Hey, Lily. I fixed your comic. Now stop being a brownfacing colonizer.

Also, funny how you claim to hate anime as "pervert-pandering pornography" yet the art style of your comic is very anime-esque.

LO, against people learning from other cultures? LO, being pro colonizer, again? LO, notorious faker of a Cherokee identity, whose grandfather never was even part of the Nation, writer of multiple stories where pro-colonization was a prominent theme and overall, an openly racist person that has been called out by both Asian and Black people in multiple ocassions? LO, saying something so intensively obtuse, anti intellectual and fundamentally wrong in every level that makes you wonder how this woman can call herself a leftist? it's more likely than you think!

Avocado orchards had carpeted the gently undulating hills around the sacred lake of Pátzcuaro with stodgy green bushes. Here, before the cataclysmic arrival of the first envoys dispatched by Hernando Cortes from the Aztec capital over the mountains to the East, [...] the Purépecha had sown maize, amaranth, zucchini, cacao, cotton, tomato, beans, a dozen types of chili, and much more.

Now the monotonous “green gold” of the avocado boom had colonized the entire Mexican state of Michoacán. [...] [I]t was shocking to think that the cause of the disaster was America’s great patriotic party: the National Football League’s Super Bowl. A flurry of advertising creativity on behalf of the Mexican avocado was unleashed every year during the multi-million-dollar sports broadcast. [...] “Is your life just terrible?” asks the comic actor Chris Elliott, star of Scary Movie 2 and Scary Movie 4, in the 2019 spot. “You deserve more! Spread an avocado on top of everything!” [...] A few days before the Super Bowl, the domestic diva Martha Stewart [...] had released on social networks her latest recipe for guacamole [...]. Guacamole was now an obligatory snack for the 100 million or so Americans who watched the Super Bowl. In February of 2017, 278 million avocados -- most of them from Michoacán -- had been sold during the days before the game in [the US] [...].

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The avocado had become the star product of Mexican food production in the age of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) [...] since NAFTA was signed in 1994 [...]. [Mexican] farmers produced 16 times more than the formerly dominant Californian growers. [...] Moreover, the avocado was now classified as a “superfood” [...].

It had not always been like this. In the 1950s, the avocado was known unsentimentally as the crocodile pear [...]. Imports from Mexico were banned until 1997 [...] . When complete liberalization was announced in 2007, Michoacán had become an unbeatable competitor for the Californian avocado growers. The Mexican producers specialized, like their Californian rivals, in the Hass variety of avocado, more meaty than those that the Purépecha had [...] consumed over the millennia, and with a tough skin that protected the pears during long hauls in chilled container trucks to El Paso or Tijuana and then beyond to the big US consumer markets. [...] [T]he Hass avocado was perfectly suited to the global market [...]. Michoacán, whose crystalline lakes had earned it the name of the “land of fish” in the indigenous language of Tarasco, would never be the same.

By 2020, 80 percent of the avocados consumed in the United States came from Michoacán [...].

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Now in the 21st century, on the outskirts of Uruapan, the frenetic capital del aguacate, the new economy of agribusiness took shape [...]. Further west on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro, the monoculture had not yet colonized the entire landscape, but the advance of the avocado seemed unstoppable. [...] “Practically everybody here wants an avocado orchard [...],” explained [FFB], a resident of the Purépecha indigenous community of Jarácuaro on the shores of the lake. [...] [H]e was horrified by the extent of environmental destruction. “They pump water from the lake to water the avocado orchards [...]. It’s pillage. [...]”

The falling water level, together with the introduction of the rapacious predator tilapia, had wiped out almost all the [...] [native] fish species. Of the cornucopia of marine life that had fed the Purépecha cities, only the diminutive silvery charal remained. The same occurred at other great freshwater deposits in Michoaczán. [...] The Purépecha communities on the shores of the lake, a landscape of stunning beauty where dense pine and ilex oak forests met white nymphaea lilies floating on turquoise water, were girding themselves for the arrival of the aguacateros, avocado producers [...].

