#praise diversity

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

Nuh body couldn't remind mi seh todeh ah modda tongue day? Happy International Language Day!

In honour of the day, I share a poem by the late, great Jamaican poet Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett-Coverley.

'No Lickle Twang' or 'No Little Accent' highlights the predominant attitudes of our parents & grandparents through a mother speaking to her son who has just returned to Jamaica after living in America for a while. This belief that the language of our colonisers is superior & the standard. If we spend time in developed countries the thought is that we should adopt their language and/or accent and drop our own because only then will we be 'better'. Even now, despite the popularity of our mother tongue, Jamaican Patois is generally frowned upon in school and professional settings.

Me? Mi love my modda tongue suh till.

#international mother language day #mother tongue #jamaican patois #jamaican creole #proud of it #praise diversity #cultural differences

[theandrosaur]

Body type study of elemental ninjas

#lego ninjago #ninjago #kai smith #jay walker #cole brookstone #zane julien #my art #This is actually looking cool #they're so different from each other that it is very pleasing to work on their design #and headcanon so many details on their diversity #his body is a temple #and he is so right tbh #lmao if i dont praise him in one of my post i'll die

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

#-> myra text #political critique #that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation. #it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country. #but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs. #did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years. #biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling) #i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever. #they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot. #these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas #as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather #wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from #the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point. #absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit #calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is. #sanghi bs #india #hindutva

[freevoidman]

Man I really do not like the white savior shit that the show is doing in regards to Ruby. Beyond the fact it doesn't work (wouldn't a lot more people be pissed at Ruby bc she caused worldwide panic that would have ensued in Grimm attacks?) the obvious racist connotations there are... egh.

#rwde #before anyone comes at me with ''ruby isn't white she's asian!'' #it doesn't change the fact that she's pasty pale with a bunch of dark-skinned people in vacuo praising her!!! #i'm so sorry i cannot fucking stand that #I could go on a whole separate rant with how the fandom treats ethnicities with canon rvvby honestly #NOT fanon you can do whatever you want with that but jesus #people want to claim rvvby is a lot more diversive than it actually is

[surpriserose]

......i dont like how much people keep pointing to the lore from the extra dungeon meshi stuff (?) that more experienced adventurers are fatter as like...proof dungeon meshi is better with body diversity than it is because like idk!! Maybe it would be great if it was actually used to make falin or marcille or laios or kabru or anyone fat but its not!!!!

#Like i love dungeon meshi dont get me wrong but people want to be like oh its so great with body diversity and its like...well yes and no #The different races have different body types sure but theres no diversity within them theres no fat elves or anything like #And i think sure on some level that counts as body diversity but also like....its not like people are praising dnd or lotr for that dhdyegs #Anyways good morning everypony

[ashthehermit]

Harry Potter & shallow worldbuilding

I probably shouldn't wade into these waters, but once again, I am demonstrating that my self-preservation instincts are poor, and that my family refuse to listen to my rants anymore. [TW: Harry Potter and all that entails].

I was a little confused when I saw the trailer for Hogwarts Legacy (source of ire for me, and many many other people).  I had thought that it was supposed to be set in Victorian England, but honestly, it looked a lot like it was still set in the 1990s (or the early 2000s, the films never came down on exact dates).  Perhaps this is because the movies - upon which all subsequent media has based its design - relied heavily on Victorian and early 20th century design elements.  Think Hogwarts' gothic architecture; the ministry's early London Underground tiles; and the entire interior of Grimmauld Place.  This wasn't in any way a bad thing.  Harry Potter, as a story, made good on a sense of whimsy and old British aesthetics.  The wizarding world, having no need of technology, would not modernise its aesthetics at the same rate as the non-magical world.  It was a design choice that was of great consternation to my mother.  We went to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, she whispered to me 'why do they have wheelie suitcases?  I thought this was set in the 1930s?'

It makes me wonder now, why doesn't the world in Hogwarts Legacy look much different to its predecessor?  I suppose that they are wearing vaguely Victorian clothes, but shouldn't we be looking at some 1700s aesthetics, or is the wizarding world caught in a perpetual loop of Victoriana?

