Black Manta's Girl

Lmao

Submission for @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge! TYSM for organizing this <3. Yes, Luke and Leia get to actually look like siblings for once.

80% of time spent on this was crying over Leia’s twists and googling “SCHMEDIUM VS SMALL BRAID SECTIONS DESINTEEROSE PLEASE HELP” and then realizing that I had to draw things other than hair and face.

White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

no we are not white, and we are not seen as white by any western european nation.

we are not even western

while skin colour varies amongst greeks, from pale to dark brown, what is most similar in all of us is the rest of our phenotype characteristics, gene wise we are closer to middle easterners and north africans than any central and/or west europeans, bar south italians.

our facial structures, noses, jaws, eye shape, etc and our broader body types are very much different that your typical anglosaxon european.

there is also one of the most ironic anecdotes from my country, the neo-nazi criminal org "golden dawn" has a greek membership (they are in prison now but before they went to prison) the german equivalent told the greek members that they should disband because they are not white and they will never be, and they should instead join the middle easterners, and greeks should leave europe.

also just a reminder that white supremacists created the "brown race" specifically to target dark skin caucasians that included of course several southern european, including the greeks as a whole

Gay Son Thot Daughter

June 30, 2024

Actually this is not filtered! This is taken with a film camera, so this is just how the photo turned out.

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

So if you click into the notes for the episode, you'll find that the slot machine was reused in an episode called A Nice Place To Visit. Said episode is about a small-time crook who dies, and goes to heaven, where he gets everything he wants: wins every casino jackpot and never loses, any woman he says hello to is his, and on and on. Having grown tired of all this, he tells his guardian angel he's bored and says "send me to the other place," to which it turns out said guardian angel is actually the devil and this IS the other place.

Look what I found in the episode notes for that one.

Mixed results from the Americans because this shit is legal in only 30 states and almost impossible to get past a zoning committee so while they exist, they're extremely localized. Lots of yelling at Ohio.

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Saskatchewan: "What's insane to me is that you have these with the population density you have. What am I going to hit in Turtleford?"

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Bahia and Sao Paulo: "I'm stunned we don't have these tbh."

Prague: "We have these in my city, but only for boats."

Manaus: "My uncle has one of these! He also has a window on the other side so you can drive your boat up too :)"

(much Brazilian and Czech high-fiving)

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Brisbane: "There's an astonishing level of trust being displayed that people aren't just going to open a beer immediately"

Tallahassee: "Oh no, there is 100% cop camped like half a mile down the road to arrest people who didn't stow the booze correctly."

Brisbane: "Oh it's an invasive policing operation! Yeah, that's the USA."

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Newcastle: "No, this looks correct for the country that has bears breaking into your house". (The Australians and Africans have a bit where every time someone mentions their wildlife, they mass @me (who had a bear in my house) and the guy from Singapore whose mom adopted a wild water monitor and says it's her favorite son now)

The aforementioned Singaporean: "How am I exposed to an onslaught of your media and culture at all times and you STILL find new ways to horrify me?"

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Vatican City: "You can ride your bike through the brewery to get beer but the abbot in charge doesn't like it"

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Jakarta: "We don't have this because we're Muslim but we do have drive-thru Marijuana"

Kyoto: "We don't have these because we have public transportation. You can buy liquor from vending machines at the stations though."

Munich: "We don't have these because we are disciplined enough to pack our beer with us if we are going somewhere that drinking is acceptable, or there will be beer at that location when we arrive."

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India: "Why have drive-thru Liquor, when you can have liquor delivered to your vehicle? GET ON OUR LEVEL" (no less than nine different images from across the country of people in trucks that have been specifically modified to operate the business of driving up to other vehicles in traffic and selling them liquor)

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Pudasjävi: "...I should open one of these."

Everyone: "NO!!!"