Honestly, shout out to the Spiderwick Chronicles (the book series). You know they actually do know their fairy tales when they have one of the most lore-accurate ogre depictions in English-speaking modern literature.
Question for my KOTLC fans out there: what is something you read in the series that you couldn't defend the possible reasoning it was written. For research purposes (and specify what book)
If the Percy Jackson series does end up getting all five seasons, then one thing I hope to see in season 5 is to see Clarisse scream again, but this time louder with more emotion seconds after Silena dies in her arms.
Bonus points of Clarisse screams Silena's name!
I feel like I have to have this talk somewhere outside my head.
I, a 14 year old teenager of color, have always loved Holly Short.
She was described as powerful, with features like a hooked nose, and a dark skin, that made her beautiful. Things that I have always been insecure about, teased for, insulted for, were what made her beautiful.
The powerful woman, who fought sexism and always did the right thing, IMMEDIATELY became my comfort character.
I started to feel better about myself. Draw portraits with my favourite features in my self exaggerated in them. I loved my own features, because she had them.
And then, after reading the whole series and loving it, came the thirst for content. Content in wich, Holly Short, was always whitwashed.
So many fanart, official comics, covers, the goddamn movie! In all of them, Holly wasn't how i imagined her to be. The fact punches me every time. Her skin, her features, are FLAWS that people just prefer to erase from her character.
I still remember how sad i got when i first was raving to a friend about Holly and she said 2 my face how she thought she would be prettier if she were white.
Whitewashing Holly is basically saying the same thing.
Many may go, "whatever, who gives a shit about her color".
But things like this are what make teenagers, kids, like me back at the time, insecure and hating themselves because of simply simply being born the way they are born.
Kendime minnak kitaplık yaptım sevdiğim serileri ve kitapları ekledim malesef Türkçe kitap kapağı çok fazla bulamadım ama bence çok sevimli oldu haftasonu etkinliği ya da düşünülmüş bir hediye önerisi olsun size de 🥰📚 kütüphanenizde çok güzel duruyor 😍❤️🎵🎶