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floralfemmes · 2 months

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like I'm genuinely so fucking tired of white lgbts

I love being a lesbian! I love the community that lesbians of colour have built!

but it's a damn shame that we had to build our own distinct community because of how white lesbians treat us

white lesbians have like four different ways that they treat us: fetishization, disgust, erasure, and false allyship. and they're all equally bad and hurtful

constantly telling studs that you want them to beat you up. talking about lesbians of colour like we're sex objects. defending so-called "raceplay". do you really think you're better than the white men who tell woc that they're really into asian girls or latinas? it's fetishization!

and the disgust. disrespecting our cultures, our skintones. talking about your "preference" for other white girls. talking shit about black lesbians' hair.

or you try to erase us. you only acknowledge white lesbians. your wlw positivity blog is only white girls. you talk about iconic lesbians and only mention white ones. you imply or outright say that cultures of colour (especially in the global south) are inherently homophobic, like lesbians of colour don't even exist.

and the one that leaves the worst taste in my mouth? the false allyship. claiming to support us until it comes time to actually do something about it. letting people get away with racism because they're lgbt+. getting mad at us for calling out racism in the community. telling us it's okay to talk about racism, but we have to be nicer about it, that we're too judgemental or confrontational

and no matter which of these forms of white supremacy a white lesbian practices, they will always always hide behind being lgbt+ to get away with it. white lesbians will form a united front to defend each other from accountability for racism

it's no fucking wonder we've built our own communities away from you.

#mine #gay speaks up #oh im angry #racism #lesbian #wlw #wlwoc

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ardourie · 20 days

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“well if a white girl said there were too many woc in media you’d be mad” yes bc that statement is both untrue and racism, the few woc u get in media are constantly facing backlash and harassment for daring to be in these spaces, yall crashed out over halle being the little mermaid ppl were editing pictures of her being lynched or as a monkey in a zoo, yall start tweaking and calling it woke when a asian woman gets to be a mc, u lose ur minds when a hispanic woman is apart of the cast, and don’t let a black woman be a desired love interest bc all hell breaks lose, they’re doing it rn with that romeo and juliet play that’s being produced, the black actress is being met with some of the most disgusting comments ive ever seen…it may be hard for white women to swallow the fact that they too r capable of upholding white supremacy but they do 😭 u are the golden pillar, u are the only form of woman deemed “acceptable” here in america, when u see other white women on screen it often has nothing to do with their talent or attributes but bc this nation majorly does not like seeing any other kind of woman

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punkeropercyjackson · 2 months

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Children's media can absolutely and does radicalize kids when written correctly,it's just that shitty bigoted adults in fandoms deliberately misenterpret their messages and trick them into believing they're canon and that's how we got here.Bleach had Ichigo be a goth punk dude who's a fantastic older brother and choose his female love interest because she's his best friend and he finds her weirdgirlness to be enchanting which is good rep for us because being punk is about nonconformity and so is the fact that he never joined the military system his species was largely a part of because he didn't give two shits about them but over half the fandom is convinced the mangaka is a 'sellout' and 'pandering' for not making him essentially a paranormal cop for the sake of pairing him up with the fem mc that he has a familial and queerplatonic relathionship with as confirmed by the aformentioned mangaka

Pjo had Percy hate the gods as much as Luke does and act on it too but directly TO them instead of grooming younger halfbloods to work for him as soldiers and in fact he basically adopted every one of them he came across as his siblings and pseudo-kids and this is explicitly framed as why he's a hero and Luke's evil but you see nonstop erasure of his anti-corruption and anti-authority mentality and direct action despite being his core character traits to make him more palpable as an 'average fantasy protagonist' when the point of him is that he's not normal in any way

The Owl House had 3/5 of it's mcs be poc with the two white ones being an autistic and ocd lesbian and the other a disabled boy with zero conventionally physical traits that're never made out to be ugly and the protag is an inmigrant afrolatina girl while the big villain is a puritan colonizer and every single ship on the show is queer including the m/f one and the token white boy has almost all the important characters to his arc being black and the only one who isn't is a fat asian girl who's also disabled but the HUGE amount of positive rep in the show is deliberately taken out of context for bad faith critisism by a bunch of 20/30/even 40 year olds who've never written actual good stories themselves and this includes them adoring and gushing over the colonizer guy while dismissing the poc and women in the cast as irrelevant

