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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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unshodwriter

I hope that authors of color know that their work doesn’t always have to focus on social activism/justice. This isn’t to say that you cannot write about those things, but as an author of color you don’t have to feel inclined to write about those things all the time. I think that’s what a lot of white people expect, and it can sometimes put pressure on what authors of color write. In the light of the Jordan Peele’s new movie US, i hope it’s okay for writers of color to understand that not everything they right has to be activism centered.

I’m writing three stories and while one of mine is centered around social justice in a fantasy realm—the others aren’t. One of them is centered around Irish Fairytales (though the main character is a Japanese orphan who is taken to Ireland as a child, and he does deal with racism after he inherits his father’s land/title—but the majority is just fantasy and faerie stuff), another one is about experiments.

I just don’t think that—authors of color should feel forced to write stuff about racism and social activism if they don’t want to. Write about something that has nothing to do with your heritage or background (a good example of non-white author who did this is diana gabaldon who writes outlander and who is my inspiration as a young author of color).

So like, write what you wanna write about . if you’re a black kid and you wanna write about faeries go for it.

Also, this isn’t to say that you cannot write about social activism. And this post isn’t at all for you to use if you are trying to shame authors of color who DO write only social justice stuff. that is admirable and I think it’s amazing and important that authors of color who stick to activism in their writing exist. This isn’t a callout to them or anything like that.

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accio-shitpost

narcissa is possibly the most competent person to ever hold the name malfoy

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That’s cause she married in, Narcissa is competent because she was a fucking Black.

Bellatrix? Queen of torture death and chaos, fucked up but she was very good at it.

Andromeda? Broke thousands of years of tradition to cut ties with her toxic family so she could love who she wanted not to mention effectively love and raise Nymphadora, the hufflepuff prankster we all love. 

Regulus? First to get at through Voldemort’s defenses and find one of his horcruxes. Then left a fucking note. Petty and iconic.

Sirius? Became an animagus, a very difficult and dangerous thing to do, at a very young age and helped create The Marauder’s Map, an indispensable and nearly unheard of magical item, while still underaged just because he really liked his friends. Nevermind all the shit he got up to after.

The Black family don’t play and Narcissa 100% like that because she was a Black. The Malfoys couldn’t find that much BDE with both hands down their pants and a fucking map

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#Don’t fuck with the Black family okay?#Even Walburga was fierce enough to enchant that painting that won’t shut up#Nobody in the black family was chill okay?#They came hard and took no shit

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