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Juneteenth is about Black people who were officially technically supposed to be freed from enslavement. Nobody else. Nothing else. It's not a POC day. It's not a "freedom for all" day. It's Black folk, Black culture, Black emancipation, SPECIFICALLY. Any other observation for Juneteenth is gentrification.

At CrossBones Graveyard, the unconsecrated mass burial ground for sex workers, the poor, and those who took their own lives is now marked by a beautiful garden and lovingly tended to by caretakers who see it as a sacred space. There are also clergy who do regular services of remembrance, regret, and reconciliation to apologize for the wrongs of the church and to honor the dead. There are no headstones here but there are flowers and bees and healing herbs and pilgrims who come from all over to pay their respects to the outcast dead of London.

Okay this needs to be said and it needs to be said loudly.

STOP WRITING FAMILY/PARENT/DOMESTIC READER INSERT FICS AND ASSIGNING THE CHILDREN FEATURES ATTRIBUTED TO WHITE PEOPLE!!!!

Literally, nothing feels more exclusionary and hurtful than to get excited to read a fluffy domestic fic, only to read about children described as having “Chris’ blue eyes” or “Steve’s blonde hair”. You are making it very apparent that you aren’t writing with POC in mind and that you only write for the white readers in the fandom.

Same with writing for “y/n” and writing about messy buns, silky straight hair, and white features. (Yet you all have no problem writing that y/n has ‘plump’ lips) Stop cherry picking features that are palatable to you, when you claim to be writing for everyone.

Maybe try writing original characters instead of reader insert if you want to describe a character/family as having specific features, but don’t project your white beauty standards on a whole fandom because not all of us are white and again, you are making it pretty clear that you aren’t writing with the intent of the reader possibly being a POC.

(And pls don’t use the excuse ‘some POC have blue eyes/blonde hair’, while that is in fact true, it is still not accurately representative of ALL POC, so just don’t do it??)

I have no idea why some of you have issues writing reader characters with ambiguous features or simply not describing their features at all?? It’s truly not integral to the story to specifically describe hair colors/eye colors/skin colors if it is reader insert.

Anyways. This has been on my mind for YEARS and I’m putting it into the universe because this shit is getting tiring and there are really no excuses for it.

More of this! Insurrection needs consequences.

You break the law? You get a trial. Get convicted? Lose your elected office. Simple.

Our system is broken.  It is cruel.  It is dehumanizing, degrading, and it’s vile nature is so, so unnecessary.

We need universal healthcare today in America.  We needed it 40 years ago.  It’s cheaper, it’s simpler, it’s more efficient, it’s more effective and it is so, so, so much less cruel than what we have.

Additional sources/references:

Universal Healthcare Cost in America would be cheaper by trillions of dollars

The US has worse life expectancies than socialized healthcare countries

We have worse generalized healthcare results

We have the most expensive care

Our system is so cruel and unique that doctors from other countries literally can’t believe what happens here

I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this.  There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways.  I can tell you when, though.

Now.

Wednesday Addams said fuck colonialism and americas narrative of watering down and erasing the history of indigenous genocide by white washing it AS SHE FUCKING SHOULD ‼️‼️

The Boys Next Door

*First Actual Series Alert*

Bucky Barnes x Black!Female!Reader x Steve Rogers

College was hard enough. Now you’ve moved into your dream home and are surrounded by beautiful men. You let one whisk you off your feet but when he’s deployed overseas, where does that leave you?

This is an explicit 18+ series! Warnings:vaginal sex, oral sex, masterbation, over stimulation, so much angst

The will be individual warnings for each chapter but most of them will be explicit. This is me we’re talking about here. I got into this game to write sex.

Chapters:

Chapter One: How It All Started

Chapter Two: When She Met Him

Chapter Three: And They Lived Happily…

Chapter Four: How It’s Going

Chapter Five: How A Heart Breaks

Chapter Six: Love Finds A Way

Chapter Seven: Saying ‘I Do’ Again

Chapter Eight: How It Ended

I’d like to write an epilogue. I haven’t done it yet but I’ll see how this goes and if people enjoy it.

The tag list is open so let me know if you’re interested. I have the first chapter set to drop on Friday

All dividers used are by firefly-graphics

I'm starting a collection

I’m looking for a Steve Rogers series that may have went by fireworks or at least one if the chapters is titles that. It was definitely under one of the pic tags. The reader is Steve’s subordinate and he puts her on her place after she takes one to many risks with him (on his birthday)