Hi my name is Lucrezia Borgia and I have long dark blonde hair (that’s how I got my name cuz it shines like the light) which reaches my mid back and eyes that are either green or dark brown depending on the portrait and a lot of people tell me I look like Boticelli’s Venus (if u don’t know who she iz get da hell out a here or mi brother Cesare will stab you). I am related to Cesare Borgia but I still think he is a major fucking hottie.
I live in the Kingdom of Ferrara but my skin is really white because I never leave the palace and my teeth are always hidden in portraits. I am a Borgia ( in case u couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly dark clothes with gold embroidery. I love my tailor and I get all my clothes from there. For example: Today I was wearing a long black gown with gold details, a white chemise, a really huge necklace and allegedly a ring in which I kept a good dose of poison. And a golden headband to set off my hair.
I was walking inside the papal palace, it was snowing and raining which meant there was no sun which I was very happy about.
Pope Julius II stared at me, I put up my middle finger at him.
Third row, middle, with the big grin? That’s Red Guard Lieutenant V.I. Artamonov (Artamonova?). She set the Soviet military record: 89 successful hits, one miss.
“Kodak’s film was so bad at capturing the different hues and saturations of black skin that when director Jean Luc Godard was sent on an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, he flat-out refused to use Kodak on the grounds that its stock was “racist.” Only when the candy and furniture industries began complaining that they couldn’t accurately shoot dark chocolate and brown wood furniture did Kodak start to improve its technology.”
The fact that racism is literally built into the technology itself is just strangely mindblowing to me. Not surprising, mind you, just mindblowing. It takes things to a whole new level of talking about bias. Even before you get into the politics of who is taking what picture for what reasons, the very technology itself is already biased.
if you want a different and another current example of racism embedded in technology, check out this article on unicode (how languages are produced on screen)
please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future.
Desexualization is an act of stripping a person of their sexual agency.
For aces who also hold identities that are commonly objectified (desexualized or fetishized)… your asexuality is not harming anybody else. Affirming your asexuality can even be a way of taking control of your own sexual narrative.
It’s ok to be a black ace, a latinx ace, an asian ace, a disabled ace, an ace survivor, a fat ace, an ace woman, etc.
I’m a Chinese ace and I will never shut up about it
kore ga revue! 