Follow black folks. We’re sharing resources. Retweet. Without dissertation length commentary, especially scolding other white folks. It’s not useful. RT & keep it moving.
Breonna Taylor's name is no longer trending and the police that murdered her are still free. If you see this please reply/quote/tweet on your own.
ARREST BRETT HANKISON, JONATHAN MATTINGLY & MYLES COSGROVE FOR THE MURDER OF BREONNA TAYLOR!
#JusticeForBreonnaTaylor
Fuck you if your concern right now is about a MOVIE. Celebrate all that ChadwicK Boseman accomplished. Fuck a Black Panther 2, that is so not important now or frankly ever in light of his passing.
Some of y'all ghoulish & uncaring AF
Stop apologizing for being white/for cops/for “those” evil racist White’s (which you’re not!) that’s fucking grating. It’s meaningless & recenters you cause now we gotta affirm you’re a decent person. Stop it.
Stop this performative shit. A black square on social for one day ain’t doing shit. Have us on your shows all the time, not out of guilt or sudden awareness of how unfair the system has been stacked against us.
Don’t DM/mass tag/text/email/carrier pigeon black mutuals to educate you. We’re sharing loads of resources, bail funds to contribute to every minute. Don’t see those tweets? That’s a who you don’t follow problem, not a black folks help me out problem.
Pro-tip: when a marginalized person talks about their experiences, save the “I apologize for on behalf of white men/cis/straight/my gender/etc...” replies. It’s stupid & does nothing except make you look like you want a pat on the head for being a good “ally”
Look I fucking hate Tr**p with the power of 1000 suns. Y'all do know when you make ableist and fatphobic jokes, he doesn't see them or care. Your neurodivergent & fat followers, friends do though.
There's plenty to choose from when talking about that loser, do better.
If you can spare money, donate to bail funds. Which ones? Google that shit. Find one where you live & be useful. Don’t have spare $? Then boost tweets with bail funds linked in them.
Think real hard before you “check in” on black folks you follow. Or even your friends. What’s your motivation in doing so? Especially if you haven’t spoken in months or years? 🤔 ponder that before hitting send.
So, streamed today. Chill BG3, no cam, just mic. And you guessed it! Attempted hate raid, AGAIN. CW: Nazi imagery in the screenshots below. So
@Twitch
what y'all doin' about this?
Who else wants to ask if it's racially motivated. Who?
🚨🚨Who's ready for an announcement!? 🚨🚨
I'm really excited to announce Into the Mother Land, a new Sci Fi RPG, funded by
@Twitch
, created by me & an amazing all Black & POC team of devs, cast & crew. Here's
@BDaveWalters
our lead developer with info!
Y'all. I am FLUMMOXED. ABSOLUTELY FLUMMOXED. I had a goal of $500 this morning, thinking folks would be worn out after a hard month of fundraising. Y'all proved me so wrong today and I am humbled, grateful, thankful for everyone. $142,781 raised in 10.5 hours
#BlackLivesMatter
One, they're wrong. We're not making a MMO. YOU go make an MMO with 7 developers, I'll wait.
Two, some of y'all stay with "GO MAKE YOUR OWN!" in your mouth when we talk about wanting representation. But when we do? We get this shit.
You can't have it both ways.
Also, there are fifty-eleven-hundred RPG shows with an all white cast, all white crew; but yet when one show, ONE is in production with all Black & POC cast, some folks hop up with "but you're excluding us!" HOW DARE YOU?
Lemme explain.
I grew up on food stamps, if not for the fresh fruit & veg you could get (when available) I might not have done ok as a kid. This is punishing people for being poor. Poverty is not a moral failing, stop hurting people for not having money.
FYI, if anyone calls and tells you to
#Vote
tomorrow due to long lines? That's voter suppression. There is no voting tomorrow. Today is your day to cast your ballot
The election isn't canceled either, so if someone tells you that? It's voter suppression
#Election2020
There is no reason that
@CriticalBard
had to be subjected to the deluge of racist cockwomble's today, on what should have been a cool, I get to be a global emote! celebration. Instead... y'all...
