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i hope that i'm only just hearing so much about that stopantisemitism twitter account because recent events have made zionists desperate. i hope they're no actually that prominent and i hope so so badly that jewish people have better organizations to represent them and fight for them
#because if the de facto 'champions' of the cause are willing to call weapons manufacturers jewish owned#and to defend henry kissinger then i am TERRIFIED for you guys in the US. i sincerely pray there is#better orgs to fight for you and that those orgs receive more attention and support than these fucks ever will#i've messaged some people personally but i must've missed some people (esp since some people rightfully don't want to be public about#about their identities and what they're up to irl because that's dangerous) so i'll say it here:#if you're jewish (esp in the US) and you have shown support for palestine you are wonderfully brave and your courage will NOT be forgotten#and for brown and black and indigenous people who know they are more likely to get in trouble and yet they don't stop - it will never be#never be forgotten that you've done this#every time i see certain friends voicing support for palestine#first of all i feel so sad that you all are putting yourselves out there while your white peers who have much stronger social armor are#are sitting on their asses. punitive measures to silence pro palestine ppl are very real and you shouldn't have to shoulder this alone.#but more than any sadness i feel so much love for you. i would kiss all of your hands if i could#and i'm praying for your safety
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today i got asked if i consider myself black. i have literally no fucking clue do you understand the can of worms you just tried to open
#do you want the ''idk'' answer or the 1 hour discussion#like uuuuuh. uh. well#cause you see my birth certificate says ''parda'' (brazilian term for ppl of mixed ethnities that are like. too mixed or too light to be#just something) but people say that thats an outdated term used only to make brazils population not look as black and indigenous as it is#and pardos should just consider themselves what they are so ig im black but i have never suffered any racism or literally anything bc of my#skin color or features so it feels shitty to call myself black if ive never lived it but doesnt saying that resume the experience of black#people to racism which sucks and ive had a friend who was lighter than me and considered herself black say im ''basically white'' but ive#also had a black friend who was darker than me say i was the only other black person in our class but also i feel like the word black#is more for people who are more visibly black than i am cuz i feel like im just the midway point between pale and brown i just look like#half of the population here and i didnt even realize i Was black until i was like 11 and read ''pardo isnt a color'' on facebook bc before#that i was always just ''moreninha'' or ''neguinha de mamae'' or whatever and THEN theres the fact that like 2 years ago i realized my dad#is probably actually indigenous and not black and just never knew cause idk he didnt live in a forest ig so ppl assume hes just black#even tho his features and state hes from kinda indicate he is indigenous and that means IM actually indigenous too not just the black from#my moms side which is a whole other fucking thing but honestly at the end of the day i csnt afford a dna test and it wouldnt change my life#in the slightest to know all that so the final answer to your question is:#idk
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I want to reiterate something that I saw on Twitter. I'd love to share the actual Twitter thread but of course I already can't find it in the massive swamp of stuff going on right now.
The urge to create new organizations is probably pretty strong in most Center to left Americans right now. To work as an individual, finding ways to help that you can do individually , perhaps even visibly. Somehow doing all the ground-up organizational work feels like doing more than joining the organizations that already exist. I'm here to tell you to resist that urge. This is one of those you are not immune to propaganda moments.
There is a fairly pervasive disease, particularly among folks who have protested and donated but not gotten into the nitty-gritty work yet. It's a very well intentioned instinct that you, personally, can do more to fix things as a leader than as a participant. The more privileged you are, the more you are going to believe this. (White Americans, we are very very susceptible to this, and it is a flavor of white supremacy it can be damn hard to unpack.)
You're going to want to join untested Auntie Networks and say individually that you are willing to help your friends/people you know without engaging in the already massive, already well-established, often led by BIPOC reproductive health organizations that already exist.
Your local abortion access organization, whether it is a mutual aid organization run on Instagram or a registered Foundation/charity with a significant web presence is already doing the work that you think needs to be done. There are already networks of people willing to open their homes, cars, and lives to people who need abortion care, organizations that provide money for travel, organizations that lobby heavily in Washington and even in corporate halls for Reproductive Rights.
The best thing you can do to help right now is to join an organization that already exists. To join up with your community, as locally as you possibly can, and let them tell you what work needs to be done. If you are brand new to this, if you are just now raging and you have energy to burn, it may feel like these organizations don't understand and they are not doing enough. But I assure you, they're working their asses off and they have for years.
There are huge groups of people that even before the overturn of Roe struggled to access reproductive health care of all kinds. Poor folks, indigenous communities, rural communities, black and brown folks, people living in abusive situations, disabled folks, they have all been denied appropriate Healthcare over and over and over again and the organizations they have already created and set up know how to do their best to access all the resources that are available, know how to build on their own scaffolding to extend resources, and are your best bet to do real good.
This is a lot like those can drives every year at Thanksgiving and christmas. It feels good to give these big tangible tins and boxes of food, but just writing a check does so much more than you could imagine. 10, 50, sometimes even a hundred times as much food, and of the types and varieties that people are actually looking for, accounting for communities and cultural values and health conditions. But still every year people love to give 50 packs of ramen noodles, rather than $50, because we have this belief that our individual decisions are somehow more valuable than the community decisions made by those actually working and living directly in the community. We are wrong. Please understand that while this Instinct to be a hero and leader on an individual basis is very well intentioned and understandable, it's a bad instinct put in our heads by years and years and years of stories about just one Renegade somehow being the key to saving the world rather than the diligent work of an entire community.
Here are the best things that you can do right now, even though they will not feel as satisfying as running as fast as you can to try to be a hero:
Stop
You're having a lot of feelings right now. Those feelings are utterly, completely valid. But when you are running entirely on adrenaline, on grief or anger or spite, you're going to run out of fuel pretty fast. The best thing you can do is take a beat to live in your feelings and then turn to do what you can thoughtfully and deliberately. It took the right about 40 to 50 years of slowly, pointedly, doggedly working local elections, working individual candidates, building communities and organizations, to overturn Roe. There is a non-zero chance that it is going to take just as long to turn it back again. Prepare yourself for that. Prepare for a long road. Be ready to put your shoulder in it, over and over. Be ready to take breaks while other people push, but without losing your own hope and determination. Then when others are running out of steam, put your shoulder to the work again.
