My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s
It’s already happening on tik tok. There’s a fun new thing going round that’s citing common symptoms of depression and anxiety as signs you’re about to have your awakening and that you are actually an alien and the reason you don’t feel right is because you’re home sick for your own galaxy. So that’s fun.
agreed, and i don’t mean this in a “haha gen z is so dumb they’re gonna join a tiktok cult lmao” i mean that conditions are perfect for the formation of cults right now.
high unemployment and a lot of underpaying, pointless jobs = people are looking for things to do with their life, a purpose
skyrocketing cost of living = most young people will not be able to live on their own, meaning some will end up in a group living situation with people interested in recruiting them
it’s a time of great cultural and political upheaval, nothing feels real, people are desperate for meaning and human connection. cults promise that
there is a new wave of acceptance and understanding for ways of life outside the norm, which is great! …except for when cult leaders tell you abusive and controlling practices are just their culture, their religion, their lifestyle, their beliefs, their tradition, and if you disrespect it you are the problem
social media influencers have already shown us how easy it is to build a cult of personality and attract people from anywhere in the world who are interested in the exact brand you are selling
spirtuality is having a boom, as are things like astrology, crystals, tarot, meditation, energy… those things aren’t bad on their own but they are often used as tools of cult spaces
wellness. i think a lot of people are already in wellness cults. you can make people do a lot of things in the name of “wellness” and a big factor of maintaining a cult is keeping members in a state of decreased cognition….. like say, with regular fasting
i think people are just unaware in general of how cults function, especially because the satanic panic was a big stupid false alarm that convinced the youths that dungeons and dragons or doom were gateways to cults, which are scary evil child murdering, satan-worshipping gangs. people don’t know how to spot them in real life.
[ID: Spongebob wrestling meme format. Buff Patrick labeled “predatory cult” flexes and growls in a wrestling ring at a stern, buff Spongebob labeled “my intelligence”. In his corner Mr Crabs is labeled “my education”. Final panel shows Patrick and whistling Spongebob walking out hand-in-hand, both labeled “rationalizing why this isn’t really a cult” /ID]
(This is actually more relevant here than standalone.)
Our popular media has tended to portray people in cults as ignorant or as losers when that’s really not how they work. Cults don’t want dead weight they have to support; they want talented, clever, energetic people they can exploit to siphon wealth and labor out of.
Some are religious, but some are political. You find yourself moving into a house full of Maoist revolutionaries because capitalism really is that awful and ecological collapse is imminent—but for some reason, the leader of the self-crit sessions is also the person everyone else in the house is in a polyamorous relationship with, and they can’t see anyone else outside of the house without her approval. Or you need a little extra money and you get told you’d be so good at selling Keto products. You’re a natural, and after you get through these first tough months, the leg under you will be developed enough you only have to work if you wanna hit bigger goals. Etc.
Loneliness, a lack of purpose, and desperation all make you susceptible to cults no matter how smart you are. In fact, your very clever brain is also extremely capable of redirecting your thoughts away from realizing you’re being exploited and abused because, after all, you’re not some idiot, are you?
We’ve got a ton of very clever young people fully aware that they’re going to have to suffer through decisions of the selfish dead, and they’re going to crave salvation of all different kinds because the future is going to suck, and it won’t have been their fault, and they won’t be able to do anything to stop it.
You may be thinking still “I’m not one of those WEAK MINDED FOOLS who would join a cult” let me remind you that there’s no one type of person who joins cults. But lots of people who join cults do so whentheir life is in some kind of crisis and they are extremely vulnerable, seeking a place to belong or escape.
Right now, I have a place to belong and I’m happy and I am hyper vigilant about high control environments and I probably wouldn’t join a cult…but if I had recently lost my job? My partner passed away? If a handful of my friends who function as family left Texas? If my house burned down? If I began struggling with addiction? If I became very ill? Who knows what I would do if just the wrong kind of predatory group bumped into my life at just the wrong time?
All cults start with some level of reasonable introduction. The whole boiling frog metaphor…none of us are as bulletproof to social manipulation and control as we may wish we are. Our circumstances impact us greatly.
I very much think we are not only going to but are already seeing modern cults in a big way. And it’s interesting how many of them are led by women. Gwen Shamblin Lara. Teal Swan. Mother God.
