#cw: anti-blackness

[eddiescouch]

What??

sorry this has taken me so long to answer. The brain wasn't cooperating.

I'm talking about Askia Khafra, 21, who died while digging tunnels for an undergound bunker for Daniel Beckwitt, 30, in 2017. An electrical fire started in the tunnels and a combination of hoarding conditions, and Daniel abandoning him, lead to his death. It's relevant to note through all this that Askia is black and Daniel is white. If you want the full details, there's an excellent documentary done with a lot of love for the family and their cooperation that I'll link at the end. This is the cliff notes of it.

Askia met Daniel while chatting on an investment forum. Askia had been trying and failing to get startup capital for his business. Originally he had tried for the Thiel Fellowship, which required him to drop out of college. During that time, Daniel had been giving Askia advice and offered to invest. After he failed to get the fellowship, Daniel also stopped replying to him for weeks.

Eventually Askia messaged Daniel begging for help, saying that he would do literally anything from taking on the investment as debt (over $10,000), working minimum wage, or both by working directly for Daniel. Daniel took him up on that and hired him for $150/day to dig tunnels under his house for a bomb shelter in case North Korea decided to nuke them.

Daniel was a maladjusted recluse who considered himself a hacker. Some of his favorite hobbies were literally harassing the Phone Losers of America (a phone phreaking group with an attitude a few shades nicer than 4chan), spending time on actual 4chan, and trying to remotely destroy a hard drive with things like thermite. In his dorm room. After the FBI was called to investigate him for hacking his school network, they ended up having to call the bomb squad and they found enough evidence to arrest him on. To celebrate he had an AMA on 4chan. Ultimately he was expelled from college.

Don't worry! Though he was kicked out in disgrace he returned home to an inheritance of over two million dollars which he invested into bitcoin and made multi-millions. That was how he ended up in the position to invest in Askia's business.

Though the two actually only lived a few miles apart, Daniel kept Askia literally in the dark by blindfolding him, extending the drive to his house for hours, and leading him by key-lanyard into the house. Askia thought he was in Virginia, miles away, until he smuggled in a gps and realized he was actually at Daniel's home. Askia would be kept there for days, sometimes weeks at a time. He was only ever allowed in the basement and tunnels which had no bathroom save for a bucket for waste. A mattress, microwave, mini fridge, and ceiling fan made up the amenities. The only way for Askia to contact Daniel was through google voice, not an actual telephone, or banging on the wall when the wifi went out in the tunnels which happened frequently.

The night of the fire Askia tried multiple times to alert Daniel that something was wrong. Six hours from when Askia messaged him, Daniel flipped the house breakers and responded acknowledging the 'major electrical failure' but that Askia should 'just put it on a different circuit'. Over the next five hours Daniel would receive three more messages from Askia, including one saying he definitely smelled smoke, and ignored the alert from the first floor carbon monoxide detector. He continued to believe the only issue was a power outage and only tried flipping breakers to fix the issue.

On the return from his last trip down into the basement, where he had not checked on Askia, he heard an explosion back in the basement and smoke began to pour up into the first floor. Daniel went back outstairs and shouted for Askia, trying to warn him about the fire. He heard Askia yell back with a drowsy tone that would have easily pointed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Despite assuming that Askia was very close to him, he didn't try to go to him, help him, or even call to direct him to the safe side of the basement. Instead he ran outside and called for help.

Firefighters found Askia, naked, lying on his back on top of a power generator. He was in the laundry room, like Daniel had assumed, and was actually only steps away from Daniel if he'd tried to save him. Askia was so badly burned he could only be identified by dental record.

Daniel was sued by Askia's family for wrongful death in 2018, and sued by the county to have the tunnels filled in which has not yet been done. In 2019, Daniel was put on trial and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and second degree depraved heart murder. Though the minimum sentence for a depraved heart murder is 10 years, the judge only served him nine while praising him for his intelligence. This was further reduced to five years, and in 2022 he got probation with five years of probation and 250 hours off community service, after only three years in prison.

#true crime #murder #cw: anti-blackness #true crime documentary #Oki's weird stories

[greencatalystcomet]

cant believe jkr created a prison that forces you to relive all of your worst memories, put a fairly major character in that prison for twelve years without a trial, and then just... didnt make it a commentary on the justice system OR the prison system. just like "lol thats a quirky thing that happened just for plot reasons, no bearing on reality tho"

#sirius black #sirius orion black #sirius in azkaban #harry potter #hp #fuck jkr #anti jkr #screw jkr #tw jkr mention #i do not support jkr #jkr is trash #cw jkr

[punkitt-is-here]

u guys just be saying shit at me all the time. you cant just say "there's a lot of stuff going around about this person" you sound like a gossiping old lady. either provide me with reputable sources or don't bother sending me an ask, randomly shitting on people anonymously is how misinfo spreads.