Across the Spiderverse had an EXTREMELY black in every way character literally named SpiderPUNK who makes his beliefs clear in every single one of his lines and isn't all talk for a single second but he's reduced down to 'annoying edgy older brother figure' and made to listen to Taylor Swift and go to Hot Topic and called 'obviously a skater boy' and every other poser punk trope in the books

Atla had Aang and Katara be a gnc boy of a lesser known type of asian race and Katara a brownskin native girl that reclaims femininity for herself with their character drives being to save the world with Zuko's arc hammering it in again and again that while he always had good in him,he WAS evil,he DOES have a lot of bad traits and that made him do a lot of bad things and THAT'S why he needed a redemption arc to be a hero but Aang gets called racist for following the buddhist belief that in-universe he was sole remaining follower of that killing humans is bad,Katara gets adultified and stripped of her actual personality to make her just 'hashtag relatable teen gurl' and Zuko gets infantalized and upholded as the least problematic character in the whole show

And my last and not quite like the rest example is Harry Potter,including the spinoffs and fanon.Everything in it is neoliberal bs and the fandom just made it worse-Oh,the house that's a metaphor for fascism and white supremacy legacies?They're just misunderstood little babies and every minority-coded🥺The lower class family who canonically were Jkr's best attempt at good people that still flopped?Awful homophobic bastards😡All the female characters?Perfect slay 'You can't sit with us' girlboss,precious little baby angel who can't tie her shoes without her reverse harem's help or manipulative self-obsessed hyperfemme pick me,those are the only three categories they can ever fall in.Marauder's Era not only existing but being very,VERY popular is nothing but whiteness-What is there for you to be attached to there exactly?With the canon cast i can least see why you'd have nostalgia but M Era is literally nothing.You just CHOOSE to pick a franchise that's violently bigoted towards basically everyone and who's creator actively influences and helps caused that hurt irl oppressed groups instead of making ocs since you're already building them from scratch anyway

It's not the fault of actual good creators and especially not kids in fandom that grown ass bootlickers couldn't accept that their precious 'escapist comfort media' isn't apolitical at all instead of absorving it's messages like they should have since they have no care for other people despite insisting how kind and unproblematic they are

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greatwyrmgold · 3 months

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An anon claimed that the bullshit white-girl sex slaves in Worm fanfic is actually canon, and that E88's lack of hate crimes wasn't rectified until Ward. Unfortunately, I impulsively deleted the ask. Anyways, their claim is untrue.

Here's the extent of canon's discussion of the ABB's supposed human trafficking ring:

The skinhead laughed, then winced, “Are you dense, girl? Everyone’s going to make a play. It’s not just the major gangs and teams that are looking for a slice of the pie, there. It’s everyone. The Docks are ripe for the taking. The location’s worth as much money as you’d get downtown. It’s the go to place if you want to buy black market. Sex, drugs, violence. And the locals are already used to paying protection money. It’s just a matter of changing who they pay to. The Docks are rich territory, and we’re talking the potential for a full scale fucking war over it.”

—Interlude 2

It's not specified who's doing the sex being sold, unless you count a comment Wildbow made on a later chapter which mentions "prostitutes and sex slaves". No mention of race.

Crucially, while the ABB engages in some sex trafficking, they don't engage in an unusual amount of it, as fanfic often depicts. The skinhead all but outright states that anyone running the Docks would do the same thing.

The only unusual feature of the ABB in this regard is that stint where Bakuda was forcibly recruiting people to the ABB. But the only roles we see these forcible recruits in are soldiers and drug factory workers; some were probably coerced into sex work, but we don't have evidence of that, let alone evidence that the ABB was kidnapping non-Asians for their brothels or to sell overseas, as you see in a lot of fanfiction. In fact, that's the one crime a lot of fanfic depicts the ABB committing.