Campaign to make The God of Arepo an award winning work and win a literal brick as a trophy for the authors and for Tumblr community as a whole (SUCCEEDED!!!! Update below)
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As the artist for one of The God of Arepo comics, my version is up for consideration for the Ignatz Awards for Outstanding Online Comic.
The thing is, winning the award means winning an actual literal brick. Because the mascot is a brick-throwing mouse. So they have to make a bit where the trophy is a brick. Like. Look.
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For a long time I thought it was just plain bricks they were handing out, but my friend who won a couple of bricks two years ago had theirs stamped (I saw the bricks in person at their house). So now I am obsessed with the idea of The God of Arepo winning an Ignatz trophy. It will have the honours stamped. On a freaking brick. That’s the most Tumblr level meme trophy this comic/story could win (which is also a legit high honour industry award on its own btw don’t get me wrong).
But wilder than that, the brick allows me to do something. It allows me to smash that break into 5 pieces and ship one of each to the authors plus myself. Writing Prompts, sadoeuphemist, ciiriianan, stu-pot and me will get a piece of clay in recognition for our work with the farmer who built a temple out of stone. The full circle moment.
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Imagine the value of this win to the lore of this Tumblr sacred text/folklore. This brick will be smashed and given to the creators, but as a collective folklore, it’s also dedicated to all of us on this hellsite too. AWARD WINNING. If The God of Arepo wins I will document the entire process of smashing that brick here.
But we have to make this happen. We need to gather our collective energy and make this campaign work.
slowly realizing that the teacher I respected most in the world is an ecofascist or at least has that ideology and oh boy did that influence shit I didn’t realize
humanity is good actually thanks
hey guys form your own opinions on shit and constantly evaluate what you believe in, cause you can unintentionally internalize shit you don’t wanna
you’re not immune to propaganda and it can come from everywhere
you’re not immune to
propaganda and it can
come from everywhere
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
today i was walking through the lower grade halls to get to my bus (like 1st grade idk) and they had papers hung up that were like “I have a dream” and “My reindeer” and one kids reindeer description was “queso is a black reindeer he is 2,000 feet tall and weighs 10,000 pounds and he is goated no cap” and it was the funniest fucking shit ever
heres what it looked like (it got taken down today sadly rip queso)
i distinctly remember the first time i went to a holiday inn free breakfast bar while on a family trip to the border and i got so fucking upset and confused that the food looked like this 💀
the distressed mexican parents of a melting down undiagnosed autistic 8-ish year old: don’t worry white american breakfast food isn’t real and cant hurt you
The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.
doctors need to stop defaulting to the assumption that everyone is just imagining shit.
for pride month 2024 we’re gonna nuke 10 of your mutuals’ blogs and 9 of them are run by transfems 😍
this is about the blogger you’re thinking about. this is about the blogger who had thousands of followers and got nuked for no reason. this is about the one who was always kind and understanding and never did anything wrong, never broke TOS.
but it’s also about the blogger you’ve never heard of. it’s about the one on your DNI. this is about the mean one. the one you saw that callout post about. this is about the one who had maybe a few dozen followers at most. this is about the one who’s not white. this is about the “problematic” one. this is about the blogger who’s annoying, the one who complains all the time. this is about the one you have blocked. the one you reported.
staff only enforces the rules when they want to, on who they want to. i’ve had so many mutuals whose blogs were deleted just in the last couple months and all but two were transfems. it doesn’t matter who “broke TOS” or not (and clearly it doesn’t to staff, either) — no one deserves to get cut off from their community. stop fucking nuking my mutuals.
This blogger had a live and accessible blog yesterday (6/12/24) when I first saw this post.
this is reece, previously soft-caramel. i’m a brown transmasc fagdyke butch thing. soft-caramel was terminated around 5-6 AM pacific time on june 13th, 2024, according to my mutual. this post was originally posted the evening of june 11th, 2024. they got me in under 48 hours. they did not send me any explanation as to why i’d been terminated.
i’m not transfem. i’ve been seeing all my lovely mutuals get nuked for being transfem or calling out staff/users on their transmisogyny and it’s my turn to be the tenth, i guess. it’s ramped up since the month started, too. like. 10 is such an under-estimate, i’ve seen more blogs than that get terminated in the last week.
please listen to transfems when they talk about transmisogyny, amplify their voices, and speak out yourself, especially if you’re tme. and remember that any marginalisation and discrimination one experiences gets worse the more marginalised groups someone is a part of.
it doesn’t matter how small your blog is, use your voice. i had 300 followers when i posted that the other evening. this has 20k notes now. love your sisters forever
Meanwhile I’m over here reporting death threats to Jews and staff are telling me it’s not a violation of TOS.