Look
Search for organizations as local as possible. You're going to want to donate national. You're going to want to feel like you're doing the most good in the widest area. Your local community is what needs you most. Big organizations whose names end up on the news will have tons of donations right now. Search for organizations in your neighborhood, city, township, county, and state.
Listen
When you find those organizations, you're going to have a lot of ideas. Spend at least a month or a few meetings listening to what they are already doing. Check out their websites or social media presences and respond to their direct appeals as best as you can. You will often find that your mind changes once you are actually in the community, doing the work. You will often find that your well-intentioned ideas have often already been tried and may even be already in place in a slightly different manner than you expected.
You will also often find that you are going to need to confront your own privilege, over and over. To listen to the people doing the work often means you need to stop talking. There is nothing wrong with having good ideas, but when you are walking in from the outside you need to have the humbling moment of realizing you may not be as much of an expert as you think you are.
Stay
As I previously mentioned, this is not going to be a few weeks work. It's unlikely it's going to be a few months work. This is going to take years. It's going to take election cycles.
Don't burn yourself out. Don't work furiously for a few weeks, give up, and never return. Work this kind of stuff into your regular schedule. Make this a daily or weekly or monthly commitment. As someone with ADHD, I know damn well it can be hard to set a new routine, but it's better for you to work one day a month for 2 years then it would be to work everyday for one month and then never return.
If you need a break, decide when you're going to come back when you take the break and commit to returning to the work. You can always change your mind. But consistency will be a powerful tool in both building communities and doing the work of making real change.
This is the hardest piece of it. It's easy to settle back into a life of privilege where you can choose to no longer think about such things. This happened with an awful lot of white activists after the summer of BLM. I admit I am as guilty as the next person of getting overwhelmed and never returning to some of the organizations I used to help. We are all human and some people will fall away, but those who have prepared to be out there in the long term will fall away less, encourage others to return more often, and keep the fires burning on our long slow walk back.
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OK, seriously, it's been 5 years of keeping this with me, but I think it's been too long and I need to get it out:
Gray isn't white skinned. Gray isn't a "white guy".
Whithe person is Tigress, Maelstrom, Paper Star, Chase Devineaux, Julie Argent, Zach and Ivy.
But Gray isn't. Gray has a "beige" skin tone, it's an almost orange skin tone. He isn't as white as other characters that if you put them in the light they almost shine like a Twilight's vampire.
And I have never understood why some call him "white man" because throughout the entire series it's very clear that he isn't. Yeah, ok, he's not brown, but he isn't white either. In Spanish we have a term called "apiñonado" (a middle term between white and brown, which people who are a mix between an indigenous person and someone with white skin tend to have. You know, the consequences of miscegenation)
Which has sometimes led me to think that Gray is a person with Aboriginal roots (that's another topic. And although I have no proof, I have no doubt either.)
Even here I leave you the best proof. In a place with little light. Chase and Gray. Chase is white, not Gray!
And well, I could put more proof, but I think these are the clearest. I'm not mad at anyone, but I'm not going to understand why even Gray's wiki says "Skin: white" when it's VERY obvious that it's not, and there have always been other terms to describe different skin tones, not just "black and white"
#You don't know how good I feel after writing this!#I kept it for 5 years! At first I didn't say anything because I didn't think it was a big deal#and I thought that sooner or later someone would say something or they would realize how the seasons went by.#but it's 2024 and seeing people who keep calling him “white man” is like... seriously!?#carmen sandiego#carmen sandiego 2019#carmen sandiego netflix#graham calloway#graham crackle
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✡️ I’m trying to look as Jewish as possible on my flight today, because no anti-Semite is gonna make me hide my Jewish Pride. 💪🏻
These guys are fighting imaginary enemies no one is making you “hide your Jewishness”. You know who is forced to hide their identity out of threat of becoming victims to racist violence? Palestinians
Do you know what is so wild to me? The sheer cognitive dissonance needed to believe Arab and Middle Eastern people pose more of a threat to you than actual white supremacists around the western world/Europe.
White supremacists ARE statistically the biggest threat to safety to many communities. These groups actively rally, gather, and organize to harm and sometimes kill Black, Brown, Indigenous, and non-Christians like Jewish people. Most active shooters (you know -domestic terrorists in the US are white males)... this is just so frustrating and disturbing.
#feminist#feminism#social justice#free palestine#palestine#free gaza#settler violence#israel is committing genocide#colonial violence#tw white supremacy#human rights violations#crimes against humanity#war crimes#tw hate crime#islamphobia#current events
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I need you all to know about the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts.
(Content warning for below the cut: ableism, electroshock torture of developmentally & intellectually disabled people, mention of death)
Two days ago (Sep. 7th, 2023), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a residential school called the Judge Rotenberg Center can continue to use electric shock devices called GEDs (graduated electronic decelerator) that are worn 24/7 to attempt to control the actions of developmentally & intellectually disabled people.
JRC calls itself an education & treatment school for “emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems, as well as those with intellectual disabilities or on the autism spectrum” (according to their website). They have around 50 residences throughout Massachusetts. Their strategies center around restraint and punishment for unwanted behaviors. At least five deaths are attributed directly and indirectly to their treatments.
They say these electric shock devices, which are stronger than a police grade taser and are irrefutably shown to cause permanent mental & physical damage, are “life saving” and that they’re used on people “for whom all other treatment options have been tried and failed”.
