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pro-royalty · 2 days
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Cindy Kimberly
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koritheotherkin · 20 days
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Just saw a youtube comment calling therianthropy "white people shit" so poc therians/otherkin/nonhumans WHERE YALL AT‼️‼️
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natla-positivity · 2 months
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"Having a predominantly Asian group of people both in front of and behind the camera is... significant."
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"For the longest time as an actor of color, you don't get opportunities to play in these kinds of franchises. You have no idea how important that is, and how many more voices people will find because of this."
As much as I love the story of Avatar and want to see it adapted lovingly, I have to acknowledge that this element of the live action is the most important: highlighting Asian and Indigenous actors and filmmakers. I'm not Asian or Indigenous, but I am POC, and seeing media evolve to show more people like me is so rewarding. There's still a long way to go, but NATLA is a HUGE step forward.
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bambilovespink · 2 years
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Farmers daughter take one 🎥
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princess-an · 1 year
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If u racist and don’t like POC or just black people don’t talk about us, don’t use our music, don’t interact with our stuff, and stop trying to look and talk like us because it’s getting pathetic for someone to not like something you racists sure try to invade black and POC spaces a lot and make hating on black or POC ur personality. The same goes for u online racists who hit that anon button your pathetic that u want to say that shit but don't want to say it with ur account on blast cause u know what ur saying is wrong. It's 2023 if you not gon say that racist shit with ur account on blast and your addy and you wanna keep using aave, getting black hairstyles that fuck up ur hair, getting lip injections to look like a cis black woman, and listen to our black music when u hate us so much but u constantly steal from black culture cause u know u have to because white is not a culture it's a skin color and white America is only how it is today because ur ancestors stole mine like a thief in the night, like they were not even human. U racists need to get it together or have a meeting or something cause I honestly miss when y'all was on the same page which was to mostly ignore us I miss that if you don't have something motherfucking nice to say don't say it period.
Happy 2023
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renlo · 11 months
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A simple portrait drawn in MS Paint! I haven't felt super inspired recently, but I still wanted to practice a little bit. 
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My heart is broken for Ryan Gainer. No one deserves to die simply for being black and autistic. We must fight for the rights of all autistics, because no one will do it for us.
It is so close to autism awareness month, and my heart hurts knowing just how many people face the same discrimination for simply having a disability and being a POC.
I urge everyone to share and reblog as many posts as they can. Get the internet’s attention! Because we need everyone if we are going to continue the fight for justice for Ryan Gainer.
Rest in Power, Ryan Gainer
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gh0stsp1d3r · 4 months
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yt readers and yt authors will never understand what it’s like to have to read about the same white woman described in almost every single thing I read, especially old literature 🥲 “her straight, blonde hair was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.” yes I just read that line, yes I closed the book and typed this out. Then when I talk about it everyone’s like “oh you’re just sensitive.”
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blewitbalatron · 5 months
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I hate to throw sand in the eyes of people who love this show, I do too for the most part, and to the people who I barely know personally/ have only read or heard about the bad stuff they've done online (im sure that all of you would help me see who she truly is though), but let's talk about Viv for a second.
After re-watching some of her work for nostalgia, I've realized a pattern that I honestly hate to see get thrown in a lot in shows that usually don't do this on the daily basis because its human nature, but: do you guys think that she is making representation part of her series to cash in on people who are disabled, a person of color, part of the lqbtqa+ family, and just have a kink for these things like an abusive relationship and degrading to name a few.
In shows I've watched growing up, there was no kind of representation, but when the randomly had a geuess star who was a person of color with a noticeable difference in body type and had mobility aids the fans went wild and the writers of the show instantly capitalized on it. The show has since been pulled off of everything that I know of, and I'm getting flashbacks to that sometimes as I keep watching Helluva Boss. It hurts to see this in media that is slowly starting to change some for the better while some for the worst.
Even her merch kinda give off that vibe. I wanted to get a human Verosika and Sallie May pin for a friend on their birthday, but she was literally three different skin colors, and as for Sallie May it felt way too sexualized because she's trans as most people online say, which also happens alot because in this world: if it is or was alive, it's sexualized. That might just be my demisexual side peeping through, but I'm tired of this.. but if the voice of Sallie May is body positive of all trans body on their own choice, then its completely fine and needs to be shared more. We're humans too, not just leverage for people to capitalize on. I know that it's Hell and whatever, but is that the only excuse for this is it. It shouldn't be, at least.
I also wanted to mention how she falls into people's favors sometimes like with Huskerdust (or Smoking Angel as I like to call it), she's been liking post online about it then decided to make it cannon without any form of building up to it well if you dont count the Voxtgram that was shut down.
I can feel it in my bones that one day Vivziepop will comment or make a post about this like:
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spicy-hooman · 8 months
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here is art again
glados from portal
i love glados sm
live laugh love glados
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also, imo, glados and caroline don't look the same
i just really like her this way and i can picture her way better like this when she talks to chell in the game
human glados, not humanized glados
there is a difference
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pro-royalty · 3 days
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Cindy Kimberly for LOBA by CK
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odd-god · 6 months
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intelligence, neurodivergence, and queerness all have a rather high correlation with each other.
our society is highly disabling to all of these groups.
adding being brown on top of any of these is just... a bad time (in my exp)
trying to find people who get it.. is hard. at least it is for me.
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multifandomeweirdo · 2 months
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Psyche from Lore Olympus
I just needed to rant about her whole character in Lore Olympus. I am a non-black person of color, so this is my opinions of her through the lens of my experiences and knowledge.