Hey @staff@humans @photomatt you wanna explain yourselves?
The Dublin spire isn’t a bad looking landmark per se but why does it look like it was specifically designed to pop blimps
It looks like whoever designed this hates balloons.
It’s a 120 meter tall stainless steel spike. Can’t go in it.
this looks like it was designed specifically so you could trip a kaiju and impale them with it
I used to hate it, but it actually makes more sense when you’re actually in/moving around Dublin lol.
Most buildings in Dublin are less than 5 storeys high, so you can see the Spire from most of the city centre, and get to the rest of the city from it fairly easily.
The Spire is designed so it works as a landmark you can see from almost anywhere.
Before Google Maps was really a thing, and even now it is, you could use it as a physical reference point to move around the city, and you’re kind of drawn to it one way or the other naturally. It’s kind of a giant IRL map pin.
That means there’s always a group of people at the base; teenagers meeting up with their buddies before setting off for the day, tour groups, folks from out of town just off the bus waiting their friends, and - my perpetual favourite - well dressed people with visible nerves trying to act cool as they wait for their dates.
So rather than a blimp defense system, think of it more like a spawn point.
Also when there’s a Star Wars movie they turn it into a lightsaber.
for those interested, this is a good example of how “Major structure you can see from everywhere” is a good thing for cities. The needle, though maybe not loved by everyone, is exactly as EJF says - a navigational reference point.
If you were ever lost, you could look for the needle and identify a major spot in the city. This can help avoid getting turned around (since you can track your direction in reference to a single point) , or provide a known spot to return to if you get disoriented.
This would also mean that if someone was new, they could learn the directions from the needle to where they were staying, and then travel the rest of the city with confidence that they can find their way back when they are done.
Water towers can serve a similar purpose in smaller towns, which is one of the reasons why they’re often kept, even when no longer used for storing water.
In conclusion, make fun of how it looks all you want, but this giant needle is now part of vital city infrastructure.
you guys usamericans have dinner at like 6-7 pm and the older they get the earlier they wanna eat their dinner. ive heard oral tales of dinners as early as 3 pm. ive been in this barbarian land for 10 years so ive adapted to their savage culture and simply go along with the primitive ritual of early dinner when required to so they accept me as one of their tribe, but i forget the civilized latinoamerica doesn’t know about this exotic nonsense custom
How are you not absolutely ravenous by 7 pm?
Merienda
Yeah, a snack ain’t gonna cover it if I had lunch at noon and now it’s 7. I’d lose my mind.
I think youre underestimating the size meriendas can be, its not just a small snack lmao
Like, it can be light if youre not hungry, but it can also be a dish on itself if you want
(But its not dinner lmao)
That’s literally dinner!
I mean, but you all eat sth afterwards then, right? Like, what do you all call the last dish of the day?
Because we translate our ‘cena’ as 'dinner’, which would be a main savory dish, while the 'merienda’ can be light or heavy depending on how hungry you are (and can be sweet or savory food).
The last dish of the day is dinner. That’s it.
Okay, so I’ll use myself as an example:
I have breakfast at 9:00 A.M. I have lunch at 1:00 P.M. I have dinner at 6:00 P.M. Sometimes I’ll have a snack before bed or a midnight snack. Like toast, a granola bar, a fruit cup.
I genuinely don’t know anyone who has dinner any later than 7:00 P.M. If someone invited me to an 8:00 P.M., I’d make sure to have either a large or late lunch to be able to last that long. Because we’re talking like 7 hours between lunch and dinner at that point.
Ohhhhhh, yeah the 'midnight snack’ thing makes more sense now 😭
Here, my routine for example would be:
Breakfast at 8 or 9am too, then lunch around 1-2pm. After that, the merienda can be any time around 5 and 8pm (although I usually have it around 7pm), with some toasts or sandwiches and coffee (or fruit too, if I have any lmao). Lastly, I have dinner at 11-12pm, going to sleep an hour after. <- I’d say people usually has dinner around 10pm here tho, I eat rather late
Aksjdkdjfk cultural exchange 🤝
You guys have dinner?
