Cats and Witchcraft

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

Make it awk af for the racists you know and question their casual racism. If you allow it to exist in your presence without challenging it, you're showing that you accept it.

I actually laughed out loud. Good one, boss! WITH NOTHIIIIN?

the wheels on the bus go SLAM BAM BAM, SLAM BAM BAM all the way home 🎶

I'm sure all my settings are set to "yes show me mature content no don't filter anything" what are you TALKING ABOUT

the posts are ON THE WEBSITE. I can't search dirty words?? am I five??? is this club penguin??? when I get you

just so you know, if you completely ignore the search feature on the website and just type "tumblr.com/search/term" into the address bar, it bypasses all of this. broken-ass website

Tumblr cant even do censorship right. What'd Dylan ever do man??

“draw the goddamn background you coward“

If you do painterly style in digital, study traditional paint techniques. It wont be a 1 to 1, but it helped me improve A LOT.

It's a little bit funny when I talk about how what passes for autistic advocacy on Tumblr often operates by openly throwing other neurodivergent people under the bus – critically including other autistic people whose communication needs don't conform with a very specific archetype – and folks come at me assuming that I'm some clueless allistic who's being mean to them for no reason, because Does This Look Like A Blog A Neurotypical Person Would Run.

I have insisted for a long time that while the stereotypes that neurotypical people have about autistic people are awful, they're also predictable: it is a pretty standard set of consistent, wrong beliefs. Nobody, however, believes more bizarre things about autistic people than autistic people. Autistic people are out here reinventing eugenics, Mary Baker Eddy-style Neo-Gnostic Positivism, deterministic teleology, all sorts of things from first principles that are, crucially, also wrong. It's fascinating, if somewhat frustrating. (My usual joke about my one friend's Facebook page is 'Neurotypicals Don't Understand All Autistic People Use Clear Communication' Says Autistic Woman Who Constantly Ghosts Others For Months.)

I'm not sure I'd call the prevalence of eugenicist rhetoric in certain stripes of online autistic advocacy a reinvention, per se; "nerds are literally, materially a more 'highly evolved' clade of humans" is a mind-gremlin that's been clinging to nerd culture since before the Internet was a thing, and certain online spaces seem simply to have absorbed it wholesale.

There's a pretty compelling case to be made that it's an uninterrupted continuation of the eugenics movement and early cognitive science.

Also. The way the idea of Indigo Children/Starseeds has seeped into the corners of the internet and into life offline is both bemusing to me and concerning. Even more so concerning when autistic people themselves start parroting talking points of both.

apropos of nothing I'm gnawing at the bars of my enclosure because I just remembered that people mod Onmund to get rid of his underbite like, none of you people deserve him!!! it gives him CHARACTER and it's CUTE.