uncomfortably cold and paranoid

learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"

all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!

its really funny that after 2 months this post is still making racists come into my askbox treating me like im a horrible person for pointing out that sometimes people of color are excluded from things in visible and offputting ways. cry about it

It’s not just like asking the local Chinese diaspora group to disavow the CCP, it’s like asking them to disavow China as a whole. To agree that every single person in China is inherently evil, from the tiniest newborn to the oldest grandparent, that any attack against any person in China didn’t actually happen, and if it did it wasn’t that bad, and if it was then they deserved it. It’s like expecting them to do this while all over the world Chinese people are being attacked, whether or not they actually ever lived in China, and while within living memory every country turned away Chinese people who were fleeing systemic murder, and China is the only country that exists explicitly to protect Chinese people

You tell some people "horses don't exist to be ridden" and they look at you like you've grown an extra head.

major turn off in fiction is when the author invokes the horror of like, Christian conservatism and then, surprise! the real horror wasn’t christofascism, it was actually demons all along!

ooooh there’s a cult? really? and you’re borrowing your religious trauma from growing up culturally Christian in America? and the reason it’s scary is because there’s a literal actual supernatural demon? I could just smash my fingertips with a jewelry hammer for the next four hours actually

"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...