Anyways, hold onto that Interlude 2 link, because I'm addressing the Empire's hate crimes and I don't even have to change chapters.

“Andrea Young!” Victoria raised her voice. As she shouted, she exercised her power. The man quailed as though she’d slapped him. “A black college student was beaten so badly she needed medical attention! Her teeth were knocked out! You’re trying to tell me that you, a skinhead with swollen knuckles, someone who was in the crowd watching paramedics arrive with an expression bordering on glee, you didn’t do anything!?”

A clear description of what was done and who it was done to. And it's not just incidentally mentioned; it's the reason Victoria is chasing this skinhead, the reason she interrogates him, the reason she throws a dumpster at him. And it's not the only time E88's hate crimes come up; hell, one of the first things we learn about Hookwolf is that he murders people who "didn’t fit the Aryan ideal". (Hive 5.2)

Wildbow focuses more on how E88 uses white supremacy as an excuse to do the same self-serving crime as everyone else than on their hate crimes, but the hate crimes come up repeatedly. Wildbow stumblrs into a lot of racist traps when writing the ABB, but he tries to emphasize that any other gang would act much the same if they had capes like Lung and Bakuda.

Parahumans canon is flawed, but the fanon is sickening.

#response #worm #parahumans #wildbow #actual citation

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saynotowhitegirls · 1 year

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The face white women do when I tell my friends (their boyfriends),

"Yoooooo! You won't believe the news, guys! My [Asian] girlfriend's sister is now SINGLE and looking for a new boyfriend… Damn, I hope she finds a good one!"

I like pretending I don't know their boyfriends want an Asian girlfriend too! 😂

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leikeliscomet · 3 months

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Racism in the ace community is seen as a joke from the outside and a confusing concept in the inside but it's pretty bait tbh:

Barbie, Wednesday and Elsa are ace-coded but not canon aces but they're widely accepted as ace icons in the community. Lacking genitalia, disliking romance and being single are not inherently asexual yet the community happily claims them as ace solely on those reasons. But Selah Summers? Nah she actually didn't say the words "aroace" even though the director confirmed it so she didn't really count. Abbi Singh? Nah she had a girlfriend and her superpower is being a succubus and it's not like the Imperfects actually addressed the themes of an asexual lesbian South Asian woman and her sexuality or anything. Fei Hargreeves? Well yeah the actress and producer confirmed it but she never said it on screen. Ace characters of colour always get held "screened" for approval to be "real rep" in a way white aces aren't its so weird (this also happens to gay aces but that's another post)

Almost anything involving Yasmin Benoit. The reason she's unacceptable ace rep is because of misogynoir. She's spoken so many times about never dating and not having sex (which mind you is none of our business and she shouldn't need to explain herself in the 1st place) and yet she's "too sexual" to represent the community. Again with the nitpicking, popular white ace accounts were so quick to dogpile her for not-so-good takes but when she speaks about racism? Crickets. When she spoke about sexual harassment? Crickets and not only that but they defended her harasser. The main ace activists that defended her were other Black aspecs.

Not understanding how desexualisation affects POC. Specifically, Black women are excluded from representations of love and sex because we're seen as undesirable. It's common for TV/Film to pair up everyone but the Black girl, or have a rebound Black partner for the non-Black main character who's disposed of when they're ready for their "real" non-Black partner again. This isn't done for Black aspecs benefit. It's a form of dehumanisation. Friendship especially in m/f is needed but exclusively pushing for friendship between Black women and non-Black men when there is romance coded or confirmed and shaming Black women in fandom or in show for shipping the Black female character is not doing what you think its doing.

Not understanding how sexualisation effects POC. Again linking to Yasmin, POC, especially Black people have been sexualised due to white supremacy. The "allosexual privilege" framework fails to acknowledge this because Black people's sexual attraction and sex is seen as aggressive and animalistic. Black people aren't "allowed" to be ace because of this sexualisation and why Yasmin regardless of what she wears or does is seen is too promiscuous.