Here’s a short list of things their “students” (who are placed there by their families and very likely have no choice in the matter, and are disproportionately Black/Brown/Indigenous) are shocked for:
hand flapping/stimming
standing up
sitting down
swearing
speaking
not fulfilling a simple task
any perceived disobedience
making noises because of their disability
making noises while being shocked (such as screaming or crying)
sitting in the "wrong" way
acting without permission
incontinence
More info on JRC here and on their history here (content warning: graphic & disturbing descriptions of ableism & torture in both links, death & suicide in the 2nd link).
This is just the latest piece of an ongoing battle to stop electric shock treatment on disabled people. In 2023 we are still not seen as human enough to be the victims of human rights violations.
Info on how you can help here. Disabled people have been trying to get eyes on this fight for decades. Please talk about it. Please don’t let this go unseen like it always does.
#stop the shock#ableism#cw ableism#tw ableism#ableism tw#ableism cw#judge rotenberg center#shock therapy#torture#tw torture#torture tw#electric shock#cw torture#torture cw#disability#disability advocacy#developmental disability#intellectual disability#disability justice
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OG ATLA is a diverse show, Netflix ATLA isn't.
In a world where so many people are fixated on skin color and skin tone, it's crazy to me that I haven't seen anyone say anything about this yet. However, I believe most people are thinking it, so I'm going to say it.
ATLA is a show of characters with diverse skin tones. Sokka and Katara are brown-skinned characters.
Whereas, Aang has white skin and Zuko and Azula have very fair almost porcelain like skin. Their skin was supposed to be without blemish, and Zuko even pointed this out in one episode.
When you look at the live-action cast of ATLA, they are all white-washed. They all have very similar skin tones with the exception of Sokka's actor who is very fair-skinned.
Now, I know what you're thinking. OP how could they all be white washed? They are all indigenous or of Asian decent. None of the main characters are white.
Well, you are correct. However, I am going to introduce you to the concept or colorism. It allows for POC characters to still be white washed, under the notion that the European beauty standard is the idea beauty standard. Translation: the lighter (whiter) the skin, the more beautiful the person.
Which is what we see here with the lightning of Sokka and Katara's skin. Now, you might say, that they were appropriately cast as indigenous. Yes, they may have been. However, idenginuous people come in wide range of skin tones. There's light-skin indigenous, brown skin indigenous, dark skin indigenous and everything in between.
Therefore, we cannot pretend that this was the only canonically correct depiction of Sokka and Katara. We certainly cannot pretend that these actors were the best fit for the job, since they both walked their parts and completely missed the motivations and central themes of their characters.
As a kid, I know that it made me as a black woman and a lot of my friends who were brown women (Indian, Asian, North African, and Latino alike) feel seen when they saw Katara. They were able to see themselves in Katara, because Katara looks like them. I felt more seen when I saw Korra, because Korra was darker and starting to approach my skin tone.
That alone should be enough to want to cast the characters correctly. I mean we so often hear people complain about the blackification of once white characters. The most recent example being Halle Balley playing the Little Mermaid. However, it has always been FAR more common, that individuals and roles of color have been played by and adapted by white actors who do not bat an eye.
Yet, that's not enough, because Katara and Sokka's skin tone meant something. It means something and so does Zuko and Azula's skin tones.
For starters, Zuko and Katara have brown skill despite living in a cold climate, in order to protect their skin from the harmful rays or the sun. Wow.... I know shocking right? 😲
Some of you are shaking your head and thinking that doesn't make sense. It's cold in the arctic, why do they need protection from the sun? It's because the sun's rays reflect off of the white snow. Without a sufficient amount of melanin, the sun's rays could burn the skin of the indigenous people who live there. However, with too much melanin, the indigenous people who live there may not absorb enough Vitamin D. Hence, the brown skin.
Secondly (this point is more race-y), Katara and Sokka at this point when the Southen Water Tribe has been demolished by the Fire Nation, are effectively peasants. They are especially peasants when compared to both the Northern Water Tribe and the Fire Nation.
Peasants work outside. Therefore, peasants tend to have darker skin amongst the people in their given region. They have darker skin because they are exposed to the sun more.
Royalty has lighter skin, because they stay inside palaces, they don't do manual labor, and they have servants, so their skin is always protected from the sun. Has anyone ever notice how pale Toph is and the fact that she's the only character in ATLA who has a last name? That's by design people.
The sibling pairing of Sokka and Katara and Zuko and Azula are diametrically opposed in the original show. They are the ultimate dichotomy.
Sokka and Katara:
- wear blue
- are Water Tribe
- are brown skinned
- are peasants
- grew up in tents and igloos
- are kind to each other
Zuko and Azula:
- wear red
- are Fire Nation
- are fair skinned
- are royalty
- grew up in palaces and slept in Alaskan King sized beds
- hate each other.
The sibling pairs are opposed by more than just their nations of origins and the colors of the clothes. They are also opposed by their skin tones in order to reflect their lot in life.
Someone once said that Katara would never marry Zuko because she's too dark. Her skin is not the skin of royalty, and that person was probably right.
However, Sokka and Katara's skin is powerful, because if you read the Kiyoshi novels you'll learn that there's a great lineage in regard to who gets to train the avatar. It's my belief that if Aang met all of his friends before the 100 year war, Azula and Toph would have been the only people deemed worthy to train Aang. The most powerful people in the world are usually associated with the avatar, yet in the OG show, the most disenfranchised people in the world: Sokka and Katara made Aang into a fully realized avatar.
#atla#colorism#netflix atla#avatar the last airbender#nickelodeon#korra#katara#kiyoshi#four elements#sokka#aang#azula#toph#zuko#fire nation#water tribe#waterbending#firebending
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FMA is a weird, special case study in the limitations and pitfalls of the way fandoms create bodies of work.
The trends and tropes of fanwork tend to focus on individual character relationships-- how characters feel about each other, with little or no emphasis on the broader context of those feelings. In a setting with low stakes or simple politics, this is fine. This is why I think AUs that sand off the edges of worldbuilding are so popular. They skip the more difficult foundational Stuff in favor of a quicker, and I would argue much less impactful, catharsis.
