im tired of being mean its bad for my health i want to be nice now so no one be stupid ever again so i dont have to be mean to you

bath time

sabías que los gatos son unos pinches animales bien pendejos

#I often feel like I pass by these things#Only to later discover how much of a bullet I dodged#Like how I read through and enjoyed all of Problem Sleuth#But never got around to reading Homestuck

Jonny. Jonny, you can't just say things like this, because now everything about your sense of humor makes *so* much more sense.

(also: read homestuck! it's fun! don't ask anyone anything else but it is fun come back i swear)

The thing is, I've tried to read Homestuck since - it's such a foundational text in terms of modern internet media/humour/fandom that it feels like I should read it if just for context. The trouble is, it's really hard to read these days, both because of its sheer length and the fact that a lot of it's formatting doesn't really work anymore (I mean, there are a whole bunch of Flash elements that simply don't work on modern browsers). It also seems to be grounded in a really specific early 2010s SomethingAwful style of humour, which these days only hits sporadically for me, and when the jokes aren't hitting it can be a real slog. I've managed to get up to the end of Chapter 1 before, but I've just not had time to wade through more. Maybe I'll get around to it at some point, who knows?

THIS RAP BEEF REACHING TUMBLR MEANS I NEED ALL Y'ALL TO LISTEN TO THE ALBUM "TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY" AND GET SOME DAMN CULTURE IN YALL PLAYLISTS

I wanna come back on this post and talk about the importance of listening to different genres of music

A lot of people reblogged saying something like "oh I usually only listen to _ but this album was banging" or something of the like. I want to encourage y'all to continue listening more and more genres cus I feel like people forget music is art.

Music is art and art tells stories and helps us understand eachother. And when you widen your palette to different genres, you hear different stories. Of course there's room for different stories in the same genre but if I only listen to bedroom pop, it's pretty hard for me find stories about gun violence and police brutality, but I hear a lot of stories about the girl you like leaving you.

And I want to emphasize the rap and hip hop genre when I talk about this, because rap as a genre still has this big stigma around it like "oh isn't really violent?" Or "oh isn't it really sexual?" And people usually delegitamize it as a meaningful genre to hear a different story from. ESPECIALLY cus it's a black lead genre.

Don't brush off any genre as not having any meaning or importance just because of the stigma around it. Please look past that and SEEK OUT THAT MUSIC. It is important that you listen to different music, to relate to that music or to appreciate that music. We need to acknowledge eachother and see the different ways someone can live and express themselves.

Now some rap recommendations I have:

KENDRICK LAMAR (obviously)

Topaz Jones

MF Doom

Doechii

A tribe called quest

Megan Thee stallion

Redveil

Lil Nas x

Aminé

Smino

Noname

WHOKILLEDXIX

Duckwrth

Flyana Boss

Grouptherapy

Rico nasty

Jimmy Poindexter

Little Simz

Bree Runway

Flo Milli

Kalisway

Tierra Whack

Leikeli47

Tyler the Creator

Lil seyi

BROCKHAMPTON

And that being said, I'm also on my music journey so I don't have many recommendations but I hope you enjoy these artists. There's big artists and also some more indie artists in here in case y'all are indie snobs. Thank you for listening

Beginning Artist 🌻

ID: 3D art of an old woman with tied back grey hair, wearing a grey sweater, bent over a large sketchpad and drawing a flower. she is smiling. it is dark and she is surrounded by flowers, and the shadow of a window can be seen. end ID

I've been rewatching S2 of Tma, and I gotta say I completely forgot how INCREDIBLY OBLIVIOUS Jon is

A lot of people in mainland China are perfectly capable of getting around the so called 'Great Firewall of China' and interacting with the internet beyond it but the thing is a lot of them just flat out don't want to or don't really care all that much. Yeah sure the internet is heavily censored, but outside of that non-English spaces have gotten smaller and smaller while English takes over as the lingua franca of the internet, and they may or may not be able to read and understand English very well.

Also a lot of people on the internet beyond the 'firewall' are very hostile to them, they get treated like naive idiots or brainwashed infiltrators for the ccp. I remember a few years back when a lot of Chinese fanfic writers started uploading their stories on ao3 en masse because there had been a big uptick in websites that host fanfiction getting taken down and some people were so utterly vile about it, making jokes about how they could get the fics taken down by mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre in the comments and things like that.

All because they were apparently offended by their favorite tags having more non-English works that can very easily filter out so they don't have to look at them at all. Because God forbid a fanfiction website that already greatly skews towards English fics have more works in other languages, right? That's like the only thing I miss about fanfiction.net, it had way more non-English fics, well that and more stories for certain fandoms than ao3 does.

And it's not like a lot of tech companies and other governments don't censor the internet to some extent or another, China isn't unique in that regard, it's just particularly infamous for being so heavy-handed and easy to use as a red herring.

hello, a chinese citizen here.

I do not like to type out long paragraphs here so I’ll try to sum it up.

