White society: refuses to recognize, showcase, and celebrate black beauty.
Black women: points out the problem
White society: “stop bitching, if you want to see better representation than you have to do something about it yourselves”
Black women: *creates their own spaces to celebrate black beauty
White society: “that’s racist, you shouldn’t exclude people”
White society: limits mobility for black actors and entertainers,
especially in film and television / caters media specifically to white
audiences
Black people: points out the problem
White society: “stop bitching, make something yourself”
Black people: creates own networks, award shows, and films and
television specifically catered to black audiences and with the express
purpose of giving more jobs and better visibilitiy to black artists.
White society: “that’s racist, white people don’t have their own
channels and award shows; also. . black films? Entertainment should be
made for everybody.”
White society: continues to treat blacks as second class and unprotected citizens
Black people: CALMLY points out the problem
White society: “not our problem”
Black people: creates black movement to protest the problem, through which some results finally start showing
White society: “that’s divisive, ALL LIVES MATTER… also this is not
how you achieve results, you need to be more calm and civil, like my
bff MLK!”
Wrestling in the 20th Century frequently used racial stereotypes of all ethnicities to define heroes and villains. One of the most common was the Native American trope, exemplified with a giant headdress and the appellation “Chief.” In some cases, these performers were white, but more often the wrestlers were Indigenous athletes who saw their only road to success as playing up the white man’s stereotypes.
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
AO3 has reached 25,000 fandoms! To celebrate, we’ve put together info about fandom tags and how all tags work: https://goo.gl/W4wPxH
Hey folks who use AO3 - please read and reblog widely. In addition to the celebration of our 25,000th canonical fandom, this post contains some great tips for making our tagging system work for you.
As a Support Staffer and Tag Wrangler for AO3, I beg you:
Among the tips:
Separate your / and & ships / is for romantic and/or sexual
relationships. & is for platonic relationships only – ones that are
neither sexual nor romantic. (Pre- and Post-Relationship are still /.)
& was created for those Gen fans who don’t want anything
non-platonic in the ships they’re searching for. You can help both Gen
fans and shippers by carefully choosing the tag that matches your work!
Look, I know you’re writing a slow burn where the friendship aspect of the relationship is important. I applaud that; I love it in my romantic pairings. But it’s a /, not a &. Please save & for those of us who want to find the three truly and purely gen fics for a popular romantic ship.
Folks, I LOVE AO3, please read and share!
As someone relatively new to using AO3, I did not really realise this. *goes back to check tags* THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.
TAG WRANGLING: For Pairings
/ is for romantic or sexual relationships
& is for platonic, non-romantic, non-sexual relationships
*shoves at certain fandoms who shall remain nameless mfmm*
.@modysoul & I are VerizonQwest and we are doing 1,000,000,000,000 scenes tonight at 8pm! Then, The Neighborhood has @stevenbshaffer as our guest at 9pm! All @thetorchtheatre!
