Black fucking Panther. Not black enough apparently.
The X-men, an entire comic franchise created as an allegory for the civil rights movement. Y’all don’t even try.
Of course not. Spending a whole five minutes researching would cut into valuable Hot Take™ time. How are they supposed to get NPC Points without exploiting whatever’s in the news?
THE IGNORANT DISRESPECT. Freaking google is so easy to navigate.
Playing devil’s advocate, but isn’t the fact that Stan Lee created BP the equivalent of “But I have a black friend so I’m not racist”?
RIP Stan Lee. Exelsior 😞
There’s more than Black Panther….
I know. I’m just wondering why people always forget that
If the claim is “Stan Lee absolutely opposed non-white superheroes”, you only need one exception.
He also (co) created The Ancient One (Tibetan in comics), Scarlet Witch (Romani), The Falcon, Brother Voodoo, and Bill Foster (Goliath).
The person in the tweet is referring to how he said Peter, in adaptations, should stay white and straight. You know, the character who’s always been white and straight.
Also the annoying thing is there’s literally a canonical black Spider-Man. Like it’s not even that Spider-Man can’t be anything but straight and white, it’s just that Peter Parker is a specific person with specific defining characteristics. Like you can’t have a super-jock ultra popular but kind of stupid Peter Parker either. He also can’t be obese or have an Australian accent. It’s not a very difficult concept to grasp people just wanna play stupid.
SJWs don’t care about Miles or Spider-Gwen because he’s not high-profile enough and they’re not real fans.
Even though they’re both in a movie coming out next month.
They’re parasites, like Venom. They just want to latch onto something that’s already popular and change it.
Them: We want spider man to be gay and black!
Stan: SURE! There’s always more room for great diverse Spideys in the marvel universe! I say EXCELSIOR!
Them: So you’re going to make Peter Parker gay and black?
Stan: Well, no. Peter is exactly who I imagined him to be. I don’t see a reason to change his character, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have another character wear the red and blue spider costume at one point
Still hilarious to me (and frustrating as hell) that fandom wank 10-15 years ago was “oh, that character is too perfect. Special snowflake. Mary Sue. Give them some flaws to make them more realistic.”
and now it’s “that character isn’t pure enough. They have all these flaws. You must be a bad person if you like them.”
As it turns out, lots of things make us bleed, and knowing how to stop all kinds of bleeding is a skill everyone should have.
This is basically the same reaction as that “teach men not to rape“ shit. Why do you guys have such a resistance to practical ways to avoid or reduce harm? I know you want to live in the candy cane lollipop world where bad things don’t happen but until then maybe don’t freak the hell out every time somebody learns something useful?
School shootings are rare, maybe all why so much fear mongering instead of why are there guns
Or they need a girlfriend that doesn’t mind listening and trying to help them work through their shit and defeat their fucking demons without asking them to pour out their soul to a stranger who is only listening because it’s their job. That’s the kind of shit you do for the people you love.
your partner is not your therapist. listening to your partner is one thing, but it is not their responsibility to help you work through your shit. that is on you.
one more time.
your partner is not your therapist.
also if I may hop onto this, I REALLY hate when people try to spin “therapists only listen because it’s their job” as a BAD thing. can you imagine if we tried to apply that to literally any other profession?
“why take your phone into the store to get it fixed? they don’t care about you, they’re only doing their job.”
“I don’t want to order a pizza. they’re not making it for me out of the goodness of their hearts, they’re only doing it because it’s their job.”
“why didn’t you just have your girlfriend do that surgery instead of going to a stranger who only saved your life because it’s their job?”
it’s their job because they are better equipped to do it than the other people in your life. jesus christ.
also, if I may add: it’s not the therapist’s job to love you.
a lot – A LOT – of people conflate emotional vulnerability with love. they think that being open about your problems is something you only do with friends and family. so paying someone to be open with sounds wrong because it’s like paying someone to be your girlfriend or your mom.
but that’s fundamentally misunderstanding the point of a therapist.
the therapist’s job is to identify issues and help you develop methods to cope with them. that’s it. being open is necessary, not because they need to love you, but because you need to be honest if you want them to be able to accurately figure out what’s wrong.
you don’t need to be in love with your doctor to tell them that you are having heart problems or unexplained pain. your lawyer doesn’t need to be part of your family for you to tell them your legal issues. it’s the same with your therapist – their job is to help, not to love.
