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Predomininately black neighborhoods are losing access to water and clean air because of generative AI
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It's so funny how peoples suspension of disbelief seems to always stop at black people. Not dragons, not aliens, not magic, nope. Just black people.
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It's genuinely annoying how Black girls literally can't do anything without being picked apart and degraded. The fact that BW are always the ones used for this kind of rage bait is also annoying.
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We fight the same fight every year. Being Black in fandom is exhausting (Add Spiderwoman and Spiderbyte from Spiderverse here too)
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When I say "let female villains be villains," that also includes them not being "girl's girls". I'm so tired of yall making every female villain some kind of feminist icon who looks out for other women. It is so boring and limiting of women's stories. Let these women be evil!
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It's also interesting that the Prince associated with a Black Princess (Naveen) wasn't included, yet Flynn Rider is here, so they can't say it's just old-school Disney.
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So he is indeed a horrible person. Based on past evidence and allegations, this isn't too surprising.
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I'll never forget seeing Angel Salvadore for the first time thinking I'd get a cute pixie-like black girl only to read the most racist grotesque stereotypical story ever. Grant Morrison is an opp.
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Rest in peace to all the black girls who were used as sacrificial lambs to advance everyone else's story. And my condolences to all the black girls who lived, but lost everything in the process.
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I really don't think Harry Potter is old enough to require a reboot. It would've been smarter to just do a spinoff with a new generation of characters. Especially since it'd be easier to incorporate diverse characters. Anyways, check out Witch Hat Atelier and Ichi the Witch!
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I'm getting very hip to y'all using "feminism" as a way to demean Black female characters in writing. Any other time, y'all are super ship obsessed. However, when there's a Black girl involved, "a girl shouldn't be defined by romance, she doesn't need a man." 🤪🤪🤪
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Fun Fact: Sheryl Lee Ralph was the voice of Cheetah in Justice League Unlimited
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Imagine just starting your account and then using it to be racist. The funniest part is her whining about them being made black, but included Lois. Can't even be racist right 😂
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I'm so glad this Storm solo comic exists because it's exposing how a lot of so-called Storm "fans" don't actually like her as a character. They just see her as a mother to their white favs. It's also why they don't like seeing her young, fun, or carefree like her counterparts.
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Being a young black girl on tumblr during this era was a period of trials and tribulations. It's sad to say that absolutely nothing has changed.
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Prayer circle for dark skinned DCU Vixen y'all! We live in unprecedented times. 😔🙏🏼
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I would be so down for a period/fantasy romance about a sailor/adventurer who falls for an introverted princess who has only read about the world in books. She sneaks onto his ship out of curiosity, but before she can leave, it actually sets sail. Hijinks ensue. 💖
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This is wild, because first they say women can't make more than them, but then they say they don't want "gold diggers". They don't want women taking care of them financially, but they also don't want to take care of women financially. But then they also don't want to go 50/50
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Yall got mad that Amber just wanted an actual relationship and said she's being irrational because "Mark has to save the world." Only for Mark to put off saving the world so he can focus on his relationship with Eve. I can't stand the fandom, the writers, or Kirkman...
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What if I told y'all Uhura from Star Trek was the original Black woman to be racially targeted and blamed by a fandom for "getting in the way" of a MLM ship?
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My toxic trait is that I will not read a comic if the art style is too ugly. Like, you'll always have some other comic readers in your ear saying how the styles are "meant to be uncomfortable" and play into the story, but some visuals are just unbearable.
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It's upsetting to see the replies are missing the point enitrely. "Just get an accent coach". The point is that she's being type cast and stereotyped by Casting Directors! 😭
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She's also skipping over the characters of Encanto, Elena of Avalor, and Honey Lemon. You can argue that some of the rep isn't great, but it's literally not great for any minority. Jasmine is an orientalist character, Tiana was a frog the majority of the film, etc.
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They also deliberately lightwashed Bumblebee. In the og version of DC superhero girls, she did NOT look like that. I've side eyed Lauren ever since.
Half of this team is very mischaracterized all because Lauren Faust wanted to recycle the same dynamic as My Little Pony's Mane Six
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I need James Gunn to understand that we will not accept any Vixen castings that look like this.
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Like it's wild how it became an issue of morality, because Avatar Yang Chen had no issues with using her breath bending in moderation. She knew the limitations of it and never used it cruelly
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The reason why we don't see many Black girl saviors in media is because a lot of folks can not stand it when a black girl is the center of attention. Especially when she's more elegant, powerful, and beloved. They only see us as "helpers" to the main, not THE main.