The relationships (friendly, antagonistic, familial, romantic, sexual, some combination of these,) are primary in fandom, and everything surrounding them is just set dressing that exists in service to the characters being centered.
In a vacuum, this is generally Fine. Is it intellectually rigorous? No, usually not, but not all art needs to be. Chicken nuggets are perfectly fine with a well balanced diet.
BUT,
This is also how we end up with decades of fanworks that tastelessly recycle a genocide that is foundational to FMA's canon lore into "that thing that makes Roy and Riza sad, sometimes." The "because they did it" is usually in fine print off to the side, unexamined and unacknowledged for the weight it ought to reasonably carry. It's just Angst Set Dressing.
FMA is in no small part about how the people who do the worst things that we can conceive of are still people. "Humanization" is often taken with the assumption that sympathy is being demanded of the viewer, but it is, in truth, just a reflection of reality. People who condone, uphold, and carry out systemic violence are people. This is an important message to internalize for those who are privileged under violent systems. The violent actor is not some mysterious Other. They could be someone you look up to. They could be you.
This is why it's thematically important that Ed gets kicked out of an inn for flashing his watch, which to him, until that point, was an all-access pass. This is why the conclusion of his character arc is that his choices do not exist in a vacuum, even though his privilege offers him the chance to pretend that they do. This is why it's thematically satisfying for Roy to not become the Fuhrer, but to kill him. This is why it really isn't all that surprising that AU Hughes is a Nazi.
FMA03 does not allow the viewer to conveniently disengage with the fact that its protagonists and the people they look up to operate in support an apartheid state. This is literally what the show is about.
Fandom, meanwhile, is almost exclusively about disengaging from that discomfort. This is partially why, back when I was more active in talking about this series and its characters, many people took my pointing out this dissonance as a personal attack. This is why fandom, for all its noise-making about being an escapist counter-culture, is overwhelmingly white. We self-select for it, driving out Black and brown and indigenous voices who object to this willful disengagement from the themes deemed too Icky and Difficult to be meaningfully addressed in our fan works. "It's just shipping, why are you Starting Discourse?" or "I just like these characters and don't like those ones, it's not that deep."
Fandom is deeply averse to critical thought. This will never not feel like a bizarre contradiction to me, but there isn't a nice way to paint it. I know I'm not saying anything new, but the unique manifestation of it in my corner of the internet feels like a case study for why mashing barbies together isn't devoid of context, no matter how hard a given author or artist tries to make it so.
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saw a prominent israeli user on here say that Hamas wants to create a totalitarian government and that whether or not you support palestine you still shouldn't support hamas and I really wanna talk about that.
I'm jewish. I have Israeli and Palestinian relatives. I have arab and jewish friends from all over the various diasporas and I know black and indigenous people who have spoken from their community's experiences with these things. I'm not speaking out of my ass here.
It. Does. Not. Matter. What. Hamas's. End. Goal. Is.
There is no excuse in any way, shape, or form for the subjugation and oppression the Palestinian people are facing. Yes, Jews have our history in the Levant. Many of us never left. The Palestinians ALSO never left. Many young men are joining Hamas because it's the only militarized organization that will let them at least TRY and fight back. Palestinians are scared people and they have the choice to either lay down and die, or at least try and fight to let their families survive.
I don't really care how you feel about Hamas in the face of a genocide. I don't. Israel could have at any point sinply funded a proper government for Palestine that wasnt left over from the Ottoman/Arab war, but they didnt. Israelis want to get on here and talk about totalitarianism when their government just shot a missile at Israelis who were protesting the war. The only reason Israel hasn't simply solved the problem by funding a Palestinian government and healthcare is because they are ALSO A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT.
Yes, Hamas should have never taken Israeli hostages or killed anyone. This is unforgiveable. However, I want you to guess how many Palestinian hostages Israel has taken in the last fifteen years. How many were released on the ceasefire? Not even half. Israel also shot released (two of whom were brown) Israeli hostages because they decided that they were Palestinians.
Israel has milled more innocent Palestinians in the past month than Hamas did with the October 7th attack. This is not about stopping Hamas. This was an excuse to kill Palestine. This does not mean Israeli citizens are at fault, or that Jews have done anything wrong. This also does not mean that Hamas should govern if they win this war. What it does mean is that the Israeli government does not care about anyone but itself and is inherently corrupt. It means that Hamas is not relevant to the conversations surrounding the war efforts anymore, because the citizens of Palestine are the only ones getting targeted. It means that the exile is not over and that if we ever eant to truly return to Israel that amends must ve made with Palestinians.
Anyways, if you're looking to support Palestinian families and queer people trying to escape war, and you'd like proof that your money is Actually doing something, please go to Rain Dove's page on Instagram. They are a queer model and activist who is currently in Gaza helping families escape. They went to Ukraine as well to help refugees, and I've been following them for years. They are living proof that Gazans are not a threat to the queer community as well as proof that there is a genocide happening right now.
#current events#israel#palestine#free palestine#jewish#jumblr#rain dove#charity#israel hamas war#activism
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I don't want to sound like, "Oh, I know so much more than you peons do," but I think something that some people are missing in the How Do People Feel About Racial/Ethnic Acronyms? discussion is that they exist for specific purposes and were created under certain circumstances. I'm not one for POC (People of Colour, US), BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, US), BBIMP (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Melanated People, US), BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, UK), or others, but I'm a mixed African/Asian person living in East Asia. I'm neither from the US or the UK; these terms aren't really about me, they're about racial and ethnic minorities who live in those specific countries, and were created under a political climate and a history where they made sense at the time. I'm not a fan of how (BI)POC is used in a lot of English-speaking online spaces—seriously, just say Black people, we all know you're not including non-Black non-white people when you say "POC"—but neither do academics and actual activists and such. They're terms that do actually have their uses.