A heavy merienda eater, I see
Breakfast: (Ideally cold) milk and bread
Lunch: Something that doesn’t make me vomit, drink soda or peach juice and bread if it’s possible
My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said ‘it can’t be that bad you haven’t started howling like a sad dog yet’ and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I’ve ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?’
Banned from manager training for making my coworker bark.
Pilots drawing things with flight paths is a niche interest but a fucking fantastic one. Boeing Dreamliner 18-hour test flight.
I’m just happy that the pilots out there have this kind of precision.
Oh I thought some pilot was doing this to some poor passengers who just wanted to go from Chicago to LA or something and then I scrolled up and saw it was test pilots.
“And if you look out the left window, you’ll see the same mountains again, but from a slightly different angle.”
We really going to ignore the fact that he donated once and is just using the same screenshot over and over?
Edit:
To clarify, I have no issue with someone donating. I’m pro-choice myself. The issue is he donates once when he says he’s going to donate each time, just so he can virtue signal about how he refuses to engage with someone.
Furthermore, I have issues with him replying to any criticism with this. You can criticize the smug pride in not engaging in debate and beating your opposition, yet he’ll assume you’re pro-life as a result.
He’s being a smug prick who is playing you all like a fiddle to get jerked off and you’re all falling for it.
If this is the hill you want to die on, Spidey, go for it. I’m quite happy with the idea of someone donating money to Planned Parenthood, and since I don’t know or care who he is, the virtue signalling is lost on me.
That aside, being suspicious of everyone for any nice act all the time is mentally exhausting so miss me with that.
… I literally say I have no issue with him donating money.
But he’s saying “I’m going to donate every time” and then he posts the same donation page. So rather than do what he says, he’s donating ONCE and using it to as an own against other people while using it to get ass pats from people who agree with him.
That’s literally the same screenshot, two hours apart.
This is like “man pledges to build house for every homeless person evicted from X location” except he builds ONE house and takes the same picture of it over and over again, yet claims he’s built 100 houses. It’s deceptive and he’s doing it to milk people for social praise.
The goal wasn’t to help people, because if it was he’d actually donate every time. It was to get ass pats.
Shut up
also
fuckin roasted
imagine getting called out by Alex Hirsch. I would evaporate tbh
the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
figure out what the word means from context clues while reading -> use the word in a sentence while writing -> realise you’re not actually certain what the word means -> panic about your sentence not making sense even though it hasn’t been pinged as grammatically incorrect -> look up the definition of the word because You Must Know -> it means exactly what you thought it meant -> oh, good! :) -> immediately forget the definition -> repeat forever
I feel like a mom on facebook reblogging this but I genuinely like it. I want to make this into a full size poster and put it in my 3rd grade classroom but I’m 20 yrs old and not a teacher
being a little kid was so funny bc you could literally just say somethint like “I think everybody should get along and share :-)” and all the adults in your life would go oh GODDDD STUUUPIIIIDD!!!!!!!! STUPID FUCKING KID ALERT!! Don’t uou know when you grow up you have to face the Government Mandated 100000 Wild boar Attack
A linguistic analysis of tumblr hyperbole in the tags
This post expands my previous analysis of hyperbolic reactions to cluster tags by themes. There were too many themes, some of them overlapping, to create a cohesive graph. Instead, I present several overarching themes from a data set of 50 tags observed and documented in various corners of tumblr.
1. Feeling Normal™️
Tags within this cluster profess Normal feelings (read: extreme excitement, enthusiasm, obsession, derangement, etc.).
#mmmmrrrghuhhhhghhh #I’m so normal about it teehee #absolutely not rending my clothing #feeling very normal and not feral at all #i will simply never recover #gif sets sent to personally destroy me #i can’t cope #the eyes #i’m a puddle #i am INCONSOLABLE #i am DISTRAUGHT #IM NOT OKKAAAAAAYYYYYY #FEELING TOTALLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT NORMAL
2. Feralness
The following data points conjure animalistic behavior. There’s a non-zero amount of biting and chewing involved.
