#but uhhh he can make no whitewashing a condition before he hands over rights

[shallanspren]

Thanks for your response to the whitewashing fancast of shallan. I saw it and almost said something, but didn't. I think the biggest problem here is that people just dont realize she isn't white because she's described as pale compared to the alethi. I may have missed it when I read the books, but I dont remember any specific description of skin color or eye shape within the text itself. I had to go looking after I saw debates like this one. I found it pretty frustrating that this info wasn't just presented in the books. But again, I could have missed it.

yeah, you're not the only one at all! when i first started reading SA i also pictured a white chick, but for me it was the red hair and blue eyes that did it, but once i found out how sandman views her, i flipped that switch in my mind and i cannot even picture her as a white girl any more.

but there isn't a ton of explicit descriptors of characters in the books, especially with shallan. and that is a problem. i know people have talked about how much they want to write to brandon or make a petition telling him he needs to be more explicit when describing his characters for this very reason. there should be no room for doubt that these characters aren't white. we should get much more explicit things in the text, and art that dragonsteel promotes should also reflect that.

someone mentioned in an ask to another SA related blog that they thought of maybe bringing it up with the official team that the words of radiance cover should be updated for the leatherbound because kaladin is hella whitewashed and i agree! brandon and his team need to do a lot better when it comes to how they depict characters, and who they give licensing to, to do the same. artists like lama*ry do a bad job, and just reinforce the idea that some characters, like shallan, are white when they're not and the dragonsteel team doesn't do enough on their end to curb that.

#we should all write letters to the team directly tbh #whitewashing is not cool #i can understand the initial confusion bc like you i was ALSO confused #but once someone corrects you it's time to curb that #and i know brandon has said that if SA ever does get a liveaction adaptation #there might not be much he can do about some whitewashing like with shallan #but uhhh he can make no whitewashing a condition before he hands over rights #authors with less clout than he have managed to do it so he can too #and speaking up about whitewashing is EXHAUSTING so i don't blame you for keeping silent #there just always has to be a few of us willing to step in #and right now i have enough spite in me to be doing that lmao