#reminds of that time someone told me kekeflipnote was anti black and transphobic #like the black queer animator??? whos been notoriously trans positive??? #like okay he made a tasteless joke many many years ago. people grow goddamnit #anyway #my posts #asks #anon #cw transphobia

[punkeropercyjackson]

Tw for sex talk but what fanon only Jason Todd stans would know if they bothered to read his comics is that Jason actually DOES have kinks and they're rough sex(Rose in Future State),pegging(implied with Artemis by the official Rhato artist)and even daddy kink like they're always talking about with Roy,Slade,Black Mask and even his own goddamn dad and older brother but it manifests in the recieving end(shown for a split sec in Lost Days).It's also canon incest is one of his limit's(saying he's grossed out at kissing any of his four brothers)and that he kills sexual abusers and pedophiles(pushing a sex ring runner off a roof as Robin and targeting a creepy teacher with that as the basis).But then they can't make 'daddy issues' jokes about him the way they want or have him brag about fucking Talia to violate Damian's boundries as a literal child over nothing or especially not guiltlessly ship him with Stephanie since if they have meet anywhere pre-Rhato he'd be in his 20s and her a minor and Kon and all of Tim's exes other than Steph are still minors.You can't call 'vibes' or 'coping' on him,he's straight up said he dosen't do dark kinks-Jason Todd's not a freak in the sheets,he's just a guy who fucks with vanilla flavors added

#jason todd #pro jason todd #latino jason todd #afrolatino jason supremacy #trans jason todd #autistic jason todd #jayrose #jaytemis #jayeddie #jaykyle #roy harper #anti slade wilson #bruce wayne #dick grayson #antijayroy #anti batcest #antiproship #batfam #rhato #the outlaws #dead sidekicks force #team dual #the anomalies #pedophillia tw #grooming cw #familial abuse cw #x black!reader #smut #summerposting #lemon

[troythecatfish]

The fact that she sums up being Black as cornrows and Motown offers great insight into why in Harry Potter she gave her only Irish character the name Seamus Finnegan, the most notable Black character Kingsley Shacklebolt and the only East Asian character Cho Chang. Part of me wants to engage with this line of thinking and explain why race and gender are structurally very different despite both being social constructs and then I remember that none of these people actually care about that shit.

#social justice #current events #human rights #important #jk rowling #harry potter #hogwarts legacy #hp #tw jkr mention #cw jkr #fuck jkr #anti jkr #screw jkr #jkr is trash #i do not support jkr #threads #threads app #racist #racism #racisim #black lives matter #blm #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #trans community #trans rights #queer #queer community

[controversialhpmemes]

#anti marauders fandom #anti marauders fanon #fat shaming #fatphobia #cw fatphobia #peter pettigrew #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #the marauders #marauders #marauders era

[cancerian-woman]

Kat Graham spoke on the Driven Minds podcast as a guest. She detailed mental health, health, having boundaries and even given some thoughts on how that has changed her life or blended with her career. She’s very aware that she and Bonnie had plenty of disadvantages than her co-stars and other characters because of her race. Whether that be love interests, clothing, hair or Bonnie having agency. To quote her directly: “had I been a caucasian female I do think the writing would’ve been different”

It’s just as important to hear this from her perspective first and foremost as much as the fans rallied behind her then and now.

#bonnie bennett #anti tvd #kat graham #anti Julie Plec #anti the vampire diaries #anti Caroline dries #anti Carina Mackenzie #anti the cw #she’s always hinted at this topic but it’s good to hear her speak on it #black women deserve to be seen as equal in their work spaces

[gins-stim-emporium]

cicero fryman (hl: google translate) stimboard ! (for me ^_^ )

black mesa / armor / goggles

awful slime / 💬 / school fight

gas mask / hand stim / research facility

#gin stim #welcome to the new hyperfixation gin stim nation #art in the middle by meee > < #stimboard #stim gif #cicero fryman #half life google translate #freemanverse #half life au #blue stim #orange stim #black stim #grey stim #gray stim #anti stim #cursed stim #cw fast gif #tw fast gif #cw violence #tw violence #body stim #technology stim #clothing stim

[londonclubofsherwood]

Thinking about Roy Harper's characterisation in the outlaws as an outcast/failed sidekick/guy no one returns the calls of, and how it paints a horrifying picture of the justice league. In Snowbirds don't fly Oliver Queen initially reacted badly, but Hal Jordan and Dinah Lance helped him. Ollie learnt his lesson, and twice the amount of justice league members had his back. If his only help came from killer croc then every single member of the superhero community, the literal good guys, rejected a guy struggling through a disease. That is so depressing, and stigmatising for people who's struggle with addiction.