Truth is, the Harry Potter universe has fallen foul of the problem that irks most fantasy universes once they are analysed for too long.  It isn't logically coherent.  Like the history of Westeros, the history of the wizarding world repeats itself perpetually, never looking or behaving especially differently.  In a series of children's books that were focused on the life of one teen, the cracks didn't show.  Sure, Voldemort was in power twice, and before him there was Grindelwald (for all intents and purposes, Voldemort but European).

J.K. Rowling's world building is fine for what it was in the beginning (again, the life of one teen in Britain), or as fine as it could be.  The world was not greatly expansive, but it didn't need to be.  The best parts of it were whimsical and extensions of the cheerier side of Britain.  There was the Knight bus, a purple routemaster.  The entrance to the Ministry of Magic was inside a red phone box, one of the great symbols of British tourism.  The primary setting was a boarding school.  One of the most popular elements is the house system, which is just a more complicated extension of your average school house system.  It is touted as a categorisation of identity, but it obeys all the rules of school houses.  Siblings going into different houses is rare (to the point that it's only mentioned once) because family groups always go into the same house (unless your school just doesn't care about houses).  The bigotry in the series is also British by design.  It ends up being a simplified version of classism, that features more in subtext than text.  This being said, there isn't a great deal of specificity in the world building.  I still don't know where Hermione's home town is.  I only know that her parents are dentists and they like to ski.  Where does Malfoy live, apart from in a manor that has peacocks in the garden?  These are the kind of flaws you notice when you have analysed the story for as long as I have.

The worldbuilding gets thinner the more expansive it gets.  The students from Beauxbatons are more or less French stereotypes, Fleur especially.  Durmstrang is the same, but Bulgarian.  Much has already been said on Rowling's shallow naming conventions (Cho Chang, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and now Sirona Ryan).  Without the crutch of something being British and vaguely quaint, the world loses all of its charm, and all of its logic.

Fantastic Beasts, for some reason, begins in 1920s New York.  Most of the richness of the setting is achieved by production design rather than the script (incidentally, flashbacks set in Hogwarts still manage to look like it's the early 2000s).  Conflict in the story is wrought from an American government that is more anti-muggle than the British equivalent.  If it is allegorical in any way, I do not understand it.  But let's not pretend Rowling's allegory has ever been any good.  Claims that Lupin's lycanthropy was a metaphor for HIV and AIDs only serve to lessen the character.  At best, it's an allegory for general prejudice.  The assertion that Lupin, at the age of six, was attacked by Greyback with the express intention of passing on AIDs, is well, it's dicey.  Rowling might have intended to create an allegory for stigma around 'blood-borne conditions', but failed to consider the extra baggage that that allegory might entail.  

The same is true for Fantastic Beasts, where the nonsense is turned up to twenty.  There's a group of muggles who somehow know about the existence of magic.  They name themselves after Salem, despite the Salem witch trials being appropriate for neither this setting nor this geographic region.  Any commentary on the nature of the Salem witch trials is hardly a commentary on the nature of America at large, but rather a commentary on a single Puritan colony.  Rowling takes pieces of Native American culture for her lore, with no understanding of the cultural legacy at play.

It gets even weirder in the sequels, which zip through countries so fast there's barely any time for worldbuilding.  There's a circus!  Why!  I don't know.

For no reason at all, there's a deer that chooses the outcome of an election.  In a baffling moment, Grindelwald (as played by font of virtue, Johnny Depp) tells a group of wizards that they have to kill muggles because they are going to start a world war.  He is wizarding Hitler, and that isn't a subtle analogy.  In that same scene, Queenie Goldstein, a character heavily coded as Jewish, joins wizard Hitler because he promises her that she will be able to marry her muggle beau.  The man that just gave a speech about killing muggles, is apparently all for marriage equality!  By all means, it doesn't make any sense.  It’s far from being respectful either.