#chomping biting barking #biting my arms off #rattling my cage #[incoherent biting noises] #chewing glass #chewing through wood #*shaking the bars of my enclosure* HELLO!!!!!!!! #climbing the walls #biting gnawing chewing #im gonna rip off my front door and eat it
3. Noisy Emotional Outbursts
These tags encompass crying, screaming, yelling, and other loud reactions.
# shaking sobbing crying #SCREAMIIIING BANGING MY HEAD ON THE WALL #*no thoughts only wailing* #i am SOBBING #IM CRYING LIKE A BITCH #*just fucking yelling* #S C R E A M #screeching into a pillow #brb sobbing for 5-7 business years
4. Throwing
All of these tags except the last one involve being thrown instead of throwing things. I, personally, am entertained by the range of places/situations people are throwing themselves into.
#i am going to THROW MYSELF into the SEA #hurl me into the sea #hurl me into the sun #trebuchet me into the sun #hurl me straight at europa #vent me out of an airlock #slam me against a wall #put me in a box and throw me down the stairs #throwing myself into traffic you know? #just defenestrate me already #defenestrate me #absolutely hurl me through plate glass #i’m going to start tossing furniture
5. Bodily Harm
There’s a good deal of overlap with the previous theme. Nearly all of the tags involving throwing would result in varying degrees of bodily harm. Here are the tags outside of the Throwing subgroup.
#im going to throw upppppp #tearing my hair out #banging my head against the wall #SCREAMIIIING BANGING MY HEAD ON THE WALL #biting my arms off #microwaving myself #crumple me up and microwave me
6. Absurdism
My personal favorite cluster. The imagery conjured and resulting comedic hyperbole is just [chef’s kiss].
#im gonna rip off my front door and eat it #crumple me up and microwave me #put me in a box and throw me down the stairs #defenestrate me #absolutely hurl me through plate glass
7. Keysmashes
These tags center less around meaning and more around style, so they form the last group. A handful of these could fall under Noisy Emotional Outbursts because they represent reaction noises. In my linguistic judgment, keysmashing increases the hyperbole – consider augh versus aughfhghghghhh – the latter reads as prolonged and more intense emotionally.
#aghdjakgsjadhjaka * #hrhrhrhgnnnghhhhh #aughfhghghghhh #mmmmrrrghuhhhhghhh #I’m so normal about it teehee #waughfhghghh #oughhhhghghhh
*one digression in a friend discord server was how people interpret keysmashes in their minds. Some hear the first couple letters and then some sputtering, others hear static. It’s a common joke that you need a minor in linguistics to understand conversations in this friend group. Such is the nature of things when the chaos linguist energy is strong.
the one campaign promise he lived up to, “nothing, fundamentally, will change”
he failed even at that, before his term US inconditional support for israel was a given and absolutely not in question, now most of the US population is against it, which is quite a fundamental change
Toby if it where any other publisher I would have ran away
I feel horrible for fans who first experienced Deltarune any other way. Like there was a cryprtic tweet the night before, the twitter profile was all backed out. And then he sent out a link to a “Survey” and you downloaded a file from a random website called SURVEYPROGRAM and then opened it up and it asked you to make a character. And then the character got thrown away. And then it was Deltarune. And like. It was a fucking ride none of you will get to experience this
“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.
Hey, let’s talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven’t been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually…. very much not the case. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don’t like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That’s because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn’t just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient’s entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they’re off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It’s a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.
This is what bullying on social media can look like especially in left-leaning/social justice minded circles. This is how otherwise caring people get roped into participating in harassment campaigns.
english’s pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it’s technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.
ingredience. creacher. both of these are pronounced essentially exactly the same but the altered spellings are just hilarious for some stupid reason. the english language is a disaster but at least whatever is wrong with it is REALLY funny.
the second a trans man fucks up, other queer/trans people start calling him “girl” and going ok well its gender neutral. its slang. like how dumb do you think people are to fall for that
‘i would call a cis man girl its not that deep’ do you think . maybe. its bad to call trans ppl words associated with their birth sex. do you think there could be a dynamic at play that doesnt apply to cis people
It’s very weird to see these people (Not you OP, the assholes who say this type of stuff) think misgendering anyone is okay as long as they are acceptable targets in that moment. Maybe it’s bad to misgender anyone for almost any reason except when they ask for it.