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“They put a gun to your head and tell you to sign the deed before the notary. That’s how the transfer of land is agreed upon,” explained [GV], a sociologist at the University of San Nicolas de Hidalgo in Morelia [...].

Meanwhile, large exporters and avocado brokers -- some of them international brands like Del Monte -- were profiting by purchasing from producers at dirt-cheap prices and reselling to the US supermarket chains at very attractive ones. “They pay a dollar per kilo of avocado here and sell it for eight at a Minnesota W*lmart,” said [GV].

In order not to squander such a reliable source of profits, “transnational corporations, just like the Canadian mining companies in Zacatecas, pay the extortion money [...],” he continued.

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Text by: Andy Robinson. Gold, Oil, and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities. 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks added by me.]

also this is so petty considering the entire lily orchard thread is like this but “zuko ran away from an abuser it was NOT a redemption arc” yeah he was a traumatized child but he was still a colonizer? still an active and willing participant in imperialism? and you have to examine why zuko’s trauma is validated and his atrocities waved away while jet and hama’s trauma is waved to focus on their atrocities (it’s colorism and imperialism)

“The white gaze not only sees the world in terms of centering the experiences and desires of white people, it also automatically categorizes the colonized individual as either nefarious or as a “poor, poor thing” in need of rescuing.”

“[Devonte’s] adopted parents imagined themselves as the noble and selfless white people intervening to save these downtrodden Black children, plucking them from the muck and mire and elevating them to the status of real people — similar to how the Blue Fairy transforms wooden Pinocchio into a real human boy. But this transformation, this elevation, could only happen on their twisted terms, which is why Devonte Hart and his siblings were made to perform for the cameras like trained monkeys.”

This case has been crossing my mind a lot lately; it recalls a lot of things I’ve talked about regarding media, particularly with this post and this one. 

(it’s funny that those are both responses to things Lily Orchard has said, since she likes to think she’s some kind of expert on zeroing in on white liberal bullshit, but I digress)

Now you might ask yourself “why are you bringing up your critiques of Seth MacFarlane and Family Guy? That has nothing to do with this crime.” Well, in one of those posts, I bring up the fact that white liberal racism (including the savior complex these murderers projected) is quite a bit more insidious than what you might hear at a  Trump rally (perhaps from Trump himself) or even from a neo-Nazi like Richard Spencer who projects a superficial respectability. It’s easy to look at saviorism as a good thing because of *good intentions* or take racist jokes at face value because the person is really totes woke, you guys! But, like a person I used to really respect once said “ONLY your actions are real...What you MEANT to do is worthless; what matters is what you DID.” And Jennifer and Sarah Hart DID abuse and starve six children who were left in their care, they DID treat them like pawns to look more enlightened than they actually were, and they DID commit a mass murder-suicide once they were going to face real punishment for it. And media that makes jokes about marginalized people under a veil of white liberalism DOES desensitize people to seeing this shit for what it is.

I’m fucking done here.

She-Ra: Racism Problem Pt. 3

Alright, time for part 3! This time we’ll be talking about Hordak.

Again, I’’ll be referring a lot to the same article from Pt. 2.I also will be referring to this 2-hour video by Lily Orchard. Trigger warnings for that video (and this article) as it has some white supremacist/neo-nazi imagery. The part I’ll mainly be referring to starts at 1:38:52. I’ll also refer to this article about “space racists.”

So last time we talked about Adora and the white savior trope. I want to jump right into discussing Hordak and the Not-So-Bad Colonizers trend in animation.

2. Hordak

Season 3 of She-Ra revealed that Hordak, literal commander of the Horde whose goal is to take over Etheria and wipe out the Princesses (aka, committing genocide), actually isn’t so bad of a guy! Sure he wants to murder people, but he really just has an inferiority complex to his older brother/original clone Horde Prime and has a deteriorating body akin to a disability (oof, like really... Noelle that’s so yikes, but that’s for a separate part), so that’s why he’s so mean! :( But it’s ok! Entrapta can change him through the Power of Friendship! uwu

...hey thanks, I hate it!