I mean, yes, there is a major problem with communities pushing non-Americans to use American terms Or Else, and that sucks and it needs to stop. But these acronyms have their uses. I see it like how I don't personally like being called Black, because I'm very much an African, but my Black French friend hates being called Afro-French because to him it's like saying he can never really be French. Different strokes for different folks.
Although I do have to rehash that there is a problem forcing people to use terms they don't want to because that's the "woke" thing to do. Don't force non-white people to say things they don't want to and self identify in a way they don't want to. "Coloureds" is literally an ethnic identity in South Africa; (white) Americans who froth at the mouth over that need to get over themselves.
That's just my two cents anyway.
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Across Lands and Seas
( Reposted from @armands-sanctum )
Summary: Headcanons for Hobie Brown and Afro-Latine!Reader
Author's Notes: More like an analysis on colonization with Hobie in it im sorry....
CW: political language and ideas, mentions of white supremacy, mentions of racial hierarchies.
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I talked a bit with ellie anon about this, and this is for them so <3
Hobie is a culturally literate man, he absorbs history like a sponge, constantly learning and engaging with new material that intrigues him about things he already knows or new information brought to him, that being said I think that Hobie is extremely culturally intelligent ESPECIALLY as a black man, there is no room for arguments about colorism, or privilege around him, and he shuts down someone with vile opinions quickly.
“Mate you don’t really know what you’re talking about yeah?”
Hobie with an Afro Latine significant other is like having a living encyclopedia, he knows so much not just from what he’s read but lived experience with people in his communities.
If you’re estranged from your culture due to the diaspora and colonization Hobie make it his personal goal to help you build a found family with the Afro Latinxs in his punk circles, taking you to festivals and markets with them, they excitedly talk about their country specific dishes, who makes the better variants of food, linguistic similarities between each other, conversations about gender expression within each country and how indigenous beliefs shaped the land and it’s people even when colonization has deemed them eradicated and nonexistent.
You know how people say “Show me your friends and it’ll show me who you are”? Hobie is that kind of person, he holds his friends in high regard and holds them to standards he knows they are capable of, his Latino friends are amazing, they hold no judgement if you can’t speak Spanish, reminding you that the language was enforced on you all as a means of control and to diminish the histories of the indigenous tribes who lived in tandem with the earth, they are all gender diverse, all sorts of familial backgrounds. They sit and help you navigate your culture like a family would, and after a year of being with Hobie and adopted into his friend group, they are your family.
On certain weekends, even when Hobie is gone off being Spiderman, his friends crowd your space, or host in their own homes, spending all the light hours of the day prepping all sorts of dishes, and walking your through the preparation, the ingredients and the cooking, the place fills with laughter and chatter like a home filled with love and care.
Hobie is the kind of person who knows everyone, so don’t be shocked when you’re going about your day and by the time the evening hits your arms are filled with treats old women give you just because Hobie showed them a picture of you in passing and has been flooding them with all sorts of conversations about you, and like any good maternal figure that comes with all kinds of tasty snacks, elotes, small servings of baked chicken with rice and peas, fresh tortillas and empanadas, so much that when you do return home and Hobie sees the mountain of food you obtain all he can say is, “We better get to eatin’ huh? Can’t let ‘his all go to waste”
On one summer afternoon while downtown he sees another elderly woman he enjoys helping serving icees on the corner, he’s already scrounged up a few dollars to purchase, but she INSISTS on giving you both a large cup of lemon and mango icee just because Hobie had repaired helped repair her cart, and intimidate some cops who were pressing her about a ‘food license’ which makes a small child whine about how they wanted a cup that big, Hobie would kneel to the child and offer to buy them as many cones they want, even to their parents displeasure.
Culture has a symbiotic relationship to the land and it’s people, you can displace the people from the land but the culture doesn’t die, it simmers and brews in the belly of the people, forced to uproot themselves due to the violent nature of colonization and white supremacy, and Hobie helps you navigate these circumstances everyday like a lighthouse leads sailors through turbulent stormy waters.
Hobie shares with you information about the anti-colonial pro-indigenous movements in Latin America, reminding you that there are people fighting every day for reparations and liberation, when your blackness is seen as a contested subject amongst other Latinos especially those who are anti-black or colorist Hobie has no issue leaping up from his spot to go on the defensive.
“Black people exist everywhere bruv, that don’t make them any less Latine.”
He brings you all kinds of gifts, I like to think his favorite is jewelry, beaded ornamentation he acquired as payments for odd jobs and favors around the neighborhood, some of them are more alternative, and others are just crafts made with expert precision from their indigenous crafters, he even brings you to these shops so you can learn beadwork, or just to watch them work in a somber calmness.
As a Jamaican one of the things you two share in common is a taste for plantain, he buys plantain chips in bulk, but sometimes maybe after a day of spending time with Grandma Brown (who often complains about the youth losing touch with their roots) he’ll take you to the Caribbean market to buy sweet and ripe plantains, you spend all day frying them and eating them freshly hot and crunchy out the oil, until there isn’t much left after you’re done cooking.
On especially hard nights while you reminisce about family, Hobie will rest your head on his chest, stroking your head softly, conversing with you in hushed tones about how hard it is to be an immigrant, living in a diaspora and feeling disconnected from your traditions, or not feeling acclimated to your culture, he's quick to remind you about how you're living proof of your ancestors determination, that years of slavery and colonization couldn't keep you from being alive, that you existing is revolutionary enough, he traces your facial features, kissing your lips, your eyes your nose, reminding you that you're the product of their resilience.
My last headcanon is that Hobie goes only to queer people of color for tattoos and piercings, they are indigenous arts after all! He doesn’t get cultural tattoos but he loves showing off their work to other people of color, especially considering how white alt dominated body modification has become especially in the west. He pushes you to try and get some, he doesn’t press you to do anything you’re uncomfortable with but he does support you, and if getting a body modification can help you feel a bit closer to your roots, he’s your number 1 supporter.
#hobie brown x reader#hobie headcanons#hobie brown#hobie brown x black!reader#across the spiderverse#miguel o’hara x reader#atsv#atsv hobie
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And one more thing...