Not acknowledging ace POC as ace rep. Again, where was the acknowledgement of Selah and the Spades as groundbreaking rep? The first aroace darkskin Black girl as a lead in any film? Sherronda J Brown spoke about Big Mouth's Black ace character and someone said it didn't count just bc they dislike the show. Again with Abbi and Fei the community didn't make noise for them like they did Todd from Bojack Horseman or Florence from Sex Ed (mind you the gap between how they did Florence vs O is jarring in itself) Isaac from Heartstopper was inspirational for many aspecs and I wont take that away but the way he's instantly credited for ace representation when he has so little screentime compared to the others is wild.

Just tired tbh. "Listen to POC aces!" "POC aces are valid!" Prove it then...?

#venting bout ace stuff again #i got more to say too lol #asexual representation #black asexuals #black asexual #ace representation #black ace #black aces #asexual #asexuality

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asgardiansofthegalaxyvol3 · 1 year

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While I love the diversity and overall potential of Asian Daphne being adopted by lesbians, I believe in the supremacy of Daphne Blake having MANY sisters that look EXACTLY like her. And I think that Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated had the right idea, except why stop at 4 sisters? Give her more. Give her a single brother that looks different from them until he transitions into a girl and then she looks EXACTLY like the rest of her sisters. Don’t tell us how many sisters there are, just keep name dropping new ones every now and then. Have a picture wall of ‘Daphne’s’ wearing different clothes. Her parents can tell all of them apart individually.

#daphne blake #velma 2023 #mystery incorporated #scooby doo #fred jones #norville shaggy rogers #velma dinkley #scooby doo mystery incorporated

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possibilistfanfiction · 1 year

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can i say i absolutely love how you write ava being casually nonbinary so much. there are no fucking words to describe how much i fucking love your in depth exploration of butch beatrice, especially as an asian genderqueer sapphic who relates a lot to beatrice, your fics about it is definitely some of my top fav fics in the fandom, and like lowkey inspiring to me in my own journey to better accepting my queerness and exploring what it means for me, but also on the other end of the spectrum, i just love the casual simplicity (not sure if that’s the word i’m looking for) you write ava being nonbinary with

ava’s nonbinary, and it’s just a simple everyday fact of life just like the grass is green and the sun goes up and down everyday, there’s no need to dwell on it because ava doesn’t need to dwell on it and maybe her relationship or feelings about gender will change or get more complicated in the future or they won’t change one bit, but that doesn’t matter because it’s not the future right now and they’ll cross that bridge when it comes to it

[lil teeny bit of nb ava for the culture]

'hey,' ava says, trailing a hand up and down the inside of your forearm, 'do you... do you care?'

you have absolutely no idea what she's talking about; you care about a lot of things, and, more and more, there are plenty of things you also let fall to the wayside: sometimes they just are.

'do i care about what?'

ava sighs, scoots a little away from you on the couch, tucks a strand of hair behind your ear. 'that i — i don't feel like i have a gender, or whatever. like, i'm a girl, i guess? but only because that's what people thought, and told me. but i don't feel like anything else. i mean, first of all, the gender binary is a tool of colonial oppression and white supremacy, especially when employed by the church —'

'— yes, that's true —'

'— but also, i have a literal divine battery pack keeping me alive, allegedly —'

'— the halo definitely is keeping you alive, we know that —'

'— and i've been to, like, realms and stuff. met a few gods; fought a few demons. fell in love with you.' she smiles softly. 'so it's just... limiting, to me. it feels limiting, to be one thing.'

'i don't think binary gender makes sense to me either,' you say, allow yourself to admit. ava probably has figured it out, even if you haven't been able to say it: you wear a binder some days, and you don't feel anything against she/her pronouns but there's masculinity and androgyny you crave, that you're just starting to feel steady and free enough to explore. 'i feel it differently than you — for me, being a woman is a particular experience that matters, but not in the way people want women to be. i don't know, it's a work in progress.' she squeezes your hand with a gentle smile. 'but, ava, i only care insomuch as you're the love of my life, and i want you to feel seen and cared for, just for who you are. i want to know you, whoever that is.'

she swallows and rests her head on your chest; the documentary about mushrooms she had put on in the background plays quietly. 'thank you.' she turns so her nose is pressed against your sternum, hugging you tight. 'i just know it's taken you a long time to, like, be okay with your own sexuality, and i didn't want to throw you for a loop if you were feeling really comfy with, you know.'

'being a lesbian?' you ask, try to keep the laugh out of your voice. 'i certainly don't want that to ever exclude gender expansive people, even if it's a word i like.'

'well, of course,' ava says, her breath warm through your t-shirt. 'you're you; you're the best there is.'

'i don't know about that.'

'nah, it's true. i do know. i'm the beatrice expert. god says so too, direct message. hotter jesus, remember?'

you do laugh, this time, and rub comfortingly up and down her spine, still your hand over the faint, warm hum of the halo. 'no matter what pronouns you use, or what name feels right, or what your gender expression is, i love you. i'm queer, which is expansive and abundant.' you have to swallow because, maybe for the first time ever, you believe the words wholeheartedly. your friends and your therapist and books and music and shows that you love have said them; you have said them, before, but not quite like this. the grace you want to give to ava is far beyond the grace you have ever allowed of yourself. 'queerness is infinite. and so is my love for you.'

ava sniffles and then wipes her nose with the back of her hand, props herself up on an elbow and kisses you. 'the same goes for you, you know that, right?'

'yes,' you say. 'i — i hold it close, often.'

she pauses, holds your jaw in her palm, and then kisses you. you kiss her back, with your eyes closed, with tears pressing at them that won't fall, not this time.

ava doesn't hesitate a few days later when she introduces herself to a few of your friends and says that they can use any pronouns; she tries on one of your binders one afternoon and then frowns and laughs and says, god, i love my boobs but then quietly makes sure to massage your shoulders every evening after that. she tries on any clothes she wants, picks out a suit one day that she whistles at when she sees herself in the mirror, and then laughs. there's quiet nights and loud brunches and your friends who consistently use different pronouns for ava without batting an eye, and it makes her smile even as she dumps salsa that will be way too hot on her chilaquiles and then has to eat them trying to hide a grimace. you don't know how to have that much freedom, not yet, but ava holds your hand and leads you along, always.

you're figuring it out, the loosening of limits you'd set so tight within yourself; ava's figuring it out too: how to be, and how to become when, of course, there's still cruelty — but there's infinite abundance too. you turn back to the documentary — all the fungi that weaves its ways in and out of the world, for longer than you can imagine. all the fish in the sea; all the stars in the sky — a steadfastness and a wonder and a joy, to exist beyond. to become.

#who knows maybe this will spiral too lmao #anyway i love them & what i love MOST is being queer!!!!! it's the fucking b e s t :)#butch bea 🥺🫡#shes a baby in this but u know it's Happening she is Realizing Things #but idk i feel like in rly lovely partnerships friends or romantic like ur queerness makes the other persons queerness like...#have room to grow too?#idk. but they're like that lol #avatrice #avatrice fic #prompts

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neotrances · 8 months

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do your knees hurt from jumping to conclusions about catgirls

i mean u dont actually care which is why ur reducing this to just being about cat girls but itdbe lovely if u could perhaps think about the model minority myth connected to what white supremacy has mandated what being feminine is (skinny, pale, long hair, pink lips etc) and then ponder on why white men often gravitate to east asian woman when describing what feminity and submission is yadda yadda it doesnt take much to realize why these phenomena happen u just don’t think it’s an actual problem

#✉️

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sanyu-thewitch05 · 9 months

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At some point I wonder if Black people get tired of consistently having egg on their face. Y’all love to defend other groups, but they rarely ever do the same for us as Black people.

Black people like to defend Latinos and they get a bunch of lightskinned and mixed Latinos saying the Ni**er to their faces because of their general ignorance of race vs ethnicity.

