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tsunamiwavesurfing:

tsunamiwavesurfing:

i think im gonna commit seppuku

i never elaborated on this post but since i made it thru the ordeal a stronger man here what happened:

my mother came thru to visit me and like i was in the middle of a deathmatch so i got up and opened the door and ran to my controller and forgot i left the laptop open she got in and went to the living room and my joint was there open and some full screen high fidelity shesfreaky.com head action goin on and im so into the game i forgot i let my mother in but then i got killed and remembered then i notice she was mad silent so i look to my right and she squinting at the laptop bruh i felt my whole world crumble i lost all my strength and resigned to a hermit life of total isolation from relatives and society in the space of 0.13 seconds i ain’t even got up fast my knees jammed up i remembered my dog “teacher” from when i was 6 then i remembered my first girl “janine” i tried to remember my father but i ain’t seen that nigga in so long all i visualized was a mustache i finally got up and with every step i took it was another second of my mother watchin shorty go dumb on the dick with the nigga adlibin “yeah bitch get my dick wet you know i like my dick wet” smh i finally got there and managed to muster the force necessary in my right hand to close the laptop my mother aint say shit but the horror in her eyes my guy lemme tell you there was a brief moment of silence then she just asked me to read the instructions on this lasagna base thing and retreated to the kitchen like enemy infantry when confronted with something terrible i think in her heart she lost a son in those 15 seconds of nastiness i aint even try to explain i just called my older brother to say “goodbye” he said “damn…………….well, its not that bad” that pause between the damn and the rest of the sentence made me realize how bad it was i just laid there contemplating where god went wrong when he made me that when i made the original seppuku post nearly a month after the ordeal im finally gettin a hold of my life again and what kept me goin was the fact that at least it wasn’t my itunes open and she ain’t see how many plays destiny’s child’s “cater 2 u” got on my joint

bobbityhobbity:

werewolfau:

khiravaggio:

caribbeanheaux:

vondell-txt:

ganondilf:

I’ve seen so many cartoon show pitches sent my way where the setup is brown haired white boy with crush on popular girl, moody goth girl and third friend who is black and a super nerd genius

Like literally so many pitches use this set up its weird

im so interested in the Black Nerd Boy Tertiary Friend trope in cartoons i have never understood why it’s SUCH a thing

Isnt this just danny phantom

nah. Ned’s declassified school survival guide, teen titans (kinda), kim possible, fairly odd parents… the tertiary black nerdy friend is definitely a thing

it’s a trope born of ‘trying to appear diverse and DEFINITELY NOT RACIST’. you don’t really want the character as the main character (or you created the main character and went ‘oh shit’). you tend to need the nerd-genius in a bunch of high school-outsider style stories. you don’t want to appear racist, so making the black kid the nerd is SAFE it’s NOT WRITING A THUG SO I MUST BE WRITING A ~REAL~ CHARACTER, etcetcetc

This actually goes way beyond cartoons. Throughout the late 80s and 90s, in a lot of technology-driven thrillers, a lot of the computer geeks are black men. Ving Rhames in Mission: Impossible and Joe Morton in Terminator 2 are paradigmatic examples, but you can also look at Die Hard, The Lost World, Minority Report, The Hunt for Red October, etc. etc. There’s actually a book written about it. It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but the idea that it’s a short cut to “positive,” politically correct representation is part of the book’s thesis. But the bigger part of the argument looks at the ways in which those films betray a fundamental unease with technology that interacts with race in weird ways. Almost all of those films are anti-tech in some way or another, and the idea is that perhaps this is a fear that needs to be displaced by making the black man the intermediary. To quote the author:

Fears about the dehumanizing disembodying effects of information technology and fears of the black male body work as mutually reinforcing impulses behind popular depictions of black males as computer experts. In this equation cyberphobic whiteness – fearing technology’s capacity to disembody humanity, to take bodies out of the circuit of action – unconsciously projects technology onto the one set of bodies that it most fears.

It’s a wild argument, but interesting. Once you are aware of this pattern in 80s/90s action films, you start seeing examples everywhere. My guess is that this trend (whatever its conscious or unconscious source) seeped into cartoons and kids shows.