I truly meant to let sleeping dogs lie after my post yesterday about leaving Kindergarten Mafia, the now infamous, racist Discord server because it had everything I wanted to say at the time.
BUT.
Here I am, sliding back in, with more things.
And I warn you ahead of time that this post will probably make you feel uncomfortable. That's fine.
Because I remembered the new thing I was going to do : if someone has made me feel uncomfortable, that takes away their right to comfort as well. Respect goes both ways and so does comfort.
I believe both posts are equally valuable. And I want you to sit with your discomfort if this anger seems "off" or you feel that it's petty. So I hope you stay until the end of this long rant because there's a greater point I want to make about POC anger and discomfort from witnessing that.
It's meant to be petty and I mean it with every fiber of my being.
Yesterday, I was made aware of the server owner, in their new server, specifically wrote that they're "trying to get the joy back from fandom".
And that singular phrase not only triggered disgust but various other thoughts I had held back, out of misplaced respect, in my last post. The gloves are coming off and the claws are coming out.
So this is for the people who were complicit in downplaying, gaslighting, and otherwise making it a miserable fandom experience for us (marginalized folks + POC) : go fuck yourselves. You do not deserve fandom joy when it has been sucked out, by people like you.
I'm calling out AO3 authors like Ahdriking. Ahdriking was a popular author I used to respect in the fandom. But after being inactive for most of my stay in the server, Ahdriking suddenly emerged from the shadows to take the side of the perpetrators. They came in at the 11th hour, not having interacted with or actually know any of us that were speaking out, just to defend the people who hurt us.
You do not get to quietly fade into the background of anonymity, enjoying accolades from unknowing readers, when behind closed doors, you've acted like this.
I do have to thank you, Ahdri, for making me finally understand how well-written authors can be terrible outside of their writing, like JK Rowling.
Another AO3 author like Frog_of_Fandom, who joined the new server and is gleefully poking fun at those of us who left.
To be clear, this is not for those who were nonconfrontational. This is specifically for those who were complicit - whether it was directly within server messages or staying silent and then moving to the new "safe" space. (Credit to Snake and Mouse for this distinction.)
The worst part of it is, I myself wasn't treated nearly as badly as some of my Black and indigenous counterparts.
There's a reason for that.
I frequently mentioned my identity as a Korean-American. Server members were very aware of that and my profile picture is a real life one, not a fandom reference.
I, as an Asian, got received with relative politeness while Black and brown members were booted out.
This is a familiar racist tactic.
You don't need to go any further than a TikTok comment section to see evidence of this. Black and brown creators have some of the worst comments I've seen on that app. (I posted a TikTok recently on the topic if you'd like to hear the specifics.) The SAME message can be said by a white creator vs Black, brown, indigenous etc with very different results.
Backlash against Black anger is well documented by various scholars.
As a rather pale faced Asian - the polite reception to my anger is part of my privilege. It struck me how different the server owner and problematic mods treated my messages and that of Black or brown server members.
And it makes me incredibly angry, not relieved.
Because on top of the sympathetic anger I felt for my POC counterparts, I wondered if they had fetishized me this whole time.
Note that the fandom for the server is KinnPorsche, a Thai BL, for those who don't know - a queer Thai drama.
That somehow, my anger was palatable because I, as a queer Asian, was adjacent to their beloved drama characters.
But before I write a novel-length fic again as a post, I'll stop here, despite having so much more to say.
This is truly the last I want to reference those energy vampires.
For me, I will try to leave behind the feelings of disgust I have with my first foray into a fandom and take with me the true friendships with folks that care about joy for everyone and not just a few.
Many many lessons have been learned and re-enforced from past experiences. I'm not happy that any of us had to experience this but sometimes, shit happens.
Wipe it up and flush it down the toilet, where it belongs.
#ao3 writer#decolonize fandom spaces#kinnporsche fandom#kindergarten mafia#Is it petty yes#do i have regrets no#I said what I said#Unlike some people I stand by my words#I'd say this to anyone in real life#kinnporsche ao3
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I know you didn’t see it, but as someone pointed out with Killmonger. The people who often said “fuck Christopher Columbus and white people!” don’t hate imperialism itself. They hate that their ancestors was on the losing side of the wars centuries ago
As I mentioned before they glamorized the Dahomey kingdom of all things, I saw a person online with a PHD said the Ottomans were good to lived under.
A Hindu mutual of mine said that the left constantly glamorized the Mughals because they are brown. People are even defending the Aztecs now.
Like I saw people say that the left only “protected” the Jews because of the Holocaust. Because when you dive into Hitler and the Nazis the mindsets you notice a lot of similarities
“The Jews/White people are the root of all evil and must be wiped out!”
And I think Jews are getting a wake up call with the I/P conflict as now the left antisemitism is in full force
I mean I saw these as the left said in more privileged than career politicians such as Hillary Clinton because I have a dick. But the second they learn in black, I’m more oppressed than a trailer park kid that was pimp out by their parents
And the decolonization thing, hmm strange that never passed to Arab ethnostates
Oh good, you're still here. I'm happy about that
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Aztecs, yikes people raised hell here in CA about some of the lessons that involved learning various Aztec prayers, not sure how far if actually got but I hope it didn't get implemented.
Was a whole thing about connecting the Latino students to part of their heritage and CA history as well dumb for one because the Aztecs never made it up this far and for two, the reason Cortez managed to take them out with 300 Spaniards was because of the 30,000 natives that joined in because they were tired of being used for human sacrifices among other things.
Interesting to see the return of moral relativism
It's their culture and it should be respected even if that means this 73 year old dude that died's 19 year old wife will be placed on his funeral pyre with him and burned alive so they can be together in the afterlife (first time I hears a self proclaimed atheist say something along those lines my head spun, was weird. Still is gotta respect their beliefs provided they are using a western religion because reasons)
Colonization thing, I was originally looking for a map of arab migration into North Africa but this kind of thing kept coming up
Finally ran into one that was just Arab migration and it's the same map, which makes sense, Egypt is still full of Egyptians though which is kinda wild, Iran is split between Persians and Arabs, Persians being the indigenous people in that area.