There are of course attempts to make the wizarding world more diverse in Fantastic Beasts, but without any attempt to make these characters more genuine.  There's an Asian woman, but she's Voldemort's snake and she's going to be beheaded by Neville in a few decades.  The second film has Zoe Kravitz!  Yay!  But she's part of a needlessly convoluted tale in which a powerful white man hypnotises a black woman to be his wife, and then she dies?  I don't know what to make of that.  It's not good representation, and by gum it isn't good storytelling!  The Fantastic Beasts trilogy has all the perspective of Emily in Paris.

Hogwarts Legacy can hardly improve upon this worldbuilding, because it comes from an unstable foundation.  I might have been more understanding had the game been set in say, not Hogwarts, or even a Hogwarts that was fundamentally different from the Hogwarts that we already know.  The worldbuilding remains as shallow as it ever was, and with all the bigotry retained.  Of course, the main story is based on a piece of anti-semitic folklore, expanded upon in the books, and even more so in the game.  The problem being that Hogwarts Legacy can only make sales based on nostalgia.  It can't be that different from the world of the novels, because no one is bold enough to alter the world and alienate people who want nothing more than to experience their childhoods all over again.  As such, the shallow worldbuilding is laid bare over and over again, to the point that it is no longer a setting in service of a series of novels.  It now has to be a real, coherent world, which it fails at.  We have to examine the nature of Hogwarts houses, and the mechanics of time turners (thank you Cursed Child), and the reasons why house elves don't want their freedom.  

They'll never get freedom anyhow, because Hermione's attempts at activism are used for comedy.  The world at the end of Deathly Hallows is not greatly different to the world at the beginning.  Voldemort is dead, but we are not assured of any big changes.  The world returns to what it was.  For all that The Legend of Korra may not have lived up to its predecessor, it made an effective attempt at showing that the world had been altered by the actions of our heroes.  In the Cursed Child, nothing is different.  The story spends all of its time looking to the past and imagining increasingly unlikely alternate timelines (Cedric turns evil?  Ron marries Padma Patil?).  Hogwarts Legacy does not set up the world of Harry Potter, nor does it fundamentally alter it.  The status quo is preserved.  Like Westeros, it cannot change. The new game does nothing with the world, and acts in its detriment.  Anyhow, it’s not a good work of fantasy.  J.K. Rowling loves the status quo.   That much is evident.  Don’t buy this game!  Support trans people instead.

#hogwarts legacy #harry potter #jkrowling #fantastic beasts #cursed child #rant #I've no idea why you can use unforgiveable curses in it also #what was the goal #make it grimdark? #it's still a kids book lads #it ain't skyrim #can't believe i'm inadvertently praising skyrim #transphobia #I know people get tired of activism #but you should also know that it's just bad storytelling #the problems were there early on #and they just got more evident when there were stories set outside of the OG series #the people behind this franchise really want to lean into diversity as a promo #but they can only do it in this really shallow way #that reinforces the Cho Chang of it all #and emphasises how the MC of all of the works (barring game for obvious reasons) has been a white male in a similar vein #it's somewhat repetitive the kids might say #but good lord fantastic beasts was bad #so I can't believe the game is any good #and it sure doesn't have anything interesting to say about victorian england #antisemitism

[saint-saturniidae]

this is difficult to say, as her books are my special interest, and at the moment i can't really do anything to change that, but i have no doubt in my mind that leigh bardugo is a coward. she may not be a zionist, but she is a fucking coward.

to write a book series that so deeply echoes what is going on in the real world, what is going on in the region where she was *born*, to, for so many years, speak up about what was going on, and then suddenly when she has so much more influence than she's ever had and that region is in such great need to say that she will refuse to speak up about it because she doesn't want to be "political" is the textbook definition of a coward.

#i'm not even going to bring up how she always used to speak up about the diversity in her books not being ignored yet is now constantly- #-ignoring and even praising it's erasure (such as the show and certain fanart) #melro talks #leigh bardugo #not gonna tag this as her actual books and stuff because i use those tags on my blog for special interest use hope u understand #leigh bardugo crit

[audhdnight]

I really wonder what goes through some peoples heads to see a post taking about all the reasons someone shouldn’t support a certain author (if they cared about racism or Zionism or literally just had any kind of care for other humans) to then comment “I love her books!! 🥰”

We know. And we know why. Choke.

#love when mediocre white women with mediocre writing skills get praised for ‘diversity’ #all because the male love interest is a (extremely fetishized) man of color #(hes never black tho. specifically described with lighter skin. but he’s darker than the fmc so 🤷‍♀️) #meanwhile no one in the book knows what consent is #and the fmc talks about conquering surrounding countries to gift to her children some day bc that’s a normal thing to do #and the only female characters of color are consistently portrayed as undeserving of love from men #and either get dumped or get dumped and then come out as queer #but hey it’s fairy smut so apparently we can’t criticize or we’re just against women expressing sexuality

[iamnotarobin]

i’ve been thinking about it again recently and tbh i really cannot overstate how important alhaitham as a character is to me, he’s pretty much the only low empathy neurodivergent character i’ve ever found that is Not a serial killer/villain/antagonist and it is genuinely such an incredible experience to see someone so like myself represented in a story.

#once again i find myself praising hoyoverse rep #i need to stop doing this #though tbh. hoyo has always been absolutely shit at racial diversity but genuinely pretty good with gender/sexuality/disability #hi3 bronya also gets a shout out for low empathy characters but while she is a protagonist she is unfortunately also an assassin #low empathy #genshin impact #alhaitham

[britneyshakespeare]

i dont know where to scream about this but i honestly feel some sort of weird relief that r//nbow high is declining. i knoooow i know it's popular and they've been such high quality dolls and collectors have loved them and some(?) people like the web series (or do they? ive heard mixed things but ive never had any interest in watching it) but oh god. i just. sometimes it takes me awhile to appreciate modern doll lines and their aesthetics but i just could not get past their weird fish faces and in general i do not like monochrome styling themes. i realize their designers did so much with their concepts, i realize a lot of heart and effort went into them, and i completely understand why so many people were floored with the quality of the dolls and the rate at which they were being put out. even though the prices kept rising for them, you could at least see where your money was going, like they were always so well-constructed and doing new things. but like. at the end of the day. on a very basic level they were just never all that aesthetically pleasing to me and it was kind of maddening to see all that potential going towards a line of dolls that had just... like... facial proportions i could not get past lol.

#i wasn't super into the way theyd ape (or 'pay homage to') modern celebrity/designer fashions #but like i get it. that's a strong brand aesthetic. it's NOT something i really care for but yeah. #i guess if you were to compare it to like. lol omg dolls and the way they do so many celebrity homages #i think lol omg elevates it a bit more. im not a HUGE fan of lol omg but im like ok i DO get it. #even tho the faces are flatter and more dead-inside i actually think that makes it more forgivable and doll-like for me. #like. r//nbow high just hits some kind of undesirable middle for me between cartoony and stylized and realistically detailed. #also not everything's about 'quality' and fabric diversity and working zippers and pockets or whatever #i mean those things ARE nice but at the end of the day i just prefer imaginative designs. things should have a mix #not saying rh didnt have those things but. oh god. i just. i just did not like the dolls in themselves #the monochrome thing again i just cant do it. i heavily dislike monochrome doll designs and unnatural colored doll hair #not that it can never be done (the wild colorful hair) but for me it's gotta be done in a very specific way #it has to stand out rather than blend in i guess? idk im not a design expert i have no reason to be so snobby about this #tales from diana #dolls #rant #i actually think whatever they've been doing w their latest line. downgrading everything in 'quality' and making them seem like #they're appealing to a younger audience before and cheapening the production... i think it makes them look less weird to me #i still dont LIKE them but like theyre not off-putting to me. like to me they look no worse #this isn't to like mock anyone who ever really was into rh bc i know that was a lot of ppl. i get it #i just felt VERY alienated by how popular they were and how much lavish praise theyd get all the time #bc overall the end product just lacked smth for me. that i felt like other doll lines had. which was... cuteness #anyway dont take any of my mean opinions too much to heart. remember that i was a na na na surprise fan #i own four of those dolls. so take everything i say w a grain of salt #(i loved them when they were still fabric-bound ngl i thought that was such a cool brand choice... it saddens me theyre hard plastic now)

