shes so cute

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]

the reason i shared my great-grandmother's story on here a few months ago is not for sympathy or anything, its to illustrate to you just how deeply, deeply anti-Palestinian the idea of zionism is.

i remember my grandmother, the one who watched her mother die in her home, she called us with a plain tone of voice, and she said "she asked to be buried in [her village] but of course the the zionists wouldn't let that happen." the thing that will not leave my head was the way my grandmother said it, the way it just seemed so natural and so obvious to her. my grandmother is *not* a quiet woman, she yells everything she ever says, whether happy or sad but this she said softly. like she was resigned to this, she expected this.

this woman was exiled once from her village, then again from Palestine, then again and again and again and eventually forced to live in poverty in a refugee camp, she knows the 'israeli' state more intimately than anyone i know, she knows what it will and won't allow in its genocidal apparatus and to her it was obvious that they would not respect her mother's body or last wishes. she knew that.

and i always go back to it when i see discussions on here or on twitter or in academia, like you guys (the moderates, the apologists) have never ever spoken to a nakba survivor or a naksa survivor. you don't know just how deeply its affected our families.

so when we ask you to completely reject zionism, when we demand it from allies, we aren't saying this to be stubborn or nonsensical, we're saying it because we know where zionism will lead us. we've been through the "we just want peace" and the "we need to just talk it out" phases already, how can you not think we've been through those phases after 75 years. we've had our meet and greets and our appeals and now we're at literally the worst stage of genocide against our people and you're still insisting on "talking it out" or some variation of it.

the truth of the matter is that we don't have patience for zionism anymore because look where it got us. look where we're at. even soft zionists, you need to stamp those people out from pretending they've got good points, or that you need to build community with them or whatever. we are literally at the worst part of Palestinian history ever, we need to stop pretending there are grey zones to this. Zionist apologists and the like are creating ambiguity that literally gets our families killed under the guise of "complication". I'm sick and tired of watching these same discussions over and over again about how "Israel is a result of antisemitism" when it very much is not. I'm sick of seeing people who know NOTHING about colonization push their own agendas and provide cover for zionists to do whatever they want. Just stop talking about things you don't understand because I promise you, you're directly contributing to the violence you claim to abhor.

Babies are socially accepted parasites.

When u read Ayn Rand 1 time

They’re not a parasite, they’re a potential investment

When you read Ayn Rand a dozen times

Words cannot describe how much I want to ride this

How are my sweetie pees

I Said How The Fuck Are My Fucking Sweetie Pees

like 80% of anime "critique" on here is just a statement that can be said 1:1 about USAmerican media followed with the least self-aware "and THAT'S why the japanese are uniquely degenerate!" under the sun and sky

Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

Do you guys like have 0 self awareness? Why aren't you using this as a chance to look inward as to why you find yourself agreeing with a clerical fascist publication on this issue? Could it be that your opposition to AI comes from a perspective that is not explicitly treating it as a labor issue?

Seeing people decide to watch Breaking Bad based on the Tumblr memes is especially funny when they do it specifically for the memes about Jesse, because... well, let's put it this way. Aaron Paul, the guy who played Jesse, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for best supporting actor in a drama series for his work on Breaking Bad on five separate occasions, including twice in one season, and won three of those nominations. He was the first person ever to win that award three times for the same role. Like, Jesse's storyline is so viscerally unpleasant that it set industry records.

Jesse Pinkman is basically the prototypical Poor Little Meow Meow in that yes, he does objectively terrible things, but literally everything about his life seems calculated to maximise his suffering while he's doing it. It gets so bad that the show's producers ended up making an entire spin-off movie about Jesse in which he kills two men in order to obtain money to purchase a fake identity and go into exile in Alaska, and this is framed as his happy ending.

they put him in a hole and yelled at him

They put him in a hole and yelled at him.