this is not a duet

I had previously seen the bottom image with zero context like 5 times before finally finding the context post and that’s why I love tumblr.

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).

Watch Muhammad Ali’s Perfect Response To ‘Not All White People Are Racist’ – In 1971

Saying not everyone is racist doesn’t make racism go away.

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Tbh no I don’t think Slytherin house needed to be developed further or shown as multifaceted or “not all bigots” or whatever because in the real world, nobody is hurt by “bias against Slytherin,” and in the world of the books, it’s made VERY CLEAR that bigotry and supremacy are some of the core founding principles of the house, which is not kept a secret from children, many of whom still want to be a part of Slytherin House even knowing what it stands for (one of the earliest things we’re shown is that you can say no to being in Slytherin, you’re absolutely given that option)

Whatever whatever I get that kids are brainwashed and conditioned to be racist by racist parents but to be honest at a certain point, them deciding to be bigoted or part of an inherently bigoted club being met with disdain and hostility which can only be avoided by Not Being Bigoted and Combating The Bigotry In Slytherin House is not a BAD thing, it’s making the consequences of their actions clear.

But it’s all a moot point because Slytherins are about as oppressed as unicorns and leprechauns, as they do not actually exist and literally no one can be hurt by saying “all Slytherins are blood supremacists” except perhaps the people they’re a direct analogue for, rich white trust fund kids who are upset that people assume they’re racist just because they’re part of a country club that still unofficially enforces a whites only policy

This is a jar full of major characters 

Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories. 

We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls. 

Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left. 

This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left. 

And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left. 

And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right. 

Until these are the bowls. 

Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other. 

This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl. 

This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference. 

This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.

The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss. 

This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world. 

I mean, imagine your party guests arrive

Oh my god they are adorable!

And they see their bowls

But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.

I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?

But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat. 

And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant. 

And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.

*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*

trends in writing that existed in the mid 1700s and have come back into style

- randomly capitalizing words without regard to Importance - saying ‘tho’ instead of ‘though’  - excessive metaphors, analogies, and personification for/of/whatever inanimate objects and incorporeal concepts 

I think you mean wonderful analogies these are beautiful

please number 9 is the greatest thing i have ever read

i am l uaghing so ha rd at 4

when you shake up a soda, do you blame the soda for bursting with pressure or the force that shook it?

A little louder for the racists in the back

He told us

stay woke

On gawd

#symbolism

it’s a metaphor you put the killing thing in the toilet and you flush it so all the fish can die of cancer fuck aquaman

being a feminist is like trying to fix a giant hole in the wall and discovering that the entire wall is rotting and filled with termites and you have a lot more work to do than you thought you did

#and the home owner is like ‘wtf this wall is fine’ 

not all termites

a broken clock is right twice a day

but we don’t, and shouldn’t applaud it for being right

thank you

"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it."

If someone were to bake 100 cookies, and poison only a single one, would you eat one? “But they’re not all going to kill you!” Chances are, you are still not gonna eat a cookie.

Don’t eat a cookie: HOW DARE YOU! NOT ALL COOKIES ARE POISONED!

Eat a cookie: WELL IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT! YOU CHOSE TO BE STUPID ENOUGH TO EAT A COOKIE KNOWING THAT SOME OF THEM WERE POISONED!

There is a metaphor in this somewhere I just can’t see it

I dearly wish that people would view their bodies as they view flowers…

Veins everywhere?

gorgeous~

Skin patches? Birthmarks?

hella rad~

Scars? Stretch marks?

beautiful~

Freckles? Moles? Acne scars?

heckie yeah~

Large? Curvy?

lovely~

Small? Thin?

charming~

Missing a few pieces?

handsome as ever~

Feel like you just look weird?

you’re fantastic looking~

This is so cute ;_;