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Something genuinely sinister about SJM using the death of Breonna Taylor to promote her books is that in her series, Throne of Glass, she specifically included a Black woman (Nehemia) as a sacrifice for a white fem leads development.
The ‘A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES’ series has been scrapped at Hulu and will not be moving forward.
(Source: Deadline)
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Sometimes I feel like firing back with "you mean to tell me these Knights are noble and not pillaging villages, harassing peasants, and assaulting women?"
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Something that I do respect about Teen Titans Go is their dedication to including lesser known characters. They really do their research. They even highlighted Vixen being a famous supermodel.
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Reminder that we could've had Chataya and Alayaya in Game of Thrones, but D&D hated cool side characters who weren't their OCs.
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They're trying to make it middle ground so that the little girl who released them can look good. I have no idea why the films (and the shows) are promoting a coexistence narrative knowing full well these are DINOSAURS.
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It still burns me up knowing how beautiful and layered Raven used to be before being turned into a soulles "goth" grey glob. A hollow shell of her former self. (Not to mention the whitewashing)
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I don't care what any of you media illiterate Arcane "fans" think. I'm rooting for everybody Black, the heroes, the villains, the in-betweens, each and every one of them!!! 😤
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That feeling when you're a complex Black mother who has experienced great loss and would do anything for your family, but the fandom reduces you to just an emotionless maniacal villain. (Ambessa Medarda and Amanda Waller)
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It genuinely is so interesting how there will be a ton of racism in a fandom towards a specific Black character, but then 2-3 years after the mobbing people will try to claim it never happened and that everyone loved that character. The gaslighting is real.
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Making the tough one black and the smart one asian too. Like that had to be on purpose.
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No, the rise of tourism is actually leading to rising prices for locals and increased homelessness of indigenous people. Not to mention tourists lack of respect for the land leading to pollution, endangered species, and intruding upon sacred land. Also, Hawaii was forcibly taken
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I really need people to start thinking of who would be a good fit based on appearance AND acting range; the same way they do with white actors. It's always just, "this actor is black. Therefore, they can play this black character".
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The responses to the fancast of Avantika as Rapunzel were truly something else. They feel Rapunzel is strictly German when the og tale actually derives from Persia.
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I really despise how once a book/comic gets a live adaptation, you'll always have the people who refuse to read the source material, but also claim to know everything about the source material. They'll spread blatant misinformation and then call actual readers fake fans.
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My dude is spittin facts!!! It's honestly tiring to see so many people choosing the literal colonizer culture over the actual roots of Latin America. Like when they say you're less latino if you don't speak Spanish 🙄
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They were calling the velma show "blackwashed" too despite her explicitly being based on Mindy Khaling. Wild how antiblackness is always at the root, even when we're not involved
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"Instead of focusing on racists, why don't yall just promote Black projects?" We do all the time, but when we start talking about new independent Black projects y'all are nowhere to be found. People always say "why aren't folks doing this" but they're really not looking for it.
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I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but is it not just a little weird that comics, shows, and even celebs keep pitching the idea of bringing a loved one back to life via AI as a good thing?
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Lupita's costume should act as a reminder that Storm is Kenyan via her mother and should have an actress to match that. There are many Kenyan American actresses out there (like Laura Kariuki).
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Something I've noticed is that throughout media, it's pretty rare to see a black character with Ice/Cold related powers
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Abusive brown father, degraded by Emma and the Cuckoos, constantly labeled as low class, dirty, and whorish, teen pregnancy by the chicken mutant, and then her story goes nowhere
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I do think there needs to be a conversation about the way black male and female characters can be treated differently in fandoms. Even though they both can face racism, I've found that the men are often accepted a lot more than their female counterparts.
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I hate to be *that* person, but that is not Riri's personality at all. We've been going up against "anti-woke" fanboys who call her "just a black girl Tony Stark" when she's so much more than that. Only for the MCU to literally make her Tony Stark 2.0. 😑
Riri Williams has a "Tony Stark-sized ego" in the #Ironheart series, says producer Brad Winderbaum:
"[It] gets her in trouble too... and it's a crime show, in a way we've not done before."
(via Brandon Davis)
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Not Marvel comics whitewashing Mirko!!!!! ☠️ @Marvel please do better with your colorists. This is wild.
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I can not fathom writing something like that, but then also actually showing my face to the public afterward......
