black people make all kinds of music, here's me sharing 12+ hours of it :)

indie, rock, alt pop, alt rnb, & everything in between. artists range from underground / new finds to popular artists experimenting with their music. feel free to recommend, i'm updating this periodically.

LISTEN

other playlists of mine highlighting black musicians: black people in rock, black women in rock, black halloween playlist, all black music by all black artists, and black bubblegum pop

AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Round 2 Side 1

This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

We need more evil and morally gray female characters but also more gentle giants who are women

I have been shadowbanned again 🫡

Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel

It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.

For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits. 

Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer. 

You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?

And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.

Enjoy ^_^

free my girl she did the same things as the celebrated male protagonists but the fandom has labeled her irredeemable

6pills aka Raquel Loizou aka Raquel Yero (Canadian-Cypriot, based Limassol, Cyprus) - Left Me With A Bitter After Taste, 2021, Digital Art

oh my other short story got published 🫣

when people say they want more evil female characters they just mean they want female characters who have one scene where they're covered in blood so they can screenshot it and post it on their female rage tumblr collages

someone smarter than me needs to write a full breakdown of how a lot of modern "feminism" is actually just christian complementarianism wearing a pink trenchcoat

A mutual of mine has this database of 100+ books with butch/stud/masc sapphics that might be of interest to some people!

Hozier on being called "bog man," "fae king" by fans online:

tangentially related to prev post but apparently the current drama on booktok rn is some man who wrote a romcom(?) about an online swer and when people started pointing out the misogynistic elements of his book he threw a hissyfit about “mean girls” and how it’s “extra hurtful” that people were criticizing him because the book was about how porn addiction is bad and breeds misogyny :(

I saw people on twitter asking what’s up with all the radfems supporting Russel Brand over there and the answer is that Brand believes porn addiction is real and is linked with religious front orgs focused on popularizing the pseudoscientific idea of porn use being the same thing as drug addiction. It’s common for abusers like Brand (or Weinstein) to popularize pseudoscience about “porn addiction” and “sex addiction” because they don’t want to accept blame for their abuse and instead shift it off to things already seen as immoral vices.

Also mandatory linking of articles about research into “porn addiction” bc being the most successful rightwing pseudoscientific propaganda push means a lot of people just don’t question it being a thing and when you just mention it’s not real you get a flood of people going “urrm akshully anything can be an addiction”

CALLOUT POST @ WRITERS

go write for 10 minutes

I’ve seen so many posts like this lately and it’s like, I understand the sentiment to some extent. I get that it’s very annoying when people insist hays code style that media needs to be uplifting and morally correct or it shouldn’t be produced. But I’ve seen this sentiment used to express frustration about any political/ethical/analytical framework being applied to gothic horror like “well it’s gothic horror!! It’s supposed to be fucked up!! Stop analyzing it to death!” But gothic horror, any horror, is about conventional morality. It’s about violation of the boundaries between what is normative, “correct” behavior and what is taboo. Something has to feel “wrong” to us, the viewer—whether it be bodily, socially, psychologically, etc—for us to be scared of it. If everything is permissible nothing is scary. All horror is a reaction/rejection/affirmation, which is to say an exploration, of the morals a given culture. Like horror is asking moral questions by it’s very nature. To have any meaningful analysis of horror at all “morality” has to be a part of the conversation. And if you don’t want to have that conversation, fine. But it seems like people do, they just want to use the term gothic horror selectively to dismiss things they don’t feel like addressing

Additionally, the word gothic is thrown around so much as if it’s a particular type of horror in which characters are allowed more latitude for bad behavior which. Like idk the gothic is a very loose genre, so loose some considered it an aesthetic, but it’s not more permissible/less severe in regards to villainy. Like hauntings and the return of the repressed, the consequences of long past actions, is one of the few hallmarks of the genre. Like there’s a genre wide focus on the consequences of misdeeds. If you want horror without having to think about the implications of said horror the gothic isn’t the genre for you