11:29 pm Friday 1st August 2025
A new discord server for Aboriginal people! and other stuff i'm up to
So, as of late I've managed to see some of the most racist insane bullshit ever on tumblr, and I came across a slightly older post of mine that I made maybe a month or two ago where I said that I wanted to make a discord server for my fellow Aboriginal mutuals, followers, or just anyone who was Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander..,and I thought to myself, "fuck it" and bit the bullet it and made the server! It's for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders only, so we can talk amongst ourselves in peace without needing to worry about whitefella or anything like that. Idk if there's any Aboriginal people on neocities or who read anything on my website...but on the slightest chance that there is, and you wanna join, dm me on tumblr and i'll send the invite link!
I wanted to make it for a while, and I started working on it a few days ago, and as I was in the middle of setting everything up and writing the rules and such, I came across a post by @creatingblackcharacters on tumblr, where they got an ask by someone who...technically in good faith had asked (white-ly and ignorantly) why Black people needed spaces for themselves that didn't include whitefella. the answer that Ice gave (the person who runs @creatingblackcharacters) was quite apt, but alsooo the entire ask just had me laughing cuz it's like. my answer is cuz whitefella are fucking annoying and they ask stupid shit like that all the time and make learning about other people's cultures and lifestyles about THEM and their comfort and their curiosity rather than like...idk shutting the fuck up and just listening? I remember a time way back in the early 2010s on tumblr where it was common to tell whitefella to sit down and shut up and listen when people are talking about their own people's issues and such, especially when it comes to racism, and it really felt like back then that people were more willing to do so, most likely cuz there WERE way more Black people, POC and Indigenous people on tumblr before so many of those blogs were deleted or banned or they were chased off (during both the porn ban era and also I believe the first time trump was elected). but now that it's a massive and huge white echo chamber, people feel so bold now to be ignorant and clueless and. well fucking white- in an annoying way.
I've specifically seen so much negative and racist shit about Aboriginal people on tumblr the past few days and idk I just need a huge break from that place right now. But atm the server has like...2 real people in it, me and someone else lol. the other accounts are just the bot I added for modding and my alt account which I tested the moderation on lmao. but once there's way more people in the server I'll probably be taking a break from tumblr and only checking my notifications to see if there's anyone that wants to join the server and stuff. Also idk I just been posting a lot about Aboriginal stuff and having actually nice people come on my posts and support me feels nice I hope that continues and shit.
on a similar not but kinda different, I been working on 3 different articles for the "thinkpieces" area I made recently, it's just taking some time for me to like, finish them. they're all in some ways related to being Aboriginal and such, but the one that uh, requires the *least* amount of research and is basically me just kinda rambling on in an informative way is about white authors and their privilege to not need to do any research on other people's cultures, and how that ends up in alienating their audience of Black, Indigenous and POC readers. And it also kinda includes shit about me complaining about american-centrism and defaultism. it's all fucking connected I swear ok. lmao. anyways that's this journal update thingy whatever. I am working on my articles/essays/thinkpieces or whatever you wanna call them it just takes time ya know?
P.S. my new mouse arrived so now I don't gotta worry about fucky wucky bullshit anymore YAY