// Sometimes I want to just cry.//

karnythia:

blackamazon:

grrspit:

Hearing about the experiences of other black people, knowing I’m not alone or “crazy” (scarequotes on purpose) or overreacting or seeing patterns that aren’t there or over-analyzing or any of the things I’m routinely accused of doing.

Thank you.

THIS RIGHT HERE IS MY POINT.

It’s why when people go it’s just the web/fanfiction/tumblr I tend to go demonblood postal service express.

That in so many of our liberal/feminist/fandom/food/culture discussions were treated as a marauding HOARD of orcs and grgons because usually the discussions happen in spaces where we can be shouted down, need grades, money or jobs, etc etc 

They depend on VIOLENCE or the implicit/explicit threat of it to keep the “civility”

so no the purpose of these condos is NOT always education

some of it is straight

I SEE YOU FAM! 

I see you struggling I been there and I KNOW 

I KNOW

you have to leave and go offline and be in these VIOLENT spaces 

but here ?

We got you

and it ain’t perfect, all good, always correct or maybe even all that healthy but

SHIT

it’s more than we have gotten FOR more time than we ever want to think bout without some form of emotion suppressing coping mechanism.

Yes, I have gone straight ride or die for people who I do not know simply because I see what is happening to them & I have been there & I know how awful it is to face those moments without backup. The sarcastic, snarky, macros & profanity brigade that shows up? Not there to teach anyone shit. We’re running triage & drawing fire. That’s it. That’s all.

I can’t make a 17 year old girl’s teacher stop sexualizing her and under grading her.

But if I can back up some trolls of her by cussing and stomping.

we do what we can

(via so-treu)