There is a strange yet somewhat predictable trend in popular kid’s animation right now where Space Colonizers are set up as the villains, committing unforgivable crimes, and then are somehow redeemed anyways. Well, let’s consider the article from Teen Vogue about white saviors again: “To this day, some people still latently believe what imperialists such as Rudyard Kipling said, that colonialism was important for everyone: the conqueror and, most importantly, the conquered. That without the colonizers, the colonized had no hope of survival.”

Now does every white person wake up and think this each morning before having cereal? No, not necessarily. Is every white person still responsible for perpetuating this norm? Yeah, pretty much! 

As I noted before, white people have been raised in a society where they have white privilege. Without even being cognizant of it, white people benefit from the labor and persecution of others. America, where the three shows I’ll discuss were primarily produced (VLD, Steven Universe, and of course She-Ra), came into being by taking land and resources and lives from Native Americans, and enslaving black people. White people in America have, since the beginning of this country’s inception, been taught that they are owed privileges. Rarely do American history classes take the gravitas of the country’s colonial legacy into consideration. When confronted with that reality, many white people will claim that they are different from the rest, or that they’re really not as bad as others who openly state their fervent desire to continue spreading an “American agenda” to the rest of the world. Yet oftentimes, these people do not challenge the very ideology that colonialism rests upon. 

Ok, so what does America’s colonial history have to do with cartoons?

Well, consider this: She-Ra, Voltron, and Steven Universe all have plots that center an Evil Colonial Entity from Space. They also feature victimized characters apologizing to those associated with the Evil Colonial Entity. Take Season 2 of Voltron, where Keith is revealed to be part-Galra and Allura, a black woman, apologizes to HIM for feeling unsettled by the revelation. Remember the situation with Glimmer apologizing to Adora in Season 1 Ep. 2? It’s the same thing. This article summarizes the situation with Allura, but I want to focus on this quote: 

“When I see characters like Bill and Allura being branded as “racist” for actions their white counterparts are never chastised for, it feels like these creators are laughing at us—like they’re sneering at me and every other black person out there who so desperately want to see ourselves reflected in our favourite shows and characters, saying “See, you’d be racist, too, if given the chance.””

VLD takes it even further by making the main villain secretly Honerva, an Altean, and then making her “motive” that she just wants to go back to the good ol’ days, and THEN talking her out of her evil ways at the end and THEN sacrificing her and Allura to fix everything....... The “victims of genocide were secretly the bad guys” plot twist is EXTREMELY antisemitic. (I hate it. I hate it sooooo much.)

Steven Universe does a similar thing, where the Diamonds, who had been established as the Evil Colonizers from Space (literally, they wanted to colonize and destroy life on Earth), get talked out of being Evil by Steven; it turns out they all just had a complicated family relationship, and that’s why they were colonizers...? Yeah don’t worry about the whole Cluster situation--you know the superweapon made up of the bodies of shattered gems? Or the whole shooting a superweapon at Earth to kill all the rebels. Or the fact that they’ve colonized other planets. Or the fact that Steven’s mom had a LITERAL HUMAN ZOO. (REBECCA!!!! WHAT!) 

There is a very good video essay critiquing Steven Universe on a variety of points, (the person who made it also has the same name as me so HECK YEAH) but I want to pull out a specific quote from it: 

“The deliberate scrubbing of the elements of fascism that make it so vile and horrible in the first place is done so people don’t have to think about things that make them uncomfortable.... There are very rare instances where these issues are openly presented... Steven Universe [and Voltron, and She-Ra are] one of those rare instances.... [yet] Sugar [and Lauren Montgomery, and Noelle Stevenson] spends the latter half of the series woobifying space fascists to a disturbing degree... To so thoroughly depict a fascist regime with a disturbing amount of accuracy, only to then turn and insist that they’re just misunderstood babs that need a hug...  war, abuse, genocide, these things cannot and should not be forgiven.”

