LilacLyn

"Life is Aisha / The meaning of her name"

Idk, I just thought I'd put that out there. It's a common name for Black and Brown girls. There's a similar name in Hindi and Sanskrit, but it doesn't have the same meaning.

I hope tadc fans at least try to educate themselves about the Black joy and love Stevie Wonder poured into that song when he was inspired by the birth of his daughter, Aisha Morris, but idk. We already got MFers calling it niche like it didn't play at all the weddings we were forced to attend growing up.

Edit: added a pic I stole from google of Stevie Wonder holding Aisha, and cleaned up the post a little.

I'm out of entertainment now, and I don't really feel like I was able to make a difference, but I hoped someone would. I left when the online creator market was fairly young. When YouTube became a way that people could actually make money, I was really excited. The whole promise of all this was supposed to be that people could make things without having to make those kinds of compromises. That's why this kind of stuff disappoints me so much. Hearing how Glitch treats animators and other team members and what the internal culture is like is very much deja vu, and I find that a miserable waste. You created an entirely new system just to what, copy the old one exactly but with yourself at the top? That's pathetic.

While I'm here, I want to make something else very clear while I'm here as a natural consequence of what I said above: every non black voice actor says the n word for fun. it would be easier to list exceptions. It is critical that you do not interpret "non-black" as "white" in this context because it would be a mistake to think that brown voice actors do it even fractionally less. This is an issue embedded deep in the cultural foundations of voice over as an industry and creative field. I have met voice actors, plural, who say the n word at the beginning of every session as a way to break the initial tension in a booth and remove mental restrictions on the performance, so they say, because it's taboo. It's essential that they feel absolutely NO restriction on their performance, you see, and the n word taboo is the GREATEST restriction on casual speech in our society. Ridiculous. If you have to say slurs to get out of your own head, that's a flaw in your acting process and you need to get better at your job. But genuinely, that's how casual it is. So whenever I hear that SoAndSoVA said a slur somewhere, I'm not particularly surprised, and I'm not really sure what to do either. This is something that I've watched Black actors put up with. Reasons vary. It can be as simple as not wanting to negatively impact their career, or often genuinely not wanting to risk cutting off income for other marginalized actors "just" over this (because let's be honest, Black queers show up for White queers in a way that never really happens in reverse). Or sometimes they just seem to really think it's funny. I don't know how to show up for them, but I try to do the best that I can. I ask.

Well you saw it from within, and I can see it clearly from the outside.

I’m under the impression that the standard of indie can and WILL change. It just has to, cus I got shit to do and I don’t have the time nor the will to pander to white bullshit. It’ll be a challenge for sure, but with new technology and new faces arriving on the scene every day, there’s an infinite possibility for growth and change.

But the fact is is that the industry itself needs to be overhauled, it just does. The foundation is rotten, and that’s why it continues to pander to so many bigoted individuals, because the space was built for them first. If we’re going to set a new standard, then we need a new space.

Birthday gift for my lovely friend @kalpeavaris! ♥♥ I always wanted to draw Jax and Pomni from their TADC au (A Soul's Worth); even if it's discontinued! Freaking love their designs UGHHH-

(LOVE YA BABYGIRL BARK BARK) _____

spoilers below. that's all i gotta say and that's the reason why I stopped tadc content.

More info on TADC controversies here:

• All Controversies Explained

• The Issue With Gooseworx

• Black Fans Aren’t Safe

QUESTION: Why are Black folks and survivors of SA/CSA always the ones who have to “just get over” everything?

When it’s Enslavement or Jim Crow: “oh, just get over it!”

When it’s cases of grooming and s*x abuse: “oh, just get over it!”

When it’s a celebrity or politician making a racist/SA joke or stereotype: “oh, just get over it!”

When it’s a Black person experiencing racial violence or wrongful m*rder: “oh, just get over it!”

When it’s a woman/child experiencing s*xual violence or wrongful m*rder: “oh, just get over it!”

The n-slur and similar slurs have over FOUR HUNDRED YEARS of generational trauma and bleak history attached to it. The effects of systemic racism *STILL* impact people to this day in every single aspect of life. Likewise, women and minors (both of whom are oppressed classes) are always in the direct line of fire of any promiscuous joke or act of s*xual violence. Society is built on the exploitation and objectification of our bodies. Unless you are Black, a woman, a child, or a survivor of grooming/SA, you will never understand and therefore should never accept apologies on our behalf.

No, we will never get over it, not until society as a whole makes a collective effort to dismantle this current system that is foundationally built on racism, s*xual exploitation, and g-¢¡de, and replace it with something more humane and equitable.

Non-racist people can do racist things

Racist jokes "being common at the time" doesn't excuse them from being racist nor make them acceptable like at all

How long ago something was isn't relevant when the impact/consequences of those actions is happening right now to everyone around them

Non affected parties have no say in whether an apology about racism is acceptable or not

ai writes (aka they’re mimicking) like humans. not the other way around.

Some funnybunny cuz I LOVE THEM DEARLY💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