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i know this is no new news but i don't care and i will keep talking about it but there is a genuine racism problem in general on this website, and in the selfshipping community.

i wont get into the yume vs selfship discourse even though my two cents of it is: just call it selfshipping.

to me when people use the terms "yume" "riako" and whatnot as a substitute for saying "i selfship with this character and i consider them my spouse" or "i have a serious relationship with this character", it reminds me on how white people would use AAVE as a means of "fitting in" or "it sounds cooler" without knowing the full context to how AAVE came to be. or to put it simply, steal from Black culture. when it comes to "yume" the context i mostly see it in is because "it sounds cooler/cuter" or "it has a stronger meaning" when in reality, it just comes from a different culture. sounds familiar?

and the thing about this is what white people wanna turn a blind eye to this in general or defend themselves by going "oh im white but i dont do any of this stuff". this post is Not About You. and even then, how do you know you aren't doing any of this stuff? just because some of your other white peers are saying that you aren't being racist? but you won't listen to your Black/peers of color when they call you out on something?

instead of trying to defend yourself when you get called out, just suck it up and if you care so much, make the effort to change how you’ve been acting instead of just going back and forth so you won’t have to feel like the bad guy in the situation. get over your white guilt.

i don’t talk about racism much as a Black person on this blog due to the possibility of getting annoying anons about racism. or people getting annoyed that i’m not selfshipping here. but YOU 🫵 white reader, can’t keep turning a blind eye to this and whatever is going around you just so you don’t have to face the fact that you are privileged. you have never dealt with racism your entire life. and HEY, guess what? racism is very real, and you are part of the problem when you don’t do anything about it. don’t try to talk over us, listen to when somebody calls you out and Fix It.

I know everyone always hears the same problem with generative ai (chatbots and inage outputs specifically) being primarily with stealing written work and artwork from real prople. This is true, but not the only problem with generative ai, and I feel like this needs to be stated as we're seeing a lot of new character chatbots being advertised as being trained ethically.

Even if a generative ai model is fed only the work of consenting artists, that is not the biggest concern with ai use, the environmental damage is quite literally life ruining for people who live near data centers (those people being primarily black and/or poor communities effected by environmental racism and discrimination).

Hey, are you a black selfshipper? So am I!

I have a proposition for you 👁👁

Let me draw your selfships!!! NEOW!! (please)

Reblog with your selfships and what you'd like! Also, add your fav color cause these will be monochrome colored. If you don't, I'll default to pink and red!

Any types of selfships welcome! Platonic, familial, enemies, etc.,

This will be open until Feb. 16th (it would be the 14th, but i posting this a day late)

Also, weight, body type, species, mobilty aids, etc., shouldn't be a problem for me, don't be afraid to drop yourself and you f/o in the reblogs because you think i cant draw you i WILL lock in if i have to. DONT TRY TO STOP ME FROM DRAWING YOU

I'm not really up to drawing my own selfships rn, so if I can't do self-love rn (through art i still love myself lol) i wanna draw other black selfshipper in my stead!