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hi welcome to my blog

wharf-dragon:

[post about how fiction isnt real so ship and let ship]

[post about how representation is important because the media you consume has a direct impact upon your worldview and identity]

[art of a 17 year old being fucked by a guy twice his age tagged otp]

[post about how representation of gay people is important because it helps to normalize them and make the world safer for them] 

kuunakullanvalkeana:

straights girls: hahahha man candles, man soap, isn’t that stupid
straight girls: look at these boyfriend jeans i just bought to go with my boyfriend shirt 🙂

straight girls: masculinity is sooooo fragile
straight girls: whoa it’s actually homophobic to associate short hair and flannels with lesbians. for example, i have a pixie cut and i’m straight.

straight girls: at least we women don’t do the no homo
straight girls: you know it’s called a girl crush bc it’s not a real crush because it’s on a girl

raptorific:

Look everyone’s been too polite to say so but “anti” in its current usage is just a repackaged way to complain about “The SJWs” now that everyone rightfully rolls their eyes at grown adults who complain about SJWs, and “SJWs” was just a repackaged way to complain about “PC Police.” It’s literally all the exact same fucking thing. In three years everybody’s gonna be making fun of the people who get all worked up about “Antis” and then they’re gonna turn around and complain about how those mean Goodzos (or whatever new word they make up for normal people) are ruining fandom by virtue signaling and sending death threats (even though it’s obvious to absolutely everyone that “I’m being sent death threats by SJWs” is literally always a lie). Like it isn’t slick. Complaining about Antis is just complaining about “Political Correctness” with a new name, and youse all are just anti-SJ blogs who’ve somehow found a way to pretend you aren’t anti-SJ blogs

amandaoneill:

yachtpartysuicide:

pussifoot:

kylo:

kylo:

hetalia was so obviously fucked up how did we as a society allow that fandom to reach the magnitude it did

it’s…quite literally called “Axis Powers Hetalia” and like. no one batted an eye. axis powers is right there in the name

…

Lots of people batted an eye at the time.  Anti-hetalia backlash, especially from Jewish anime fans, was fucking huge.  And it didn’t stop them from invading convention spaces, showing up dressed as nazis, etc.  I heard a story from a friend that while they were at a convention a Jewish kid had a panic attack over a group of Hetalia fans that were dressed as nazis and heiling and shit and the Jewish kid got kicked out of the con for “making a scene.”  I don’t remember the con, but it was in Minnesota.  Hetalia has a large part of the blame for the modern “anime right.”  It certainly didn’t directly cause them, hell, most of them probably aren’t Hetalia fans, but it’s because of Hetalia that they learned they could be openly and brazenly fascist and the American anime community would protect them for it instead of shunning them.

hey the Jewish person was actually one of my friends, this happened at Anime Detour in Minneapolis, MN. this is all true and it was terrible.

chordati:

jewish person on tumbler dot com: “hey it freaks me out that so many people make excuses for nazi charcters and turn nazi imagery and fascism into a silly joke ex: hail hydra, the first order, etc, can tumblr fandom please stop for a second and think about what they’re doing and why it might be harmful”

5000 non-jewish, non-rromani tumbler dot com users screaming and falling over each other: “clearly you dont understand the nazi trope in popular culture.  let me, someone who has no personal ties to the holocaust explain to you, a jewish person, why you’re overreacting and taking away my fun,”

big-gadje-world:

The entire notion of “witchcraft” was something that was forced onto non-European and non-Christian societies. It was a descriptor used to systematically destroy indigenous religious beliefs. 

You don’t view praying to Jesus, or a saint, or a deceased relative in order to influence your own or someone else’s life as “witchcraft”. 

You don’t view using Christian relics and symbols in order to conjure the powers of Jesus, a saint, or a deceased relative in order to influence your own or someone else’s life as “witchcraft”. 

And, yet, many indigenous religions involve those exact things; deities, prayer, symbols & relics being used to influence the non-spiritual world. 

Practicing European Paganism is just that: European Paganism. It is practicing the rites, rituals and beliefs of pre-Christian Europeans. Celtic Paganism is not the same as Slavic Paganism, which is not the same as Norse Paganism, which is not the same as Greek Paganism. 

“Paganism” is just a term used to refer to pre-Christian European religions.. none of which have anything even remotely to do with Romani people. 

Wicca is a twentieth century English invention that not only appropriates from various European Pagan beliefs, but also from many non-Western indigenous religions. In fact, many people who had a heavy influence in creating Wicca outright falsified and lied about Romani religious practices and their own ethnic background in order to bring a sense of “exoticism” to the movement. 

In many aspects, modern [especially “Eclectic”] Wicca is like nailing Buddha to a cross, performing a pooja, and calling it your spirit animal. For many, it has veered quite far from its original practice, which was meant to revive European Pagan traditions. 

Romani people never asked, nor wanted to be associated with Wicca, nor its witchcraft.

Referring to non-Western and indigenous religious beliefs as “witchcraft” is steeped in centuries’ old racist ideologies that developed in a post-Christianized Europe. 

These belief systems have their own names. They have their own deities. They have their own rites and symbols. They are diverse. They don’t deserve to be lumped under a single umbrella term borne from racism. 

So, yea, it’s not only just irritating, but it’s also pretty outright offensive. 

Romani religious beliefs are, in a nutshell, Hindu beliefs hidden behind Christian and Islamic rituals. 

Indigenous Romani religious beliefs do contain some similar ideas akin to the Westernized notions of “witchcraft”, but those are not yours to take. 

My religion is not your witchcraft.