richiedarcy

Latest Posts by richiedarcy

okay finally writing this bc its hit that point in the night/morning where i regained the energy to rewrite this but. can we please talk about the habit of people using scars/physical disabilities to make a character scary in this fandom?

like with, say, tubbo, not too bad! hes such a likable character that generally his scars are just drawn as a part of him, often horror pieces with him focus on other aspects like the nukes or him living by the woods or the fact that he died for those scars. all fine as far as i can see

....and then theres quackity. who is a canonically half blind character with an obvious scar. and people use it to make him *scary*. artists, both visual and textual, exaggerate the scar, describe the unnervingness of his fanonically blue eye (which, the subject of giving a mexican person a blue eye just because hes half blind when thats not how blindness works is.. hm), even sometimes describing it as a glass eye (meaning using the prosthetic as a reason to be unnerved by him). they give it otherworldly properties, they make it like a 777 machine to symbolize his greed and want for power, they make it into a void on his face, a glitch, a poker chip, whatever.

and let me say- that shit should really stop flying. i get the intents of people who do this, really, i do! i dont think the people who do this are ableist, but. dont use scars for horror. dont use physical disabilities as a way to make a character more terrifying. please. quackity can be scary and unnerving on his own, you can do it without resorting to "disability/scars scary", i promise. i havent seen it happen to other physically disabled characters yet (except for michael_beloved but ive talked abt my distaste w horror including him before), but im gonna take that as a blessing

(note- while i agree this shouldnt be done for mental illness either, this is about physical disability and i want it to stay focused on physical disability because ive seen ppl talk about the horrification of mental illness but not abt physical disability, not in this fandom anyways. however, feel free to make your own post or find posts from people who talk about the habit of using mental illness as horror in the dsmp fandom)

sending kind vibes to trans people who use it/its pronouns. your relationship with your gender is no ones business but yours; you deserve respect and you have the right to demand it

why is it so difficult for ppl to distinguish between "this person is a literal bigot and should not have a platform" and "this person is not actively malicious but has accidentally done a couple harmful things that should be addressed" and "this person has made a few poor taste jokes several years ago but has since grown as a person" and "this person simply just didn't know the 'proper' term for something"

I used to have a coworker who was 3-4 years my junior. I asked them if they were still taught internet safety at school, to which they confirmed, but it was the same über-serious "Don't talk to strangers" online bullshit that I was fed when I was a kid.

This doesn't work anymore. It hasn't worked in a long fucking time.

Public education is so fucking far behind when it comes to internet safety and etiquette. The lessons have to change. Not just for kids and teenagers, but for parents as well.

We can't remove the idea of talking with strangers, even adult strangers, entirely anymore, because inter-generational friendships are super important (looking at you, MCYT), but we do have to establish things like: how to recognise red flags when having conversations with anyone (not just adults, people your own age can be just as conniving and vicious), how to access tag and content blockers when you start seeing things that make you uncomfortable, how to understand site rules and guidelines, etc.

The issue is that the internet itself is full of great advice about how to filter content on different social media sites, it's just that none of you chucklefucks wants to use it. What are you waiting for? For someone to do it for you? Is that it? That's not blissful ignorance, that's just laziness and entitlement.

You don't do your own research. You follow each other in bloodthirsty packs. You constantly misuse words that have hurtful and horrific meanings and consequences. This is not okay.

Open up Wikipedia for once in your life, Jesus fucking Christ...

hey scott dangthatsalongname mcc admin picker of teams gay king shit smajor1997. may i propose to you next pink parrots (just so we can make fun of wilbur always in pink for 3 mccs) for mcc16 (or the next special mcc idk what's going to happen next month):

please mr. smajor. we're deprived of bench trio team up. we miss crime boys team up. we beg you lord scott. please 🙏. picker of teams, we beg thou to give us this team up and ill be happy to go to limbo.

Content Warning: Ranboo talking about his facial dysmorphia and anxiety, and how it's been affecting him.

I’m so sad to hear that his facial dysmorphia has been getting worse. It really sucks. I really hope that he doesn’t feel pressured to face reveal, nor keep his word for the YouTube subgoal, because face revealing is his own thing. He gets to choose whether he is ready and comfortable to do it, or not.

Mental illnesses suck and sadly they’re not easy to “treat”, and sometimes they stick with you for a lifetime. But his willingness to reach out for professional help is good. I hope that his openness on the topic, and the way he sort of keeps us updated on his journey, brings about more awareness on mental illnesses, and that hopefully people affected by them feel “inspired” to seek out for help themselves.

Here are some resources to educate yourself on facial and body dysmorphia, and social anxiety disorder:

- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

- Facial Dysmorphia (It falls under BDD)

- Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

- Relationship between Social Anxiety Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Remember that these are not diagnostic tools and that you should seek immediate help if you feel like your wellbeing is threatened. Please talk to a professional if you need help. I know it seems counterintuitive sometimes, especially for people who suffer from social anxiety disorder, but I promise that in the end it will be worth it. You just have to push through the first steps. I believe in you!