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I hate the fact that racism just isn't a deal breaker for people. A singer, actor, director, writer, or any other form of creator could have the most vile beliefs, and people would still tune in because "separate the art from the artist". 🤪🤪🤪
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It's funny how the replies are calling this a "win for men" when this man's victims were men and boys. They don't care about "men's rights" they just want to protect predators and abusers.
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It's wild how black people get told to make our own original characters, but when we do, the material still gets attacked. Like you'll make your own comic and find that it's getting bashed for being "woke" by people who haven't even read it yet. They just don't want us to exist
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Hear me out: Supernatural/Buffy style comic starring a Witch (Zoe), a Fairy (Shaylee), and a partial Vampire (Bloodline). I'm tired of A***** H*******
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Thank you!!! They always pull the "so you're saying women can't be masc" 🤪 but they know full well that character never looked like that. It is not a coincidence that they always headcanon black women as the "tough one"
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Discrimination Comics literally hates Black girls. There's no ifs or buts about it. They trash Black female characters. They sideline Black female authors. They refuse to listen to Black female fans. There's really not much to say anymore until there is legitimate change.
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Once again begging DC comics to tap more into the high fantasy aspects of their characters instead of making everything entirely "grounded" and scientific.
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Very hot take, but as a writer, saying that absolutely no form of prejudice exists in your world is so unrealistic and feels like a cop out. I can understand not feeling comfortable discussing it, but don't say it's not there at all.
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They are literally sacrificing Sam's entire story for this abominable character who no one even asked for. The people who support Sam want to see Sam, not Sabra! This film will flop, but perhaps that's Disney's goal 🤔
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This post needs a community note. Nothing was "proven fake". His siblings tried to claim he was lying because "nothing happened to them". Which, if you don't know anything about abusive households, is common. Sometimes, an abuser will simply isolate one victim.
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I'm so tired of this being the experience of so many young black actors. It seems so many of them, especially the black girls, only leave with trauma and heartbreak. Even now, it's the same things still happening. Enough is enough.
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DC and the CW failed Naomi by attempting to launch a character into the mainstream who didn't even have a fully formed backstory or characterization yet. Most people didn't even know who she was, and the title is just a name. Not to mention the VERY slow start
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Yall remember when DC gave us a black girl who is from a race descended from Kryptonians and then proceeded to never use her again? Thao-La I'm so sorry 😞
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Stop this madness
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I know this is besides the point, but why is his only range of people "gangster" or "square"?? 💀
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Yeah ngl it'd be very weird to have a film where a Black woman is harvesting the hair of a little blonde girl. 😬
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I need DCU casting to understand that Bumblebee is dark skinned. There's way too many interpretations of her that DC allowed to be lightwashed. DC barely uplifts black fem characters, and when they do, they get bleached and cast as light skinned
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It's sad how much time has passed, yet we will always keep facing the same amounts of hate no matter what fandom we're in. And before anyone goes, "Uhura was a great original character." she got so much backlash that the actress almost left until MLK Jr. got involved.
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Curly haired Starfire is superior. I'm gonna need another black Starfire actress if they can't bring back Anna.
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Comic writers/artists' refusal to learn about black people's history and culture leads to less shades being included, and darker characters' skin being inconsistent. This is why we end up with colorist casting because they see us as interchangeable. (Pics: Vixen and Voodoo)
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DC comics doesn't deserve Vixen. She could've been living her best magical princess model animal rescuer life by now, but no. Any little shred of attention she could've gotten went straight to *redacted🦖*. If she was at Marvel, she'd achieve icon status. I demand a trade.
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Can't believe I'm just now realizing that GRRM gave the dragon VermiTHOR to Hugh HAMMER ☠️
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Black Comic Girl of the Day: Tiana Toomes/Starling (Marvel) the superhero granddaughter of the Vulture and love interest of Miles Morales (First Appearance: Miles Morales: Spiderman 5) #SpiderMan #milesmorales #Marvel #marvelcomics #blerd #blackgirl #comic
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An unpopular opinion, but I really hate the writing trope of sending a character's child away so they can be aged up to full adulthood in an instant. It just feels like the writer doesn't want to take the time to develop the child character or their parents' relation to them.
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It is genuinely annoying how DC has SO MANY Black characters (especially Black female characters) yet continues to do nothing with them or just the bare minimum. This isn't even all of em.
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Yall, everyone knows it's a parody account. The problem is that the joke is just racist 💀
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Humble reminder that the host of the Hope entity that powers the Blue Lantern Corps is a black girl 💙 (Nicole Morrison)
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