But calling a person who ships, let’s say, a 17 year old, with someone older, a pedophile, is way more toxic than them having that ship. All you’re doing is 1)proving that you obviously don’t know what pedophilia actually is, 2)miseducating other individuals who most likely have never opened up a dictionary in their entire lives. If the age difference makes you uncomfortable, then say that. If you don’t approve, then say that. (Actually, don’t, because who gives a fuck in the long run😂). But if no actual prepubescents are involved, the word pedophilia should not be coming out of your mouth, because then you’re using the word wrong, and just blowing hot air
I just giggle when people go around tossing big words to “fight for the safety of a community” on tumblr. And they do so by harassing people performing regular acts of charity, donations, seminars for the safety of the oppressed, or researching for ways and means to identify the cause behind such things in the real world on a larger scale. Just because “oh you like toons holding hands where the 21 year old is mental child!” Abelist alert!!!
It’s like a scene from night at the museum, it seems epic to you in your little world, but really, it’s just a barely noticeable whine of a tire going flat to others.
Bottom line is, and I’ll say this and not give a fuck because it’s true, is that people who fling big words like that around are attention whores, and most likely have no common sense whatsoever.
ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool
the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because
sokka’s fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.
and sokka threw a boomerang at her.
I said it once and i say it again.
Azula considered Sokka to be the biggest threat in this group and countered him first. What this picture miss is Sokka sanding nearby. All members of this group unleash their attack at same time, but Azula reacts to boomerang first. If you watch this part in slow motion, you could see that Sokka’s boomerang was the first thing that would hit Azula and may even incapacitate her making her unable to continue to fight. So she had to counter in first. She deflected it with well placed shoot.
Then and only then, when there is no immediate threat, she starts to create her blue fire wall to counter other elements.
Lets think about this. How hard should you have to throw something to make it move faster that any elemental attack? Either all elemental attacks are slow or you are pretty strong. That said nonbenders with good aim and strong hands could easily overpower benders if they timed it right.(Aang got captured by Yuan archers who are all nonbenders.) Azula knew of this and acted according to it. She is talented bender and you may think that she should enlist other benders to help her track and capture Zuko, Iroh, and later avatar, but instead she uses her nonbender friend to help her.
Even if you have no bending you can still fight… and win.
Let’s not forget that on the Day of Black Sun, Sokka was the one in charge and Azula was no idiot Azula knew that.
When Aang, Sokka, and Toph all confronted Azula, she proceeded to make them chase her and waste their time. Azula is not only talented, she’s sly and smart as hell. WHO WAS THE ONE WHO SAW THROUGH THAT BS CHASE?
Sokka.
NOT ONLY THAT but after Sokka explains to the Gaang that Azula is just baiting them, Azula actually verbally attacks Sokka. Not through fighting, but through words, knowing not only that an intelligent person like him could only be brought down with emotions BUT that Sokka was the leader and if she could get him the stay, Aang and Toph would follow his lead.
Azula knew Sokka was their strength and took him down. WOULD SHE DO THAT IF HE WASNT A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO HER!!??!
No. She wouldn’t waste her time and energy on someone she didn’t think was capable of actually getting in her way.
WHEN SHE GETS HER FIREBENDING BACK SHE HAS THE OPTION OF ATTACKING BADASS METAL BENDING TOPH AND THE FUCKING AVATAR
WHO DOES SHE ATTACK?!?!
Azula never underestimated the power of non benders especially an intelligent one like Sokka. Sokka was a huge threat to fucking Azula on multiple occasions.
Remember that.
Look at this spot on fucking discourse. LOOK AT IT.
Just thought I’d drop this
into the debate as well, (instead of actually fighting him she backs off, and who blames her? Sokka’s club looks like it could shatter bones…).
Along with this:
Scenes with Azula confronting Sokka are few and far in between but they paint a pretty interesting picture, don’t they?
I mean, Azula’s friends/most trusted warriors were two non-benders. Mai was an expert with thrown weapons and Tai Lee was the only chi blocker shown in the first series, and she was able to take down half a groups of earth nation soldiers like that. Azula knows that non-benders are dangerous and she sees sokka for the genius he is
She’s knows she can take bending, she can redirect fire and she’s fought Katara a lot- but unlike Zuko she was probably never trained with weapons, she knows she has no defense to a sword or a club, and she knows that one of Ty Lee’s biggest advantage is that people underestimate her
Imagine thinking “the ability to create matter from fat cells” is an inherently sexualized superpower.
