suspiciously located aboard The Walrus

there's this weird trend rn where people seem to think that because they hate misogyny and racism and colonialism or whatever and don't want to address these things inadequately it's "safer" to not tackle these things at all. i only like writing fanfiction about men because then i don't have to think about misogyny. i only write white characters because i'm white and if i write characters of color i might mess up and do something racist. my historical fiction will be constructed in such a way that my reader will never have to think about the slavery and colonial extraction that provides the cotton my characters wear and the sugar they eat and the gold in their jewelry. the presence of the oppressed would introduce oppression, would rupture the fantasy, would make my characters, my readers, myself as the author, unclean. better not to let them be seen at all.

tbh even with historical fiction and colorblind casting there's something similar to this. we want to imagine a regency britain without racism. it will look exactly the same as a regency britain maintained by slavery colonialism and white supremacy, but anyone of any race can wear those nice dresses. we want to make a show about pirates without making you root for or sympathize with slavers, so let's forget about all that unpleasantness, blackbeard is a man of color now. we want an american revolution that looks like america does today. let's erase hercules mulligan's slave cato and his important spywork completely and instead cast his owner as a black man and call him an abolitionist. doesn't that go down a bit easier.

saw the most awe-inspiring shirt walking home from the library

i. hope you guys know that when i Like your comment and don’t respond its not that i Wanr you to explode its just that i don’t have anything to say and Yet love you so much still 👍

Funny thing about Tumblr is everyone you are mutuals with probably has a secret gimmick side blog.

if we're black sails homeric epic / odyssey-posting. I think miranda functions as a sort of amalgam and stand-in for so many of the epic's women. she's cassandra. knowing the future, but never believed. she's penelope. husband forcibly taken as a result of political machinations beyond her control (presumed dead). she's helen. fleeing her husband's house with another man. she's calypso. trapped on an island, only her lover for company. she's circe. the strong and beguiling witch. she's athena. providing wise council and divine guidance. she's clytemnestra. her fury strikes down a powerful man, as revenge for what she's lost. mistress, wife, mother. indeed

one person's "ugghh this trope is so overdone" is another person's "oooooohohohohohohohoho"

at the club straight up tarnishing my master's legacy