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siryouarebeingmocked:mintybreakfast:siryouarebeingmocked:prettymissy20:nunyabizni:pikaglove:cartoonking1:nerdylilpeebee:tolstoyevskywrites:Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x)Reblogged to the wrong blog. Screenshotted what I wrote.Yeah if anything can be misconstrued as problematic than eventually the only no representation will be good enough.Yeah don’t disrespect my girl Yue like that. I’m personally enjoying seeing every single Asian and North African subgroup getting tossed under the bus in the name of whatever it is now.It’s not enough to just not be white now, the mask is slipping further and further down.There are Romani people native to India with dark skin, blonde hair, and pale eyes. Some Bedouin people share these features too. Some native Siberians can have pale eyes too. Is that why they cut out Asian and North African people? Because some of them mess up their narrative?They also ignore a lot of the context of the media they say are “bad”. Baleful Polymorph trope affects more white than non-white people, Yue’s eyes are blue because that is a feature of her (not being an Earth setting so Earth ethnicities don’t exist) ethnicity and her hair is white because of the moon spirit, Atlanteans aren’t a real ethnicity, Storm is a mutant and her hair is part of her mutation, Esmeralda is Romani who can have dark skin and pale eyes…the entire OP is a lot of bull.The mask started slipping when they invented “BIPOC”, presumably because black people weren’t high enough up the Progressive Stack but they didn’t want to make it more obvious.Also, I like how simply having a black supporting cast member is the equivalent to a “Mammie”. Susie Carmichael isn’t even that, she’s a main character meant as a nice counterpart to Angelica, and she has her own struggles and plotlines.Also, Garnet isn’t black. She isn’t even human. Pocohantas isn’t ‘open to invasion’. In fact, she’s actively trying to prevent conflict between both peoples. She’s a contrast to the more impulsive John. Chel isn’t facilitating an invasion either. She’s a con woman who goes along with two con men for her own benefit. At first. But she also reduces the power of the evil priest, and helps save the city from Cortes, an actual invader.Esmerelda is a Romani, not a conventional “POC”. They’re generally considered white. Plenty of white people have brown skin. I like how they have examples from the Proud Family for Colorism, where Penny Proud - the girl in the middle - is the main protagonist. And the show has a great deal of diverse skin colors, including in Penny’s own family. The blue girls are a stylistic choice. Also, light-skinned black people exist. I’m one of them, depending on who you ask.Agency: Tiana’s the main protagonist. She’s the protagonist driving the plot. Even before she was transformed, she was already headstrong and determined.Or is that an allusion to that stupid cherry-picked meme that claimed non-white Disney protagonists are much more likely to be turned into some animal, while ignoring many non-white protagonists who stayed human the entire movie? Such as, off the top op my head, Mowgli, Bonnie from Toy Story, or Russel from Up? Not to mention many movies where the protagonists aren’t even human. Even in Emperor’s New Groove, everyone else in the cast stays human, and Kuzco is a co-protagonist. With a human.These folks are inventing their own problems to complain about.In real life tho (and I don’t know exactly what this adds but I for some reason found it relevant) I once met a white dude named Paul. He had short, very very curly blonde hair and white skin. Did I mention he was a white guy? Well, turned out that Paul was half black! His facial features and even the way his hair grew… Definitely African features, but he was white and his hair was blonde. I don’t remember what color his eyes were, but… Yeah.Anyway, for some reason I felt like I should interject with this. This guy, Wentworth Miller, is partially black.Here he is with longer hair.Dad on the right, uncle in the center (allegedly): -- source link
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