My messages and “ask” ’s are always open if you need to vent or talk! If you only want me to read, and not hold an actual conversation, just say so and I will just read through your message :)

You are not alone.

credit to RanbooLovebots

Reblog if you wanna live in a little cottage like Ms. Honey from Matilda and read books while sipping tea by the fireplace

read it could save you

I don’t know if this post has been made yet but I just want to warn everybody that if someone stops you in a parking lot and asks you if you’re interested in some perfume and hands you a paper to smell, PLEASE DON’T SMELL IT.

i repeat, DON’T SMELL IT.

Apparently the sample papers are being laced with a drug to knock you out. Please signal boost this. It can save someone’s life!

ranbob is such a fucking funny character i cant get over it months later like my man really went yandere over a historical figure

Are we as the trans community ready to acknowledge that sometimes gender just straight up changes?

Obviously this doesn’t apply to all people, but for some trans people they were fine being their AGAB until they weren’t.

I used to follow an enby who proudly identified as a woman for years before one day they just went “actually… it changed. I’m not vibing with that any more. I was a woman, but now I’m not and I’m ready to open a different chapter of my life.”

Sometimes people who are genderfluid don’t have fluctuating dysphoria, and just have a changing gender.

Sometimes non-binary people will find that their masc/femme alignment changes.

Sometimes people who were binary feel more non-binary, or oppositely binary.

Are we ready to normalize this too?

seeing ppl take the pride flags as "oh hes probably just an ally" is the most heteronormative crap ever and its honesty frustrating. yeah it doesnt mean hes queer but that doesnt mean hes an ally either. he is neither queer nor straight until he says otherwise. and even if he never wants to clarify, thats okay too. he doesnt owe u his sexuality. thanks for coming to me tedtalk, cinna out ✌

skin color ref because some of yall non-black poc and whites keep fucking up as if yall don’t know there’s other shades of brown when u racebend for woke points or something 

(non-black artists please reblog)

Though the jokes that "since gay pride month is over, july is now gay wrath month" are funny and all, it's important to remember that July is ACTUALLY Disability Pride Month and ya'll should really be focused on boosting disabled voices and issues this month! For instance, the fact that marriage equality doesn't actually truly exist in the United States for disabled people, or the fact that disabled people are forced to live in poverty or lose their disability benefits, or the fact that 1 in 5 people with chronic pain end up sufferring from alcoholism or other addictions, or how accessibility is still a daily battle for all of us, or how there are active hate groups on places like reddit who try to "call out" those they see as "faking" their disabilities.

This July, boost disabled voices. Talk about the issues that our community faces. Call out ableism.

Disability pride month

July is Disability Pride Month. The first Disability Pride started in Boston, MA in 1990 but it has since become an international celebration. The aim of Disability Pride is described by the founders of Disability Pride NYC to “promote inclusion, awareness, and visibility of people with disabilities, and redefine public perception of disability”.

The disability pride flag

The Disability Pride flag has some very interesting symbolism interpreted by the artist which include:

The Black Field: this field is to represent the disabled people who have lost their lives due to not only their illness, but also negligence, suicide, and eugenics.

The Lightning Bolt: the shape of the lightning bold represent the non-lateral lives that many disabled people live, often having to adapt themselves or their physical routes to get around an inaccessible society.

The Colours: each colour on this flag represents a different aspect of disability or impairment:

Blue: mental illness

Yellow: cognitive and intellectual disabilities

Green: sensory perception disabilities

Red: physical disabilities

💖🧡💙

Art by Liberal Jane

trans mascs [handshake] tubbo

being short and considered less masculine because of a number of things that cant be easily controlled or changed. still in fact being incredibly strong, cool, and masculine despite others perceptions. high pitched voice and infantilization my abhored

(Image description: four images of the pink and orange lesbian pride flag with pink text in white boxes, together the text reads: "Trans lesbians are an important part of the lesbian community. Trans lesbians are an important part of lesbian history. The future of the lesbian community is radically inclusive. Trans women are real women and all lesbians are real lesbians.")

Listen I would die for Jameela Jamil

God I love this woman

happy juneteenth🤍!!! here's a list of black gfms that have yet to meet their goals! (black ppl feel free to link your or others donation posts in a reblog! reblogs from nonblack ppl appreciated!)

help teej's sister get a breast reduction.

help audi, a closeted black lesbian, move out of a toxic household.

help shay, a black nonbinary, with their moving expenses.

help gaia afford a house for her father suffering with homelessness and stage 3 colon cancer.

help a autistic transmasc lesbian move out of an ableist and abusive household.

help sapphire, a black transwoman, get out of an abusive household.

help sol, a black transwoman, with her transition and other necessities.

help melanie with her gender affirming surgery.

help a disabled incoming freshman pay for college.

help micah, a black queer transmasc person move.

help silver, a gnc black lesbian get a new camera and laptop.

help zora, a nonbinary transfem, move and transition.

help noelle, a black transwoman afford surgery and other basic necessities.