Yes, I 100% agree with this guy, honestly it’s sad how most non-English communities (such as 3K) are getting reduced, and especially how some people treat Chinese people using typically banned websites like yt or twitter etc, i know that most people here are American or just not from china but cmon just give us a chance.

(sorry if my wording is kinda bad, im so sleepy rn lol)

No it's good, but even if it wasn't it would be nothing to apologize for. And trust me, 你的英文比我的中文好，我無法評斷你。

"How many of you like have you ever been to Jerusalem? Raise your hand if you have ever been to Jerusalem. We have 60 students here, and we have one... two, probably three... That's that's very few of you! I've never been to Jerusalem. We're Palestinians; we live in Gaza; we can't go to Jerusalem because of the Israeli occupation.

But we love Jerusalem, right? [A chorus of students saying "yes".] We love Jerusalem because of what it means to us. We've never been there, but believe me, when you go there you will feel that you've been there hundreds of times. Because you read about Jerusalem in literature, in stories. Of course it doesn't mean that that's it, that we should take the Jerusalem that's in the stories and that's it, no.

But in literature, Jerusalem comes back to us. It's true that there is suffering; there is pain; there is occupation, and that's why Tamim Al-Barghouti, as a young Palestinian poet, I think is doing a great service to the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian struggle.

When you listen to him reciting his poem from Al-Quds, or other poems, he takes you to Jerusalem. You live in Jerusalem. He takes you back to it. You liberate it for just a little bit of time.

And if there is hope; if you can imagine a free Palestine, a free Jerusalem, probably you will work towards that, and the same thing applies to occupied Palestine. We've never been to other parts of Palestine because of the Israeli occupation, but we've been told so many times by our parents and our grandparents, especially our mothers, they've been telling us stories about Palestine in the past, the good old days, when Palestine was all beautiful, unoccupied, unraped.

Therefore, I say in in this case how our homeland turns into a story. In reality, we can't have it; we don't have it, but it can turn into poems, into literature, into stories, so our homeland turns into a story. We love our homeland because of the story. We love our homeland because of the story, and we love the story because it's about our homeland, and this connection is significant.

Israel wants to sever this relationship, for example between Palestinians and the land; Palestinians and Jerusalem, and other places and cities, and literature attaches us back - connects us strongly to Palestine, so in my thinking, this is a very significant thing that literature contributes to. Creating realities; making the impossible sound possible.

In real life, again because we are here in Palestine and Gaza, I'll be giving you examples from Palestinian and Arab literature so we can compare and make things clearer. We all know Fadwa Tuqan, the Palestinian poet - and please do not introduce her as Ibrahim Tuqan's sister, let's talk about her as Fadwa Tuqan and then somewhere else mention that, "by the way, Ibrahim Tuqan was her brother". Let's not throw her under the shadow of a man, even if it's her brother, who was a great poet, we can't deny that.

So this is Fadwa Tuqan, a Palestinian poet, 40 years ago or 50 years ago, writing poetry... Of course, we always fall into this trap of saying "she was arrested for just writing poetry!" We do this, even us believers in literature, "Why would Israel arrest somebody or put somebody under house arrest if she only wrote a poem?!"

So we contradict ourselves sometimes. We believe in the power of literature, changing life as a means of resistance, a means of fighting back and in the end we say, "She just wrote a poem!" We shouldn't be saying that.

Moshe Daya, an Israeli general, said that the poems of Fadwa Tuqan were like facing 20 enemy fighters. Wow.

She didn't throw stones; she didn't shoot at the invading Israeli military jeeps. She just wrote poetry. And I'm falling for that again, I'm saying "she just wrote poetry".

So this is what how Israel's dealing with Palestinian poets, and the same thing happened to Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour. She wrote poetry celebrating Palestinian struggle; encouraging Palestinians to resist, not to give up, to fight back. She was put under house arrest. She was sent to prison for years.

And therefore I end here with a very significant point. Don't forget that Palestine was first and foremost occupied in Zionist literature and Zionist poetry.

Palestine was presented as these things, I'll be mentioning some of them, but there's a contradiction here, there's a paradox always. "Palestine is a land without a people to our people without a land", "Palestine flows with milk and honey", "there's no one there, so let's go". We'll see how later on, how many even Jewish people were disappointed when they came to Palestine. Number one, there was no milk and honey, because "flowing with milk and honey" sounds like you're just going to be groping around, and milk and honey will be thrown at you - and there were people! There have always been people in Palestine.

The fact that Israel worked hard to ethnically cleanse Palestine, to kick Palestinians out, first and foremost in literature - yes, in politics and everything - shows how significant poetry is.

To sum up, Palestine was occupied metaphorically in the poem long before it was physically and militarily occupied in your life, so let's do the same. Let's fight back; let's restore Palestine in in our writings; in our poetry; in our stories."

