#dont fucking whitewash characters

[thedrunknextdoor]

people arguing over fanon vs. canon batfam is so funny considering the comics wouldnt know character consistency if it hit them over the head with a steel bat

#pre 52 this new 52 that IT ALL MEANS NOTHING!!!! #batfam #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #damian wayne #duke thomas #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #EDIT: i cant believe i have to say this but this post is solely about personality and not representation #dont fucking whitewash characters

[dirt-str1der]

I still get scared when i remember kiryu is canonically quite lean and not a fatty at all

#Yakuza loveblog #i really think hes a little tubby and a little shorter #stop making japanese characters taller than 180 .... #you can pick one guy in your series to make that height but not more than tao #two #like there should be a ratio of guys over that height to guys who are normal (160-175 range) #and i say this a lot but i like the idea of kiryu simply being a guy who can dominate the room by presence alone #like he shouldnt be a huge guy he should be above average but being six feet is literally (thinks of a social justice buzzword) whitewashing #fucking haruka is taller than me thats not why im mad i just think that nobody looks at the average height of a country before making their #characters. wait im going to boot up y5 again and see harukas height in comparison to the rest of the people because kiryus always like a #head taller than everyone and while its funny to see him towering over date i think its wrong for him to do that #if anyone tries to argue with me im going to your house and killing myself #sorry i dont feel that strongly about this actually wait i am trying to downplay it im freaking out right now #okay between then and now im okay now but it still makes me so sad

[linthehero]

ok im sorry to come in here with a ranty preachy sort of “woke” ig post (even though it should just be common sense) but i feel the need to say this again,

the colors in the first row are colors i picked directly from pictures of brandon, specifically from his skin and even more specifically pictures of him as bryce, i tried to pick images that had very little filter or funky lighting or anything like that, theyre arranged lightest to darkest

the colors in the bottom row are colors i picked from certain fanart of bryce that i found online, not from any specific artist or website, i just picked any i found that i felt belonged here, theyre arranged darkest to lightest

so hey! uhh sorry for being a sensitive snowflake or whatever but why are we doing this? i know lighting is different and anyone can look different in any sort of lighting or filter but if that person generally appears to have a darker complexion in most of their pictures maybe you should draw them with one, and some of these cant even be justified like cmon that last one is paper white. there’s no logical reason for this and it just feels gross? dare i say kind of colorist? idk just a thought, maybe we shouldn’t, i feel like it’s pretty easy to not do this

#this isnt everyone obviously but it is a handful of people #i dont get what you get out of doing this i really don’t #like it can be an honest mistake but #really dawg? #this happens with a lot of the characters but i see it the most with her #bryce tankthrust #and yeah i draw his characters sort of far from accurate #especially bobby #but i feel like theres a line between headcanons and changes for fun to a character and just flat out whitewashing? #and sure yeah maybe it’s a little ridiculous for me to preach about something like this over brandon rogers #yk with all his history #but i dont really care this is weird as fuck to me #and it should be weird as fuck to you

[lord-squiggletits]

The most annoying part of being an IDW Megatron fan is that the extreme ends of people who love him OR people who hate him are both annoying in different ways.

No, Megatron haters, Megatron being a war criminal doesn't mean he can't have a redemption arc or be humanized in some kind of way. Stop accusing people of sympathizing for real life crimes because they found a fictional character compelling. Megatron fans can engage with whatever parts of the character they want to and they have no moral duty to self-flagellate for liking a guy who killed billions of people.

No, Megatron stans, Megatron having good intentions doesn't absolve him of the guilt of everything bad he did. Megatron being a person with rights doesn't mean that every character who (rightfully) hates him or challenges him is just an evil meanie trying to torment him. People who don't like Megatron have VERY REAL reasons to like him, they're not just antis throwing a shitfit about him being problematic. Why are you stanning War Crime McGee if you're not emotionally mature enough to cope with the fact that many people will hate him for the very canon and very plot-important crimes he committed.

#discourse #negativity #s2g i hate both sides but due to being an M fan myself i see more of the bullshit of M apologists #deadass i see people go 'who cares if he killed some random organics' and i'm like #uhhhh the PLOT cares and OTHER CHARACTERS care and it's a really fucking important part of the narrative #some M apologists will really go 'yea i lovr his redemption arc' #but get offended when you point out the things M did to be redeemed FROM. lol lmao even #tbh i kind of side with M haters as long as they arent disrespectful or starting figgts over it #M IS an asshole and he DID do those bad things if you whitewash them then are you even a fan of M??? #how did you get through all of mt/mte and conclude M did nothing wrong #why dont you try reading another idw1 series and maybe youll get some oersoective

[jusiri]

Love people using the live action atla as an excuse to draw White Katara and Sokka

I mean, obviously its totally fine, because after all, thats what the actors look like!

That means theres nothing at all wrong with this now :)

And like, Katara's actor is paler than OG Katara, so its alright to make her skin just white, as well as take away all indigenous features, and give her a stereotypical White Girl Face

No problems at all, thats all totally cool!!

#Having a grand time gang its so much fun #if your gonna whitewash her at least have to guts to commit to it #''its the actor'' yeah the fucking 2010 live action actress maybe #i have eyes i can look up the actress for Katara and see she is clearly Not White #dont fucking make uo some bullshit about her being Pale she's not White People pale and even if she was #She still has indigenous features #How are you drawing the Asian Characters looking Asian #but Katara is interchangeable with pretty much every Brown haired blue eyed white actress from the last 20 years #You should not be drawing her like the Percy Jackson Movie Annabeth #You may notice ive said nothing about Sokka well thats cause his actors already doing the lying for everyone else #Like hello?? #surely im not the only one who remembers him lying about being indigenous a d Netflix saying they were gonna recast him #only to turn around and low and behold he's still there like that never happened #anyway #we're filled with Hate and Rage tonight lads👍 its fine everythings normal

[namorian]

The moment I start seeing mcu namor fans calling comic namor white as a way of hyping up mcu namor is the moment my atrocities begin

#namorposting #he’s ASIAN CODED DO NOT LET THE WHITEWASHING CAMPAIGN BLIND YOU #NEITHER NAMOR IS WHITE #my fucking supervillain origin story is the like 70 years of on and off whitewashing again my man #all namor fans are inherently superior do not be mcu Wanda simps and forget the key comic elements of the characters im begging #both namors are Not White and both Dont Like You and are Hotter Than Your Fave

[strifethedestroyer]

just absolutely adore looking up altair fanart and seeing him whitewashed in 80% of the drawings <33

#assassin's creed #altair ibn la'ahad #like come on guys you're better than this #i know we've discussed this before but there's still so much pale altair and even malik drawings out there #dont get me wrong fanartists i love you for taking the time out of your day to create art for a fandom you're passionate about #but PLEASE for the love of god respect the culture the characters you're drawing come from #i see you drawing white characters a little tan sometimes no problem but as soon as there's a brown character you draw him pasty as hell #ubisoft already fucks up and whitewashes their poc characters #we dont need the fandom doing the same thing espechially when we're practically the only thing keeping ac going #in the words of nat 'the selectism is showing'

[harveylikestoart]

Drew my dnd character in a recoloured Fred Jones fit from Legend of The Vampire. Which is. Certainly a movie.

Anyways I liked this one hehe

#nah the whitewashing on Luna in that movie was FUCKED UP #anyways my man… #there is a secret version of this image where he is ass out #dont look at me #dnd character #harvey’s arts and stuff #this is for like a dndads themed game w some buds lol #Rigg Lesser

[marklikely]

you know the thing where u have to be cautious if you love villain characters cause you never know when an "i love this villain" post is about kylo ren? the evil woman enjoyer equivalent of that is mcu wanda

