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pov its 8pm you just got home from from gym on a tight tank top and shorts, all sweaty full of dopamine and you start talking about all of your interests non stop to a cat boy but he's not listening to you for some reason…
inspired by: https://x.com/kingparked/status/1828783351844761754
do you ever think about how in the day i picked up dazai side b dazai had to lie emotionless and soulless—like a corpse, almost—beside the man that gently brought him in, nursed his injuries, held him while he was in pain? he had to keep those suffocating bandages around his entire face, lest this man gain some sort of recognition for the little boy he saved. he had to lay there curled in the fetal position, bleeding and in pain, perhaps thinking about how, in another life, this man cooked for him, tried to build up his strength. read to him to pass the time while he curled up against him like a child listening to a bedtime story. played cards with him. saw through the heartless mafioso. the ruthless killer. and instead saw a boy.
imagine knowing this man, the man who saved you in more ways than one, was going to die one day all because he knew you. because he reached his hand into the darkness and plaintively, like a small child wanting a parent's touch, you grasped back desperately. imagine thinking all of that while that man is just a stone's throw away, making coffee in the next room just like he used to for you in another life. the scent, although you've never been here before, is reminiscent of home. and the tune he's humming? it's the silent melody that plays through your mind seven years later, for the last time as you fall backward off the building with your arms out like an embrace. but, hey. that man is alive. he's happy, although he never knew you. you can die with no regrets.
Well I’m glad I didn’t click the video when it showed up in my recommended then
I trust you on the Halloween post but I'm just curious what they did bc I haven't heard of them before
ok so zach bellissimo (snaggle-teeth) and tara billinger (tarabillinger) are the creators of a cartoon concept/short/pilot called long gone gulch. there’s a native american girl in the series by the name of buffalo wing (i shouldn’t have to explain why this is racist, but this is very, very racist.)
they changed her name to just “BW” following the backlash, but that hardly fixes the problem. even if her name weren’t already incredibly insulting, her character is positively DRENCHED in native american mysticism stereotypes.
a simple look through her tag on the tumblr (/tagged/bw) reveals a lot of racist art and fanart, her design is a ridiculous caricature, and worse still there’s a bunch of sexual fanart of her, even on the official tumblr (the series is billed as appropriate for all ages btw), which is really concerning. not only are there are staggering issues with the fetishization of native women (native women suffer a horrifyingly high rate of sexual assault), the main characters are 16/17 y/o, and if BW isn’t a good bit older, it’s fetishization of a teen/young adult native american girl 💁
also, a lot of the cryptid/monster characters seem uncomfortably like anti-mexican caricatures, but i’ll let someone else speak to that since i’m only navajo myself.
all in all LGG is another example of some jerks whitewashing the southwestern aesthetic and being grossly racist in the process lol
something something your ex/enemy/situashionship knowing the dead language of your people
post-therapy billford shenanigans, the idea manifested itself in my brain and i drew it out in 20 minutes
