#a speech

Just send me a DM. You can give me your opinions in private. I just want to share something about Chadwick. And give the love out.

Chadwick was more than a character in a superhero fantasy world.

He played many characters that push forth representation upon the black community. To show kids, and lead them to pursue diversity amongst it. He achieve and accomplish many astounding goals, before he passed.

Though, he was a King in reality, and held great immense power. Using it at his disposal, to protect, unite and fight for a voice. He use the time he needed to show,and tell. Gave us wisdom for something to hold in our life, and to remember him as for what he believes and stand for. He was fighting our battles, and the society to stand in what he believes in, while fighting his own enemy in the process at the same time.

I never met him personally. Never knew him, who he was, what he was like. Though, seeing pictures of him with children, or parents taking pictures of their children wearing the Black Panther costumes, and so forth. Crossing their arms over their chest. Having a big smile on their face knowing there is a superhero with their skin color. Superhero to look up to and follow behind him.

That is enough for me to know how humble, and how much of a difference he made in society. The time was too short for him, too short for us to keep holding him. Too short for us not to give him enough credit, respect and love he deserves.

Like Danai’s words, “How do we honor a King?”

Simple. We honor him by continue to proceed his goal. To push and stand up, have our voice heard. To demand equality upon the black community. Fight and stand along side with them. Fighting back against racism. Using whatever platform no matter if it’s small, to use it to fight against the oppressors. Yes, we all were fighting it before he passed, but Chadwick wouldn’t want us to give up. As cliche, cringey that may sounded.

We honor a King, by paving and completing his path that he never finished. I pray for his friends, love ones, family, wife. Pray for them, and their condolences as they need the support and love they get. Please don’t overstep their boundaries.

Please don’t focus on the sequel of BP, instead focus on his achievements and work he done. Focus on what he played and how much he pushes himself to the limit.

💜🖤Rest in Power King 💜🖤

As you rest upon the ancestors, and guid us through the hard times. Even if you’re not here. Your spirits and love shall remain.

so @illumegeoff is leaving and i’m NOT okay. her blog is the first blog i followed and i look up to her so damn much and i regret listening to my anti social anxiety and not messaging her sooner and actually becoming her friend. her leaving tumblr never crossed my mind and it’s really sad to see her go because she’s one of the best out there. but i totally understand and support her decision because there’s always a breaking point and sometimes you just gotta let some stuff go to help yourself. i’m proud of her for all that she’s accomplished and what she’s about to do because it takes so much more than guts to delete time’s worth of works.

i agree with her when she said that tumblr (and this fandom) has turned into a place of toxicity. what with recent events and whatnot, it has been chaotic. but i guess a fandom isn’t a fandom without its issues and imperfections (i’ve seen and dealt with much, much worse in a totally different fandom and it was absolute hell). i hope that this fandom can get its shit together and we can all be more kind and supportive to one another as a whole instead of sending disgusting anon hate and bringing others down (not saying we’ve all done it, but some people have). we’re all in this fandom together supporting the same person, so why not love and support one another too while we’re at it?

we may have opinions, by all means. we aren’t human without having our own thoughts. and of course we can share it because we are a social species meant to share and communicate ideas and thoughts among ourselves but there is always a line; a boundary. lately, we’ve been crossing lines and letting our diversity in opinions separate us and it shouldn’t be happening as bad as it is within this fandom and it’s quite upsetting to see us, as friends and fellow supporters of a specific person, not getting along over something as ridiculous and insignificant as someone else’s personal life who we have and should have no control over.

i also just realised i’ve gotten extremely opinionated and turned a warmhearted departure into a rant on fandom division and other depressing things i’ve witnessed while here and i apologise for that. on the other hand, i do have a platform and i thought, what better time to speak about it than now? anyway, i really do wish @illumegeoff finds relief soon and maybe considers - at the least - returning to tumblr someday.