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Like are we deadass??? We're okay with racists using black people's art?? We're okay with racists changing the original context of the song?? We're all okay with racists taking a black mans song out of context on juneteenth?!?!?!?

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

Should I just wait for the YouTube release? Is Glitch sacrificing the integrity of their trans rep for two weeks just because people might get spoiled? Well, that's clearly not it, Leeroy is still called a man in-show!

Do I just say they/them? But then no one will be happy, this fandom hates non-binary people!(/hj)

Problem is, this was confirmed in a Bluesky post that I only learned about thanks to other people in the crit community.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

For example, let's say you see a joke about a racial slur

I personally would never make a joke like that, because I don't find racial slurs to be funny.

So this means that the person who made the joke clearly thought racial slurs, in some messure, are fun to joke about.

I like to call this the "Drunk Uncle at Thanksgiving test"

Would this sound funny if your drunk conservative uncle said it after a couple beers? And more importantly, would you tell this joke to your friends/coworkers when you're back at school the next Monday.

congrats, tadc