OF LOVE / OF DEATH.

She’s also still attached to the as-yet-unmade Cleopatra biopic despite repeated requests to bow out for the same reason

Harley Quinn and Natasha Romanoff

after being approached by an anon (here & here) i have come across these images of eiza gonzález in black face, yellow face and culturally appropriating. i will add them under a read more as well. i don’t think i need to go into the how and the why of the racism and insensitivity behind these two acts. i can’t tell when each have occurred, but the black face seems to be from around 2010 or there abouts. as i  didn’t know about this, nor did others i trust within the rpc to have said something if they had, i am pretty safe in assuming eiza has neither addressed nor apologised for these instances. i am adding her to my banned fcs, and urge everyone else who understands how offensive and degrading both these things are, to do the same. 

you … do realize this isn’t over a ship or what have you, right? you do realize it’s not JUST fiction, right? you do realize that the fact that you are able to belittle and diminish a black woman’s experience of racism as just “drama” and “teehee petty ship wars XD” is racial privilege unto itself, right? you do realize that fantasy’s discomfort wasn’t over a “joke”, and that people being angry over blatant antiblackness and the brushing aside of racism isn’t because we’re “hobbiless”, right? but i guess you don’t, and you’re ALLOWED to never get it through your heads that it’s just more than that. THAT is the privilege you have, THAT is what allows you to demonize fantasy and her rightful discomfort at your friend’s antiblackness, while at the same time giving her a reassuring pat and telling her that it’s okay to roleplay a literal rapist because he’s your uwu favourite white cinnamon roll cookie dough shitlord.

read up the logs. educate yourselves. it’s not petty. it’s not drama. it’s not someone acting up and throwing a tantrum.

this is about addressing antiblackness. this is about how you’re letting your friend poke fun at a rape victim while simultaneously bolstering her rapist. this is about brushing off the feelings of a black woman, despite the fact that microaggressions like the ones which @king-of-longing has made against @/warfigurina are something which fantasy has to live through, every single day of her life.

So be careful with seeing king-of-longing or anyone associating with them. Especially black roleplayers. 

i really have nothing to say in terms of an introduction, so i’m just going to get into the nitty gritty and say that you cannot equate a black person’s experience of racism with you getting your pwecious feewings :((( hurt because they reblogged a post about your muse, who is a rapist, being equated to donald trump. you really want to act like he’s a sweet uwu innocent fluff cinnamon roll, while at the same time demonizing, gaslighting, and diminishing a black woman who clearly stated she was uncomfortable with the appropriation of her culture / language ??? like jesus christ, she said she was uncomfortable with it, THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN IT. you can’t throw in your blurb about wah ): russian stereotypes !!1! because you have never, will never, know the experiences of those who have an entire system of oppression created just to stifle their voices. the difference between poking fun at white / european stereotypes and appropriating black cultures and turning them into stereotypes is that we know enough about european culture to know that it’s just a joke. but appropriating aave ? antiblackness ? gaslighting a black mun for expressing discomfort at blatant racism ? that shit happens all the time and people watch, and let it happen because there are people who still believe that use of aave means you’re aggressive, that you’re uneducated. you cannot separate that from how the world perceives black people, because antiblackness is global. it’s everywhere. you can’t separate that, because the ability to separate stereotype and reality is a privilege that only white people have.