Poc - Blog Posts

just so the world knows, i am doing inktober, but will not be uploading each entry individually (but if you’re interested they will all be on my instagram!) and here I will upload in bulk. these just happen to be my two favorites so far

Art might be coming out slower (it has been already) cuz my mental health is going to shit again sorry guys

YELLOWJACKETS SPOILERS

…yk, I’m starting to see a pattern in Yellowjackets with how most of the people who were hunted/killed in the wilderness were POC. Even after the wilderness, their deaths, like Lottie’s and Travis’s were so fucking tragic compared to some of the fair skinned MC’s deaths. And I’m not saying that to excuse the fact and say their deaths weren’t horrible just bc they were light-skinned, cause they all definitely were. Im just saying the pattern is noticeable in who they are more likely to kill off and who’s stories get to matter. Some people in this show were most of the time used as kick off/spark, shock value or helped us see how bad a character actually is. Most of the time, these were POC. The characters who they helped bring to light just happened to be fair-skinned. For example, Coach Martinez, Kristen/Crystal, Lottie, and even Travis. They were used for exactly that. And, I’m not saying light-skinned characters are bad either, they aren’t. It’s just the way they executed it wasn’t great. The writers werent as color conscious as they needed to be. And in addition to diverse character deaths being a tragity more than less, the finale ep left a bad taste in my mouth honestly. Keeping and cutting Mari’s hair basically as a trophy? Stripping, dragging her body, and hanging her by her feet to a tree with no remorse, just to humiliate her one last time. And Ik the hunt was used a “distraction” but the way it was done was so violent and dehumanizing. Yes, morals are out of the question bc it’s the wilderness, but it’s still cruel nonetheless. Javi was practically used as a sacrificial lamb, not even a person fr, he was strung up like a freaking pig. And the way the fandom treats the ethinically diverse characters vs how they treat lighter-skinned characters is crazy to me. Cause the same way Travis was treated for being misogynistic should be the way people should treat Shauna for being a flat out dictator and shitty person.

-Atlas.

Havin Conservative Parents is Fun

Y'all, I'm tired of trying to talk with my Dad about the US, cuz he'll say the we're struggling, and I'll chip in with a statistic (this time it was that the average income for an American is under $40K a year after taking out the top thousand people), and he'll start trying to explain how it's the fault of immigrants, or black people, or women, or queer people.

Mom's kinda mildly upset that I don't really talk with him, and I've tried to explain to her that not only do I disagree with him (them, but she's a bit calmer in her bigotry), but I myself am hurt by what he says (as a bisexual woman-ish person). And what does she say, Everytime? That he's had a different life, and that he's older, and that he doesn't have the same capacity for emotions as I do.

I can respect that to a certain degree, but we're not about to pretend like that shit doesn't actually fuckin harm people- and not just "hurting their sensitive feelings"- people are killed because of this kind of blaming and hate these people with "less capacity for difference" spew

Why I hate gender abolitionism

(Sincerely, a Native)

I FUCKING LOVE HAVING THE HUMANIZED MANE 6 PORTRAYED AS QUEER POC

THEY REMIND ME OF FRIENDS I WISH I HAD

(the mane 6 are already explicitly queer-coded, but you get my point)