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

dont mind me just sobbing over the whole strange world situation

what the fuck is wrong with people. like the way i just have to sit here and watch as they purposefully sabotage our chance for representation. ive been crying about this to various news articles for 30 minutes because this is just so messed up???? and i’m seeing homophobic people use this as an excuse to 1) condemn their beloved ‘wokeness’??? for no reason??? and 2) use it as an excuse for why gay representation shouldn’t exist. and they sound so. angry. and i just. don’t understand? why do you have so much hate? why are you so angry? i am a literal teen sitting in my bedroom on a saturday night crying about the way a multi national corporation is devaluing my life and contributing to destructive narratives that erase and oppress queer people in real life as a result… do you think i want to be here??? they have no idea of the damage this shit does and they don’t even care to listen

it just makes me sad. please be kind to people <3

#and plus like just seeing that cast of characters made my heart so happy. why tf can we not have casual diversity without a fucking catch #plus they get the fucking praise of “omg first gay mc in a disney film!!!!’ FOR NO REASON. LIKE YES WE GET IT U SUCK AT REPRESENTATION AND #FINALLY HAD A TEAM THAT DID A CASUALLY QUEER MC AND THEN DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED THE MOVIE???? #time to watch more conan gray yt so i can emotionally recover enough to do my hw #lgbtq #strange world

[sydneyadmu]

just found out that tony gilroy received some massive criticism from a movie released in 2018 for its anti arab tones and… he definitely doesn’t deal well with people telling him when he’s wrong and it’s not humble to learn from his mistakes so if you had any hopes that some issues from andor would be fixed next season it’s better to reconsider 🥴

more about it -> here and here

#this is so fucking disappointing because I was praising his man for months and he’s a shitty guy lol #of course I always had criticisms but I didn’t know he was that egocentric #maybe it explains the lack of diversity in andor’s creative team since he’s the one who choses it #anyway I’m really really pissed #andor talks #andor criticism #xenophobia

[anachronistic-falsehood]

looking at genloss crit (<being a little hater) and um. wh. why are two of the only poc in genloss. in the role of. rats.

#whiskey yelling into the void #syk and rae are both literally. playing rats. #and ppl r praising the diversity of the cast but ummmm. all the main characters are 2 white men + one white nb #also one female character gets killed off immediately and the other is ONCE AGAIN. A RAT #methinks gl has a few more Problems that i did not see first time around

[the-greendalehumanbeings]

my unpopular hunger games opinion is that even though i headcanon, katniss as a woc, collins probably didn’t when writing her. there is no need to give her any props or praise her for writing poc. as far as i’m aware suzanne collins has never complained that the movie white-washed her character or corrected the assumptions which says enough about what she thinks. if people want to complain they should complain how a character who is described with racially ambigous features is always seen as white bc white is the default.

#tbh this is why i kinda disagree the movies whitewashed her #anytime a white author writes a protagonist with olive skin #they are definitely picturing a white person #it comes from the fact that white people largely see the white as the default #even though i know poc can have olive skin #not that we cant picture them as poc but there is no need to #not that we cant imagine them as poc but there is no need to give props to the author for something they probably didnt think much about #idk im tired of seeing authors praised for diversity bc they did the bare minimum #we dont need to praise them too much #ill be happy to change my opinion if i see proof of suzanne talking about the movies whitewashing her characters but all i could find is her #saying she didnt necessarily write katniss as bi-racial #although i do agree as much as the movies are meh it would really have been great seing katniss portrayed by a woc

[lightthatibecome]

Something that I've been trying to do more and more is not letting my mistakes define the rest of my day and it's been really REALLY hard, especially in sales and customer service, but I allow myself a couple seconds to be mortified/cringe at myself and then shake it off.

Literally. That's part of what helps, shaking it off in public view, because it reminds me that Nobody Cares about your fuck up but You, and nobody bats an eye at the weird full-body wring after. It is LIFE-CHANGING. I stutter greeting a guest, a make a mistake on transferring their plans, I say something stupid and weird? It's fine. It is truly fine. The anxiety lasts a second because I have given myself concrete proof that everyone usually minds their own business about 98% of the time.

