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cosmicscraps · 20 days

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happy tdov my loves. don't let anyone else define your transness for you.

help trans women evacuate gaza

#oh me #this is me #a bit of an hourglass/pear shape and fat #cant help people assuming but also dies

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cosmicscraps · 22 days

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You wanna talk “coping” in fandom? Okay. Let’s talk about the mental health of fans of color. Let’s talk about how racism causes persistent emotional stress that negatively affects mental health. Let’s talk about how people of color who try to deny the existence and effect of racism can suffer lower self-esteem and internalized self-hatred as a result. Let’s talk about how even everyday microaggressions can pile up and cause depression, anxiety, and physical symptoms including pain and fatigue. Let’s talk about how a study of Black Americans found that distress from racial discrimination may contribute to age-related diseases like heart disease and diabetes.

Every single issue fans of color have discussed–the racist stereotypes, the fucking slavery and Holocaust AUs, the fetishization, the whitewashing, the erasure, the demonization–has been about their mental health. Every single step they have taken, from elaborate search filters to massive block lists, has been about getting some breathing space in a fandom that is relentlessly hostile to them.

So if you’re so concerned about the mental health of fans and the means they use to cope, why are you disregarding entire groups of fans who are trying to cope?

This is why it’s so disingenuous to answer discussions of fandom racism with “But what about coping?” Even leaving aside the fact that not all coping mechanisms are useful or healthy and that coping through racism is a pretty wtf proposition in itself, this response makes assumptions about mental health that are easily countered by research–that mental illness is necessarily an individual issue, and that discrimination like racism is not a significant, society-wide threat to the mental health of people affected by it. As though mental illness has a certain look that doesn’t include fans of color. As though fans who are outspoken about racism in fandom are posturing for moral high ground about an issue that harms no one. The “coping” response erases the mental health issues of fans of color, something they face all too often in real life.

#You hear a lot about it in fandoms #but this is also relevant to rp spaces #drawpile do fucking better #trolls coming in would be insta-banned for using slurs #but someone known in the community doing it is okay/forgivable/just drama?#if it sucks and makes you uncomfortable cause this is your fun-space imagine how it is for people who go through this on a daily in EVERY #fun/work/the grocery store #there is no stop #take accountability and do fucking better

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cosmicscraps · 28 days

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80 Examples of Fandom Antiblackness

Imagine all of these things being a possibility every single time you log in to your 'escape'!

To my Black readers: You are VALID! You are not sensitive, not 'overreacting', and you had every right to be hurt by the way you've been treated. These are not isolated events! And if people won't stop being racist, they should continue to feel uncomfortable for being so!

To my nonBlack readers: You are not an ally for NOT doing these things, but for STANDING AND SPEAKING UP when they do.

(So APPARENTLY Tumblr won't let you zoom in on Desktop, but I put the lists in the Image Description! Sorry 😬 i did not know Tumblr doesn't allow zoom in on desktop. It's easier to zoom in on mobile.)

#If I hear ' I have nothing to do with it ' one more time when it comes to talking about high and lowkey racism Im going to scream #making fun of people for being mad with racism is insidious #also holding out hope people/a company will change when they've repeatedly had racist practices???#Im surprised yet not that there's no hoyvers in this post

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cosmicscraps · 1 month

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Bonus under cut

#my two favorite series #my weakness is autistic blonde men with siblings who fight god

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cosmicscraps · 1 month

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old wizard yuri

#cosmic art #ocs #wizard #old woman yuri #she took the orb

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cosmicscraps · 1 month

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She's a simple woman

#cosmic art #oc #Starla #I dont think deviant should be opposite of asexual but for this it doesnt matter

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cosmicscraps · 1 month

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My buddy asked for a redraw of an image with one of my ocs... How could I resist? I love back muscles...

#cosmic art #oc #sasa #flex #muscle woman #muscular woman #dragon

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cosmicscraps · 1 month

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'people can write whatever the fuck they want' and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought' are statements which can and do coexist

#mmmmHm.

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cosmicscraps · 2 months

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