Like I saw people say that the left only “protected” the Jews because of the Holocaust.
This is one of those things I've put a lot of time and thought into.
Short version of my conclusion is that if they were still a stateless people they would likely be one of the darlings of leftist circles.
At least until they started getting to successful, preformative wokeness would be the modern term I guess.
You're not supposed to actually do well because if you do then we can't use you as a prop to show how awful other people are.
Be why Asians got kicked out of the POC club.
And I think Jews are getting a wake up call with the I/P conflict as now the left antisemitism is in full force
Stephen Fry coming out and saying, you know what, I'm Jewish is a good bit for that, seems to be some of the secular Jewish community, even the one's that don't do anything Jewish at all, well didn't since it would seem a bunch of them are having their eyes opened more than they ever thought they would.
So ya that's a thing too.
Circling back to Egypt, wonder what the hotep contingent thinks about the Arabization of North Africa, they're lunatics regardless but I bet there's some funny stuff going on in the we-wuz circles about that.
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And again, I'm glad to hear from you especially after your previous ask. Keep pushing through world needs self aware people in it.
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PLEASE share your thoughts on Gamorran/Parousian gender roles!!!
THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG ONE CAUSE IM GONNA REALLY GO FOR IT, OKAY OKAY
So first I want to establish some things about Gamorra/Parousia and its history for those who haven't read the absurd amount I have: Why do I call it both?
Simply put, its because Gamorra is actually the colonized name of the country. Though its origin varies from text to text and iteration to iteration, generally, the history of Jay's home country goes like this:
It was Parousia for a long time, with native Parousians occupying the land and particularly claiming home within the mountainous terrain of the island(s? its unclear what Gamorra's land mass is like)
During the early twentieth century, the Japanese clan of Gamorra, usually helmed by Kaizen Gamorra, takes over the island, renames it Gamorra after himself, and founds a dictatorship over the island. This involves the usual colonialism hallmarks of restricting Parousian land territory and a resistance movement (parousian liberation front) and eventually the island moves into becoming a democracy. President Yumiko Gamorra takes over after her father and welcomes American banks and financial influence.
Once the clan Gamorra serves their purpose, american-sponsored dictator Henry Bendix takes over and the island essentially becomes a colony for the west.
(Waller vs. Wildstorm, issue 1)
Obviously, their history very closely resembles the history of other groups that suffered under colonialism, namely people of the Korean peninsula and the Ainu people of japan. So, within this context- Parousia, and its people (The parousians or parou depending on how you'd want to singularize it), are likely considered and recognized as an indigenous group within universe.
I obviously headcanon Jay as being part of this group on his other parent's side, but that's another post! Right now we're talking about fictional cultures, baby.
So, what do we know?
We know two things:
One, like I said in my previous post, women and men of the island tend to sort of uno-reverse the usual western gender roles around hair. Women keep their hair short, VERY short, and men are shown to be depicted with long hair: Its actually pretty apparent in the screenshot above that this at least generally true.
Two: Birds. There's a thing about birds that Nicole Maines actively took the time to draw attention to.
So obviously this got me thinking: Okay, what if the hair thing is because they've based their cultural norms at least in part around birds?
It makes sense: Parousia is a warm climate, we're told it actively has jungles and what not, and in places like that there tend to be LOTS of birds. A lot of the colorful birds that have drastic sexual dimorphism tend to come from climates like that for a reason.
More than that, a lot of cultures tend to base their cultural and spiritual practices around whatever animal impacts their local ecosystems the most- not only do people everywhere be like staple crop and dumplings and what not, people also be like "hmm. Animal."
If birds are the most populous animal on the island, and they keep pests down, and they're both an available food source and an indicator of how well the environment is doing- it totally makes sense that Bird would be the Animal Of Choice.
Birds can have some really wacky sex dimorphism- Famously, their gender roles are pretty much entirely swapped from the "human norm" pushed by the west. Female birds tend to be dull in coloration. Male birds, famously, are extremely colorful and are the ones who are expected to pursue courtship. Notably, also, female birds will have shorter flight feathers in species (such as the quetzal) where they have long, flowy flight feathers.
So I'm thinking, generally, gender roles and tradition in Parousia reflect this. Men are expected to keep their hair long, women short. Clothing patterns and colors are brighter for men, while women wear largely browns, greys, and black. Jewelry and makeup is largely a male tradition, while any tattooing traditions are done for women before marriage. Men are the ones who are responsible for courtship, and perhaps even some aspect of homemaking/providing.
I have more specific ideas, but I'd have to draw it first!
#Sidenote: The bird thing is something I actually semi-predicted before the release of Dream Team and I am still unreasonably proud of myself#Idk why but Jay seems like hed lend himself well to bird symbolism and I kind of. Extrapolated that.#Also everything I said here is why I may draw Jay with big earrings and graphic eyeliner! The Culture#Jay nakamura#DC#Gamorra
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Howdy!
I'm Dimonds456, and welcome to my garbage pile. I'm a bat who stays up way too late and cannot decide whether or not to be productive. I draw, write, animate, play/write music, and I'm also insane so watch out for that.
I'm neurodivergent, disabled, queer, white, a singlet, fictionkin, and a proud cat papa. I am a cartoon character who is way too bouncy for their own good lol.
They / he / xe!
This is my main blog, but my ADHD ass also has a bunch more.
@dimonds456-art - my art blog! Almost all art gets rbed there!
@dimonds456-but-only-hlvrai - my HLVRAI sideblog! Because yeah why not. This is one of me current hyperfixations lol it's bad
@rubberhose-roy is my sideblog used to gush about 1920's-40's aesthetics, music, culture, ect., as well as an animation blog! All my animations specifically will be reblogged there, as well as any animation rambles or gushes I do.
