Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space

I did not expect my face to get fucking rocked off my skull by Masters of the Universe: Revelation, but here we are, faceless, because it's been rocked off

This is one of the few YT videos where it's worth reading the comments, too. So many people sharing the things they're surviving and how this song helped to get them to the other side. <3 <3 <3

Jamming to Florence + the Machine this morning. I know I've shared this a few times, but COME ON THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE BANGER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU

After two consecutive 6 AM training meetings I am *dragging*. All I can think about is flopping out and sleeping on a giant snow leopard

"inflate all bigots big and round 2021 challenge"

Anyway, here's Wonderwall

...and then finding that fandom propping up artists who are just as invested in excluding you and hating you as the rest of the world.

How could you not be upset about that? How could the call for "keeping politics out of fandom" not drive you crazy?

...you have to deal with the effects of centuries of racism limiting where you can live, the quality of medical care, what kind of food is available, the wealth you can access...coming home to a fandom that prides itself on diversity and acceptance...

Imagine moving through a world where everyone looks at you like you're a menace, you work a job where you get paid less than white counterparts and have to swallow indignities large and small, you pay taxes to a government upholding your own oppression...

And people wonder why black furries are so mad and loud all the time. It's because so many big names in this fandom still have outsized support despite pointing a finger at people like me and going "You're terrible and I hate you"

If it isn't some popular furry doubling down on being racist, it's scientific studies showing how racism makes life harder in every aspect, or politics advancing racist practices with or without the 'racist' bits obscured for plausible deniability

Like, seriously, every day I there's something on my feed that reminds me of how invested society is in my disenfranchisement, disrespect, even death.

It's exhausting. All I want to do is be a dorky fey rabbit online but I can never forget I'm Black.

If you think it's hard being on this site because people are always looking for ways to 'cancel' you for problematic statements about minorities, imagine being the minority in question and having to be reminded just how many popular people are bigoted against you all the time

I kinda feel like Donald Glover carrying pizzas to Twitter this morning