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I hate hate HATE to be the mf that vagueposts about something serious but with the way fandoms have been moving recently when discussing racism…I’m not in the mood to invite klansmen to my doorstep. With that being said tho, this has been on the back of my mind, and I really need to rant about it .

To sum this up the best I can. A little over a year ago, not quite going on two, there was a racism incident in a (now private) Baki server. A Russian artist (their nationality is important, as they used it to justify their behavior) decided it would be appropriate to start a conversation about “blackwashing”. This conversation quickly devolved, as one would expect, and they:

- kept asking why they can’t draw characters of color white

- Began to parrot phrenologist talking points

- said the word “negroid” multiple times

- said the word “negro” multiple times

The conversation mainly went on for as long as they did because they led with the whole “oh I’m foreign, I’m Russian, this is what I’m taught in school and I don’t understand why it’s wrong 🥺🥺🥺” bit, and there was a presumed language barrier, so initially people engaged with them in good faith whilst explaining that the points they were making were antiblack and they needed to change how they spoke/thought about race.

This quickly fell apart because they chose to debate people on if those slurs were slurs, doubled down on the phrenology shit despite being warned, and chose to argue with the black members of said server. (I would know, I was one of them!) They were promptly kicked. They only “apologized” upon their removal. And Despite being blocked, they decided that it would be ok to find and follow those same black artists across platforms because they “still wanted to see their content”.

The whole thing was never brought to public attention because: it happened privately, ended when they were blocked again, and as a BIPOC you lowkey gotta pick and choose what you bring to your doorstep because people lowkey dgaf. And idk it just wasn’t worth it, I don’t like to do the whole “call out post” thing anyways. So please don’t consider this to be that

But idk it’s all just so??? Crazy to me. Insanely crazy, I still think about it from time to time. Because white people just get to be racist and still expect you to engage with them, especially in fandom spaces. They get to say “it was just a phase” or “they didn’t know any better” or in some cases “it was a different time” and move on with their lives. Not having to make any real changes to themselves while black people are still impacted by their actions

I see their posts from time to time. See people interacting with them, because they don’t know— how would they know?? I wonder if it would even be worth it to say something. Personally, I think there’s no expiry on racism….and I’d consider 1-2 years to be very recent. But the truth is a lot of people don’t see it that way if they’re not personally affected. I mean, not the same fandom but look at how people have been reacting to the TADC situation!

Not to mention how people behave when the perpetrator “apologizes”. Like everythings magically ok after that.

Would people even care??? Long ass rant but what do y’all think. I don’t want this to read as “GO HARASS THIS PERSON NOW!!!!”, which is why I’ve omitted their name. I can’t lie I do have a lot of feelings about this because it’s really weird. That whole thing was weird. I’m in a weird spot cuz god forbid I say something and then everyones like:

Racism is very alive in fandom spaces

This could not have been said any better,

I think around April 5th, shortly after the release of reTHAWed 4.5, one of the devs were engaging with a troll in an online lobby and made a pretty racist remark antagonizing black women (iirc?), and he tried to justify his words by saying that engaging with it is the best way to deal with them, and other devs pitched in too saying that "humor doesn't have to be funny." Wtf happened to "don't feed the trolls"? And that comment even out of context was NOT humor at all.

As soon as a screenshot of his comment was posted in the server for all to see, everybody then finally knew him for the edgelord he was. Fun fact, he also has a history of transphobia! There's even a dude on Reddit, I hear, that kept (idk if he's still doing it) posting damning evidence about his and the rest of the devs' instances of homophobia/transphobia/racism/etc. rightfully so, but so much to the point it gets tiring to hear. So ig everyone from Reddit hopped on the Discord and started bashing him for his comment, and he was debating with them for the whole fucking night, or at least the part of it before I left the server. During the time I was, I remember this one comment he made:

Our public image doesn't matter

HELLO????? That's exactly HOW the game got so many players in the first place. And he had to have known that the game was gonna attract a fuckton of casuals who only enjoy it for it's vast modding capabilities or it's classic mode tours or whatever. ALL of 10K had to have known, but even the fact they think like this, and the moderators of that server even enforce it, and still work on the game makes me unable to separate the art from the artist for as long as I hear about this.

I just hate being in retro game communities atp. I've already been disowned from r/PrinceOfPersia because of the homophobes there, and now this. Frankly all communities suck, but like, now it seems they're exploding with racists again like we're back in 2017, maybe just because we got the rotten orange back in office idk. Correlation isn't causation, but I think that has to do with this trend. I've always thought this. But yeah...

Jakob, a member of the Cook family, has gone missing. Shortly after, an apocalypse of humanoid fish zombies takes over the Florida Keys, spreading up north and beyond. The already-struggling Cook family now have to deal with new obstacles while they also try to find their son.

An episodic script-format horror story created by Interface.

Episode 2: Keys to the City is coming February 27th, 2026.

Read Undead Breathing by clicking here.

Jakob, a member of the Cook family, has gone missing. Shortly after, an apocalypse of humanoid fish zombies takes over the Florida Keys, spreading up north and beyond. The already-struggling Cook family now have to deal with new obstacles while they also try to find their son.

An episodic script-format horror story created by Interface.

Episode 2: Keys to the City is coming February 27th, 2026.

Read Undead Breathing by clicking here.

I deliver the rehearsed phrase confidently, and then the person assumes I can actually speak Japanese and unleashes a barrage of natural-speed keigo at me

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

common origins of suffering, euphoria, and ferret

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

(Light spoilers below the cut)