#Oliver queen #green arrow #roy harper #arsenal #hal jordan #green lantern #dinah lance #black canary #justice league #anti red hood and the outlaws new 52 #cw drug addiction

[2rats1gogh]

reasons why i’m ignoring the fact that Aegon is a rapist in the show:

1. it doesn’t affect the plot AT ALL. It doesn’t affect his relationship with Alicent (it was already pretty bad) it doesn’t affect his relationship with Helaena, or their kids, it doesn’t affect his relationship with Otto or Rhaenyra or literally anyone. Dyana doesn’t even exist in the book. She was made by the creators of the show with the one and only purpose of putting Aegon and team green in bad light. Like that detail is just a cheap and unnecessary addition to make us dislike him. Aegon’s main problems should’ve been that he is irresponsible alcoholic, neglects his kids and doesn’t want to be king. That is who he was supposed to be. And overcoming all that was his character arc. Taking responsibility and deciding to protect his family was his character arc. It’s literally never mentioned again. It has no consequences. Dyana doesn’t appear anymore and I don’t think she will in season 2. Everyone just got over it as if it never happened (because it literally shouldn’t have).

for example, you can’t take away/ignore the fact that Viserys is pretty much a rapist because his actions have LOTS of consequences and directly affect the plot. It damages Alicent’s mental stability, it causes her to get pregnant and give birth to new characters, the sole birth of Aegon causes the entire fucking Dance.

One may argue that Daemon doesn’t kill his first wife in the first book, and therefore making him do that in the show was wrong, but at least in the show it fucking affects the plot. Rhea was supposed to die anyway, so by making Daemon kill her (which tbh was kind of implied in the books anyway) it: a) makes Daemon a widower and that allows him to get married again b) makes everyone around him get suspicious c) foreshadows his abusive behavior towards his next two wives, especially Rhaenyra

Rhaenyra kind of raping Criston and essentially using him as a prostitute, also has its effects like a) it causes Criston to go in an entirely opposite direction and switch sides and join Alicent b) it gives Rhaenyra experience in sex and makes her wanna have sex with more men and stuff

But Aegon being a rapist has no long-lasting effect, it was done for no reason. It causes nothing, it doesn’t change anything. It was entirely unnecessary.

that’s it, thanks for everyone’s attention.

#aegon ii targaryen #aegon targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon #asoiaf #fire and blood #team green #pro team green #anti team black #aegon the second #aegon the elder #tw rape #cw rape #tw rap3 #cw rap3 #tw sa mention

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

every now and then i remember the time a few years ago, when sdmi fandom first had its revival thanks to netflix, when a wildly popular sdmi blog run by an anti said the words 'perfectly good Black woman' in reference to why you should ship [man you could easily read as white, whose arc she was fridged for] with her instead of [hatesink character whose race is ambiguous due to being a furry, but has a BLISTERINGLY antiblack narrative under a thin layer of fantasy racism, with a fun side of homophobia and holocaust denial the latter of which is directly invoked in the post], which got hundreds of notes, and i grimace my face through the back of my head all over again lmao

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #cassidy williams #ricky owens #professor pericles #like man i'm sorry i really do love rickidy and their dynamic and it's rich and complex and deeply tragic on both sides #but they textbook fridged her and i have never once seen someone talk about that in the wild #instead there is just nearly-always-antis being blatantly balls-out racist about her in like a dozen different ways and EUGH #while also turning around and gushing about a privileged misogynistic white boy who abuses a girl and refuses to let her leave #and literally talks about how he should have thought of hiding a tracking chip under her skin without her knowledge #and this is treated as silly + cute and kinda immature but also About His Trauma Making Him Abuse Her; and they get back together in the en #and making endless posts about how he's Cute Tragic Best Boy because he's autistic and traumatized and (genuinely!) endearing #and reblogging and celebrating and cheering on Cute Art of Them while conspicuously not shaming or excommunicating anyone l o l #you're not required to hate fred over it but god damn dude fuckin yikes #and 'perfectly good Black woman' made me physically recoil from my screen lmfao #racism cw #misogyny cw #antiblack racism cw #abuse apologia cw #homophobia cw #holocaust denial cw #the salt files #the crit files #SDMItag

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

When I engage with the Silmarilion fandom it’s always very educational and enlightening no matter what side they’re on regarding Finwe and his sons. But whenever I interact with the HoTD fandom it’s always “you’re condoning XYZ and therefore you’re a horrible person!!!” Or doing mental gymnastics to try to justify whichever atrocities their side committed.