On top of this being just deplorable on a basic human decency level, the fact of the matter is that these white creators simply do not understand, or perhaps are unwilling to understand, that colonialism, fascism, and genocide are all tied to white supremacy and antisemitism. To suddenly forgive regimes where this has been the norm is to say that systemic violence against people of color is ok, and that people who support or create this systemic violence are also ok. To claim that everyone can be just as bad as a fascist is disturbing and also ignores the fact that fascism targets people of color. To say that Allura’s distrust of Keith is somehow just as bad as the Galra’s imperialism is to ignore thousands of years of history. 

Hordak is the same: his character has been established as a ruthless leader (ie punishing Catra with death and/or banishment for not doing well enough), who wants to destroy life on Etheria (including the Princesses, their allies, and the land they live in, which is a common colonialist tactic--think about the NODAPL movement, where white people continue to destroy Native Americans’ land and resources). He demands respect, and keeps his plans to himself. He does not care how many soldiers he has to sacrifice, or the amount of people he needs to destroy, to get what he wants, which is to get MORE soldiers to Etheria to more effectively take over. He is, by all accounts, a fascist leader. To claim that Hordak just needs a friend and can be forgiven for his rampant colonialism and abuse IS RACIST. 

Fantasy stories may be fictitious, but they are still shaped by real-world ideologies. No one writes in a vacuum. White showrunners’ white guilt is incredibly palpable in these narratives. They are unwilling to acknowledge their place in the legacy of white supremacy.

On another note, it’s also harmful to assume that forgiveness is the right strategy for LGBTQIA+ audiences, too. The Steven Universe narrative claims that Steven considers the Diamonds family--well, sometimes family can be awful and abusive, or, in the case of Steven Universe, they can be evil dictators who want to destroy you and the rest of your family. Does that mean that you should put yourself at risk and “forgive” them? No! The same goes for VLD and She-Ra. 

I could write about this for days, but I’ll leave it at that. I want to end with a cartoon quote that actually makes fun of woobified villains: Avatar the Last Airbender (see the video on SU at 1:50:34). 

Aang: Maybe we can make some big pots of glue and then I can use gluebending to stick his [Firelord Ozai’s] arms and legs together so he can’t bend anymore!

Zuko: Yeah, then you can show him his baby pictures and all those happy memories will make him good again.

Aang: You really think that would work?

Zuko: NO!

Nobody ever sits on this chair - so the ferns are colonizing it. Also lichens. Eventually, I guess, it will have it’s own little chair ecosystem.

I’m poor at flower gardening, because I only pay attention to them in the spring and then I have to put all my energy into the veg garden and orchard. Fortunately, lily of the valley takes care of itself and so do ferns. They look lovely without any pampering and occasionally try to take over the rest of the patio.

The comment I left on Lily Orchard's Steven Universe video

For @harryhenry1 , @ankle-beez and anyone else who wanted my hot take before it was deleted (potentially)

"This video is very bad, and I can give you like a hundred reasons why, but let's stick with some simple ones.

- You have a lack of understanding of the meaning of character development; Steven going from being a silly rambunctious kid with no sense of danger to a soft-spoken pacifist with defined beliefs isn't them going back and forth on his personality, it's him developing as the series goes on. Remember how Finn from Adventure Time started out as just a super obnoxious and loud kid but then slowly turned into a very mature teen with an understanding of how he affects others? Yeah, it's the same thing, except this is Steven Universe (the show that gets more flak than it deserves). Oh wow, Steven changes as a person because of him going through a series of life-changing events from season two to season five, what a big surprise! I would've expected him to just go the Goku route of collecting new powers and upgrades without ever changing his beliefs or ideals to fit with things he's learned, shame on Rebecca (who takes sole responsibility for everything that happens in Steven Universe for whateer reason)!

- It can be very easy to say that the writing of a show is lazy by simplifying characters and events down and removing anything beyond that, (Amethyst being laidback, Garnet being stoic, Pearl being anxious, Diamonds being nazis???, etc.) but if that's what you think the characters boil down to, it just means you don't grasp them too well. For example, you simplifying the events of Mindful Education to just 'Garnet singing vaguely about trauma and nothing happens until the last minute' clearly means you missed the song's message about how to deal with anxiety, and that you think that being subtle and vague is interchangeable.

