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jackironsides:

quarter0master:

avi-burton-writing:

every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

May I add something, because I will never shut up about this book (Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark):

Finally, some good fucking advice

ghostsbeingdope:

matcha-eevee:

This is the engery we need for 2k19

indigenousandangry:

doesthendnlive:

thecurseshop:

indigenousandangry:

kispesan:

finding-my-culture:

doesthendnlive:

doesthendnlive:

This is a strange question but I’m curious:

To everyone on NDN Tumblr/Twitter who belong to / participate in fandoms, which ones were the most intolerant or anti-native? This includes but is not limited to:

White feminism

Whitesplaining / speaking over your experiences

Justifying cultural appropriation / redface

Creating or supporting content with racist tropes / stereotypes.

Or overall just made it an unpleasant or unwelcomed place once you started speaking up about ANY native issues?

Feel free to reply, reblog, or send asks/anons, or if you want to keep it private, send me a personal message on messenger.

The Handmaid’s Tale and Harry Potter are the first ones that come to mind for me, personally.

I don’t participate in fandoms much and this is one of the reasons why. In my experience, the Dragon Age fandom is terrible with anti-Native racism, especially because they can hide behind the elves just being inspired by Native peoples instead of being explicitly Native.

Seconding Dragon Age. The Hunger Games will always be the first to come to mind for me though, as I had such a horrible experience in that fandom back in my teens a up and left it. This was when the first movie came out and everyone was fawning over Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss, who in the books very strongly reads as a native girl. (And I believe the author even talked a little about this, though I’m on mobile on my lunch break at work right now so I can’t do a search check. I wish she would have just come out and said that Katniss is native in the books but I’m not sure she could have made it any clearer without doing that.) Anyway, I was essentially bullied out of that fandom by people saying either Katniss was not native, or it didn’t matter that her actor wasn’t. People were very insistent I shut up and stop trying to ruin their experience. I could go on but I won’t.

Also I think the Twilight fandom is another obvious one.

@fandomshatepeopleofcolor This thread might be of interest to your blog if you have any native /NDN followers

witchblr, tbh. cultural appropriation always seems to have a non native shaming people who are angry about it and acting as if they are an authority on native cultures. 

I specifically remember when Sephora tried to sell “witch kits” and white witches were complaining about appropriation as if native cultures haven’t been appropriated by white witches for ages.

The amount of anti-native racism I’ve seen from cosplayers at anime conventions is overwhelming. If they’re not justifying cultural appropriation or darkening their skin to wear racist costumes they have GROSS views on anti-native racism. Bunch of privileged rich white kids who think they’re better than everybody else because they play an expensive game of dress up.

ugly-bread:

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Starring

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