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Thank you SO VERY MUCH for your time as a reader and as an artist!

This is remarkable. I am really just so moved by this!

bones: What did you do?

chapel: She chased him to the next red light, and reached into his window, and-

ok so you didn't actually tag Uhura and I do thank you for that.

But considering the fandoms are decades old at this point... did you have to tag st: aos? this has already been discussed ad nauseum.

WRITING UHURA AS A LOVE INTEREST FOR SPOCK WAS NOT COMPHET OR HOMOPHOBIA.

BUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS MISOGYNOIR.

You do not get to declare a black woman character that is iconic to generations of women a lesbian when the series always underwrote her. ffs Leonard and Nichelle were supposed to kiss before Shatner pulled rank. Spock/Uhura also had canon moments in TOS. please keep your mcspirk out of the general star trek 2009 tag it is not appreciated.

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

1. He wasn’t the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X

2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X

on GOD im TELLING YOU the only reason Chiron and Kevin aren't in the high ranks of mlm romance is because they're 1) Black 2) in an all Black movie and 3) aren't the "palatable" Black gays white folk like!!!

And not that I ever want Moonlight to be consumed by fanfic culture, I actually think it should be left alone, but it really is telling that it never even had a chance. Despite having lines that people yearn for in their fics, ON SCREEN, CANON. Touch starvation, found family, best friends to lovers, yearning, love, soulmates?? It's a five course meal of good writing and acting and characters and and and-

Episode 6 didn't have Merrick tell them that it may not be Claudia, or that something may be with her, because that's the gag. Claudia is also speaking for the writers/showrunners.

I've already said why this episode and the other racist comments sprinkled throughout the season are about the unmaking of Louis, and Claudia. But Louis is a larger target and I have my theory as to why.

Episode 6 is also about the conversations that this chronically online writers room have no doubt seen saying that making Louis Black was an improvement.

And they don't like that, or the audience that came with that change, regardless of the benefit to the show it brought them.

Merrick calls on "the son of Ham" summoning Claudia - this has nothing to do with any spiritual practices other than the use of Ham and his offspring to justify chattel slavery.

Claudia says "there's something etched on your rib that says slave." People have pointed out that this is a reference to Adam and Eve and they're correct! In this case, "the first man Adam" is "the first vampire Louis". The white one. The one who owned slaves. That this new incarnation is nothing but a slave taken from the bones of the original.

They're saying that the slave owner was rejected, so enjoy your slave. A nappy headed pimp of a slave. Point blank. Period. I mean, we all heard these things.

"Oh, but that's what Claudia says in the book!"

Yes, sweetheart. I know. Now go be a pleasure to have in someone else's classroom.

This is also why Claudia glazes Lestat’s blood being hers after not wanting it for Madeleine. Why she talks about her "bleak, Black life".

The offense of enjoying these Black iterations of Louis and Claudia was something they couldn't let go.

White queer fandom will go out of their way to ship white and\or light skin characters with anyone else but their partner of color, they ignore and avoid ships of color or ships that include characters of color of all sexualities but claim they don't like "x ship" because its het when they treat queer characters of color in relationship just as bad and in my opinion, worse than het ships of color which are already hated and ignored by fandom. Men of color, women of color, queer people of color in ships?? Not on their watch! These can't be cute, they've got too much melanin!

They claim they cant relate to characters of color and ignore feminist and queer stories and experiences of people of color. They say black women in ships are "too good" for the men their with so they take the man and ship him with everyone else because shes "strong and independent on her own and he cant handle all that!" Black character has chemistry with white character? No they dont! Your just reading into it too much! They're boring together according to white fandom!

They must insert their view of white queerness into anything they don't feel they can connect with, thing is about culture? Being mixed? Generational trauma among families of color? Must be about white queerness in some way!

A small compilation of posts from the latest trans twitter discourse. I haven't bothered to screenshot all of the most viral tweets, but also I think it's important to include a lot of the smart ass replies to really help you simulate just how many people are going under black posts and asking "well, what even is racism really?" And if you'd like to know, one of the largest black trans women on twitter was harassed off of the site. No she did not do anything in particular, just posted an image of a sign she didn't make herself that claimed white trans people oppress black trans people (referring to I believe the silencing of a black trans woman who was slated to speak at the protest but was kicked off last minute. @/septembersister, If that's accurate.)

I don't think it ended up in the screenshot but the scenario of the trans bipoc sex worker they were called sex pests in a reply. Victryena was harassed into deactivating.