#ishika's psas

[deweyducks]

okay so guess i’m going to make my first dive into the kotlc fandom a cannonball bc i am just. so. fed up. with the racism of canon kotlc

first case in point: the blue eyes

- there is no purpose to this?? the plot would be exactly the same without it

- it’s just so...glorifying eurocentric features like okay blue eyes are so exoticized and romanticized in media already even when the majority of the population has brown eyes

- the fact that all the poc have?? blue eyes?? tam and linh are described as having the lightest eyes when they are. poc. and would normally have brown eyes. idk seems like whitewashing to me

- the fact that only sophie (a white girl) is the only one with brown eyes. when the actual poc who’d naturally have brown eyes don’t. and the fact that her brown eyes are so romanticized

second case in point. the canon poc being sidelined

- wylie and maruca are black and they are some of the most sidelined characters AND wylie’s grief for his father and his whole arc disappeared about halfway through the series

- tam and linh song are asian and are also constantly sidelined in favor of the romance subplot

- tam and linh have trauma similar to keefe’s but theirs’ is not explored as much (this is not to negate keefe’s trauma. but. tam and linh deserve the same respect)

third case in point. the stereotypes

- tam and linh have overbearing, strict, and abusive parents which is a common asian stereotype

going to tag a few mutuals now: @artemiassamos @terranovas @hellshores 

#ishika's psas #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #shannon messenger #important #tw racism #tam song #wylie endal #keefe sencen #linh song #sophie foster #ishika screams into the void #fitz vacker #biana vacker #maruca endal #obviously. yk. this isn't all of it #probably not even most of it #but these are still issues