- Rebecca Sugar is not an animator, literally never is she credited as an animator in any episode of the show, but besides that, I think you don't think you understand the meaning of animation if you think that's the same thing as 'proportion inconsistencies.'

- Using the term Hide Your Gays to describe a character who is literally symbolic for a gay relationship is kinda ridiculous, and the fact that you admit that Ruby and Sapphire themselves have a well-written relationship shows you don't have a foot to stand on with this flimsy argument. Ruby and Sapphire *are* present, if they weren't then Garnet wouldn't exist. I don't have much else to say on this, so let's move on to your biggest point. (I skip over the whole Concrete thing because that issue is over and done with, with her apologizing thoroughly)

- So Pink being Rose somehow ruins every scrap of potential the series had? I think by 'ruin' you mean 'enhanced by adding even more possible potential storylines and plot-points.' Honestly, character growth wasn't ruined at all, it was actually way more interesting that she was a Diamond- having Rose be super badass and perfect by assassinating the enemy singlehandedly in a way that would literally be impossible would be kind of dull, especially since we already knew she was flawed (which is apparently a bad thing to you). If you think this twist is complicated when you've had so long to think about it I don't think spending so long ranting about it was really the best idea- Pink Diamond's time on Earth made her realize that the Earth had life that deserved protecting, she was unable to convince the Diamonds to stop the colonization because they didn't take her seriously, she sparked a rebellion since she knew they wouldn't be able to ignore it, and because she makes the obviously flawed decision to fake her own shattering with the idea that the Diamonds don't actually care about her and will stop the colonization because of her death. What was that about Kingdom Hearts having a more complicated plot? If you think Pearl, Amethyst, Lapis and Steven are 'the most wretched people you've ever met' because of those overexaggerated traits, I can think of plenty more characters you might think are the worst. "Bugs Bunny uses manipulation and gaslighting to get his way, Daffy Duck is a hot-headed idiot, Elmer Fudd is a sociopath who shows no hesitation to kill sentient beings and doesn't learn from his mistakes, etc." Do you see how oversimplyifying things can make anybody sound horrible? And Pink Diamond's motivation was not 'I hate responsibility,' it was 'I feel empathy toward the life already inhabiting this planet and am not being taken seriously, making me think the only way I'll make any impact is by lashing out.' Her motives are meant to be flawed, Rebecca Sugar even once said in a podcast that Rose was a bad person, so all your ranting about her being bad serves no purpose when the creator states that was the purpose.

- I'll summarize the idiocy of this whole "Space Nazi" thing in a sentence: It is ridiculous to claim that a Jewish woman is trying to send a message that Nazis are okay just because she makes her villains sympathetic (aka has good writing).

- People who come to the conclusion that Rebecca Sugar is a fascist sympathizer are... just dumb, don't give them credit for thinking that.

- This video easily could have been shortened to like fifteen minutes if you just went over the essential points in a clear way, but it seems you have a masochistic thing for yelling about things you don't like for as long as possible. In conclusion, anyone who claims this video is taking down Steven Universe and is super epic is kind of just wrong."

To be fair to that last anon, if aliana was an anime girl, her design would be better ☺️

Oh man, this is very true! LMAO

So the latest LO shenanigans are that she had '150 nasty messages' in her inbox and so she has decided to scrap entire projects and limit her interaction on tumblr. I can't help but feel like LO just got bored of her own work, didn't want to put in the effort, and is now doing this song and dance for pity me points. In the past she always loves 'dunking' on hate messages, she keeps her anon open, and if she thinks it could be coming from specific sources, she could... you know. Block the messages? Even if they're on anon I think there's a way to block? Lily Orchard 'just say you don't wanna write anymore you don't have to blame imaginary people to stop writing' challenge.

