the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability

LFG HOLYOKE!!! 🎉

Like people make fun of middle aged women for not getting married or being divorced or "always the bridesmaid never the bride" and all like "oh she's desperate! No one wants her! Old maid!' but they become straight up hostile and upset when you tell them you never want to date.

The core wound of this demographic is being rejected and being relentlessly asked to stop your bullshit relative to romance and sex, and to get back in the ranks. The aroace definitely qualify.

And since being rejected is obviously a veeeeery common trauma in the queer community, and people tend to reenact unhealed patterns, it's not rare to see queer people rejecting other queer people with shit like biphobia, being picky with who "qualify" as trans, dismissing aroaces etc...

Me every time you post a poll and I see the percentage of Black ppl vs. non-Black ppl.

It’s so bad I could honestly laugh

I'm scrolling tumblr as one does and this post unfortunately comes across my eyes and I'm gonna paraphrase because I blocked and moved on but I keep thinking about it. It basically said: "Black people really see a character made by a white person and voiced by a white person and have no Black coding and have the audacity to make them Black." This is about animal characters and humanized fan designs.

Immediately I was like woah what the hell, this person clearly doesn't understand the Black struggle of being severely underrepresented and the want/need to see your favorite characters look more like yourself because the common cartoon TV show put in front of a Black child will lack Black representation and then the Black child grows up and they loved that show and put their own magic on it to be more diverse and representative. I understand the struggle because I am the Black child that's severely underrepresented just like a lot of other people are also the Black child that's severely underrepresented.

As I was typing out this ask I thought the op was Black because the post popped up in my dashboard flooded with blogs run with Black people as it should be, but when I think back they did say niggers instead of Black people, they didn't even say niggas, they did that hard er so now I'm thinking they might be a racist white but before I formed that thought path I was wondering if other Black people also felt the way op did? Do the people really not like it when an animal character that was likely meant to be white gets hit with the melanin beam?

Am I supposed to be caring about what traits of a character do and do not make them a good candidate to be Black? Because personally I just started interpreting every character without a confirmed race as Black unless someone else headcanons them as a different non white race and I like that interpretation more or the evil third option, they act way way too much like a white person I know and I can't unsee it, because why not?

I'm just curious about what the people think, especially Black people. Also wow I typed more in a tumblr ask box in five minutes than I have on my passion project in three days 💔

"and they have the audacity to-" and do 😐 what they gone do, beat my ass about it? Come stop me. Come stop me from depicting a single one of these characters as Black 😐 they can't do shit but complain on the internet and die mad. 🤷🏾‍♀️

That person is a race faker 100%. No one of us uses the hard er unless it's a pointed insult. Hit em with one or both of these and then block em.

I'll hold you as long as you need, it's OK, I've got you, you're safe in my arms if hurting others healed your pain I would bathe you in blood daily