Black people like to defend indigenous people and they those same indigenous peoples(this really only applies to the ones in the south like the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw, and Choctaw) rarely ever acknowledge the fact they were oppressors to Black people. Or when’s someone brings it up, it’s “but they were kinder than the white people!” Like please-

Black people defend Asians, especially South East Asians, and we get them calling us slurs in their own language, extreme colorism, extreme texturism, and generational prejudice and biases about black people.

Black people defend biracials and their “blackness” and instead we get them replacing and erasing us in our own shows, other media, and praising the white features that they inherited from their white parent. Meanwhile, darkskinned women from Africa are called Eurocentric because they’re beautiful and have different features(despite black people saying we come in all shades and colors and features. Black people don’t like it when those different features aren’t on a mixed or biracial girl)

Black people defend the lgbt community and we get their community members saying we as black women aren’t women because of white supremacy.

Like are we not tired! Are you not tired of constantly being laughed at and being made the joke of the world?! Are you not tired your people are considered the front line warriors who will defend everyone if they don’t deserve it?! Would it kill the black community, especially the black girls and women, to focus on ourselves and our image that’s slowly disappearing. When will we learn to say it’s not our fight.

#blackblr #black girls of tumblr #literally it’s exhausting seeing the black community and black girls and women being everyone’s attack dogs #do y’all seriously not notice that the groups you defend don’t even respect you #they’re using you boo!#and don’t get me started on the black community protecting criminals because they’re men and that’s their ThAWn!#it’s exhausting #it really is #like I have compassion for other people but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go fight for them #especially when they do little to nothing to help me as a black girl #especially with this femicide crisis going on #it’s not our fight! it’s really not #we as black women and girls need to be focusing on us and our image and our issues instead of worrying about other peoples #especially when those people don’t do the same for us or rarely talk about our issues #and the latinos thing doesn’t apply to Afro Latinos #the afro latinos generally care a tad bit more about black issues because they are of course black

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bloodpen-to-paper · 10 months

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Nimona's Subtle Racial Placement in a World of Wealth Gaps

The racial placement of Nimona was not lost on me, and its something I'm seeing more of in media, so lets talk about how Nimona did it and why:

The Queen was black, and as a black woman she was the one who chose Ballister, a commoner, a brown kid, to be the next Knight of the Realm. She chose him above all the elitist kids because she saw his merit, and chose not to let the status of the others affect her decisions. And she was killed for it by a white insurrectionist.

For years Ballister was bullied by Todd, a white man, while the other elitist knights did nothing. Except for Ambrosius, an Asian man (presumably since he's modeled after Eugene Lee Yang), who not only stood up for him, but ended up becoming so close to him that they became lovers.

There's a lot of diversity in this movie, both within the wealth classes (the highest position of power being held by a black woman while Nimona, who's whole story is about being oppressed and ostracized, is white), and among the general populace of multi-racial and ethnic side characters. Yet there's still mostly white knights among the Queen's guard, not to mention the original story of Gloreth revolves around a white girl brought into legacy. You could even argue colorism with how Ambrosius has a lighter complexion (especially considering he was originally white in the comics) and is brought up as the trusted descendent of Gloreth over the commoner Ballister.

Despite being a movie about classism that's set in a diverse world, Nimona still has a subtle racial aspect within its character dynamics. It does this for a very important reason: to bridge the gap between art and reality. In real life, we have white supremacy. In real life, we have capitalism. And Nimona uses its racial aspects to further make its point about the class divide and bigotry within a caste system.

Racial supremacy and the dismantling of it is a complex matter. Diversifying the world is easiest to achieve among the working class; you can show people of different skin tones in movies and TV, hire a more diverse racial pool within work environments, etc. But what gets difficult is changing the diversity within the elite spaces, because their place in the wealth gap has made them near impossible to touch from a working class position. Diversifying the space in a local diner? Easy, as long as the manager is willing. Diversifying the spaces within the Electoral College? Harvard alumni? HBO Executives? Good luck, you'd give an arm and a leg just to change maybe one person's position in those spaces. Because the power is so hoarded and privatized that changing anything, like racial diversity, would include upending the entire system that allowed for them to exist as they do. A local diner involves being able to convince one person in a small position to either change their model, or changing out that person with someone with a different model. The systems of supremacy don't have roots as deep within that scenario, but the elitists? They are the system. And to change them is to change the system entirely. You cannot eliminate the racism from elite spaces without dissolving the wealth gap.