if they're on anon that's actually even better than if it was with an account. on anon you can block IP, which will make the people sending mesages unable to unless they change devices and most people won't bother. when they write from an account they just need to make a new one and continue on like nothing happened. having said that, nobody should be sending that many messages or harassment LO or anyone's way. i hope that by now that is clear enough and nobody tries to say that kind of harassment is totally harmless or can be easily ignored, because nobody knows until they're at the end of it. returning to LO... she has done this... three times already i want to say? she says that either her projects receive negative attention or no attention at all or not the actual kind of attention she wants, she threatens to scrap it entirely, lashes out to people attempting to give her positive attention and then continues on like nothing happened. if any of this coincides with some other serious claim made against LO, then you can expect she's attempting to make herself the victim so people will ignore her potential victims to try to comfort her. she wrote a fatphobic bio for a fat character while giving herself props for writing a fat character at all. people pointed how this was still fatphobic, she got mad and gave up that character while making herself the center of attention. i feel like something similar is happening here, specifically around aliana, and i... just don't find it on myself to sympathize that much when that is a violent colonizer whose author has absolutely refused to acknowledge as being in the wrong about anything ever her conception. when people, including black people, have tried to criticize her for years and all they got was being treated as vultures or stalkers. at least Lacey had the potential to be positive fat representation. alina was a poorly conceived concept that was written even worse. if LO much prefer to scrap projects entirely and make a show of pity for herself rather than try to impove any of them... then so be it. hopefully she'll find something else that won't be full of racist implications. as a little side note, this is what her side bar looks now_

LO has deleted the part about about trying to deter minors from interacting with her content. let's cross fingers that at least she'll attempt to keep minors away from her own volition.

My guy, do you talk about anything else than about your hate boner towards an indigenous trans woman, can you get a fucking life, why is your trash on my feed, go fucking wash yourself you stinky creep what the hell.

This is one of the most disgusting things I ever saw, you want people to even taje you remotely seriously when this is a behaviour that warants a restraining order? Fucking grow up dipshit.

https://the-e4b.tumblr.com/post/175869079645/the-lily-orchard-fan-pack-google-drive archived evidence of LO sexualizing her own younger underage sister and her own made up dead daughter, who she lied about dying as a toddler.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ct_FNyD0LxPsfLsCnLnoArZOQ-_BwkuUJBMCTpUxXUk/edit archived video evidence of many LO's older videos, including those in which LO defended incest between two underage siblings and openly talked about writing stockholm.

https://gyazo.com/collections/3eae56479eb5e8c0041dd0f6e4317dfarchived conversations that LO had with an ex-friend where she catfished her for years, enough time to get access to nudes of that ex-friends and other women who didn't know who she really was.

https://valorousvixen.tumblr.com/ the blog of that catfishing personality that LO made up.

https://www.tumblr.com/lily-orchard-archives/697942119799832576/2016-09-09 archived of LO encouraging harassment against Ink-Rose, a minor at the time that she helped groom into dating an adult friend of her at the time.

documented debunking of many lies LO has spread, especially regarding Cypher, who LO fancied until Cypher disagreed on headcanons about Sylvannas and then LO cut her off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBgLVWvC0Gk&t=1185s video with proof of LO creating a RPG that is about colonizing and enslaving ponies, added with NSFW images being given as reward. the video goes to greath lenghts to proof irrefutably that the game indeed was created by LO, connecting it directly to her main current account in youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQxnmE2Bdjo proof that ties LO back to the writing of stockholm, a fanfic that justifies pedophilia, rewards abuse and paints a pedophile as the victim of injust harassment.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5W8XpQFbVtesAwX2McGhmT9frlt86PX archived evidence of LO manipulating a ex-friend into drawing bestiality/revenge porn for her using the ace character of her ex, who she was dating when this happened.

there are more claims (many, many more), but these are all that have direct ties to accounts that we know for absolute sure belong to LO and can't be disputed.

this is the woman you have decided to defend. this is the woman you think nobody should criticize. the woman who did all of this and more does not deserve it, and she'll hurt you if you give her the chance.

at the very least, understand what you're actually doing by defending LO and going to people who call her out like this. truly understand it and make peace with it however you can, because what is me, i couldn't live with myself knowing i let this slide.