Ranboo and Slimecicle

Which pan flag is the right one please I don't want to mess it up

THIS is the real pansexual flag we've been using for years:

bright pink, yellow, and blue stripes. this is the actual one.

THIS however, is made by mspec lesbian exclusionists and purity culture obsessed twt users:

dont use this or any other "new" pan flag they try to fucking make. its not our flag. its never been our fucking flag. as a pansexual i fucking hate everyone who uses this or tries to get content creators to support this. fuck exclusionists.

Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase. 

“I won’t be available.”

Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.

If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.

Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.

The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.

If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else. 

But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.

“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”

“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)

“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”

“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”

If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.

do u notice something about the leads/ human characters.....

that’s a little different from the characters playing objects/castle servants.....

or even the character who’s offscreen most of the show now......

hmmm let’s review:

EJ

-straight

-white

-man

Ashlyn

-straight

-white

although also

-plus size

(from certain details of her lines in the show it’s become apparent that while julia is jewish ashlyn is not)

Ricky

-straight

-white

-man

Big Red

-straight

-white

-man

(is Jewish but also playing the lackey)

Now let’s look at the other roles

Gina

-black

-woman

We’ve all seen the “not innocent enough to play Gabriela” bs but now we have the very flirty kinda sexual Babette being played by the black girl who people have already previously criticized the show for making her into a Jezebel

Kourtney

-black

-woman

Let’s see if this sounds familiar: plus sized dark skin black woman who’s a servant and often cares for the children (in case it wasn’t obvious im talking about the mammie stereotype)

And if we remove the black part it sounds like Mrs. Potts who as we know is a plus size older woman who is a maternal figure to not only the other teacup children but even to beast as well. So in other words they have the plus size black girl being a maternal servant to the beast and the other kids in the castle...

Speaking of kids let’s talk about one of them

Seb

- gay

One of the only two canon gay characters playing perhaps the least significant of the side characters

Carlos

-gay

-latino

Lumiere is already known for being quite over-bearing and eccentric and LOUD but now we have the loud, over-bearing to the other characters, and eccentric role going to the gay brown latino...

And then there’s:

Nini

-asian

-woman

who’s away for most of the time.

In other words, you know what isn’t in their show? Poc playing human non-servant characters. But you know what IS in their show? ✨Incest✨

Yup. With nothing more than an offhand comment this show is gonna have two literal cousins play love interests. Idc if they change the cast later on like how was hinted at in an interview the normalization and nonchalance attitude about COUSINS playing those roles was already established as just something u can brush off with a “not thinking about it”.

And there’s a lot of servant object roles and also a lot of poc/minority roles so obviously it was bound to happen for a myriad of reasons that some of the white characters get leads and some of the poc get the objects. That’s normal. What ISNT normal is how they could bend over backwards to justify why the plus size white girl getting belle is revolutionary and inclusive but not even attempt to 1. Not have incest and 2. Cast even one poc character as a lead.

They tried to make us out as crazy when people got mad Kourtney wasn’t Belle by trying to be like “oh we were throwing you off” but the reason that excuse fell short was because they didn’t throw us off at all. The case scenario was NOT that one week they dropped something that had us thinking it was one girl and the next week had us thinking it was another. It was that they always had us thinking it was going to be Kourtney. They weren’t throwing us off they were leading us on. In the end it comes off as we rather have a weird incest vibe going on than have the black girl we baited you with be an actual lead.

And Tim would probably see this and say something like “That’s not what I meant. I didn’t think of it that way when I cast this person as this and that person as that.” and it’s like of COURSE you didn’t. Of course you didn’t think of what the black people, and the latino people, or the asian people might think of how you’re portraying the characters that look like them on screen. You’ve never had to. Tim may be gay but he is also white and a man and that awards him privileges even within his own minority group. So of course it’s not even slightly surprising to me that all these things slipped by him without any notice. It’s cuz he can afford not to notice. But it being unsurprising doesn’t make it any less upsetting. It’s still bullsh** that they would literally rather contradict their own plot points than have the minority characters be anything other than harmful stereotypes just because THEY don’t see why it’s so bad.

P.S. this is not for any hate directed towards the actors. All of them are just workers locked under contract trying to do their jobs and get payed. They have no control over the stories that Tim and his writing team decide to write. If you take anything other than that the writers are responsible and try to go after the actors for just doing their jobs then you’ve completely missed the point of ALL of this.