Nimona shows this subtly, in that among the common people its super diverse (black news anchors, people of different skin tones occupying the same spaces, etc), but within the elite institutions, the Knight of the Realm was always someone who was from the elite, and had nepotism to get them through. Ambrosius was expected to be the Knight because of his heritage, and most of the knights in the guard along him and Ballister were white and had Old Money. The movie didn't need to include racism in their message against classism, but the creators wanted to bridge that gap between "movie metaphor for real world issues" and actual real world issues. They created "commoner" and made sure the audience knew that represented not just the "working class", but the racial working class. They made sure the implications of racial bias were there and readable for the people who could relate to the struggle of being a person of color in a supremacist society. They even made queer people feel seen, not just with Ambrosius and Ballister's relationship, but with Nimona's entire allegory for gender-queerness. Its a movie that aims to have its art reflect reality for the sake of making people get invested in their own real world issues within our real world society. Many "progressive" works now utilize talking points from progressive movements without actually giving representation to those affected, causing a case of appropriation painted as representation. Nimona aimed to create genuine representation that would be seen by the people who needed it most, not just with the obvious messages from the story-telling, but from the subtle bridges that connect this piece of fiction to the very real world it took inspiration from. And I think its safe to say Nimona achieved just that.

#anyway go watch Nimona #right now #and Sea Beast while you're at it #nimona #nimona movie #politics #wealth gap #racism #classism

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If a given work is not accepted, we won’t contact the creator, but we welcome creators to reach out to us for information. On a case-by-case basis, we might specify the reason for rejection and, if the creator is interested, we might be able to provide more details, resources or feedback.

More specifically, when creating any fanwork —but particularly your submissions to this account’s events— we urge you to keep the following points in mind:

When writing about the Rue Royale era, Creole characters and New Orleans during Jim Crow, make sure to fact-check so as not to fall into ahistorical portrayals. Similarly, consider the material realities of structural homophobia and the heteropatriarchal family in the show’s historical settings. More broadly, keep in mind that white supremacy and patriarchy fundamentally affect every aspect of life, including how we interpret other’s art and the art we put out into the world in turn. And, in general, take care to do research when dealing with specific and potentially unfamiliar contexts —be it the experience of people of color in Europe during and after World War II, the lives of South Asian workers in Dubai, the unfolding of the AIDS crisis, or the practices of Islam, consider whether your work is making a statement that should be grounded in reality.

When writing about Louis, Claudia and other Black characters, keep in mind common stereotypes regarding Black people, such as the “Mandingo” stereotype or the “Sapphire” “Jezebel,” and “Mammy” stereotypes. When writing about Lestat and Louis’ relationship, avoid making Louis a receptacle for Lestat’s emotions, and generally avoid having Black characters only function in the narrative to perform emotional labor for their white partner. And, as this is a show heavily concerned with queerness, we urge you to also take into account common (and inaccurate) ideas that Black people are more homophobic or more ignorant about gender and sexuality. Also consider how you portray Black characters’ anger or aggression, particularly in comparison to white characters.

In general, we encourage you to keep revisiting the source material to make sure your characterization is grounded and true to canon.

In art, be mindful of exaggerating Black characters’ bulk, size, and features in comparison to non-Black characters, and likewise for characters of color in general in comparison to white characters. If in doubt, look up heights and picture references to avoid fetishistic depictions. Also consider how you color art, being mindful not to whitewash Black characters and characters of color, or darken their skin tone in relation to the actors portraying them.

We consider it essential not to lose sight of how moving through the world as a Black girl conditions Claudia's experiences. Though she grows past her physical age, the widespread adultification of Black children is still something to keep in mind when interpreting her character: Black girls, especially darker skinned girls, are consistently seen as less innocent, more mature, less vulnerable to pain or hurt, angrier, and more calculating in their actions than their white peers.

