orkbutch:

not to be dramatic but a hyperfixation on beauty ruins art and thats why all the looks are so boring/unimaginative for the met gala . where’s the UGLINESS? wheres the NARRATIVE? where’s the SHAMELESS DECADENCE as a VISUAL SHORTHAND to express EUPHORIC RELIGIOUS RAPTURE? this isn’t the time for clean simplicity and restraint! honestly 

note-a-bear:

I’m gonna find it one of these days, but Octavia Butler once called out the “it’s escapism!” arguments in fantasy writers more than 20 years ago, that some of yall still use for your fanworks.

Why is it so important to you nonBlacks to use us as fodder for your alleged interrogations of trauma? Why do we get to be the site of your unresolved issues of gender?

Like, can’t y’all go fuck off somewhere and leave us alone?