Let’s be real, the argument that Momo’s superpower was itself a problem was because people kept trying to “improve” her outfit but their redesigns kept getting shot down by people pointing out she can’t just go around with random patches of skin exposed, they specifically have to be areas with large fat deposits so she can utilize the most lipids while also being easy to access and where she can best see what she’s making (i.e. breasts and stomach).
It was only AFTER this got run into the ground by critics that people started to insist her power was itself bad and sexual because uh…..it involved her skin? Funny how no one makes similar complaints about Midnight who literally built her whole schtick around BDSM, Kirishima whose Quirk is literally getting hard*, or Mineta who has big juicy balls that he has used to sexually harass his classmates with*.
*as in, he hardens his skin, but this also means he’s barely wearing anything on top and his hero costume is pretty fanservicey for a 15-year-old. Also it’s WAY too easy to make dick jokes
*by sticking his head to a girl’s butt, to be specific
If y’all ever thought Minerva was anything short of stunning when she was young, you have been fooled. This witch was a heart breaker, and could spell circles around anyone. Brains and beauty with that lovely lady.
ok but
have you ever googled
a young dame maggie smith
Ok, but didn’t JK Rowling say that she has this whole unused back story where McGonagall had a tragic muggle love in her past?
OMG
It’s on pottermore! She has actually a very tragic backstory about the multiple loves she had.
Reasons I dislike the LGBT flag with the brown and black stripes:
It implies nonwhite ethnicities aren’t inherently a part of the LGBT community, or that being nonwhite is inherently queer. Neither of which are true, of course, and we can be inclusive without giving “brown people” separate colors.
It looks bad. No, seriously it does. Neutral tones thrown on top of a literal rainbow? Are you kidding me? It is objectively going to clash.
The design was made just after the death of the original creator of the rainbow flag, which itself feels kind of shitty and underhanded.
More reasons:
Often posted as a virtue signal or because people think they’re ‘supposed to’ post it.
Implies that nonwhite races aren’t just not inherently LGBT+, but are an afterthought. Nonwhite people (i.e., the black transgender women in the Stonewall riot) have always been part of the community.
Implies that there is a concrete or definite connection between race and sexuality. There isn’t. So there’s no point in tacking these extra stripes onto the flag.
Has weird tones of “let’s put nonwhite people on a pedestal”. If we’re going to bring race into this, why not add some lighter stripes, too? Olive tones, tan, peach? Oh, right.. it’s because that’s ~whitewashing~ and ~white people suck~. Your skin color doesn’t mean you deserve something that others don’t.
Also has some weird guilt factor for nonwhite LGBT+ people who don’t use it or don’t like it. They don’t have to participate in every single social justice “power move uwu” just because they’re nonwhite.
And I’m fucking shocked that we haven’t seen some bullshit version of the transgender flag with a black and brownstripe slapped onto it.
-K
One more reason:
Each of the colored stripes has a symbolic meaning (life, healing, nature, etc). You’re gonna slap on two stripes that literally just mean ‘brown people’ and ‘black people’?
One more BIG ass reason:
There already WAS a black stripe, which signified the people lost due to AIDS. As in, someone deadass appropriated a stripe used to honor the dead and made it a race thing.
This point in particular pisses me off.
It also implies that being black or brown inherently makes you LGBT+…
Despite the absolutely disgusting amounts of LGBT+-phobia in black and POC communities
Also, race isn’t a sexuality. Race is race. Adding race to a flag about sexual orientation doesn’t make any fucking sense.
Mmhm, I was going to mention that but I think I was making it too long winded and probably wording it poorly so I just left the post as is. But yeah, the flag is about sexuality and is suppose to be a fucking rainbow, adding the ugly stripes literally makes no sense at all. Its ROYGBIV not ROYGBBBIV.
also the way it was handled too. Imagine interrupting a gay pride parade because you wanted to add brown and black to the thing, they could’ve done it way more respectively.
Y’all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other
Thy’re both tragedies. Romeo and Juliet on the absolute idiocy of teens, fueds, and Italian City-State politics. Macbeth on the absolute idiocy of royalty, Trusting people who say shit like “double double boil and trouble”, and the Scottish.
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