PS: cause I didn't address the "talent is irrelevant" snark at in that QT. We're all fucking talented, ain't no one on this team less deserving of being on it for being Black & POC. Drop this whole diversity means less quality bullshit. Your inherent bias is showing.
For the entirety of my time gaming, I been excluded. On purpose, and because people made assumptions on who was holding a controller or rolling dice. Games were marketed to the 18-35 y.o male, white demographic. Both video & ttrpgs.
So, with this opportunity? OF COURSE I was going to bring an all Black & POC crew with me. Why? We rarely get these opportunities. We have a chance to make something beautiful, with our voices, hands, art and more making this game live.
So TL;DR make up your fucking minds. Either we make our own in peace and you shut the fuck up forever about it. Or maybe, y'all can put more chairs at the table and actually welcome us.
I’m really hoping all the folks who are fired up this week, suddenly noticing Black creators in their spaces still have this energy in 2 weeks, a month, a year from now. We’re also noting who says & does nothing more than add the BLM hashtag & changes their profile pic.
For most of the time I have touched a D20, I've been told it's not for me, people like me don't play, made to feel unwelcome in the spaces I tried to hang out in. I've been .. blessed to be part of Rivals. To have the experience of my folks filling all the seats.
That's why I am getting so furious at the people who got the unmitigated gall to hop into threads where we talk about a lack of representation to go make our own, but then cry foul and claim they are left out. Except, no one said you weren't welcome.
No where, in any place have anyone involved in this game said white people can't play it, watch the stream, or be involved in that way. For once, you're not in the writers room or drawing board; but trust y'all will be OK. We've had to deal with it for decades.
If you truly can't stand for a bunch of Black & POC folks to say who lives, who dies, who tells our story? Go kick rocks. There's plenty of all white RPG shows out there to consume, to support. If they want your racist ass as a fan.
It's why we get so excited when there are people like us on the screen, on film, in games and it's done well. When we know that someone who cares put their heart & soul into it. It's also why we can spot when there are none of us in the room where it happened.
He's talking about wrestling but damn if this can't be applied to gaming, comics, movies, anything that generates a fandom. I need to find the whole video, cause I'm super interested in what he had to say after this section.
A reminder to folks who watch streamers. It's getting hot in many parts of the world. A lot of us will have on fans or A/C units. Maybe think about that before complaining about noise on a stream. No one is going to suffer high temps for pure audio.
Do you love Animal Crossing? Do you fight for democracy? Do you care about the state of structural racism in the U.S.?
Then join us on Jan. 4th, at 7:15 ET to have a discussion about Georgia’s runoff election and what's at stake.
I’m about to just get up and make coffee… but first.
Stop glamorizing the constant hustle to make ends meet, let alone do well. No one should have to grind non-stop just to get by. It’s not inspiring or admirable. It’s exhausting.
Also, where is all this energy for the racists, misogynists and harassers that still are on Twitch with no repercussions? Y'all got plenty to say against one small Black & POC led project but got nothing for them? Cool, cool, cool.
A real unfriendly note to the racists trying to drive us out of gaming. Black women been here, we ain't leaving, and we're damn sure gonna be out here prospering while y'all waste time making content out of hate.
Go work on ya content & you too may one day get seen.
Just to go live, and be ready for the possibility of a hate raid:
-Turned off alerts
-Left it on 30 minute follower mode
-Had to bump it to 1 hr follower mode
I still am using the LGBTQIA+ and Black tags, and I refuse to drop them. I shouldn't have to do that to be "safe".
This is… not ok. Let that man alone & live his life. This is a level of attachment to a celeb and his persons life; that y’all will never get to know …this is unhealthy. My god, go find a hobby, read books, anything but this.
Y'all...
@Lethendralis1
drew this portrait of me. All based off today's stream. I may lose my entire mind. Also I am gonna go sob, then fix my makeup before the next meeting.
Thank you Lethy, thank you so much. 😭😭🥺🥺💖💖
In celebration of
#Juneteenth
, I'm throwing out a challenge to folks who always say they want to support Black creators on here. If you're a Black creator, Drop a ko-fi, tea, etc link below.