Thematically both stories are quite similar. We can find parallels with Rhaenyra and Feanor but even at his worst (Pulling a sword on Fingolfin, First kinslaying, burning of the ships etc.) Feanor had never put a bounty on a toddler (Rhaenyra stating that Maelor should be bought to her dead or alive causing him to be ripped apart. Like hello??!??? How is that ever a justifiable thing to do???). I can find parallels between Feanor and Rhaenyra, sure. But if I’m honest the parallels stop with them being the only child of a kings first wife who’s father then went on to face four more kids with another women. Finwe is ten times the father Viserys was. And literally none of the kids (Feanor included) would ever take their anger out on their siblings child like we see the so called Maegor come again do.

But I digress, I was talking of the fandom. I may get heated talking about whether Feanor was right in his anger at Indis or whether Fingolfin should’ve absolutely demanded more reparations from the sons of Feanor when he crossed the ice. But I’ve never seen anyone in the Silm fandom saying that someone should die because they had an opinion.

But I’ve seen many instances of HoTD fans threatening rape and death on people who think Alicent is not the monster they portray her as, or that Rhaenyra isn’t as ‘girl boss queen slay!!!’ As people say she is. Maybe it’s because HoTD is a TV show and many of the fans haven’t read the books and therefore don’t understand nuance since the TV show focuses so much on Rhaenyra’s manifest destiny arc that team green gets painted as the ‘ultimate’ villain for our girl boss queen Rhaenyra to ascend to the throne since it’s her ‘birth right’.

Not to mention how the whole made up show canon prophecy to justify colonialism means that team black stans are really showing their true colors on what they think is right. Because guess what? The Silm also has what could be said to be as a colonizing story line with the Noldor coming to Beleriand and settling but most fans agree that the cutting up of Beleriand was very much a colonizing behavior no matter what they think of Thingol.

Point is, most HoTD fans can’t hold and intellectually simulating debate over their characters without feeling like said debater is personally attacking them since their entire personality is so deeply entwined with their fav that a critique on them would automatically equate to a critique on themselves. Therefore making it entirely impossible to have a decent conversation on the thematically very important foils that Rhaenyra and Alicent pose to each other (since they still think a good story must have a black and white view of the protagonist and the antagonist lmao).

Media illiteracy in these fandoms truly is a cancer that spreads to even the most level headed and literate individuals. Pick up a book! Understand themes and how foils are supposed to be written without internalizing criticism of your fav as a criticism of yourself! I don’t get mad when people criticize Feanor, nor do I get mad when people say I’m wrong when it comes to my own interpretation of the statue of Finwe and Miriel. It’s called having a discussion and you can only do that when you’re not on the front lines dying for a fictional character who wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire in front of them!!!

#media literacy #hotd #the silmarillion #feanor #pro alicent hightower #alicent hightower #anti team black stans #anti team black #pro team green #please I’m begging for people in this god forsaken fandom to stop defending a fictional character with your life #cw rape #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti Rhaenyra Targaryen fans #rhaenyra targaryen #as you can see I despair at the lack of reading comprehension skills and media literacy skills most team black stans have #literally head empty only girl boss slay queen omg she’s such a boss bitch!!!! #if you can’t recognize the flaws in your fav character maybe don’t debate their actions online? #like #a character having irredeemable flaws is like half the reason you like them

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Aside from how appallingly written JK Rowling’s new book is, I want to take a moment to address this particular absolute piece of fucking shit (am I talking about the author or the writing? You decide)

If she maybe took five fucking minutes to pull her head out of her ass and do her damn research, maybe she’d understand what “spoons” are and why they’re used by the disabled community (such as myself, an autistic woman)

Like other than the fact this new 1200 page book is literally just her giving herself yet another platform to whinge about being called out for being a hateful bigot on social media, with at least a dozen pages dedicated to fake tweets she’s written, this is just tasteless and ableist. Anyone supporting her by buying this book is actively participating in supporting not only transphobia, but also ableism too (and that’s just from what I’ve seen from screenshots of the pages online)

It’s laughable that anyone out there can claim she supports disabled people / women, and even more laughable that certain Fantastic Beasts fans have come to me claiming she made Newt Scamander autistic, why am I thanking Eddie over her etc, when THIS is how she herself writes autistic people. She did not make any character intentionally autistic - this is the result when she does, and it’s disgusting.

