Collared Scops Owl, Singapore Botanic Gardens. I feel so lucky to have this encounter, this owl is so so cute and so so tiny and it happily perched with the perfect background not bothered in the slightest by the hordes of photographers coming to see it!!
I hate you epitome of innocence being represented with blonde hair I hate you lightness representing goodness I hate you "angelic features" automatically being read as blonde hair and blue eyed with pale skin I hate you whiteness as the default for morality I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
Guess who's being the most annoying on this post
this post isnt about blondes and how its so unfair to them that theyre always viewed as good healthy holy morally upright outstanding people no matter what this post is about racism its about colorism its about white supremacy making people with dark features and skin literally feel evil. this is not about your stupid disney princesses or achilles or your fave anime boys being allowed to be unhinged feral shitty awful people and this sure as hell is not an opportunity for blonde people themselves to show their entire pasty flat asses and beg praise for "breaking the stereotype" by being shitty unhinged people. fandom people you are 192% of the problem. white people in general you are 1,000% the origin of the problem. this site is so unbearably white my GOD
the tags on this post:
- 1/3 white people making this about their Evil Blonde White fandom blorbo (sometimes they’re even conscious that they’re derailing!)
- 1/3 white people saying “as a white person i hate this too”
- 1/3 white people saying “YES thank you op i hate this trope this is a stupid trope i hate how fictional people suffer like this. of course it doesn’t happen in real life though so not sure where it comes from”
when i was about 12 i saw a televised report on The Doll Study among other studies on racism. That study made a huge impact on me and my concept of race and racism. In it they asked a bunch of, like, 5 or 6 year old black children which baby dolls were prettier, and i think things like which could be trusted etc, and it turned out the overall trend was for the children to pick the light-skinned dolls over the dark-skinned dolls for positive traits like "prettier" -- even though they were themselves black, living with black families.
Because they were exposed to television shows and movies and classrooms and commercials and kids books and radio, because they lived in a society that codes light for good and dark for bad AND still contains many things that code for the same in specific association with skin color... these little black kids pointed to the white dolls and said they were prettier and ascribed other positive traits to the dolls with lighter skin over those with darker skin.
That study was originally done by the Clarks in the 40's, and i think the report was on a reprisal of it in maybe the 80's. More recently Toni Sturdivant, an assistant professor at East Texas A&M University (a public research university) did a similar study, like three or four years ago i think, with similar results.
It is so important that we work to remove these kinds of biases, and if we want to talk about the light of day being safe and the dark of night being scary or whatever, then maybe eventually different language, new words created or old words given new life, should be employed to differentiate when we are talking about pigment or light, so we can remove the assignment of "scary" to "dark" the way those things conflate currently
it's so sad that little children are kind of, like, learning to hate themselves? just through the passive absorption of this culture? surely we must try our best to change that.
this came to me very randomly but i had to draw it on my phone immediately
"Survival"
Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire
A piece about caring and bonding deeply intertwined with survival, and death as a legacy to the building of love and community.
Some may recognize this piece being on display during the spring of 2025, it was purchased for a surprise and was finally unveiled last month so I'm now sharing it online! :)
whoever is throwing icicle spears at me seriously STOP
if you're a lesbian and you're still using the definition of "women who love women" to describe the ENTIRE community, literally get off my page.
if you're a lesbian and GENUINELY believe that anyone who has a dick or takes T or uses he/him pronouns or dresses more masculinely cannot be a lesbian, literally get off my page.
if you're a lesbian and you're not including butches, studs, transmasc lesbians, non-binary lesbians, queer lesbians, genderfluid lesbians, tgirl butches, transfem lesbians and other identities that escape the cis female ideal, literally get off my fucking page.
idgaf if ur diy clothes look like genuine garbage they’re automatically 100x cooler than whatever cheap sweatshop bloodgarments you can get at hot topic or shein
i love seeing what’s going on in my mutuals lives, ther pets or school or what they’re reading or watching or listenjbg to or learning about. i love it
big loud incorrect buzzer noise that plays after every social interaction i have
was brainstorming some designs for a tadc au that's a little more horror-ish. Caine player-proofs the circus after being corrupted and it turns out to be Not A Very Good Idea for the players' wellbeing
basic lore below :]