Art by Taggerung

the way i understand the difference between blorbo and The Character is that blorbo activities are 1. fun and 2. voluntary. when youre rotating blorbo in your mind you’re playing with your tuoys. but when The Character has got ahold of you then you are a tortured artist being plagued by visions

For the record since it came up in the last week in one of my fandom servers I'm no longer a part of, if you want to claim that Palestinians are somehow to blame for their genocide, you should go ahead and block me. I don't do facists here.

every day this site feels more and more hostile to be on as a racialized person

this used to be a place where I talked about my interests. I used to blog about the tv shows and books and video games I liked alongside my politics. But now it feels like 90% of what I post is about racism because this site is so fucking racist and so overwhelmingly white that I’ve had to become primarily a political blog out of necessity. I’ve seen the same thing happen to countless Black and Brown ppl I’ve followed over the years and it makes me sick to think about. not because I don’t want to speak about political/social issues or because I don’t think it’s important to do so; if I had a choice in the matter this would still be an overtly political blog and I would still be speaking out about the issues that matter to me. But so many white users are out here posting exclusively about fandom or art or music or photography or whatever else they’re passionate about, whereas if you’re openly Black or Brown on the internet you literally do not get that option because you will inevitably get swathes of white people coming to you and demanding you justify your existence to them. And I think that sucks

While this post is primarily about racism I’ve seen this happen time and time again to trans women as well, racialized or otherwise. I have transfem friends and mutuals I met in fan spaces as a teenager who now post primarily about transmisogyny, because it’s just so incredibly pervasive that they’re forced to spend basically all of their time on the internet advocating for their right to exist as trans women instead of having fun engaging with the things they love