Bob Ross used to get 200
fan letters a day. When people
who regularly wrote him fell
out of touch, he would call them
just to see if they were OK. Source
we didn’t deserve bob ross
I’m still pretty sure Bob Ross was some outworldly cosmic entity because there’s no way any fuck on here can be that kind spirited, nice and pure
Before he came to be the artful mindful guru that we know him as, apparently he was in the Air Force for 20 years and was a drill sergeant for part of it.
“I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way anymore.”
Now I’m just wondering what airforcemen thought about seeing drill sergeant Ross on tv painting trees
oh hey so. saying a Black character is “a perfect sunshine boy!!” or “a Goddess!! she doesn’t need no man!!” can also be a form of dehumanization.
when Black characters become such “pure cinnamon rolls” you can’t ship them, when they “deserve so much better” you refuse to pair them with any white fave, when they’re “just so flawless” they become boring, when you insist they’re “perfect” but then utterly and completely stop there, you’re reducing them to one dimension.
they become props for white character development,
cos you’re not letting them have any character of their own.
when the only characters that are flawed, relatable, interesting, complex, shippable, deserving of pages of meta for a 0.02 second glance ~just so happen to be~ white you’re indicating that they’re the only characters you see as fully human.
This “ prefect cinnamon roll” thinking is also used as an excuse to make characters of color the caretaker, and mammy figures for white faves.