At this point, I don’t care whether you support Potter/Beasts or not, I don’t care if you want to justify buying the new Hogwarts game, I care about how you respond to this disgusting ableist bullshit. If you support Rowling in any shape or form, block me. I mean it. Block me right fucking now. I don’t give a shit, block me and fuck off.

#cw jk rowling #fuck jk rowling #jk rowling #strike cormoran #the ink black heart #anti jk rowling #ableism #tw ableism #cw ableism

[punkeropercyjackson]

I love weirdo protagonists who have real problems.Hiccup Haddock was born disabled and lost a limb in the first movie and even if he's cis(he isn't),Berk's emasculation of him counts as trans.phobia because it was specifically based on saying he's 'not a real man' because his body isn't 'manly enough' and his personality wasn't either.Stephanie Brown was born poor to an abusive dad and a drug addict mom and grew up with almost no friends despite how nice she is and that led to her letting older men exploit her because all she wanted was love and Duke Thomas is a black kid who grew up getting kicked out of schools and in and out of foster homes because his parents went insane and his actual birth dad is a deadbeat jackass.Kat Elliot is a 13 year old black girl orphan who's wards were abusive so she had to run away after being victim blamed for self-defense and fend for herself.Percy Jackson is the embodiment of audhd people who have never been able to mask and never stopped getting treated like shit for it no matter how many times they prove how cool and smart they are and she had a combo/split of Stephanie and Duke's parental situations.Miles Morales is a 15 year old afrolatino who's really lonely in his civillian life and even his superside and he got a whole speech about how he shouldn't and DOSEN'T DESERVE to exist all because he's not normal and that's shit that happens irl even if not in that exact context

I don't care about Danny Phantom and his high school incelcore bullshit with fan content by people who think he 'deserved' the fat black girl he rejected for a skinny white goth gf.I don't care about Princess Ariel having one bad interaction with her dad and reconciling with him a few days later because she proved she's a real normal straight girl by marrying Prince Midric and might have cute quirky white girl autism.I ESPECIALLY don't care about Harry Potter and the generations of people the franchise liberalized to the point they made a whole subgenre of the racist dead gay wizards from the 70s.I don't want geeks.I want freaks

#hiccup haddock #stephanie brown #duke thomas #kat elliot #percy jackson #miles morales #transfem percy jackson #httyd #batfam #wendell & wild #pjo #atsv #spiderman #black percy #latino percy #autistic percy jackson #trans hiccup #blasian stephanie brown #anti dp #ariel slander #anti harry potter #💌 #summerposting #child abuse cw #child molestation cw #< implied for stephanie

[alvariearmy]

Amazing how everyone on Team Green is supposed to just “get over” the absolutely horrendous things Team Black does to them, but Team Black is fully justified in everything they do.

Criston Cole is still upset that Rhaenyra coerced him into sex even after he said no? (Otherwise known as, raping him.) He should just get over it, she’s a strong and powerful woman who is allowed to say no even after she denied him that same choice. Why should she give up the things she values just because she forced him to give up something he valued?

Aemond is angry that Lucerys bullied him, attacked him 4v1, and cut out his eye, leaving Aemond permanently disabled and likely with chronic pain? Who cares! Lucerys was only a child, and he faced… Well, okay, he didn’t face even a hint of a consequence, but still! His mom is Rhaenyra, so he can do what he wants just like she can! And he was totally justified in everything he did to Aemond because… Aemond… spoke a truth that was obvious to anyone with eyes and a lick of common sense, then later claimed a dragon that was now unclaimed?

If they should just get over these horrific and traumatizing events, shouldn’t Team Black be able to get over things too? Lucerys died on a mission he never should have been sent on in the first place? Whatever, Rhaenyra has other children, just grow a better bond with one of them! Aemond had a spare eye, Rhaenyra has spare sons, that’s how it works, right?

#team green #pro team green #anti team black #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti rhaenyra #cw: rape mention #cw: rape #tw: rape mention #tw: rape #rape mention #rape

[controversialhpmemes]

"pRoNgSfOot iS bAsicAlLy iNcESt"

#prongsfoot supremacy #pro prongsfoot #prongsfoot #cw incest #anti marauders fandom #anti marauders #james potter #sirius black