Folks who want to be supporters & accomplices? Here's a chance to walk the walk.
Celebrate today... but don't get excited and think things are fine because Biden & Harris are installed in office.
We have years of cleanup ahead of us thanks to the disgrace of former cheeto in chief's misuse of office.
Complacency isn't the movie.
Unfriendly reminder that not every tweet:
- Needs a reply
- Is an invitation to debate or dialogue with the OP
- Is asking for advice (unless it does)
- Is an invitation to “well, actually” the OP
Last night seems totally surreal. The whole process hasn’t seems real until the last few days. Then seeing the finished piece last night… my feelings y’all. 🥺🥺🥺
If you have a cat, please love on them extra from me please?
Apartment is too quiet and lonely.
I’m explicitly NOT asking for cat pics, it would really upset me. But if you wanna give your fuzzy an extra treat or tummy pats, feel free. <3
So a quick note. IDGAF how you feel about CR. What we are not going to do is disparage the show & cast in order to boost Mother Lands. Many of us are friends of the CR crew & they have been massively supportive of our work. Take whatever feelings you got to an altar, elsewhere.
You may now address me as Laird of Glencoe Tanya Colleen DePass. Yes, once I found out I could buy a parcel of land in Scotland, and get an honorary title? Y'all knew I was going to do it just cause I can be that petty. 🤣🏴
2021 challenge. Let folks have hobbies without immediately asking if they plan to sell things they make/open a shop.
Spoiler, sometimes folks just like to do things... for... FUN.
A few reminders:
Don’t put people on pedestals. They fall easily.
Just because you support their content, it doesn’t buy you a fast pass to being their BFF.
The bits of folks lives you see on social is a fraction of them as a human.
People you deem “famous” are still human
I normally just block these BS takes but this pissed me off.
Can we stop acting like having kids should be a life goal to *checks notes*not be “lonely” in your 40’s.
Kids aren’t to be had as a way of securing you won’t be lonely as you age.
I keep getting emails from the Democratic party asking for donations to stop Roe v Wade from being overturned.
How about no. How about y'all do your jobs as elected officials and stop using this to beg for more donations to a do-nothing party?
Finally, 11 years after I walked I have my diploma.
It cost me too much in every sense of the word but fuck it, I have the actual thing instead of an empty holder.
Worth it? IDK but I have it.
A random thing as I think about streaming stuff. Closed Captions are a thing I don't see many outside my communities using. A lot of folks don't seem to know they can do so. So a smol thread on it.
See also, these sudden resignations in the 11th hour? All rats jumping off a sinking ship once they saw the tide turn. It's way too late for that y'all traitorous fucks. Too little, and way too late to find some morals & a dose of doing the right thing.
A Friday reminder to stop putting people on pedestals & expecting them to be paragons of values. The higher a pedestal you build, the harder that person will fall when they remind you that they’re all too human & fallible.
Hey, white friends and folks following me. If you've never heard of
#Juneteenth
before today and don't know what it's about? You're in luck cause Google is free! That same question you are about to ask a black person you follow, can be dropped into a search engine! ✊🏾
Hey
@Twitter
y'all have made a grave mistake in suspending
@krystinaarielle
She's a beacon of the streaming & TTRPG community, a shining ray of who is best on this platform, and needs her account back ASAP.
#FreeKrystina
and let's get her account back!
Happy birthday to an A+ human I'm very glad & honored to call my friend
@matthewmercer
I hope today is wonderful, full of rest, lots of quiet time with
@Marisha_Ray
& Omar. Also many Old Fashioned's & good sleep! Love you friend. 🥃🍜
I'm choosing digital violence before I get into some kind of shenaniganry this evening.
Remember to support Black & POC creators in our joy, our triumphs. Not just when we're getting hate raided, mistreated, harassed, are afraid of becoming another hashtag.
Y'all
@pleasantlytwstd
has been getting a NON STOP hate raid since she went live over an HOUR AGO. AN HOUR. Including "raids" from her full name and this BS. CW: Nazi imagery.
So
@Twitch
what y'all doing? WHAT?