Black People Do Not Have To Be Exceptional For Their Right To Life!!!!

OH MY GOD I CACKLED SO HARD WHEN I SAW RUSSELLS SHITTY HOT TOPIC MAKEOVER WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?!? DID HE JUST JOIN A PUNK BAN MADE UP OF A BUNCH OF DUDES HAVING A MIDLIFE CRISIS

I have no choice but to stan Levitt 🙏

idk how anyone could argue that clarke is not bellamy’s number one priority. in 5x13, he told clarke he couldn’t leave his friends behind because he couldn’t do that again, referencing leaving her behind in 4x13. he couldn’t leave them behind because of his ptsd from leaving clarke. this is canon. and even though he did end up “leaving” his so-called family in 6x08, it was for clarke. it is literally canon that bellamy will not leave his family behind because of his ptsd from leaving clarke behind unless it’s to save clarke. his priority is her. he loves the rest of them, but he would choose her over them in a heartbeat, and he has. idc what jason says. bellamy says to clarke in 6x11, “how do we save everyone that i left behind?”, meaning that he put their safety aside while saving clarke and now has to find a way to save them. their safety came after clarke’s.

so, it’s honestly so funny to me that none of them were angry about that. you would think that the people who were attacking clarke in 6a would call bellamy out for choosing her over them, but they didn’t. murphy didn’t because he felt guilty about choosing himself and emori over clarke. emori didn’t because she also felt guilty. neither of them would have had a leg to stand on. raven didn’t because she was conveniently not around for Plot Reasons. and then e/cho didn’t because she just goes along with whatever bellamy does. four people who are canonically bellamy’s family have not said anything to bellamy about him choosing clarke over them…hm, almost like jroth is not fully committing to the story he’s writing…which is just so frustrating!! there is so much potential. it’s not that there aren’t good moments still in this show. there are, but things still fall flat at times because he doesn’t follow through.

let bellamy find out that his girlfriend tried to murder clarke!! let bellamy realize that e/cho is not this “changed” person and that he fell in love with a lie!! let bellamy find out he doesn’t even know his gf’s actual name!! let e/cho be upset that bellamy chose another woman over her!! let raven call bellamy out for not being as devoted to e/cho as he is to clarke!! let e/cho and clarke just be two people who tolerate each other because of bellamy because that hug came out of fucking nowhere. let clarke find out that bellamy poisoned his sister for her!! let bellamy ask clarke how she could radio him every day for six years and then leave him to die in the fighting pits instead of deleting that line/scene out of the show even though it was in the fucking trailer. let them talk about what those six years without each other did to them!! let them realize why it really is that they have always needed each other!! let clarke tell bellamy that she radioed him every day because she’s in love with him!! let bellamy tell clarke that a part of him died when she did because he’s in love with her too!! let this story fucking progress somewhere already!! it’s beautiful, but jroth is not letting it reach its full potential, and i swear to god, if he doesn’t come through with them in s7, then literally what was the point of any of this???

I am somehow both of them

Alternate Labelings: Anxiety and Logic

love this dumb of ass

Me? Never.....

me @ any male fictional character with a sharp jawline, tragic backstory, and a soft spot only for his love interest:

In the wake of JK once more being a total jk, here’s a (non-exhaustive) thread of works by Black trans writers.

Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith, poetry about Black masculinity, police brutality, gender and queerness. Probably the best book of poetry I’ve ever read. Smith has several collections available and you should read them all.

The Deep - Rivers Solomon, a speculative fiction novella about the descendants of murdered slave women. Themes of trauma and memory. Really beautiful writing. Their sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts is equally unmissable.

Redefining Realness - Janet Mock, the memoir of Mock’s childhood and adolescence as a trans woman before she transitioned. Mock’s second memoir, Surpassing Certainty, focuses on her life in her twenties.

Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender, a YA novel about a teenage trans boy (at the start of the book), Felix, as he further questions his identity, tries to find love, and works on his artistic future. Everything that makes YA novels great.

Reacquainted with Life - KOKUMO, a debut about Black trans womanhood and the power of her voice and body. This work is so hard to describe. Ferocious? Lively? Witty? Completely different to literally any poetry I’ve ever read? All of the above and more.

Mannish Tongues - jay dodd, a poetry collection about Black youth, queerness, religion, family, and gender. I hate how pretentious the word ‘visceral’ is, but it’s pretty accurate here. dodd’s collection The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is also phenomenal.

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi, a YA novel about a Black trans teenage girl and having to confront the existence of monsters. Emezi also has an acclaimed adult novel out, Freshwater, and I believe their new adult novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, is out in August 2020.

trigger - Venus Selenite, poetry about being Black, trans, queer, and unapologetic. This one is hard to get hold of, but worth it if you can. Selenite also co-edited and is featured in Nameless Woman, an anthology of writing by trans women of colour.

Surge - Jay Bernard, a poetry collection written in response to the 1981 fire at New Cross Road, as well as Grenfell Tower and the Windrush Scandal. Bernard is one of those poets who can use 10 words to say more than most of us can in 1,000.

Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color - ed. Venus Selenite, Ellyn Peña and Jamie Berrout, this one includes several stories by Black trans women and is, as a body of work, completely invaluable. The stories here range from semi-autobiographical and romance to sci-fi and speculative fiction.

Resilience - ed. Amy Heart, Larissa Glasser and Sugi Pyrrophyta, an anthology of writing by ©AMAB trans people. Again, this anthology is not specifically dedicated to Black trans people, but it includes work by KOKUMO and CHRYSALISAMIDST, amongst others. This book is super varied, with short stories, poetry and personal essays.

Consider ordering these, where possible, from independent Black owned bookstores.

You can also financially support Black trans people through donating to organisations such as this and these.

Important addendum: I tried incredibly hard to find published works by Black trans women, because trans women are the focus of JK Rowling’s tweets and indeed an overwhelming amount of violence and bigotry in general, but I’m sure it’s no surprise to anyone that Black trans women are enormously discriminated against by the publishing industry, and are routinely denied a platform for their work and their voices. Literally, when you Google ‘black trans woman author’, you just get Janet Mock’s author page. I think all of the books by Black trans women in the list above, with the exception of Janet Mock, are self/indie pub.

I have trawled through online indie and radical publishing magazines, message boards, and nearly 100 lists of ‘trans authors you must read now!’ and I would charitably say that about 1% of people featured in such lists are Black trans women. Obviously, Black trans women are writing, but the lack of available platform for their work is a huge barrier to their voices being heard. If anyone else has recommendations for work by Black trans women, whether it’s a physical book, an online chapbook, an Insta account of poetry, or anything else, please add it, because there must be so much more than I’ve managed to find.

BELLAMY BLAKE APPRECIATION WEEK 2025 Day 7 ⇝ Free Choice ⟿ Rewatching the show, Bellamy and Clarke's relationship, screaming "WHAT WAS THE GODDAMN POINT?! WHAT WAS THE POINT, JASON?! Fans deserve better. They deserve better."

if you’re white and you act like race issues are just “unnecessary drama” or “discourse” then sorry to tell you but you’re just…. racist

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