#so many times someone i like and respect on tiktok will be like i love evil women and complex women and women who do crimes #and im like omg so true bestie me too and then they flash a fucking picture of mcu wanda #and im like . yeah not her though you're wrong. #avpost #bitches will be like i want flawed female characters and then hate on mcu wanda <- i am bitches #idk about wandavision but what i saw of evil wanda in doctor strange was so fucking bad omg. #she was like so 1.5 dimensional and uninteresting. i think a lot of wanda fans dont like her in dsmom tho. #even so like idk. maybe wandavision is good or w/e i havent seen it but everything abt her from pre-wv #(mostly the whitewashing and erasing her jewish background to replace it with her volunteering for hydra #and the really bland writing and not good acting but thats secondary) #means i really dont think i could like her even if wandavision WAS really good and made her interesting

[woolydemon]

"wright has a brown eye and a blue eye" no I don't listen to u lalalalalalala la

#rando thoughtz #the damage from blue eye phoenix is immeasurable #like this has been said by others already but bro dont take away his dark eye asian swag <///3 #idk this isnt like a new thing for me ive been bothered by this happening in basically every fandom ive been in skhdkxjx #like n1njago will give jay bright blue eyes and im like No <3 that guy is asian to me #and tf will make human.formers of characters that are supposed to be not white and give them blue eyes and im like Cmon Man !!!!!! #me clutching so hard to b1urr & bee U will never see me draw them as blue eyed human ppl . #anwyay idk this just culminates in my fandom gripe of ppl being way too favorable for eurocentric features #esp for characters that are not white or are in a setting where it wouldnt make sense to assume they were #its like the only guys i will draw with blue eyes are the gavins but theyre fake blue eyes hfdgfghjfgf #i hc them wearing blue contacts. just bcuz #its goes in hand with them being bottle blondes to me #its not like we havent seen klav w/ dark eyes before................... in the whitewashed klav art fdsjkedghfg #ok listen. the whitewashing is a fucking tragedy i hate it as much and maybe even more than anybody else #but i'll take dark eyes klavier from that gladly #thats his natural eye color to me ok <3 #if everybody can slap on blue eyes on phoenix bc of some official art that contradicts his original design #then i'll do the same with dark eyes klav #even though ive drawn him with brown eyes before that arent that correct color dvfhjskghj #my apologies i'll do better next time and draw his near gray brown eyes correctly

[nicxxx5]

They didn't do it for that. The producers of Fate made mistakes from the beginning. One of them was to have a white actress play Flora (Eliot Salt) and then, due to complaints, change the name to Terra. The cancellation is not due to being a lesbian. Do not take to your field series that have been canceled for reasons other than those you think.

The whitewhasing of Flora and Musa (she was still being played by a non-Asian actress), the lack of Tecna, the lack of iconic characters, wanting to turn something bright into something dark and edgy like Riverdale, believing that smoking, drinking alcohol and having sex would make the Winx more adult, fashion. And more reasons that led to people not to watch the series or follow it. All of that led to cancellation. And no, in the second season there were still not all the original Winx characters.

i do not disagree that these were also reasons, you are absolutely correct. but just like these reasons we can't ignore that netflix has time and time again canceled sapphic shows

also i never said the second season was perfectly accurate, i know not all the original characters were there but they did add flora.

but the points you're making are actually further proving my point. with all the mistakes of inaccuracy and whitewashing, it SHOULD have been canceled after the first season. but it wasn't. the second season was slightly (key word slightly) more accurate, but it still got canceled before they got the chance to make it more accurate in later seasons. what i am pointing out is the common theme that this show and other shows netflix has canceled early on have in common and that is having a lesbian lead. i'm not denying any other reasons for cancelation, but this is a common one in netflix's shows that needs to be addressed

#asks #answered asks #fate: the winx saga netflix #fate: the winx saga #netflix #fuck netflix #again this person is right that the whitewashing and erasing of characters is a HUGE problem #but netflix has shown that they dont give a shit about sapphic shows

[alastors-wife]

should i even bother posting my art when h*zbin h*tel comes out... hmm

#i still love this show so much but i have such an intense burning hatred for f*ndom #especially yt f*ndom nerds ☹ #i CANNOT deal w the racism again good GODDDD #''here's dark skinned alastor!!!!!11'' is the dark skin in the room with us right now? #i cant fucking stand yt folks #i will NAWT sacrifice the peace of mind that comes with minding my business!!! #but it was nice to have my art be seen and appreciated LOL #besides this ai shit has gotten out of control if my shit got stolen (& im sure it has somewhere) i think i might actually commit a homicid #and dont think i forgot about the bitches who damn near popped a blood vessel because i said something about whitewashing black characters #atp i wont even engage unless its in some kind of group or server or whatever specific to nonwhite ppl like. fuck off #if that were a thing THEN i might reconsider #also would have to be 21+ im not babysitting nobody's fucking kids im only here to talk to grown folks...

