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getting kicked off love island for just swimming in the pool and not talking to anyone

happy “i wouldnt know. i wasnt there” wednesday

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself

when the unpopular female character is mean and cruel to the fan favorite 🤩😍🥳🥳🥳💍💍👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩‼️‼️‼️‼️👍

"he would not fucking say that" but about injuries. he would not fucking recover that quickly. those scars would not fucking heal like that. he would not be fucking able bodied after that. he would not be fully lucid after that.

happy Juneteenth to black fans in fandom specifically 🫶🏿 love yall

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

i admit i am getting wary whenever people vaguepost about a fandom being 'full of drama' because a lot of people seem to use 'drama' as a synonym for like. discussions of bigotry and bias in media. which is so very much not the same thing and it hurts my head to see it conflated with shipping wars and headcanon discourse.

Every time someone says "I don't pay attention to fandom drama" and the "drama" is a Black or brown person getting dogpiled for wanted to be treated with respect. But then turn around and go "I didn't know that this sort of thing was happening!" Well you didn't care to look, either 😬

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

it would be so funny (if it didn't suck) how much the term "white passing" is now just a term used by mostly white people as shorthand for one or more of the following: 1) "you, person of colour, have challenged assumptions i had about race and i don't like that so i am going to attempt to invalidate your point by erasing your identity" OR 2) "I am a white person who doesn't interact with people of colour therefore i have no idea what a person of colour looks like" OR 3) "i think white passing just means having white/light skin and you have white/light skin therefore you are white passing" OR 4) "you are not performing your culture in a way that is obvious or legible to me, a stranger, therefore i assumed you were white because that is more comfortable for me" and the most insanity-inducing part of all this is that if you are levelling the label of "white passing" at someone in this way then they're not white passing. if someone is passing for white then you would not clock them as doing so, by definition. passing for white is a verb, not a noun. it really annoys me, deeply actually, that these terms Black people and people of colour coined to describe things culturally specific within our own communities, then got bastardised by white people to the point that these culturally specific terms essentially become derogatory and used to discredit us.