloudabserk]

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

[cloudabserk]

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[2stepadmiral]

Rewatched the Dooku captured episode of Clone wars today, and the scene when Hondo is trying to ransom Dooku to Palpatine is contextually the funniest scene in the series and one of the funniest scenes in the franchise.

Like, Palpatine is clearly fuming at the fact that his carefully laid plans for a war designed to solidify his power base and destroy the Jedi are now in jeopardy because his incredibly competent and dangerous apprentice somehow got ambushed by a group of ragtag Pirates led by the Star Wars version of Captain Jack sparrow. And he’s clearly trying to pass it off as being irked that an underworld criminal is audacious enough to try and shake him down for 1 million credits worth of spice, but you can tell that he’s trying to figure out how he’s going to salvage this situation right in front of the Jedi, and trying to hide that all of this is going on through his head. And he’s clearly trying to get himself off the hook, throwing out curveballs like “well, how do we know that’s even the real Dooku? How do you know he’s really alive? That’s not even his Lightsaber, we can’t tell just from a hologram.” and everyone of his dodgers is just casually being swept aside by Hondo‘s preparedness for the cup conversation. He literally pulls him out at one point and says “here he is, you can see I have him and he’s in great shape. <Slaps him on the shoulder> you can fit so many devious schemes in this bad boy. Even kinda looks like his wanted holos, doesn’t he?”

But what really gets me as as soon as he shows that he has Dooku’s Lightsaber, Yoda confirms that it’s Dooku‘s weapon, and you can tell that Yoda is just completely beside himself with glee at this whole situation. Like you can tell that she finds it so freaking funny that his former apprentice, now a feared Sith, Lord, and the most wanted man in the galaxy, got himself into such a stupid year one Padawan dilemma.

Like you just know that as soon as Yoda and the other, Jedi got onto the transport, heading back to the Jedi temple after that meeting, Yoda just started cackling madly like he’s been in the Dagobah swamps for 20 years and he’s now trying to mess with some random kid who showed up in his backyard. And all the other masters are one by one cracking up themselves, even Mace (who tries to maintain the Stern serenity he usually displays, but even he can’t deny that the situation is freaking hilarious).

[laterkiss]

my body craves information

[just-a-nowhere-giirl]

A series of greatest hits from possibly one of my favorite parody accounts on anything ever.

[bunniboiz]

"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps

[bunniboiz]

and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.

[johncagedigicoreremix]

pretending to forgive my inner child so it comes out of hiding and i can deliver the final blow

[eurobeatbeetle]

bring out the rotating tiger

[fivehoursofscreaming]

so youre telling me that some asshole can just throw together meaningless shit and get notes and attention yet when i put actual thought into the things i say nothing happens i am so fucking done with this bullshit god damn fuck

[eurobeatbeetle]

[fivehoursofscreaming]

oh

[notmusa]

SCARED

[s3znl-gr3znl]