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Saw wolfwalkers with my gf @tweeksqueak it was so amazing. Such a beautiful, soulful animation 🥺🥺✨✨✨✨✨

Someone told me recently to never accuse someone by saying “You’re lying!” because people automatically get defensive, angry, and likely to explode further just because they feel attacked. Instead you should say “You’re not telling the truth.” because it doesn’t sound as aggressive and it might prompt them to feel like you don’t find this a massive crime so they might confess instead.

I think this is true, and should be utilized, but… would I ever give up the satisfaction of snarling “You’re LYING and I KNOW it” right into abusers stupid lying face? No. RIP me.

Since I’ve been drawing Bubble Guppies fanart for over a year now, I wanted to create some new digital pieces of the main characters to see how much I’ve improved. (And also something to post for the show’s 4th anniversary last Saturday! :D) The shading’s not quite there yet but it looks better, right?  I’ll probably do a similar thing next year and I might post some side-by-side comparisons somewhere.

Characters © Robert Scull, Jonny Belt and Nickelodeon

I think what a lot of white people genuinely do not understand is that all kinds of racism is bad. There isn't a ladder marked with "acceptable" and "unacceptable" racism.

- The person purposefully joking about your native name even after you've explained its spelling and pronunciation to them and begged them to use it correctly? Racist

- The person who is "okay with" racial minorities existing but doesn't want to see that portrayed on tv / doesn't feel like representation is necessary? Racist

-And I know. I know how hard it is when you are in a privileged position and you're being asked to care about things you don't know much about. But after someone has pointed it out to you, you better try to change.

- "but these mindsets don't hurt anyone" news flash, they do. Just because someone isn't throwing tear gas at protesters doesn't mean their bigotry isn't harmful!

- Put yourself in our shoes for a moment. How would you feel if someone told you they don't want to see anyone like you in the media they consume? That your identity is too complicated for them and they want to water it down to make it easier?

- Again, this is not targeted towards anybody or a callout post. I'm just asking you to take a very hard look at these little things because they GROW. No one comes out the womb being a white supremacist. These things start small and keep adding up.

- This is just a word vomit because I was Angry and you are absolutely not required to rb this or anything! Have a nice day.

to my polyamorous followers

God loves you

You are welcome here

You’re not sinning by loving how you love

Your love is beautiful

Your sexuality is divine

Your partners are loved by God

I’m praying for your happiness and relationship to God

You deserve happiness

You deserve acceptance in your faith

I’m so happy

white people need to understand that all your posts about standing with us, and supporting us (us being poc as a collective) and whatever literally means fuck all if you don't do anything.

are you ignoring posts about racism because the language is too aggressive? [see: the use of 'you' as opposed to 'we] are you only interacting with posts about racism written by white people? are you making these loud proclamations on your blogs (and tagging every damn shit in sight, which just looks performative as fuck and clogs up our tag; i don't CARE what you have to say as a white person, i literally don't!) just ease your own conscience and so you can appear woke?

i can't tell you the amount of times i've scrolled past long ass essays on this app of white people now realizing their place on the racial hierarchy. in 2021. after how many information is out there, and how much theory and papers have been fucking handed to y'all. (this is about grown ass adults btw. there are 15 year olds on here who are more educated in these topics than y'all are, that shit's embarassing).

i can't tell you how i annoyed i've gotten because it's the fucking equivalent to a white person crying in front of me because they realized that the world is racist.

whoop de fucking doo, welcome to the real world. i don't really care if i sound rude because it's annoying and it does nothing for those of us of color on this site. it doesn't help us in anyway. and the worst is when y'all come onto OUR posts and post your white tears there. what the hell is that supposed to accomplish? what the fuck is the purpose? how does that help us in any way?

and it kinda really pisses me off that those posts crying about realising that racism exists will get thousands of notes and that posts talking about actual racism, and how it works - especially in online spaces - written by actual people of colour, get a fraction of them with the added touch of harassment by the same white ppl btw, because we managed to hurt your little feelings.

One of my favorite visual gags is drawing a passive/bubbly character with cartoon-y style eyes, but changing their eyes to be realistic whenever something annoys them: