Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
I actually have money/time to commission stuff, but when I think about going to my favorite artists I'm filled with the terror that all of my ideas are so so cringe and they'll hate working on my stuff so I turn that feeling into food and eat it instead
RT @IAmGryphoneer@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IAmGryphoneer/status/1405330206173315076
Instead of lamenting the lack of material victories when we score a symbolic one, let's use the momentum of a symbolic victory to push HARDER for material ones.
Positive energy + positive intention helps us stay in the fight longer, friends
Now that Juneteenth is a federally-recognized holiday, let's use our day off to agitate for an end to voter suppression!
+ Call your congresspeople.
+ Educate yourself about voter suppression AND what YOU can do to stop it!
+ Join marches, rallies, and other events!
I'll always advocate showing people grace where it's warranted. Yes, there are bad-faith actors out there and people who are only "pretending" to not get it just to waste everyone's precious time.
But we're good enough to tell the difference, and to be patient when it counts.
I don't begrudge people who need time to understand, accept, and respond to their privilege. It's not an easy process, and expecting people to just jump to the end immediately makes it so much harder.
That being said, PLEASE AT LEAST commit to the process, people.
I'm a cis male, and that brings me a certain societal privilege that has nothing to do with being Black and gay. It's uncomfortable sitting with that, but not more uncomfortable than the friction women and trans friends have to deal with. I'm still learning how to recognize that.
We all want to believe we're good people, and that includes the mistaken belief that our success is due to the exercise of our virtues.
But that's not how it works. Success is not up to us. We are born into privilege based on arbitrary and unfair social rules.
This is better suited for a blog, but:
I think what people call "white fragility" is actually a very human reaction to evidence you've benefited from an inherently unjust system (mostly) through no choice of your own.
It's hard to know what to do with that.
RT @KoboldPress@twitter.com
Squirrel-folk NPCs, just what you needed!
https://koboldpress.com/ratatosk-squirrel-folk-of-midgard/
#dnd, #dnd5e
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KoboldPress/status/1405178672546451459
We need to think about how folks rehabilitate back into our spaces. There are many examples of how not to do it, but each of us should consider what redemption looks like for these folks.
Otherwise, we're telling people there is no room for change at all.
RT @BreeNewsome@twitter.com
Allowing people the grace to correct themselves after f*ing up is essential to improving society itself—assuming people genuinely want to correct themselves. Otherwise there’s no point in changing behavior if any error signals social death.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1404477754435948552
RT @NPR@twitter.com
Richard and Mildred Loving's marriage was deemed illegal because she was Black and Native American and he was white. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won. "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling. https://trib.al/DyMO66L
Ayyyyyyyy writers of color! Come apply with me to this free Afrofuturist Summer Workshop! :D :D
RT @voodoonauts@twitter.com
Calling all Afrofuturists🚀We’re excited to announce that the Voodoonauts Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers is back! The free workshop will take place online Aug 1-3. Instructors & guest speakers to be announced soon. Application deadline: June 30.
https://forms.gle/ApJp7jPY4akwECDAA
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/voodoonauts/status/1400093480043569159
HIRE TEASELBONE FOR FOGHORN LEGHORN CARTOONS 2021 CHALLENGE
RT @WBLooneyTunes@twitter.com
@Teaselbone@twitter.com @alanna@twitter.com gonna go out on a limb here and say he's never looked better
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WBLooneyTunes/status/1402743693837324289
RT @adultswim@twitter.com
We're bad at consumer products
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/1401901765688279040
RT @RudolfWolph@twitter.com
This hits a bit different as an adult
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RudolfWolph/status/1402433464935272453
RT @OkieSpaceQueen@twitter.com
I own a portable planetarium and I take it to rural areas to show people the universe. I mostly visit schools but I'm cool going to churches and community events.
Sometimes (often) I get flat earth believers who end up in the planetarium. Here's how I handle that. 🧵1/17
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OkieSpaceQueen/status/1402243921560883202
RT @UzamakiJ@twitter.com
“CAPTAAAAAIN!!” Captain, my Man the borg are here! We gon die!
Putting together a Pride Month Jeopardy! board for work and I am LEGIT EXCITED
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