-Professor Refaat Alareer explaining to his students the power of poetry as a means of resistance, and why the occupation targets poets, during one of his lectures at IUG.

i dunno something about this hellsite is just very... white. like, when i think of tumblr collectively it's very white people

Like the music taste. Collectively, a lot of distaste for rap and blues and jazz. Lotta fandom racism. There's not a lot about making queer poc visible compared to all the stuff about white queers. Black have literally gotten banned for being black and being against oppressing black people.

and i know a lot of poc on here. i follow them. we interact. but that's not what im talking about. i dont know how to explain further. cope.

ive been talking about the beef without tags and without touching tags related to it bc i know its bad. i just.

with the amount of "YAY DIVERSITY" type shit i see on here, i'd think it would be ok but this literally proves otherwise.

it's the same as saying "support people with mental illnesses and disabilities" until a disabled/mentally ill person cant brush theyre teeth or shower or clean without major struggle.

in this case it's "yay racial diversity! blm! racism should die!" until black people do something other than stand there and be black.

i love the fact that im getting notes on a bunch of other stuff but like, nothing on this post.

another thing that was brought to my attention, this site pressures us to act white. like i know we've all said you cant act like a race. but you can. you can.

acting black would be engaging in my interests without being told "rap music is so violent how can you be okay with that?". It would be naming specific albums that are a product of their time and the artist's maturity and mindset at that time

acting black would be using the same slang i do irl, but on here that's 'tiktok language' which is bad bc on here, tiktok is evil. but that slang is really just aave that has been taken and made mainstream.

acting black would be talking about my hair. or talking about my skin changing color for the summer, or discussing any of my black features

acting black would be lamenting about the side-eye i got from a white lady on the street and knowing it's because of my skin. or sharing my experiences with sexism so far and actually having people truly relate to it. because misogyny toward black women is different than misogyny toward white women. and im not even a woman, im still a girl.

acting black would be actually embracing my blackness on tumblr the same way i embrace it offline. that's what acting black is.

no actually thank you for this. you get it.

[image id 1: a screenshot of tags reading "#god yeah #the whole kendrick beef just surfaced how the white userbase REALLY is #i've been distancing from tumblr rn because of it. it's just so uncomfortable." end id]

[image id 2: another screenshot of tags, this time reading: '#this post reminds me of the idea of a "good cop" #"well I'm not racist like those other ppl" matter that doesn't fucking #what does matter is that those other people are racist in the first place and that you aren't actively fighting against them #anyways sorry for the ACAB tangent I thought it was relevant #I was gonna take this somewhere but I forgor #anyways support your POC friends #especially if you're queer #POC paved the way for stonewall with the civil rights movement and queer POC threw the first bricks #you owe them your support (also it's just like the normal and human thing to do???) #also AJ please do post about those things #nothing gets normalized without talking about it #(and as a white person who has like 3 black friends I do actually want to hear about that stuff)." end id]

oh wow the next gen Pokemon games just leaked

think I may have figured out when jon's birthday is meant to be in the most mundane way possible. in one of the q+a episodes (too lazy to figure out which atm) (edit: s3 extended q+a!), jonny said that the archivist's just meant to be "[his] age," and given that the birthday party scene seems to take place fairly soon after the new archives staff got together in autumn/winter 2015, I think jonny might just have given him his own birthday, november 3.

3 november 2016 is the date of mag 55 and that actually gives a whole new flavor to this supplemental

it's the birthday boy's first vaguely good day in at least four months, probably longer. god.

Hitchhhhhhhhhhhh the mouse

(he/him)🐁‼️🏳️‍⚧️

black-coded furries will save the world

also he's gnc/doesn't bind or wear a bra he's real asf

finishing touches 🧶

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

Does this look quiet, peaceful, nondisruptive?

And the struggle didn't stop after formal integration, once the Civil Rights act had passed. Because even when they are legally required to serve you, they can make you really fucking uncomfortable and threaten you and the cops probably will take their side.

For one example, there was a cafe that would serve Black people, but would then publicly break the dishes so that no white customer would ever have to eat off a dish a Black person had eaten off of. This was done publicly, right as the Black diner was done eating. The waitress takes the plate and smashes it. This is a signal both to the white diners "see, we hate them just as much as you do, you're safe here" and also a threat of violence to the Black diners. "If you're not careful we'll smash you just like we did this plate."

But at the same time, if Black people go there and eat every day ... how long before the cafe can't afford to do that? How long before they have broken so many dishes that it's eating into their profits? How long before the white diners start getting used to eating alongside Black people and simply don't care as much any longer, or start getting annoyed at the noise and fuss and mess?

Black people eating in white establishments was loud, inconvenient, and disruptive. Because that's the nature of challenging the status quo.

I’m gonna go back to OP’s line about “quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism.”

Jesus rather famously physically attacked people in a temple

That “turn the other cheek” bit was a “hit me again you coward, or else you acknowledge us as equals” in its cultural context

Like a lot of his activism was passive aggressive at minimum

I don’t think the guy was holy. He didn’t need to be to start a movement. But it’s kinda interesting to me that this kind of in-your-face disruptive activism has been erased to something softer and “christ-like” even when it’s literally stories about christ

I wonder who benefits from reinforcing the idea that the best way to change things is to politely ask the people in power and stop when they get annoyed