Remember that Armand is played by a South Asian actor —be wary of conflating being muslim with being Arab, and keep common anti-Asian, islamophobic and orientalist stereotypes in mind. Because Armand’s backstory hasn’t been revealed yet, and it seems safe to assume his forced conversion will remain a plot point, you may take different approaches regarding Armand’s faith. That said, we are likely to reject scenarios in which Armand originally comes from a christian background.

The text of the show deals with abuse and sexual violence. It presents common misconceptions about abuse, particularly domestic abuse, and problematizes them. When writing about the relationships in the show, and particularly the canon plot, we urge you to consider how words specific to abuse are used —terms such as “gaslighting”, “love-bombing”, or “mutual abuse”— as well as common victim blaming rhetoric and abuse apologia (they didn’t mean it, they feel terrible about it, they were forced by circumstances); and to keep in mind established frameworks to think about abuse such as DARVO, and the harmful and widespread ideas about fake accusations of abuse.

In general, we discourage any canon-compliant (or canon-adjacent) scenarios in which Lestat “didn’t actually” or “didn’t really” abuse Louis and Claudia, “it wasn’t as bad”; it was “more equal” than we’ve seen, etc. or in which Louis and/or Claudia were the real victimizer/villain. Likewise, we suggest avoiding scenarios erasing or minimizing Armand’s actions in Paris. This type of content is likely to be outright rejected.

When adding tags and warnings

We think that tags and warnings are essential to ensure that the fandom experience remains enjoyable and safe for all of us. If you want the fanworks you create for an event to be shared on our accounts, make sure that you are tagging or describing your work accurately —we consider that vague tags such as “dark content” or “Dead Dove Do Not Eat” on their own are not sufficient enough to warn readers of the subject matter.

If we believe that a particular submission could be potentially triggering, we might choose to share it with added warnings of our own, be it in a reblog or tags.

Immortal children and the “Underage” warning

In the case of fics in which Claudia is chronologically an adult, we strongly recommend not using the “Underage” warning for her relationships. We consider it’s important not to dilute the weight of the warning, and encourage you to reserve it for fics in which the underage character in question is chronologically, and not just physically a child. This doesn’t preclude that you might want to add additional tags or notes with more detailed content warnings if your fic features a character who’s physically a child in a relationship with someone who’s physically an adult, but we encourage you to keep the standardized AO3 tag for “actual” children.

Other considerations

Some specific subjects and tropes that are likely to be outright rejected include:

Prison AUs

Slavery AUs

Whitewashing of any character

Raceplay and racist fetishization

Explicit child sexual abuse

Parodies of other fanworks that are identified as such will be rejected. If you believe an accepted submission is a parody of another work, please reach out so we can look into it.

Rules of engagement

Participation in a fan event isn't a need, and running this account isn't a public service. As moderators, we reserve the right not to engage with any message, comment, post or account; at our sole discretion and with no obligation to provide explanations regarding our decision to do so.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that we are completely closed off to conversation.

If your submission to our collections was rejected, if we haven’t shared your post, or if you have any question about this account, please feel free to contact us —just keep in mind that we might decline to answer. Requests to keep our correspondence private will be respected, as long as we aren’t sent hate speech or harassment.

What does reserving the right not to engage mean?

Fanworks or posts whose content we do not feel comfortable endorsing will not be shared on our accounts or added to the AO3 collections that are created for this account's events.

Messages or comments which we find to be hostile or in bad faith will be reported and/or blocked.

Accounts that we do not feel comfortable interacting with may be blocked as well.

Still, we would like to clarify that it’s not always possible for us to thoroughly review a “rec list” with many fanworks, and we don’t necessarily endorse every item included in such a post when we share it. Likewise, some of the content from our earlier events might have been accepted/shared while we were still figuring out our criteria for moderation, and might skirt the line of what we’d consider acceptable right now. If we become aware of such a case, we might remove the entry after the fact.

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