As a Sakha (Indigenous North Asian tribe) person, I'm so tired of white people acting like melanin and having a grandparent = being indigenous. Being part of the community = indigenous. Learning about your tribe's history, the struggles they're facing, the things they've done to survive colonization and make the best of where they are = indigenous. Preserving your tribe's language, books, oral history, written history, and spaces = indigenous. Raising awareness about MMIW and other murdered indigenous peoples of the world (Australian Aboriginals, North Asian Indigenous people, etc.) = indigenous. Promoting the work of Native and Indigenous authors = indigenous.

But most importantly, YOU HAVE TO BE CLAIMED BY THE TRIBE TO BE INDIGENOUS.

If she really wanted to be part of the tribe she could be. She doesn't. She doesn't care about the people she's claiming to be "her people". She doesn't care about MMIW. She doesn't care about "her people's" language, history, struggles, ongoing fight for land, unequal access to healthcare, higher mortality rates, oral traditions, written literature, the concepts of gender, their mistreatment at the hands of the government or the activists from their community who have fought for their rights.

No one would ever count LO as part of a MMIW statistic because she's not a member of the tribe, has never tried to be claimed, has more familiarity with the Mandalorians or the Crystal Gems than with the Cherokee and if you promised her a million dollars if she named a Cherokee historical figure on the spot, she'd walk away broke. Claiming she'd be a MMIW makes her audience feel bad, but in reality no one, not even the family she left behind, would even realize she had decided to claim people who are total strangers to her.

A feather earring on a drawing doesn't make you a member of the tribe. Blood quantum doesn't make you a member of the tribe. The tribe has to recognize you. You can't wake up one day and declare yourself Cherokee, or Nahuatl, or Sakha, or Aboriginal. It's not your decision alone to make.

She's so self-centered she cannot conceive of a group having to decide to let her in. She thinks she's somehow got some special inherent Native-ness that's so important the rules of those silly little tribes don't apply to her, because she's her, and so she's in automatically.

This is the real reason she kept the surname Orchard. It makes her sound more Native and since she's decided she can pick tribal membership regardless of what the tribe says, she picked a Native sounding surname from an ex to trick her viewers into falling for her lies. But she could change her name to Lily Flower Orchard River Rock and she would still be, has always been and will continue to be white.

You don't decide you're a part of group, Lily Dolezal.

i don't think i can add anything else to this.

I'll give Lily Orchard credit for one thing, Baine is a racist noble savage character, defined by his loyalty to his aryan betters!

He literally defends humans and dwarves colonizing tauren land in the novels!

And than there is the handling of the Jamaican and Meso Merican trolls, *Shudders*

I'm gonna have to read these novels, I think. I'm not well-educated on every aspect of this franchise but the more I learn about it, the more fascinating it/its fanbase becomes.

And the more most of Lily's takes look like hot garbage, lmao. Though a broken clock is right twice a day, we ought to remember it's still wrong most of the time.

Lily: "If bad things happen to a black woman character that's fetishization." Also Lily: "Sometimes people don't like my black woman character whose mom was a human trafficker just because she kills people, tortures them at random, and resorts to violence as the solution to everything. And that's bad, because she's cute. Look at her face. It's bad for her to be sad. But sometimes bad things happen like people not liking murder, and it's a burden she must overcome."

So she's admitted to doing something that is, by her standards, fetishization.

Lily Orchard is a one massive, ongoing self-report.

indeeed she is. also LO: "she's still cute even though she's doing cultural genocide and colonization on other planets because one person displeases her. isn't that adorable? no, there's no weird racist implication anywhere for me, as a light skinned person, to write a black person to do to the entire galaxy the same thing that other light skinned people have done to them as some sort of altright fantasy of what will happen if BIPOC have a smidgen of power in society. because i said so and i'm the least racist person you know."