This is how she first appears:
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This is after Aphrodite turns her into a nymph:
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This is her after her human form was restored:
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Her while becoming a goddess:
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And this is her after becoming a goddess:
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Her design:
Some people complain about her design. I agree that her design is inconsistent. She had straight hair, even as a nymph, until over 100 episodes in. I personally don't mind the change in character design. I'll just headcanon that Psyche straightened her hair or styled it specifically in the earlier episodes, and wore her natural hair in the later episodes.
I see a lot of people criticizing her design saying rather racist things, such as "she looks ugly now and that her earlier design was much better." They also say things like "She's forced diversity. Why do we have to bring diversity into this?" I think the art quality as a whole has declined, so yes, Psyche looks worse, but all the characters do. Specifically calling out Psyche feels more like racist beauty standards than a criticism of the art decline. Also, phrases such as "forced diversity" are just silly. Andromeda, a figure from Greek myths, was the princess of Aethiopia, which was supposed to be somewhere below Egypt. She was described by Ovid as dark-skinned, though she has been white-washed by Western artists (that's why she is now portrayed as white). So yes, there was some (not a lot) diversity in Ancient Greek myths, and anyway, it's a modern retelling! In this modern age, with more awareness of race and issues surrounding it, I don't think it's a bad thing to have a more diverse cast of characters.
I don't think that Rachel Smythe originally intended for Psyche to be black, and it was a lazy choice to change her so late. Additionally, she remains the only black character. However, I'm glad that she met the bare minimum of including diversity, as many authors and artists, even today, don't do this.
I think her design is cute overall, though I wish there was more effort put into Psyche's hair. I do like that they kept her brown skin when making her a goddess, instead of giving her an unnatural skin color. My main gripe is that in the myths she had butterfly wings, not these weird purple feathery things. Even the pearlescent wings during her transition to a goddess were better. But the butterflies belong to Persephone in Rachel Smythe's retelling, so Psyche can't have what was one of her symbols.
Now for the criticisms:
I saw this on @genericpuff's page, but the trope of a white man (Eros) "saving" (kidnapping) a woman of color (Psyche) from her horrible arranged marriage is harmful. Again, I don't think Rachel Smythe included this part intending for Psyche to be black, but that doesn't change the fact that this trope has had very harmful implications and effects throughout history.
Then, Eros leaves her when she, tricked by her sisters into trying to kill him, realizes that he is a god. Aphrodite turns her into a nymph and uses her as a test for Eros.
In the original myths, she completed difficult tasks given to her by Aphrodite to prove her "worth" as Eros' wife. We could talk about how she got help for these tasks, but still. The point is that she chose to go through all that for love.
In Lore Olympus, she is merely a test for Eros to pass. Which has some implications, especially since she is a woman of color.
There's also the harmful trope of a woman of color being turned into a nonhuman. Add on the detail that in the Lore Olympus world, nymphs are lower class. Again, implications.
The gods and goddesses in Lore Olympus look down on nymphs while simultaneously fetishizing them. We see Hera be racist to MInthe and no one stands up for her. We see Hades, who has a flower nymph fetish, dating Minthe but not criticizing his family for their bigoted treatment of his own girlfriend.
I'm seeing some similarities to how people of color are treated. And Psyche, a woman of color, is turned into a nymph by Aphrodite, a goddess. Add on how Aphrodite did all this because she felt threatened by Psyche. In real life, we see how people of color suffer when white people feel threatened by them. So... implications.
Conclusion:
I don't think Rachel Smythe had any harmful intent when making Psyche's character. In fact, I think she probably felt that it might bring joy to some readers to see a black woman represented in Lore Olympus. However, she accidentally wrote Psyche into these tropes that have very real, very harmful implications for actual people of color. She could have used Psyche's suffering at the hands of Aphrodite and the treatment of nymphs as a way to speak on societal issues such as racism. However, she didn't. Hera, a canonical racist, is portrayed as a "good guy" and Hades is rewarded for his fetish with a goddess who looks exactly like a flower nymph but isn't one (similar to how white men fetishize women of color but will only date a white woman. And these white women specifically try to look like the race the man fetishizes, the the point where you could call it black-fishing or Asian-baiting or any other similar term). I don't think she meant to write it like this, but she did. It could be a reflection of her own internal biases, or maybe not.
Either way, this is exactly why research before including a non-white or otherwise marginalized character is so important, especially if you have not experienced that kind of marginalization. Even if your intentions are good, you can write harmful things. Being aware of such tropes and stereotypes can help you avoid them, or if necessary, use them to comment on larger issues. Rachel Smythe did not do that, and now we have a world where the racists are the good guys, rewarded with power and worship, and the oppressed, POC-coded, lower-class characters are punished unless they agree completely with the racist good guys (like the "one of the good ones" racial stereotype where a POC is the "exception" out of a "bad race" because they such up to the white main characters). Meanwhile, the only black character is "rewarded" with godhood, not for completing difficult tasks for love, but rather for doing a god's bidding.
I could be reaching. I could be biased because of my own experiences as a (non-black) person of color. However, I think my experiences are what allow me to recognize harmful things in writing.
So anyway, do your research if you want to include a minority character in your writing. Personally, I'd suggest checking out the @writingwithcolor blog. It's a great resource with lots of information.
Thanks for reading if you managed to survive this long rant.
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autismcultureis · 22 days
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Autism culture is constantly being frustrated as an autistic person of color because your adoptive mother (a white woman) loves you but she does not understand you and she thinks you are overreacting about certain things
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vaalr4vn · 2 months
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Personal art of my fae OC Fuil
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aroaceconfessions · 1 year
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Ok ok I just gotta know but if you're a poc and you're aspec please interact with this post. I rarely see aspec rep with poc and it just feels lonely as a poc myself. Like I know y'all are out there!
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