To be this peaceful ♡

SPY x FAMILY Illustrations by other Mangaka! (pt 3)

My personal favorites 🤭

Tsuyoshi Takaki (Black Torch and Heart Gear)

Yukinobu Tatsu (Dandadan)

Nao Emoto (Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo)

Do not eat. | Tip jar |

it’s like a time capsule from hell 

Normalize making transphobes feel unsafe 😌

“sorry, i cant go out tonight. i already made plans”

Continue✨ Keep going✨

Some more iconic Cupcakke fashion moments

Those 18 states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

If you live in one of these palces please go as many extra miles to stay safe as u can as new cases are growing significantly

If you live in any of these States, I advise using Johns Hopkins University of Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center to keep an eye on Critical Trends in your state (spiking infection rate, spiking death count) with the country and state map.

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER aired it’s four-part series finale, SOZIN’S COMET, twelve years ago on July 19, 2008.

Seizure of indigenous land, 1776-1887

an important reminder as ‘4th of July’ rolls around

White people serve way less for rape and murder. I have no words

Here are some relevant petitions I found:

Plea to Alabama governor Kay Ivey to free Willie Simmons (Change.org)

Repeal the Alabama Habitual Offender Act (ACLU.org)

“Hello, my name is Sharlene Pike and I am a black transgender person originating from South Africa and working as a receptionist/host. I moved to the United States 4 years ago alone and without any support, as my parents died in my home country when I was 18. Being a transgender black female immigrant places three discrimination barriers and makes it extremely hard to socialize and find a job to live properly. Nevertheless, I tried my best. I had been working at 7 different companies as a receptionist/host/waitress for these four years, but 2 months ago I lost my job. The reasoning I was given - ‘staff reduction due to COVID-19 complications’. I have been unemployed for these 2 months, but the reason I can’t start a new job is not COVID-19. In February, I was diagnosed with stage-3 esophageal cancer. I had no prior knowledge of my diagnosis as this type of cancer can be quite concealed, and I had only two or three weeks of eating discomfort before I had a medical consultation. The company I was working at had a special program to support staff members who need expensive surgeries or therapies, and I believe my diagnosis was the true reason I was reduced, since it happened just after I told my office I might need an extended medical leave. The sum I have spent on the medical procedures only to clarify the future treatment equals my 3 salaries. The sum I’m asking for is actually covering first 6 months of treatment and the cheapest drug - basically simply to have a chance to survive. I have no health insurance and I can’t take a new job because my health condition significantly deteriorated. The thing that I have learnt throughout these months is that it is very hard to get any, even basic medical help if you are transgender. The death rate of the esophageal cancer is about 30%, which is very high, and I ask you to help me to have a chance to survive. I tried to deal with everything without anyone by my side, but current circumstances left me with no choice but to ask you to donate and share my story. Thank you very much.”

this gofundme was started on june 19th, 2020 and as of june 30th, 2020 she still needs donations! i’ll reblog with the donation link in one moment.

DONATE HERE!

since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past. 

Black/red/yellowface as a makeup thing continued all the way up through the 2000s. At a bare minimum. And no, I’m not talking about “comedic” blackface where a character is shown to be stupid for wearing it, or subversions like White Chicks.

No, I’m talking about this:

That’s Roma Downey in a 1999 episode of Touched By An Angel called “Black Like Monica.”

[Image ID: Irish actress Roma Downey in a brown spiral-curl wig and medium-toned brown makeup. The intention is to make the actress, and thus her character, appear black. End description.]

To be clear, this is ALSO Roma Downey, as she normally portrayed Monica:

[Image ID: Irish actress Roma Downey as she appeared on the American TV show Touched by an Angel. Her hair is long and a light-brownish red, styled in “loose waves” popular in the late 1990s. She is very, very obviously a white person. End description.]

Hm.

Again, to be clear: the conceit of this episode is that Monica is an angel who appears white, and G-d makes her into a black human so she can … solve a lynching, or something, I don’t know, Touched by an Angel was pretty badly written at the best of times. ANYWAY. Rather than casting a Black woman and dub in Downey’s voice, or better still questioning the wisdom of this entire plot (which ends with Monica praying “please, please, make me white again” to escape being lynched, because that’s not racist at all), the producers just. Straight up painted her black.

THIS WAS ONLY TWENTY YEARS AGO. This episode is barely old enough to drink. This episode is younger than about 25% of Gen Z. And as far as I know, this episode is also still in syndication in 2020.

And?

This is supposed to be a wholesome, family-friendly Christian show.

[image ID: a gif of John Mulaney crossing a stage. The gif is captioned “now we don’t have time to unpack all of that!” End description.]

Maybe we should just throw away the whole damn suitcase.

This is still very much a present-day issue. Don’t pretend it’s not.