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Dear White People,

I know that you are excited about Black Panther. I know that all the memes that Black Tumblr and Black Twitter are creating are hilarious and wonderful, as is all media we create. After all, it’s already the best Marvel movie ever made, with the most beautiful cast, and the most perfect costumes and special effects.

That being said though… please think long and hard about how you talk about characters in this movie. T’challa is not your bae. Killmonger is not your precious son. Shuri is not your wife. Absolutely none of the characters are your children or your smol anything. Most specifically? The characters AREN’T YOURS.

The language of anti-black racism is often couched in terms of infantilization and ownership. I don’t give a shit if you’re just putting it in tags, be careful how you interact textually and mentally with black characters.

Black Panther is a movie for black people. Sure, a lot of people are going to see it, but this movie is, for many a black nerd, a lifelong dream. It’s ours, and while you get to share it, you don’t get to fucking claim it. 

The MCU fandom already turns black characters into mammys and servants and sidekicks for their white favs, and it’s bullshit. You turn black pain into plot points for your white favs. Basically you have a long history of treating black characters like shit, and I’m here to tell you to cut that shit out.

Your white favs do not belong in Wakanda. They don’t belong there in meta, in head canons, in fic. The only reason Buckwheat Barnes gets to be there is because he’s currently being used as a decorative ice sculpture for state dinners. You have literally the rest of the entire fucking MCU, go play in that sandbox and leave Wakanda alone. 

Love,

Me, and Black Fans Everywhere Who Are Tired of Your Shit

#a lot of the responses seem to be taking this as discouraging white people from seeing or enjoying black panther #but like as a white person reading ops post this says to me go see and enjoy this movie and be respectful of the characters 

#the thing about infantalizing especially cause like yeah that’s a way a lot of people including me interact with characters in general #calling them smol or precious but like from what I have read that has a whole different context when it comes to black characters #because of racism and historical contexts like op said 

#and then also just ya know not using wakanda as a playground for white people seems pretty simple to me #like ah yes let’s put all my white characters into wakanda seems too close to colonization 

#tldr op isn’t saying don’t see the movie they’re saying be responsible with how you engage with fiction

Me:

Aight.

Important and serious post time that us here at the website always want to get one thing across.

We often get a lot of messages asking us ‘Is the foundation real?’. The answer is no, it always has and always will be /no/.

I am here to encourage you all to spread this message and let it be known that the foundation is in no way real. No, do not add to this post any kind of joke or trolling or RP because I may seriously consider blocking you for a certain amount of time after this is posted. We’re not fucking around. If anyone. ANYONE. ever asks you ‘is SCP real?’. Please, PLEASE say no and reassure them it is not.

The foundation is only a bunch of creative writers who love to write all kinds of weird shit. That is all we are. We are writers and friends.

You wanna know what happens when you lead people to believe that stuff like this is true?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

This. This is what happens.

When you say that the foundation is real to someone who honestly believes it is. This is the kind of thing that happens. And you do not want that on your hands.

So, for the safety of others physically and mentally. If anyone ever asks. You tell them no, the foundation is not real.

Thanks for reading.

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