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So how much does a bad bitch cost or a boss bitch?🤣🤣

If, according to Kanye West, one good girl is worth a thousand bitches, and if, according to Lil Wayne, bitches come a dime a dozen, it means that one good girl is worth $8.33 USD (2015).

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#stoprasicm

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For all the photographers out there.

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video originally from @comediandjpryor on instagram 

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I don’t if anyone has shared this but I just found it on fb and it made me 🥺

REST IN PARADISE KING 👑

credit: IG:_courtney_luv

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I love this!

My mom sent this to me and i’m howling

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I'm weak!😂😂😂😂

The Great Smudge - Table Cat

Via Lancelot Falk

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Webcomics w/ Black Leads

I was wondering how many webcomics there were out there with black protagonists (for my own reference). Then I figured plenty of other folks would love to see a list. So heeeeere we go! (Please reblog and add more!) 

AGENTS OF THE REALM by Mildred Louis

NIBI by Gyimah Gariba

DEMON STREET by Aliza Layne

VIBE by Dan Ciurczak

BALDERDASH by Victoria Goog

STAR TRIP by Gisele Jobateh

SCHOOL SPIRIT (FRESH ROMANCE) by Kate Leth & Arielle Jovellanos

ALL OUR CUTS AND BRUISES by My Sjögren Blücher

STEVE’S STORY (KHAOS KOMICS) by Tab Kimpton

DEMON HUNTER KAIN by Burrell Gill Jr.

SAFE HAVENS by Bill Holbrook

THE SUBSTITUTES by Myisha Haynes

VALOROUS TALES by Dashawn Mahone

M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder

THE IMMORTAL NADIA GREENE by Jamal Campbell

PRINCESS LOVE PON by Shauna J. Grant

AS THE CROW FLIES by Melanie Gillman

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It will happen! 😆😆

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Diversity in pop culture is an issue that is a hell of a lot more important than it sounds on paper. Why should it matter who appears in a story if it’s just escapist entertainment?

One reason is that entertainment tends to unintentionally carry subtext about normalcy in the societies entertainment portrays. What kind of people can be heroes or leaders? What kind of people are scummy or evil? Who can fall in love with whom? And what descriptive traits do we use to describe someone as “normal”?

We don’t mean to, but we tend to look to entertainment for these answers. Children especially, who tend to live in very controlled environments, look for role models and learn all kinds of things about our world through the entertainment they enjoy. 

I talk about all this as background for the three Peanuts strips above. These strips were published in the summer of 1968, and introduced Franklin, the first black character to appear in Charles Schultz’s newspaper cartoon. The story behind Franklin’s inception didn’t happen naturally, and actually began just two weeks after Martin Luther King was assassinated. 

A schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman, moved by Dr. King’s life and the shock of his assassination, wrote a letter to Schultz, requesting he add more black characters to Peanuts. 

Schultz was at first reluctant to fulfill Glickman’s request , not because of prejudice, but rather a fear of being patronizing and condescending. But he was eventually convinced by further letters from Glickman and some of her African American friends, and so Schultz created Franklin. 

The inclusion of Franlkin brought controversy and uproar from readers and editors alike to Schultz door for inviting a black character to befriend Charlie Brown and attend a desegregated school with him. But Schultz stood by his word to Glickman, and Franklin became a regular character in Peanuts from then on out. He never became a major character anywhere near the status Charlie, Snoopy, or Lucy, but he was important as one of the few black characters in mid-century American comic strips to be portrayed as a child no different from the rest of the Peanuts cast. 

I got most of the info in this post about the history of Franklin from this article that you can read by clicking here. I highly recommend that you read it so that you can read the complete correspondence that lead Schultz to create Franklin. It’s incredibly eloquent and has a lot of great insight into the importance of diversity in popular culture. 

And if you want to hear me yak even more about how great Peanuts is, you can click here to check out a post I wrote back in the summer about the classic series. 

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Super dope artists! My all time favorite show!

a scene from one of my favorite episodes from one of my favorite shows. this started as a warmup but i finished it, cuz why not?

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Dope!

If Brand Names Were Anime Characters

Credit: @sillvi_illustrations

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I had some Skottie books he's creative with babies. 🔥🔥

“A-Babies vs. X-Babies” By Skottie Young.