So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know.
Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.
Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!
Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils.
Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses.
Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)
If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE.
Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.
Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.
OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS
This is good but very limited, black people don’t all look like west coast Africans, it’s a big blind spot a lot of us who had our ancestors enslaved from the west coast have, especially black Americans due to comparative homogenity.
While it’s good to avoid racial caricatures, there’s no one sort of face for a black person. While it’s good for people who only draw typical European features to move away from that, it’s a good idea for people to be aware of all the different people who would be considered black Africans:
Such as Ethiopians
Who look different to Ghanaians and Nigerians
And north Africans such as Tunisians
Who look different to those from the Congo
And special mention for black people of the Pacific, melanisians with Fijians, aboriginal people, Maori etc who are often considered black without needed to be African
anyone else kind of perplexed by the concept of a “starter anime”
like ok
1- anime is not a genre. it’s like, submedium if anything, but ultimately it’s just cartoons. unless the genre is really specific to anime (and i struggle to think of a genre that is truly exclusive to anime) it will follow the same genre conventions as anything else in that genre. and if the genre is specific to anime it will very likely share enough commonalities with other genres that most people are familiar with as to not be totally unfollowable.
2- the cultural differences between Japan and anywhere else in the world are not so vast that someone from, for instance, the USA would be totally helplessly confused watching any given anime if a cultural difference comes up. like if someone who is just completely unfamiliar with the concept of Japan is confused by something that’s a pretty easy google search and lots of anime and manga have translation notes.
3- do we do this with any other medium. like is there a group of broadly accepted Starter Franco-Belgian comics that are universal starting points for people who have only ever read Batman comics. correct me if i’m wrong
the whole thing is a ploy to get more people to watch FMAB i feel
Yeah i agree, “starter anime” is a pretty fake concept, if someone has never watched anime before and they are interested in watching an anime then they should genuinely just dive into whatever genre they are normally interested in whether thats action, sci-fi, horror, romcom, etc.
i really like fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, but it IS genuinely a very specific thing and by no means would i point someone towards that if they seem like they might really want to watch something with giant robots or psychological horror or etc etc
Good morning and tuesday to everyone except the guy who stuck his dick in the public mailbox downtown and pissed all over the mail. If you’re him fuck you
This is oddly specific. Is there a story there?
Yeah, some guy stuck his dick in the public mailbox downtown and pissed all over the mail
OP you have to tell us that story, I need context
Well you see, some guy stuck his dick in the public mailbox downtown
What happened next?
You wouldn’t believe it but he pissed all over the mail
Do you love Black women all the time or do you only love Black women when they’re fuckable?
Do you love Black women when they speak up for themselves? When they tell you no? When they are opinionated? When they don’t look like a model with a fat ass? Do you love Black women when they’re not naked covered in baby oil? What do you love about Black women outside of their ability to take care of you or give you sexual gratification? Answer quickly.
we should be able to have clickmap polls that are on a 2 axis / 4 quadrant grid.
my MS paint recreation
I love the implication that there’s a direct correlation between gayness and liking salty foods - or, more specifically, the straighter you are, the more you dislike salt for some reason
Nothing is more humbling than being a Very Online gay person and hanging out with a gay person who isn’t online because it forces you to realize that all the things you thought were popular with gay people are actually popular with a small cadre of annoying nerds who just so happen to be gay. Like I was talking to my butch lesbian coworker about music and she had never heard of Chappell Roan or Muna but she’d been to multiple Imagine Dragons concerts. Bro you’re married to a woman??? How many dragons could you possibly need to imagine???? What are we celebrating here Pride Month or the Kia Summer Sales Event???? And you’re an Imagine Dragons fan but you’ve never heard of Arcane??? And then after the shock wears off I realize that I’M the weird one for having watched Arcane. I’ll never fully recover from this.
barring that palestinian queers have and will always exist and to deem an entire group of people as being inherently homophobic is a fucked line of thinking, i do not support palestine because i happen to agree with their politics or because i expect palestinians to lay their life for me. i support palestine because genocide is, and will always be wrong, because i do not need a reciprocation for me to fucking loathe oppression and colonialism, and it scares me that many of you do not truly believe in liberation of the oppressed.
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