Let's stop walking on eggshells on our own accounts and revive the tried-and-true belief: I can post what I want on my account.
If your mutuals don't like what they see, they know how to curate their experience. If they unfollow, they're not your people anyway (and that's okay).
Thai actor Namna Thanthai has named Mingyu of SEVENTEEN as a kpop idol that made him embrace his own skintone:
"He's the person who made me feel confident about my own skin tone."
I’m so fucking sick of seeing creatives I admire or interact with being driven off of fandom spaces or social media cause of how toxic or irresponsible others are with how they act towards others. Learn how to think twice before you end up causing irreparable damage.
I never liked that people write it off that wanting some type of acknowledgement is immediately a bad thing.
Humans are a social species. We are built around community. All of this talk about villages and fostering community online, and you'd hope it would click for people +
In 1688 Barbados banned drums because the colonizers realized the enslaved were using drums to talk and organize, particularly in the 1675 Cuffee rebellion. This explains how they would have communicated quickly islabdwide
@LostBlueJay one time I very politely said something wasn’t my thing but I really wanted to know what others liked about it and everyone screamed at me in the comments like I massacred their entire family can we please just have proper discourse
I used to love blue contacts but after seeing kpop idols with the worst blue eyed stares of all time it spooked me away from that. maybe we simply aren’t meant to have blue eyes as poc…