#anti-whitewashing

[j-a-nuary]

Why, no, tumblr, I do not want to follow a kpop gif blog that was specifically showing off how well they re-colored a set to make the people in them more pale.

#not naming names #because callout posts almost always end with people doubling down #and death threats #but i am certainly sending stern and disapproving glances in their direction #also im p sure the person was only like 16 or something #and sometimes dumb kids do dumb shit #and then they grow out of it #but nothing stunts growth like seeding a prosecution complex via dog-piling #i just wanted to vent #blah blah blah #thats me #thats what i sound like #anti-whitewashing #QQ more

[soranatus]

Made by audsrea!

#dc comics #marvel comics #anti mcu #mcu #the little mermaid #ariel #disney #whitewashing #tw racsim

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

I don’t understand the fandoms love for Daemon, by all rights he should be as hated as Joffrey was. Not only did he do almost everything Joffrey did, he also did worse. Even Tywin wouldn’t hold a candle to his cruelty. I understand liking a villainous character, I do too with Cersei and Tywin, but I’ve never went out of my way to whitewash their characters. I love them because they are villainous and practically irredeemable, if team black stans liked Daemon for his villainous actions before and during the Dance of Dragons I wouldn’t have any problems with it. But the fact that they go out of their way to defend him killing Rhea Royce because “he was forced into a marriage he didn’t like!!!!” As if she wasn’t too. And the fact that they defend him sending Blood and Cheese to psychologically torture Haelena and kill Jaehaerys due to “a son for a son it’s only right” when they despise Alicents moment of madness when her son was denied justice, makes me want to hurl.

It’s alright to like villainous characters, it doesn’t make you a bad person if you like them. But you know what makes you a moronic person? Whitewashing everything that makes a character compelling because you want to like them without seeming like a ‘bad person’. Your opinion on a character does not determine your own morality, it doesn’t make you better or worse than someone who hates them. But what it does, when you erase their entire identity as a rouge to make them more palatable to you, is make you seem moronic, stupid, and lacking any critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.

Rhaenyra is a compelling character because she is entitled and spoiled and lacks any political experience, she shows how badly Viserys fucked up when he tried to compensate for his guilt of murdering Aemma. Alicent is a compelling character because she is a mother who is trying her best to protect her children from the reality that if Daemon took the throne for Rhaenyra, he would kill all of them because they are a threat. She is even more of a compelling character in the books because of her ambition and cunning and want for her family to rise far above the ‘station’ of being a noble house in the Reach (as if house Hightower aren’t the oldest house in Westeros who could trace their lineage back to both the Garth Greenhand the high king of the first men and the Andal Kings that came afterwards). Daemon, for all that I dislike him as a character, is compelling for his ruthlessness and shortsightedness in his pursuit of the throne. He didn’t raise an army for Viserys because he thought he was a competent leader, he did it because it raised his own standing within Westeros, he groomed Rhaenyra not because he loved her, but because having him in her good graces means that he stood a better chance of being king after she was named heir. His ruthlessness is compelling. Taking it away to make him into a ‘malewife’ or a ‘loving father’ or a man who is lacking any ambition beyond wanting a valyrian wife is taking away his agency. It makes him seem like a Gary Sue who only wants the throne because his brother said Rhaenyra was heir. It makes it so that he is so completely white bread like that not even I, someone who loved the more morally bankrupt characters in ASOIAF can find him agreeable in any way shape or form.

Daemon is a fundamentally morally bankrupt character and he should stay that way. If you like him you should acknowledge and accept that he is one of the ‘bad guys’. Just as Cersei fans acknowledge and accept that she is fundamentally a morally bankrupt person who is selfish to the extreme. We like morally black characters because they are morally black. To make excuses for their actions is to take away their agency which makes them unlikable and very hate-able.

Daemons actions aren’t justifiable, blood and cheese would never be justified. A son for a son is akin to the visceral disgust the fandom had to Alicent when she asked for Lucerys’ eye, yet I bet when season two comes out and Blood and Cheese happens we’d see Daemon fans applauding and trying to justify it as ‘not that bad’ and ‘team green deserved it because of Aemond’s actions’ when little Jaehaerys, a boy of 6, was as far removed from the incident as can be. It would be akin to Team Green saying that due to Jaehaerys’ death, Aegon III or Viserys II deserved to have their head cut off in front of Rhaenyra.

Let morally bankrupt characters be morally bankrupt. You aren’t morally bankrupt because you like said character, it’s a fictional story loosely based on Empress Matilda. It’s not that deep. Like the characters you like without trying to justify their actions. They might be monstrous but you aren’t because you like them. It’s not a measure of your own character because you like said character. But it is a measure of your intelligence when you try to change said character’s entire personality to make it so that they are more digestible to you and everyone else.

#hotd #team green #anti daemon targaryen #blood and cheese #pro team green #cersei lannister #joffrey baratheon #jaehaera targaryen #like the characters you like without trying to whitewash them please and thank you #fire and blood #house of the dragon #anti team black stans #anti team black

[bloody-teared-angel]

I don't know if I'm sad or angry about *H*H* and how it portrayed Hell and its Highest Princes, Kings, Presidents and Marquis or lack thereof. If Miss Medrano truly wanted to criticise Christianity, she could've utilised Demonology and people who work with them. And no, not all Demons are evil.

There are also videos of people having some experiences working or conjuring them and some Demons also want to share their knowledge.

King Paimon - There are videos of people talking about working with King Paimon and I highly recommend watching them. He teaches all arts, philosophies and all secrets things - an offering to him must be made.

Prince Orobas - faithful to the ones that conjure him, never deceives them, gives true answers to past, present and things to come, divinity and creation of the world, confers dignities and prelacies, and favour of friends and foes. - this Prince could be a nice depiction of Demons working with humans, since Prince Orobas along with King Paimon love sharing knowledge -

Prince Stolas - astrology, knowledge of herbs, plants and precious stones. Again, since he's the 'main character' in *H*B* they could show him teaching humans or those who desire to know more - imps or sinners. Then again....

Marquis Gamigin - teaches all liberal sciences and gives an account of the souls of those who died in sin and drowned in the sea. Stays with the conjurer until they are satisfied.

There are also tortured demons, who still wish to return to heaven - Phenex for example - also a pacifist demon, who got casted out of heaven due to not picking a side (no, not Belphegor who was just lazy). All of this could be written as a tragedy, a criticism of God and Christianity, that not all Demons are evil, how Satanists (not in horror movies) and others worship someone else other than God.

(TLDR, I still don't understand why they want to redeem sinners when heaven was shown to be worse than hell.)

#wasted potential to hell and back #anti hazbin hotel #anti helluva boss #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism #they keep failing to utilise hell as this place of punishment #it's just second earth nothing more #criticise Christianity but do not whitewash POC figures in it #the fact she also got demonology wrong and is straight up spitting on canonical fall of Lucifer - his pride was his undoing #and his characterisation is truly laughable #everyone is an uwu angsty soft boy in hell #heaven is worse than hell hell is just another earth #anti vivziepop #vivziepop criticism

[616wandanat]

Marvel is once again whitewashing and erasing another of it’s Romani characters for their cinematic universe. The character, Lilia Calderu, has been established as Romani since her first appearance in comics in 1973.

[Tweet]

#i am so fucking tired and angry #though not surprised that marvel is pulling this shit AGAIN #of course they would whitewash more of their own characters #lilia calderu #agatha coven of chaos #coven of chaos #anti mcu #mcu critical #marvel critical

[icedsodapop]

Casting Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth as Katniss and Gale was such a choice. Like, you get the Blonde, formerly Republican-voting, woman who rubs her ass on sacred Hawaiian rocks for funsies and the White Australian dude to play two Brown/Indigenous-coded characters? Fucking wack that what it is.

#anti jennifer lawrence #white feminism #colonialism #settler colonialism #whitewashing #hunger games #films

[thisismisogynoir]

Nobody is talking about how outright racist some AIs are. I remember when I used to enjoy looking at AI art as a concept, before realizing how wrong it is, and how so many of those AIs outright whitewashed Black and dark-skinned brown characters. I remember this one AI making Sakura Okami from Danganronpa not only light-skinned, but skinny and without muscles. I even saw an AI just now say that no African country starts with the letter K. Umm...Kenya??? As a Black woman, it just makes me hate AI even more. Though who tf is really surprised.

#fuck ai #racism #anti-blackness #and that's not even getting into the racist people who used ai to whitewash black ariel

[punkeropercyjackson]

Please 'She's feisty and he can change,soulmateisms🥺'By this logic the entire Water Tribe is destined to be with a Fire Nation member-Also does this not apply to Zukka then?Many thoughts

#yeah this is longing-for-rain again i was forces to read this because of someone who reblogged my aang and zuko brothers soulmateisms post #she's still got zh///aoko in her pinned and changed her bio to 'that hated slightly mean female character but in real life' too #for context they tried to harras me over being openly autistic and mocking z/ks for self-whitewashing and failed because they have no game #anti zutara #zuko #katara #sokka #zukka #t4t zukka #pro zukka #pro katara #katara deserved better #trans katara #bi katara #punk katara #autistic katara #transfem zuko #trans girl zuko #trans sokka #autistic zuko #momko #bi sokka #autistic sokka #dadkka #atla geekery #gender stereotypes #cisheteronormativity #💌 #pastel punk tag #summerposting

[heart-of-a-rebel16]

the more Star Wars stuff that Disney pumps out the more I am shocked that rebels is as amazing as it is

#Like #no whitewashed clones? #an actual sense of stakes and permanent character death? #an engaging take on the five/six man band? #Impeccable character arcs for SIX CHARACTERS? #SIX WHOLE DAMN CHARACTERS????? #SIX????? #fantastically subtle world building? #No Anakin bootlicking or anti-Jedi sentiments????? #A disabled character treated with the respect he deserves? #It’s a fucking miracle #And yes this is a direct dig at the bad batch and everything Dave Filoni has ever made since then #Rebels isn’t perfect by any means #But its pros far outweigh its cons #which is why rebels will always and forever be the best piece of Star Wars media to ever exist #star wars rebels #swr #sw rebels

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

People talking about Catra's curls reminds me of this meme

LMAO exactly 😭

i'm in the k-pop fandom and these kinds of people are insufferable. they also call certain idols "tan" or "dark-skinned" just because their skin isn't as white as paper lol

#whitewashing is a big issue in kpop but still #“look at all that melanin” and the guy in question has standard pale skin #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop

[odinsblog]

I have been very critical at the way that media has helped legitimize what essentially is a propaganda campaign. We need to call that what it is.

We know the actors. The actors are very explicit. They don't camouflage what they're doing.

In fact, one of the biggest actors, of course, Chris Rufo, regularly goes on Twitter and says, this is what we're going to do. He said he was going to turn critical race theory into a term that made white Americans think about indoctrination, their white children being treated as the oppressor. I mean, he lays it out, and then he lays out his strategy, which is we keep pushing this until we get some mainstream media to pick it up, and then the rest of mainstream media feels that they have to now pick it up or it will look like they're being biased.

So these folks have studied, I think, really the flaws in media and have exploited it. So what happens is this desire to be ‘balanced’ then actually means we obfuscate the truth.

The first thing we should have done as journalists is said, okay, show me in a classroom where this is happening.

Provide evidence that this is happening.

Let's define what Critical Race Theory is, and what it isn't.

And instead, we allowed bad faith actors to really define the terms in a way that I think has been very harmful because that's how propaganda works.

Attempted bans were against 1619 specifically. Then they came back with critical race theory. Now, of course, they're coming back with DEI and we just keep making kind of those same mistakes again and again.

I also just want to add that when we think about something like critical race theory, when we think about what should and shouldn't be taught in the classroom, part of what we did as a failure media is to ask what is the role of an education? And is it wrong to teach a theory? Is it wrong to teach things that every parent wouldn't agree with?

I mean, that is actually the role of an education.

—Nikole Hannah-Jones: The Attack on Black History

#politics #republicans #education #racism deniers #nikole hannah jones #erasure #diversity equity and inclusion #d.e.i. #racism #anti blackness #white supremacy #white fragility #media bias #1619 project #journalism fail #book bans #book banning #white grievance #white guilt #whitewashing history #aversive racism #colorblind racism #revisionist history #rightwing propaganda #crt #critical race theory

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Hello!

I hope I'm not being invasive by posting this ask.

My names is Zade and I run a blog dedicated to Baldur's Gate 3.

Both the game and its fandom have a huge racism issue.

About the game: There is only one black core companion in the game, Wyll, whose story ties directly to the events of the game. He is a textbook prince charming. He also is the companion with the least amount of content and a lot of it is bugged. The writers even publicly mock him and dismiss the issues he faces in-game (he is subdued by a devil that is white-coded). Fans have been sending reports to the developpers for months and are consistently ignored in favour of fans of the more popular (white) companions/NPCs.

A new patch was released a few days ago where Wyll was once again sidelined. This led to a lot of outrage and some responses to that outrage tap directly into the fandom's antiblackness.

About the fandom: Since the game was released, gamers have repeatedly dismissed Wyll as being boring and go to great lenght to justify why they don't interact with him. They purposefully ignore the fact that the character was rewritten late in production in-part because people who played the beta version of the game couldn't handle him having flaws and depth. As of today, he is the least represented in fanarts and posts concerning him will generally receive less engagement than those featuring his white counterparts.

It's no mystery that a lot of Wyll's fans are POC. Those same fans are consistently called aggressive and hostile by the white fandom when they demand that all main companions are treated with the same amount of care. They refuse to see the racism the only black companion faces both inside and outside the game. Our reactions and demands are described as disproportionate and entitled.

I thought this ongoing issue could be of interest to you.

Bonus: A petition is going around to tackle his lack of content and care by the developpers here.

hey thanks for messaging us!!! this ask is not a bother at all :D this is what we're here for. Sadly I know more about bg3 because of the fandom antiblackness against Wyll than anything positive at this point. (I found this article which was similar to an ask one of our blogs got I'm so sorry I can't seem to find it https://www.themarysue.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-the-latest-target-of-racist-dog-whistle-mods/)

Thanks for this summary, blog promotion, and fandom racism breakdown I looked through the first page and it looks great so far!!!

Followers please go give Zade a follow on the blog @absansombre and check out the petition!

mod ali

#wyll ravengard #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #fandom anti blackness #whitewashing mods #video games #racism in gaming

[lagosbratzdoll]

You guys are always yapping about how Criston Cole is Rhaenyra’s victim. Even though the show contradicts you on this point many times. Even though the producers contradict you on this point repeatedly. 

However, no one wants to reckon with the fact that those men took a tale about a misogynistic paedophile and the child he groomed and isolated and then turned his child victim into the initiator/aggressor. 

It’s par for the course with the adaptors. We watched it happen with Dany and Jorah, Doreah and Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Loras Tyrell and the homophobic way they adapted his story. The racist, heavily sexualised way they adapted the sand snakes and Ellaria Sand. I had hoped the fandom would know better by now but alas!

#before someone inevitably comes here to “but daemon” me #I will say that #daemon targaryen #did not get an adaptation that effectively whitewashed his character to the point that even book-only discussions of his character #are derailed by his antis. #if anything daemon was made extra evil #criston cole was whitewashed #to the point that people who have allegedly read the books are arguing that he was always #rhaenyra's victim. #it's absolutely maddening. #people justifying the homophobic rant he gives after viserys dies #people saying his usurpation of rhaenyra is justified #house of the dragon #fire and blood #hotd #criston cole #also being “but daemon-ed” is so fucking annoying #I don't even like that nigga but the way your lot talk about him has me wondering if any of you cracked open fire and blood #or rise of the dragon #or even the world of ice and fire #like damn #you niggas don't even slander Tywin this much and he's also a child murdering #woman murdering #war mongering #cruel #misogynist #like what gives?

[caseyisaloser]

Did a color picking guide for his recent art made by Gato! Excuse my handwriting as I was doing it all on my phone.

Now y'all can finally not whitewash him in peace <3

"But Strade is German!"

He is German but not white! Look at the source here from Gato's Ask!

#boyfriend to death #you kill me everytime #you kill me every time #ykmet #strade #btd strade #ykmet strade #color pallete #anti whitewashing #im aware this isnt his final design tho! #but I want to emphasise more on how people color his skin

[fandomshatewomen]

I wasn't sure about sending this here or to fandomshatepeopleofcolor so sending it here. Anyway, as someone who enjoys playing video games I love to add mods to games and always thought people who made mods for games were amazing, and I still think a lot of them are but some of them are just gross. I'll mostly be using BG3 for examples bc that's the most recent game I've looked at mods for, but someone made a mod to make Wyll and his father white (note that Wyll is the only non white companion, Karlach's VA isn't white but Karlach is a red tiefling). Then someone made a mod to make Dame Aylin (a woman who's strong and can be direct and say what's on her mind, could come off as a little rude at times but tbh I don't blame her, and she's in a relationship with a woman) into a man and the description is "meet Ser Aylin, a slightly more polite and male version of Dame Aylin" and that the mod "ensures that the gender and sexuality of world NPCs match medieval status quo" but dragons and magical creatures are okay ig but not people of color or LGBTQ+ people. I believe the white Wyll mod and the Ser Aylin mod are made by the same person. Both mods were removed from Nexus and the account banned but sites like moddinghaven and rpghq still have them up and have other terrible mods to make NPCs white, straight, cis, etc. on RPGHQ the modder has a mod pack called no alphabets that includes the Ser Aylin mod and removes mentions of any LGBTQ+ relationships by changing someone's gender and turn trans characters cis. Oh and they also use AI to alter their voices. Baldur's Better Aesthetics is another mod that changes NPCs from POC to white claming it's more "lore accurate" even tho the creator of the forgotten realms setting has said forgotten realms has always had LGBTQ+ people, people of color, etc. Anyway I just needed to rant and to say if anyone mods their games, maybe stick to nexus and not moddinghaven or rpghq who keep these mods up. RPGHQ doesn't just allow these mods they encourage them as well

Hey thanks for taking the time to explain all of this to us!! I want to play bg3 but my laptop is old lol.

So here's Wyll in bg3

and here's the alternate wyll on moddinghaven (btw there's 2 white wyll mods the original was revamped to make it work better 🤮)

here's the ser aylin

and here's the "better aesthetics" (the one that white washes the npcs)

So um yeah its a shit show!!!

Since I'm not familiar with moddinghaven I don't think its worth it to complain. and I'm not even clicking on rpghq because like this is their results when you look it up on ecosia

Like the top 2 mods are for the whitewashing mods. also "made in america"??? what bullshit. just admit you're nazis and go.

I'm really really hoping that like me none of our followers have strayed from nexus!!! Because this is honestly repugnant and I wish I could coordinate like an attack on moddinghaven and rpghq and bring them down.

mod laina

#white supremacy tw #baldur's gate 3 #moddinghaven #rpghq #whitewashing in games #anti blackness #homophobia #transphobia #queerphobia #anti black racism #bg3 wyll #ser aylin #nazi tw

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

It's Funny How They Let A Whitewashing Incident Slide Because It's Their Mid Hell Show

If it was some any other show they would be screaming how this is a set back for representation, seriously these people have done this for controversies less but when it's a legit complaint against Vivziepop who really doesn't do her research despite what their pages says. Seriously, this also is an example of her just not being able to get out of her comfort zone and depict a religious figure what he should be portrayed as. Seriously, a Middle Eastern man getting whitewashed would get another series flamed by them but since it's the fan site favorite they coddle it. These people have no brains.

#whitewashing #tv turds #tv trash #tv tropes #tv tropes critical #anti-tv tropes #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critical #anti-hazbin #hazbin #saint peter