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DC TV AU Questions: If Flash and Nora Allen decided to find where Reverse Flash is at now-a-days and ask for his help on returning Nora to her proper timeline, what happens if he agrees...but, ONLY if they managed to get the Black Flash away from him? Would the two heroes help the guy out? Could they be able to get Black Flash to leave Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash) alone?
wooo, this is really late! but honestly i think they can! but it’s a 50/50 chance because barry and nora could be strong enough do defeat black flash, and they couldn’t. hmm this is a good question i’ll think about it
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shyblackteen · 5 years
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A Simple Favour
Please, pretty please, can someone lend me their artistic talents and make me a banner with all my favourite black women on TV in it? I am happy to accept prompts for a one shot of your chosen ship or fandom as payment.
The women:
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Danai Gurira.
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Sonequa Martin-Green.
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Candice Patton.
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Anna Diop.
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Susan Kelechi Watson.
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Rutina Wesley.
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Nafessa Williams.
I love these women. They’re beautiful, intelligent, conscious, and they all act their asses off. Even when/if their shows are pissing me off, I come back for them.
LOOK AT THEM!!!
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shyblackteen · 5 years
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PERIODT
JUST 👏 BECAUSE 👏 A 👏 WOMAN 👏 IS 👏 COMFORTABLE 👏ENOUGH 👏 IN 👏 HER 👏 OWN 👏 SKIN 👏 TO 👏 WEAR 👏 REVEALING 👏 OUTFITS 👏 DOESN’T 👏 GIVE 👏 ANYONE 👏 THE 👏 RIGHT 👏 TO 👏 SEXUALLY 👏 HARASS 👏 HER 👏 PASS 👏 IT 👏 ON 👏
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Arinaitwe Gerald, an Batwa indigenous organizer I talk to regularly who lives in southwestern Uganda, is currently having trouble providing for orphaned children he and his wife have taken in in addition to their own children after their mother passed away a bit over a month ago.
One of the children, a 12 year old girl named Immaculate, is in serious pain due to having a cyst caused by goiter. She had been recommended for surgery all the way back in October, but because $700 is nowhere near an amount her late mother or Gerald and his wife can afford, she has still not gotten the treatment she needs and they are even having difficulty getting the $85 needed for an injection that would potentially help decrease the pain and size of the cyst temporarily.
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Please spread this fundraiser and donate if possible! Immaculate and her siblings, as well as the Batwa people at large need all the help they can get, and no 12 year old should have to go through all that she is currently dealing with.
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“Do you know what the greatest pain a person can feel is ? The greatest tragedy a life can experience ? It is having a truth inside of you, and you not being able to share it. It is having a great beauty, and no one there to see it.”
Pose - 1.01
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@poseonfx actress Indya Adrianna Moore shakes the table on transphobia and white supremacy
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“I’m about as fashionable as Kanye is Black. Only when it’s convenient. That joke was my choice, just like slavery.” — Issa Rae, hosting the CFDA Awards last night, with Kim in the audience
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Queen. 
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/issa-rae-takes-jab-kanye-west-cfda-monologue/story?id=55664577
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No commercial has yet to top this
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shyblackteen · 6 years
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Just Like The Ocean Always In Love With The Moon Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk at 20
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Kurt was fairly quiet and introverted most of the time. Jeff was the opposite. He was very much full of life and had a lot to say. He was somebody in love with experiencing everything. Within a very short time, he had all these famous old rock stars coming to his shows. Which put a a lot of pressure on him. People talked about his concerts the way they used to talk about Hendrix: they’d sit there, wide-eyed, telling you stories about him. He definitely had an aura. It’s impossible to say what it is exactly a guy like that has, that is so attractive to other people. But he had more of it than anyone I had ever met. ~Chris Cornell, Jeff’s friend and music director of Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Sketches is anything except what you’d expect for the follow up to Jeff’s debut album, Grace. Jeff would be proud of that. He began writing songs for the album he wanted to call My Sweetheart the Drunk and was recording many of these songs when he swam infamously into the Wolf River on May 29, 1997. He left behind many unfinished songs and recordings that had to be interpreted and assumed finished in the way Jeff would have wanted. Helping in that, at the request of his mother, was friend Chris Cornell. Sketches is two discs of ups and downs. There is a lot of scorn, the powerful, heartbreak, isolation, and acceptance. His lyrics show growth, chance, and not Grace part II, a leap Sony would not have been happy with for sure. Who knows what would have become of Jeff. The truth that music was his home - and that the music he wanted to create and enjoy. When you start to perform under fake names just to enjoy playing a small show for the sake of music…who knows how long Jeff would have survived the industry. Easier said then done now as opposed to the big label 1990’s. Twenty years since we heard what was going on in Jeff’s mind and heart. There was change going on within Jeff. The sounds he used to record Grace at Bearsville Studio differs greatly from the raw sound of the songs he recorded in Memphis and in New York City for Sketches. There is one eerie similarity between the two albums: Jeff’s references to river, water, and drowning. Below, some lyrics from each track.