I have more but those are the main three.
My fandom-specific blogs are:
@dimonds456-but-only-hlvrai (again)
@hlvrai-stuck-together - HLVRAI AU I run!
@halfnautica - Half Life / Subnautica AU!
@a-second-chance-su-au - Old SU AU that has been discontinued, but the blog is still there!
@batim-rewritten - a Bendy and the Ink Machine rewrite I'm working on
@cuphead-contract-au - A Cuphead AU where Mugman makes a deal (discontinued)
And, I have my own OC story, Follychromatic! I reblog all that stuff here, but its main blog is here!
@follychromatic
To see pictures of my cat, check the #Checkers tag! :D
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I will add more if anyone wants me to, or we can come up with a custom tag, like what I do for one of my friends! (#dimond don't look)
I will tag as much as I can, and if you want me to tag something specific, let me know! But as a general blog cover, things that appear on this blog often are:
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Hiiii I'm disabled! Both mentally and physically. I talk about being disabled a lot and try to generate positive talk about it. I also vent about it. I've had quite a few of these, and I also try to reblog as much about others I don't have as I can to increase awareness and understanding. So yeah! These are just the ones I have, but they are not the only ones that appear on my blog!
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More to be added lol.
This is also a meds/treatment positive blog, a self-diagnosis positive blog, and my general attitude is just "if you think something is wrong you're probably right, you know yourself the best, even if you don't know what exactly is wrong." This attitude has saved my life and other people I know. You don't need a diagnosis or medication to be disabled.
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If you are Jewish, black, brown, Muslim, indigenous, any religion, any race, any sexuality, any weird gender, anything at all- I love and support you. I'm still learning, and I try to learn as much as I can, but I'm not perfect. If I say something offensive or something adjacent, it was NOT on purpose. PLEASE, PLEASE tell me what I said wrong. I will make an effort to improve in the future.
I directly support:
- All races
- All religions*
- All sexualities (except pedos, y'all aren't LGBT, I'm sorry. You're actively hurting children. I've seen it again and again. Stop.)
- All genders and pronouns
- All "weird" identities outside of that as well (I'm fictionkin myself)
- Protests and protesters
- Neurodivergent people of all types (and yes, this means NPD, schizo, and all those other types that are often seen as bad or evil. I love you, I see you, and I support you.)
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If I have reblogged or said anything that aligns with the bottom list, that was a mistake. PLEASE let me know and I will fix it as fast as I can. You reading this right now, I love you. I hope my blog can help you feel welcomed and like you have somewhere to go if you need it. /gen
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- Antisemitism
- Genocide
- Cults (*stuff like Jehova's Witnesses. I support the members, as they are victims, but I actively dislike the people on top who perpetuate the cycle. Not just JWs, but those are the big ones who come to mind. Hearts out to all the victims, I hope everyone gets to a better place soon)
- Racism in any way, shape, or form
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- Israel specifically
- Trump, conservatives, Nazis, ect.
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I HAVE ADHD AND AUTISM AND I'M MAKING THAT EVERYONE ELSE'S PROBLEM /silly
The current special interests are HLVRAI and Half Life, current hyperfixations are Half Life and Poppy Playtime.
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
- Minecraft
- HTTYD
- FNaF
- Undertale / Deltarune
- BATIM / BATDR (unfortunately)
- Subnautica
- Biology
- Steven Universe
- Cuphead
- 2D Animation
- Writing
- HLVRAI
- Half Life
theres more but my brain is an egg :/
HYPERFIXATIONS (interests but not the special ones):
- Little Nightmares
- Hello, Neighbor (unfortunately)
- Petscop
- Portal
- Freemanverse (HELP ME)
- The Amazing Digital Circus
- The Owl House
- Gravity Falls
- Monster High (very first from what I can remember! I remember nothing though! But it's there!)
- Poppy Playtime
- Half Life
- Wild Kratts (I didn't even know there WAS a fandom until very recently, hi guys)
When it comes to ✨me,✨ I have a couple of original works as well! Specifically, Follychromatic! I won't get too into it here (bc shy) but it's 2D animation, rubberhose animation, magic, character-driven, action/adventure, mystery- yeah!
Outside of fandom, though, my special interests are biology, 2D animation, and writing. I am an animator and I suffer for fun.
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A Muslim woman was recently targeted by a Jewish woman in a library setting, and some of ya'll still don't have the comprehension skills to understand the following:
We know not all Jewish people are white -the librarian who wrote about their experiences with this Islamophobic white Jewish woman was precisely just that -situational -how white passing people have weaponized their whiteness/perceived whiteness to be believed and supported when THEY feel wronged. And like many white women do and have done for centuries -use their tears to harm and sometimes end up getting Black and Brown people killed.
We know that hate crimes happen to MANY communities and groups of people around the world -including racialized Jewish people. To say these are mutually exclusive (that only Muslim people are experiencing hate crimes by white people) is NOT what this librarian was talking about. Again, this was something they were addressing as a systemic issue -that when white people target and attack Black, Brown, and Indigenous people (and yes that absolutely includes white-passing folks) it's beyond dangerous and immoral.
I'm STILL reading these long re-blogs and comments on this post I made a week ago and it honestly reminds me of the time when I told a PhD candidate during my Master's degree several years ago, that I don't support Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman because she's a violent zionist -and my previous colleagues response (when she wore a WW shirt the next day) was to say that I was being antisemitic... I genuinely believe some of these people need to be much more reflexive or spend less time on the internet because the cognitive dissonance is just wild to me.
Also to the recent xenophobic, racist, and zionist trash that keep sending me anons (some from this post specifically), a personal FU to you today especially.
#feminist#feminism#social justice#free palestine#free gaza#white privelage#white passing#white supremacy tw#hate crime tw#islamophobia#anti zionisim#intersectionality#intersectional social justice#white feminism#white women tears
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