Let yourself cringe at your mistakes and then move on. Don't agonize over them. It takes work but it makes all the difference.

#Ive made so many friends because of this too. just letting people see you make mistakes and move on also makes them comfortable enough to+ #do the same around you. i feel like thats very important. ive had so many people praise my workint style- more than ive ever had before+ #and ive turned from over-apologizing to saying sorry and then thank you for being so understanding. thank you for your patience #its wonderful i love this job so much and i like the growth ive made over just EIGHT DAYS OF WORKING HERE!!!! #also t×rget is the only place that claims diversity and actually lives up to it which is an insane difference between other jobs ive had

[thevalleyisjolly]

for the fandom of your choice/whatever is more applicable (although if u have any spicy d20 takes 👀👀): 3, 5, 7, 13 and 18

Ooh, thanks Jack! Had curry for lunch today so I'm full of spice and ready to let loose!

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

I stay out of the general tags for a reason, but my top 3 all fall along the same lines - the idea that K is a "toxic" person to pair with Evan because they don't really "see" him for him (...which is exactly the flaw and the room for growth that Erika built into the character), the idea that Ricky was "bullying" Cody because he was upset about Cody's cultural appropriation, and the whole non-consensual brain surgery thing with Norman.

(The common theme is people accusing Asian PCs of being mean to their white faves and therefore deserving of all sorts of bad things. Funny how that's happened not once, not twice, but thrice, huh)

5. worst discord server and why

As most of my friends and IRL classmates can tell you, I'm not super active on Discord and am horrible at answering messages in a timely fashion, so I don't actually have a server that I particularly dislike!

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Keradin, Limon, and Evan Kelmp are the first ones that spring to mind. Keradin actually has some interesting character beats and flaws but I've never seen anyone try to engage with him as his own character, they just interpret everything he does as part of a relationship dynamic with Lapin. Limon is a fucking background comedic NPC and I am still annoyed that during and after the season, people were willing to credit him with so much complexity and interiority while downplaying/outright shitting on the actual PCs.

With Evan, I'm not a huge fan of the character concept to begin with but I'm even more livid that in one of the most diverse D20 seasons, fandom actively sidetracked and ignored and even denigrated every other character in favour of the sad white boy played by the sole white player at the table. To be clear, Brennan is great, nothing against the man, but I was in the tags when the season aired live and about 95% of the posts were Evan-centred. Sam, Whitney, and K barely showed up unless they were interacting with Evan or did a particularly funny bit. And that's not even getting into the hate and criticism that got thrown at K for daring to be in a mutual romantic relationship with Evan.

13. worst blorboficiation

See previous question, but oddly enough, I also feel like Emily gets this treatment sometimes? It's complicated because there's one portion of the fandom that acts like she's a terrible chaotic player who keeps trying to fuck up Brennan's plans for shits and giggles (which is outright wrong and misogynistic) and then there's another portion that acts like Emily's characters can do no wrong and Emily may in fact be the only player at the table who knows what she's doing at any given point in time while the rest of them are just comedic yahoos fumbling their way through dice rolls and jokes. Which, placing women on a pedestal is in fact also sexist, and it's not any better than the misogyny you're responding to. It's a huge disservice to the cast and it's especially a huge disservice to Emily - she creates incredibly complex and well thought out characters who have their strengths and their flaws, and acting like they're all perfect girlbosses who are right even when they're wrong erases so much of the depth that Emily put into them.

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

I mean, we all know my answer is of course going to be Cumulous Rocks, but as per a recent post of mine (and many posts in the past), the answer is also more broadly applicable to Zac and pretty much all of his PCs.

#thanks jack! #someday d20 fandom is gonna have a reckoning about the superficial progressiveness in our fan spaces #and how despite lauding the show for its diversity #the actual fandom treats characters of colour (and honestly players of colour) as accoutrements to the white characters and white players #praising white characters for breathing and holding characters of colour to unreasonable double standards #pigeonholing and diminishing players of colour while uplifting white players as the ultimate gods of roleplay and gameplay #oops there's some bonus salt in the tags for ya