[lord-squiggletits]

IDW Megatron stans who hate IDW Optimus need to give IDW OP more respect. Optimus shouldered the entire narrative burden of Cybertronian colonialism and racism so that Megatron could go on a space road trip, interact with 0 organics, do nothing to help the Decepticons, and somehow still have the fandom say he has one of the best redemption arcs ever.

#discourse #negativity #like man barber's writing is full of boring execution and missed potential but at least he WENT THERE #idw op in phase 2 was a better hero than idw megs managed to be lmao #and decepticon stans can fight me over that because it's true #rip idw megs but JRO had to invent an entire alternate universe just for him to go #'okay let me be a revolutionary 2 electric boogaloo but better' #meanwhile op is out there constantly fucking up and dealing with shit people did long before he was born #and having a revolving door of characters shitting on him constsntly #i'm just doing fan wank dont worry #but idw op is braver and a better hero and (in concept at least) had a better post war arc than megs #esp considering half of idw megs stans whitewash him and try to make him the victim #of situations where he was clesrly in the wrong #idw op is a better person who suffered through far more in phase 2 #megs literally had the narrstive rewritten for his inclusion in mtmte and ll #they are not the same

[scattered-winter]

I know that some of the paladins have canonical last names but consider. what if I just solely referred to them all by first name because most of their last names suck absolute ass

#shiro and pidge are the only ones who can stay... #i mean shiro's name is quite literally derived from his last name lmao #plus i like the name holt. idk. it makes a good shape in my mouth. <- autism #but everyone else ?? get the fuck outta here w that shit #winter speaks #voltron #to clarify i just feel like mcclain and garrett are kinda whitewashed #correct me if im wrong ofc but idk. i just dont like them for who the characters are supposed to be #and the backgrounds they supposedly have (not that the show actually cared to expand on that tho)

[yusukenui]

AHH ahhh shut uP ! eats you whole. casts get away from me beam

#stop telling me your shitty takes on characters ! #wah #youre racist just dont interact with the content if it bothers you goodbye #casts fuck you and leave me alone beam #waking up to dumbass stupid twitter thread in my dms abt why making a character a dif ethnicity is bad... have you ever heard self inserts #have you ever heard of having fun. of making something for yourself. i dont care if you want another white character #you want a white character you go and do that to the massive list of exhisting ones #but whitewashing is very real and very bad go read a goddamn article before leaving your dumb takes in my dms #good riddance #im going back to sleep godforbid i wake up to normal messages. or sweet ones even. #some of yall so obsessed with poc characters being white.. its starting to look like yall white asses wanted to be poc as well

[naturalbornlosers]

Personal Opinion™ but i think it's very weird when people get overly aggressive over what mods people install on their own copy of a video game............like. let people have fun. if they wanna mod the shit out of a game let them do it, even if you don't like the particular mod they use.

#like so long as they're not whitewashing canonical poc characters or doing something genuinely abhorrent then What Does It Matter! #people are fucking weird when someone likes something they dont particularly like #'oh you're changing the lore' ok and its their own copy of a video game. its not affecting you in the slightest. let them be #people deserve to just have some fun and play the games they own however they wanna play it!! #Statement.txt #yes this is about a post i saw a bit ago in my recommended that is SENDING ME #like...............maybe..............people are individuals who wanna have fun with fiction #oh nooooooooooo someone has a different concept of what they want things to look like in their game Whatever Shall We Do! #idk maybe theres like other things to do with our lives #than criticize random internet people for wanting blue trees and green skies or whatever.