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> Artist only draws skinny people >> No one says anything > Artist draws all people with body fat >> They apparently have some sort of fat fetish > Artist draws everyone aggressively white / pale >> No one says anything > Artist has all POC ocs >> It's "blackwashing" (its literally their own ocs) > Artist draws all trans people as perfectly passing >> No one says anything > Artist draws trans people that dont pass as well and dont fit into the cisgender norms (women with facial hair, men with hips, etc) >> They're making caricatures with the intent of harming people

stop whitewashing characters of colour.

i don't care if this is part of your artstyle (which. it really shouldn't be in the first place, artstyle doesn't excuse whitewashing)

i don't care if you don't know how to shade darker skintones — there are plenty of resources nowadays for that, there is no excuse.

i also don't care if you're unable to draw certain facial features — you can draw poc in any artstyle (including very styalized/anime ones!!) without being disrespectful.

However. I don't want an over fixation on these large servers to take away from fandom responsibility either.

You want more women and trans people in Hermitcraft, which is great, but do you watch Gem? Or Pearl? Cleo? False? Extending this to the Life Series, do you watch Lizzie? Hell, lets expand to poc, disabled people, and other queer people too. Do you watch BigB? Do you watch Scott, and Martyn, and Scar?

If you do watch them, how do you treat them? Are Lizzie and BigB perpetual side characters? Are Gem, Cleo, and Scott just Too Meann for you? Do you even know Martyn's queer? Do you treat Scar as much like a competent adult as you do his peers?

Expanding the scope, lets talk about Smps that do have more women and trans people on them. When Vampires Smp was airing, who did you watch? Who did you perceive as the 'main characters'? Now watching Bannerfall Smp, whose storylines are most important to you? Do you value canon wlw relationships as much as you do fanon mlm ones?

And furthermore, I fear some fans put the responsibility for 'creating representation' entirely on large Smps to take the responsibility for supporting marginalized creators off of themselves. Large Smps should take note of who they're platforming and why, and if they are primarily made up of abled cishet white men it's a good thing to check unconscious community biases on who gets cast in what servers. But if you don't watch any marginalized creators, I'd argue putting the onus entirely on large servers to platform them for you instead of seeking them out is only avoiding a very important conversation you should have with yourself.

None of this is saying we shouldn't talk about bias within the streaming/youtube space itself, obviously, or that large servers shouldn't examine why they tend to favor certain additions over others. But an equally important conversation needs to be had within the fandom, because I and many other people I know have noticed how the mcyt fandom behaves regarding marginalized creators and their characters.

Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)

I selected “other.”

Text box popped up. Please elaborate!

Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment

Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.

Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”

Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.

I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.

If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.

When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.

Avid shows Scott unconditional love. Drift and Shelby care for and support him with no expectation to change. And that makes him want to change. Not because he had no other choice, but because he was shown kindness, which made him start to actually feel feelings again, which leads him to want to reform himself. If he hadn’t, then they could never’ve gone through with the plan and reached a compromise. And that’s ultimately what saved everyone.

Legundo was on his PTSD-fuelled vampiric rampage, and he would’ve killed the first person in town that he saw. But Pearl looked up at him with disappointment- not out of malice but of a genuine belief he could be better. Martyn called him “Doc”, and Apo asked if he was okay. The townsfolk didn’t treat him like some irredeemable monster, but as a friend. And that brought him back to who he was. And that’s ultimately what saved everyone.