#also the blue eye thing irks me bc. hes mexican. he has dark brown eyes. stop giving him blue ones

[dyketubbo]

okay finally writing this bc its hit that point in the night/morning where i regained the energy to rewrite this but. can we please talk about the habit of people using scars/physical disabilities to make a character scary in this fandom?

like with, say, tubbo, not too bad! hes such a likable character that generally his scars are just drawn as a part of him, often horror pieces with him focus on other aspects like the nukes or him living by the woods or the fact that he died for those scars. all fine as far as i can see

....and then theres quackity. who is a canonically half blind character with an obvious scar. and people use it to make him *scary*. artists, both visual and textual, exaggerate the scar, describe the unnervingness of his fanonically blue eye (which, the subject of giving a mexican person a blue eye just because hes half blind when thats not how blindness works is.. hm), even sometimes describing it as a glass eye (meaning using the prosthetic as a reason to be unnerved by him). they give it otherworldly properties, they make it like a 777 machine to symbolize his greed and want for power, they make it into a void on his face, a glitch, a poker chip, whatever.

and let me say- that shit should really stop flying. i get the intents of people who do this, really, i do! i dont think the people who do this are ableist, but. dont use scars for horror. dont use physical disabilities as a way to make a character more terrifying. please. quackity can be scary and unnerving on his own, you can do it without resorting to "disability/scars scary", i promise. i havent seen it happen to other physically disabled characters yet (except for michael_beloved but ive talked abt my distaste w horror including him before), but im gonna take that as a blessing

(note- while i agree this shouldnt be done for mental illness either, this is about physical disability and i want it to stay focused on physical disability because ive seen ppl talk about the horrification of mental illness but not abt physical disability, not in this fandom anyways. however, feel free to make your own post or find posts from people who talk about the habit of using mental illness as horror in the dsmp fandom)

#the og version was much more generally worded but i decided it was best to just be direct #just.. if you want to interpret the scar in a cool way ok but make sure youre not doing it to make him seem unsettling please #theres many ways to draw disabled characters without doing it.. Like That #also the blue eye thing irks me bc. hes mexican. he has dark brown eyes. stop giving him blue ones #that is what poc mean when we say whitewashing is not just lightening skin #mask mews #quackity #dsmp #tubbo is mentioned #ableism tw #ask to tag #feel free to add on w/ your own thoughts or whatever youve noticed btw just keep it on topic plz ty #if you want to have the assurance that this is from a physically disabled person or w/e i have chronic pain and thats all the info ur gettin #theres more im just not gonna share that in the tags of a post abt quackity aetche queue