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not doing something wrong isn’t the same as doing something right by cristin o'keefe aptowicz

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

🎬 Peter Jackson

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princess!

they had no reason to be serving challengers realness for hsm promo 😭

Anne-Marie Zanetti, (Australian, b. 1965) “Abundant”, oil on linen, 85 x 145 cm

when i say that i needed to see every single second of this and was ROBBED?

i mean that shit.

my soft and comfortable mama

ID: a baby tiger laying on an adult tiger’s arm. The baby tiger looks content. End ID.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

is this a safe space? bc i kind of wanna talk about how i get a lot of recommended reader fics but then i see a visual like this and immediately get turned off.

and like this conversation about centering certain beauty standards with readers isn't new. it's been happening since forever. but i've noticed some uptick once i started looking for stuff in challengers.

the centering of whiteness with fanfiction in general is an issue that me and other non-white people had discussed at length for years. and part of me just wants to say that we should strive to be more inclusive. like there should be no reason for specifying non-white readers, especially black ones, and for us to have our own separate category because some writers can't fathom that non-white readers exist. hell, even in terms of body weight, ability, hair or no hair, GENDER.

i'm not innocent either. it's an easy trap to fall into if you're writing something x reader and you're using yourself as a stand in for the reader. and i'm not here to criticize or shame. i just wanna propose being more inclusive. and that starts with using less images of faceless white girls from pinterest.

maybe it's selfish of me to ask this. but i've been reading fanfiction on the internet for over 10 years. and i can definitely say as a non-white girl, fanfiction did contribute to my insecurities as a non-white person, in feeling insecure in my appearance. nothing has changed it seems.

WE BEEN SAYING!

and I say this to mean KEEP SAYING IT. it's valid and it's correct and it's the reason i created this sideblog.

i would like to be so bold as to take it a step further and say that it also sometimes feels as a writer like (and this is just an example) "if i'm not writing about a presumed thin barely legal blonde trying to fuck the white mains, is anyone going to care about this piece as much?"

taking it yet another step further, i often see this especially in pieces where tashi's character is either entirely erased or she's demonized (i.e. she and art are divorced because she was just so awful). it often seems like it's not only about centering whiteness but erasing the woc main and sometimes erasing any "otherness" from the plotline entirely since a lot of times it's not only erasing tashi but any and all of the homoerotic attraction between art and patrick that is central to the plot and the characters/their dynamics. i see those fics as just an extension of a patriarchial mindset that says hot white boys should be with pretty white girls.

(also, this is not to say that people shouldn't write those fics or create those graphics if it's where their hearts lie. it's good bc it means i know who not to fw like that but it is to say that i think we should encourage diversity in a real way in writing because this post right here made me sit up straighter and realize OH YEAH I SHOULD BE SHARING MY STUFF)

didn't expect this post to blow up like months after i posted it. but i'm reblogging @fandomnoire's reblog specifically because tashi's treatment is proof of the fandom's underlying racism. even art's perceived popularity over the other characters is entirely due to the fact that he is "the right" white boy. he's a wasp.

patrick is meant to be jewish and i've seen people lean into a feminization of him, thus also leaning into stereotypes about jewish men.

and obviously tashi. tashi deserves her own blog post. if this is how she's being treated now, imagine if they had originally gone with their plan of casting a monoracial, dark skinned black woman. as she was intended to be.

fandom is a replication and regurgitation of ideology.

we best remember that. and that's not just me using academic jargon to justify my criticism. this is a very real thing. and the way people even talk about these characters is reminiscent of very harmful ideology and leans into white supremacy. i'm just going to say it bluntly.

i'm not saying you're racist for liking art. or for writing the stuff me and everyone who has reblogged and commented on. but you should examine your biases if you think it's okay to treat tashi as a disposable black girlfriend when she's anything but. if you think it's fine to eliminate the homoeroticism between the two male leads.

i literally stopped writing for challengers because it became obvious my work wasn't appreciated by the fandom as a whole if it didn't center on art and/or if my reader wasn't white. (granted i wrote things ambiguous but the reader in my head will always been a non-white person) the notes disparity between my tashi pieces and my art pieces just made it extremely obvious.

seeing this put so succinctly rewired my brain.

Pedro Pascal as Clint FREAKY TALES 2025 — dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck