#characters of colour

[spite-and-waffles]

Stop colouring the entire race of brown people in the same skin tone.

If you're colouring East Asians, Southeast Asians, Middle Easterners, Anatolians, North Africans, South Asians, Polynesians, Native and First Nations people, Romani and everyone from Latin America the exact same shade, including those who are half-white, you're just making us into a monolith.

#use!!! undertones!! #half the brown people in the world actually only have different undertones from whites #skin colour depends on geographic region more than anything #or the geographic region of origin #like the romani are from north india so they're clearly darker than white europeans #and I have no idea whats going on with arabs tbh. the immigration patterns of the MENA are wild to me #*pokes north africa* why do y'all look so close to white? #anyway stop giving the al ghuls my fucking complexion #i live near the equator wtf. those yahoos would melt here #y'all are like *draws jamaican damian al ghul*: ahh! representayshun! #drawing #colouring #representation #characters of colour #damian wayne #talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #cassandra cain #dick grayson #lian harper #jade nguyen #i forget who else #batfamily #spite waffle #asian representation

[ignaciosanchez1701]

#007 fest 2023 #007fest #teamqbranch #qb-s1 #art #michelle yeoh #Wai Lin #characters of colour

[viscountessevie]

What do you think about Julia Quinn not having POC characters in her books in the past? Cause I read somewhere that she didn't want to write something she didn't know about and she was dragged but I kind of get that. It would easily come off as insensitive and racist to have a person of colour in a romcomy plot set in regency England and brush off the extremely racist behaviours they'd face irl. What's your view?

Ask Dated: 17th Feb 2023 

This is a great lead in from my previous ask and point about JQ only NOW writing a heroine of colour into a book after she got paid big bucks for it. It was SO embarrassing of her to sit beside Beverly Jenkins and say something along the lines of (and I am paraphrasing): "It's hard to write people like that into this era because they weren't traditionally Dukes or Earls and did not get happy endings." Listen, I get what she was trying to say but dear god does it sound like we POC do not deserve to get happy endings in a HR context. It was just appalling and so dumb to say out loud. Especially when Beverly who was right next to her has been writing Black characters in that context forever.

One small good thing about the QC book is that she did work on it with Shonda so at least she had that perspective a sensitivity writer would have provided her if JQ had made the choice to include heroes and heroines of colour in her books a long time ago.

This is my view essentially: I think being afraid to write characters of colour because of being insensitive and people of colour not being a part of the aristocracy is such a cop out answer. Because firstly, you can always do research and talk to people to be sensitive to the various cultures you wanna write. Secondly, you can always incorporate POC into the peerage. Personally, I think there are two ways to tackle writing characters of colour in a HR context. For white authors; they DEFINITELY should hire and use sensitivity writers/readers for obvious reasons. As for the storytelling aspect itself; I think characters of colour can be written into the story either through 1) a very realistic manner to that era as Beverly Jenkins, Adriana Herrera and similar authors (I recently read a book by Amita Murray I'll talk about in a bit) who have done so before or 2) set it in a completely different alternate universe where people of colour have always held titles and positions within the aristocracy and this can either be addressed or not at all. If it is addressed then you are allowed to embellish some parts of history for the lore of your story. It is still historical *fiction* at the end of the day. 

The former process takes a lot of research, care and consideration when writing these characters and the political and diverse landscape of the time. Take Amita Murray's book, Unladylike Lessons in Love for example. While it wasn't the greatest book in terms of romance, Amita really did her research with the era she set the story in, The Victorian Era. It is also known to be an era that was booming with more diversity - this allows authors and storytellers alike more flexibility to incorporate characters of colour and how they came to the story's setting.  On the other hand, you have people just doing blind cast in media like Mr. Malcolm's List (which I'd like to remind everyone came out WAYY before Bton and did it first and better!!) and now The Buccaneers where the characters of colour just exist as they are with no explanation required! They are seen as people first and its so refreshing. Props to Mr. Malcolm's List for acknowledging Malcolm's ethnicity and heritage by having him speak in Yoruba in one of my fave scenes in the movie. As for The Buccaneers, I have not finished it so I cannot speak to how they handled everyone's ethnicity but I did love the pseudo Harry and Meghan parallels with Dickie and Conchita from what I saw in the first ep.  As for the addressing how the characters came to be in an embellished history/AU, I guess the Queen Charlotte novel would be an example of how authors can bend history to explain away the colonialism of the time. However, I personally disliked the way it was done and executed within Bton and subsequently QC. Because QC and King George are HUGE historical figures to embellish this much with. It also just felt icky to use them to explain away racism and colonialism of that era. Personally in my own HR writing, I have been taking the Mr. Malcolm's List route of just having people of colour exist in all the spaces without any explanation while still incorporating my characters' cultures into their daily lives/weaving in lines that explicitly state this isn't a character readers can default as white.

Essentially it all boils down to white authors taking the care and consideration to actually write characters of colour. It is an EVEN MORE IMPORTANT STEP to have sensitivity readers and writers to help make the characters actually sound and feel like an actual person of colour. No point having a white writer who is just gonna write a white coded character and slap on a different skin colour (which happens SO often in this fandom sighh). I also think fandom spaces and the publishing industry have a huge problem in not seeking out and hyping up creators and authors of colour. Like I think with these kind of stories, it should come from our own communities first and be uplifted to be shared with everyone.

I think the publishing industry has slowly started doing better, I don't know if I can say the same for fandoms, especially this one. The amount of times I have seen people lauding and defaulting to white authors over authors of colours who produce the same amount and quality of work has been pretty disappointing.

Adding on to say, everyone who wants to write Indian characters - specifically Tamil ones - my asks and DMs are always open for questions!!

(Though heads up after the first week of Jan I will be swamped with my new role at my newish job so me replying may take longer than expected I have a life now guys 😭😭)

#The Viscountess Answers #Characters of Colour #HR Writing #Writing #Historical Romance #JQ #The Bee Show

[tamikadraws]

Moonlight smoochin 💏 Toma and Scarlet from my original comic.

#Romance #couple #Romantic #Wholesome #kisses #about to kiss #lovers #love interest #Redhead #Smooch #Red hair #Interracial #Characters of colour #Digital art #My art #Clip studio paint #Digital colouring #Digital painting #Angel #Dark angel #Scarlet #Crimson #Comic art #Manga #Anime #Comics #Marvel #DC #Humberto ramos #Akira toriyama

[o0kawaii0o]

no mercy 😭

#one piece won the poll and I wanted to draw smth nice and wholesome #but I hated the perspective process and the multiple characters were a pain so where did that bring me? #that's right; perspective and multiple characters in shtpost format #don't you just love it when you put too much pressure on yourself and the way to fix that is to draw smth silly #vibrant colours go brrrr #pls trust me when I say I like sanji #I mean look at him #one piece #strawhat crew #sanji #luffy #zoro #chopper #usopp #nami #nico robin #cyborg franky #o0kawaii0o

[tapeworrmart]

Intimacy issues 💔🦷

Something for Valentines Day

#Hmmm I hate the colour scheme but was determined to make valentines day colours #My oc once again #Valentines day #Valentines #valentines art #art #sketch #character art #Dog motif #Gay #Queer #Oc #Original art #OC art #Angel

[calllynx]

The Turn assignment for school, from start to finish.

Really challenging! Didn't use any 3d software in this either, just calculated it all by hand.

This is Araun, she's a fire dancer.

#art #my art #animation #2d animation #tvpaint #character turnaround #character design #maybe ill end up colouring this later #for funsies #finish the shading for the body at least

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AND ARIANA GREENBLATT as Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano Ahsoka - Part Five: Shadow Warrior (2023)

#swedit #starwarsedit #star wars #anakin skywalker #anakinskywalkeredit #ahsoka tano #ahsokatanoedit #ahsokaedit #ahsoka #ahsoka s1 #ahsoka spoilers #anakin & ahsoka #starwarsblr #*mine #*2023 #*gifs #[characters] #10k #I wanted to gif more but I've had ENOUGH trying to colour these damn scenes

[hybbart]

Can't wait for PET Post

#pearlescentmoon #tango tek #ethoslab #hermitcraft #fanart #fantasy #character #art #colour #Hybbart

[alienssstufff]

Hermitopia

process

#stufffsart #character concept stufff #alienssscapes #(tag for me environmental art :]) #hermitcraft #hermitcraft x empires #hermitcraft season 9 #empires season 2 #esmp #hermitblr #mcytblr #COLOUR IT? (shivers) #would u believe if I told h this was easier to draw than bdubs’ cyberpunk temple um

[rainbowd00dles]

my final designs for both Jeremy and Jean!

(still not finished reading, i'm about 65% through!)

#myart #aftg #tsc #the sunshine court #all for the game #jeremy knox #jean moreau #nora sakavic #book characters #book art #bookart #still not sure about jeremy's eye colour idk if it been mentioned yet #and if it has i havent noticed #tsc spoilers

[spite-and-waffles]

Don't mind me, just thinking about how Talia is the female version of Jason.

She grew up taught to kill or be killed, every bit of trust or vulnerability she has ever dared show, have been swiftly and violently been punished by both the League and fate. Her natural compassion and empathy is a liability she needs to throttle again and again, she can't afford to care or show she cares for anyone or anything lest they either exploit it as a vulnerability or become targets themselves. She doesn't believe in her father's mission but knows nothing outside of it, and anyway, leaving it all behind, even if it was possible, would leave her far too vulnerable. Tried that, got several metric tons of trauma for her trouble. She's forever torn between helpless loyalty, love, rage and yearning for the unconditional love and approval of a father too much of an exacting, unyielding and obsessive control freak to ever give it to her. Her mother was the only person who gave her a taste of a soft, nurturing heart and unconditional love, who she lost young and violently.

Damian was the one thing she had that was hers and only hers, and she had to keep her distance and raise him in a viper pit to obsessively craft him into something that would stand him the best chance of surviving anything that could take him away from her, and also be good enough to win the love and acceptance of both his father and hers. It's the only way she and Jason diverge. If Jason had a kid he'd either leave the biz entirely or give them up to an ordinary family, no half measures. The latter is in fact what Talia did at the end of Son of the Demon, even though the way she did it left a lot to be desired; in canon continuity it might not even have been a possibility given her father's obsession for an heir and the unlikelihood of their enemies never finding and pursuing the grandson of the Demon's Head.

All in all, even while her (pre-Morrison) actions can't be excused, Talia is exactly as tragic and traumatized and confused as Jason, and even more trapped. It would be bizarre how unwilling fandom is to see that and treat her with half the sympathy they do Jason if we didn't know exactly why that is. 🙃

#talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #damian wayne #jason todd #misogyny #racism #women of colour #characters of colour #bat meta #character study #meta essay #batfamily #dc comics #dcu #women of dc comics #spite waffle

[vault81]

I've finished my Fallout OC Character Sheet! this is my first time making something like this, but I like how it turned out!

PSD below cut!

Compressed Version!

#fallout #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fallout 3 #fnv #fo4 #fo3 #fallout oc #i tried to keep it fallout related in some parts #for the first time making something like this i really like it lol #im open to suggestions too! #If you have any ideas how I could improve on this! #also if you use this tag me in it bc im nosy and wanna see your oc's #also if any probs just lmk and i'll see what i can do :) #wait ofc as soon as i upload it i forgot one last thing lmfao #i forgot to add the little boxes at the character profile for the colour palette #ok fixed lol

[fleshdyke]

me when theres themes and motifs and symbolism and storytelling and colour language

#like the slightest most basic storytelling elements make me INSANE. why. #like holy shit this character wears a colour. no fucking way they were insane for this #<- was literally in charge of costuming for a play last year and putting character and story elements into th costumes was like my whole job #rambles #100 #best #1k

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lap Pillow

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Confessions of a missed opportunity: I almost had LWJ in purple for this comic. #WWX gives him one of his layers to wear and it's never specified what colour it is. #We all love the red inner robe from CQL (And other illustrations) but sit with me for a moment. Think about LWJ in Jiang Purple. #Right now. Close your eyes and give it 5-10 seconds of rotation in your brain. #Welcome back. It's beautiful isn't it. As I write these notes I am upset that I backed out of going through with it. #I think I will simply have to draw it another time. If we get gusu lan white wwx we *need* yunmeng jiang purple lwj! #Anyways; this comic is the pinnacle of teen wangji's bursting-at-the-seams-emotionality that I love him for. #For my sanity I need that teen losing his mind and following bird rules (get fluffy - get blushy - keep beeping) #He is a loser nerd with a begrudging crush on a boy that he doesn't know how to be normal about. #LWJ seems like your typical 'cool guy love interest' until you realize that he's actually kind of soggy and pathetic. #My favourite lan wangji trait is that he's funny as all hell. I feel like wwx a bit because I had a character epiphany when I realized this

[old-desert]

Dance for two, performed by one

#isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #siffrin isat #isat spoilers #isat loop #loop isat #loop is like heavily alluded to #sifloop #in that case #art tag #my art #desert art #I really love this genre of images where the background colour is the same as a major colour of a character #and it blends together by having no lineart around it #i always wanted to try making one like that