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Disc 1 The Sky Is A Landfill The storm has ripped the shelter Of illusion from our brow This power is no mystery to us now. Leave your spirit genocide The cancer you won’t remove We cast our funeral rose inside And bury the need to prove Our mutilation is to gain from the system Everybody Here Wants You I know the tears we cried Have dried on yesterday The sea of fools has parted for us There’s nothing in our way My love Opened Once Just like the ocean Always in love with the moon It’s overflowing now Nightmares By The Sea I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls With their bones they’ll scratch the window, I hear them call “Don’t know what you asked for.” Yard Of Blonde Girls Through the yard Through the yard of blonde girls Through the river and the sea Gold sharks glittering A tree of white Breaks the earth The streets where Lola played Witches’ Rave You’d like to see him suffer For you fantasy and thrill He fell sick while we made love He’s out there, somewhere, still New Year’s Prayer Leave your office Run past your funeral Leave your home, car Leave your pulpit Join us in the streets where we Join us in the streets where we Don’t belong, don’t belong You and the stars Throwing light Morning Theft True self is what Brought you here, to me A place where we can Accept this love Friendship battered down by Useless history Unexamined failure   Vancouver We’re where we belong It should end here Until the end of time Beyond the moment That ends our bondage I am your failed husband contender I’m your loan shark of bliss. You & I You and I Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild You and I Tears that dry on a rude awakened child Where you look down I’ve walked before Burning holes With eyes of liquid brown If we had only known In a way We wouldn’t reach this ground You were my only home  
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Disc 2 Nightmares By The Sea Stay with me under these waves, tonight Be free for once in your life tonight New Year’s Prayer Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing Past the sound within the sound Past the voice within the voice Haven’t You Heard Paranoia will write the world prayer Make sure that you fit in the right holes But when you take his offer, you’re done for   I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be) We had a birthplace in common We had separate beds and lives I’ll just sit here and glow Break out the oldest pictures Hand your ruined letters out to dry We had a birthplace in common And separate beds and lives And lives, and lives   Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Welcome down to paradise rock There is no single entrance With the stars to revolve around There is no real underground Back In N.Y.C. You’re sitting in your comfort you don’t believe I’m real, You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel. Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash, But it was mine in the first place, so I’ll burn it to ash. And I’ve tasted all the strongest meats, And laid them down in colored sheets. Laid them down in colored sheets. Who needs illusion of love and affection When you’re out walking in the streets with your mainline connection?   Demon John Today or tonight Better get yourself together And transcend it, a burst of light Blaze stars into me While the love breaks through here and now Your Flesh Is So Nice Jewel Box Diamonds from the pavement Where a broken glass had been Just like these troubles that I’m leaving to the wind Like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end Like thieves, my bad luck grows Satisfied Mind (Cover) My Friends and My Lovers, I Will Leave, There’s No Doubt But One Things For Certain, When It Comes My Time I’ll Leave This Old World With A Satisfied Mind Gunshot Glitter [Bonus Track] Down to the sea out of the skies Of gold cards and casual tears I have only come to see you shine Feminine smiles the right side is wise, more than I. I wanna be your lover, Lipstick my name across your mirror. Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter And be one with all you disowned in your young life. You paranoia politician diva. You paranoia politician diva. Thousand Fold [Bonus Track] There ain’t a star born that brightens More than you, you always should have known, I’ll illuminate your question, Long time ago I’d died and gone. What has brought the question? Time has brought the question. Come and call the question, Oh, oh, oh. Here are the stars, same thing again
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I am a railroad track abandoned With the sunset Forgetting I ever happened That I ever happened
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shyblackteen · 6 years
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21 years without you Jeff Buckley November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997
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Some Pidgin Rules
I should preface this with the warning that I am not a linguist or anything remotely related to one. I’m just pairing my understanding of the English language with my understanding of Pidgin and trying to figure things out. Correct me if I get things wrong in either language.
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Dem swear for you? – Are you cursed?
Seems to be a mix up between swearing like cussing someone out for being an idiot with swear/curse words and actually placing a curse on a family down to the 5th generation or something. There’s an actual history of this connection in English I read somewhere, but someone’s gonna have to explain it better to me 
I sabi am – I understand it
Probably from English “savvy” which I have seen used as a verb in old timey novels from a certain era and probably still applicable to modern accents from different areas of the UK. Like “You savvy?” in English, “Sabi am?” in Pidgin
I don do am – I did [the thing]
“Don” is indicative of past tense, seems to be a generally accepted rule. Maybe “done”, similar to AAVE?
I no do am – I did not do [the thing]
No is negative. Obviously
I nevah do am – I did not do [the thing] yet, or I did not do [the thing] in the past
Nevah like “never” but not in the finality that it often implies in English
Are there any linguists in the house who can help me out here? Or better yet, any pidgin speakers who are less rusty than I am? It’s been years, lads
Also, I noticed some similarities between Pidgin and Patwah which is v cool and if any speakers can enlighten me, please do
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shyblackteen · 6 years
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“If you ain’t black, don’t say it nigga.”
- Aminé during Caroline, Coachella 2018.
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Reader Chris passes along an article about differences in American Sign Language usage between white and African-American signers. Researchers investigating what they call Black ASL found significant variations in signs, signing space, and facial cues. They explain:
Black ASL is not just a slang form of signing. Instead, think of the two signing systems as comparable to American and British English: similar but with differences that follow regular patterns and a lot of variation in individual usage.
They hypothesize that these differences began in segregated learning environments, and continue to evolve in Black social spaces. The whole article is worth a read.
Thanks, Chris, and remember — you can submit Wonk-worthy links through our ask or via email!
ETA, 9/24/12: Many of you have brought up the use of the word “mainstream” in this infographic. Better choices definitely exist, since this word rings of othering. We appreciate your nuanced and attentive readership!
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