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@creatingblackcharacters is it bad if i would still side eye the first one tho? especially since both fandom and media most especially has a history of lightening very dark skin characters to still be dark skin yet not as dark skin as canon shows them to be so their darkskin blackness can be more digestible? like making them bordering between darkskin and brown skin so they aren't fully darkskin but at the same time they can avoid the whitewashing discourse. i still feel like that's some form of darkskin erasure and it doesn't have to be pale to be darkskin erasure either cause i feel its kinda weird the same way irl darkskin people might feel its kinda weird if they never really see their shade rightfully drawn or put out in media or fandom spaces and its never their fully darkskin shade but its always the shade bordering between darkskin and brownskin. I feel like that also needs to be spoken about too because i feel its a way to make a very darkskin characters shade lighter while also avoiding cancellation of any kind like some form of microaggression if you will. Also as someone who draws on both laptop and phone the only difference between dark brown shades on laptop and phone is the saturation/boldness like for example a dull dark brown shade on a phone suddenly turning into a bright dark brown shade on a laptop so a drawing on laptop doesn't normally make the skin-tone closer to the white-ish hue part of the color scale. Don't get me wrong tho to anyone reading this you are free to disagree and it doesn't matter, just wanted to voice out my opinion is all.

This is sooo damn true lmao and the fact you can easily encounter a white tumblr user that fits this description in less than a minute if you just scroll through the #art or #oc tag lmao and the funniest part is they think they doing something revolutionary too lol omg i love this post ugh

we need more unapologetically evil, fun, and unhinged black characters in media

And we need to have them without 1) being unironic stereotypes and/or 2) me having to defend my entire race every time they show up and act like, you know, a character

Nope sorry, i disagree, it just wont work lol , think about it, we've seen black characters especially black female characters that are even the slightest bit of morally questionable like maybe they did like one or two questionable (not evil mind you) stuff and they get shit on like theres no tomorrow while the white girl or guy who have actually done evil shit gets love and praise. Heck, theres even a black character in pokemon thats rich, snobby and owns a white female servant and everyone really hates her plus theres even people wishing death upon her and someone even went as far as saying she needs to be shot and eaten and some other people in the fandom vent about how much they wanna kill her . Now nevermind the fact that theres a white passing male character that is way worse and actually evil than she is and nevermind the fact that fandom usually loves its rich mean girl characters e.g pacifica northwest, amity blight etc but it makes me scratch my head wondering whats wrong now with this black female character and why doesn't she get the same love and praise? Honestly im tired of this and i really am because when you think deep on it these ppl are the reason we never get any cool complex black characters on the big screen because fandom gets scared when a black character doesnt give out flowers, hugs and is all rainbows and the morally mature person. Fandom cannot handle a black character that is simply human and makes mistakes as a human because a lot of them are racist and dont see black folk as human. We always have to be the bigger person and have the moral highground and not have a single flaw or else we get picked apart and this sadly bleeds its way into fiction as well even when we try to use it as an escapism. That is why we barely get any interesting black characters with depth.

It is literally on you to unlearn patriarchal bullshit I’m so tired of this nonsense the next thing u know people r gonna be saying conservative women are just poor misguided little girls who don’t know any better

lol the hell do you mean by “next thing you know”?

Scoring at 22.3% of 265 votes, The Boondocks DOES NOT LIKE black women!

Is the sky pink ahh question

If a Black man with Tourette's said something wildly offensive, especially in front of an audience and directly towards people of the targeted demographic, do you think all the suddenly disability activists who have cropped up despite never giving a shit about disability issues or disabled people in their lives until the last few days would be saying "It's okay, he couldn't help it so he doesn't have to offer a real apology to the people he hurt!"

Delroy Lindo, Michael B. Jordan, and every other Black person in attendance should’ve been apologized to during the show. The apology needed to be as loud and as public as the offense.

WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE WANNA BE LITTLE GIRLS ITS PISSING ME OFF BE A GROWN WOMAN. NOW

me to those damn creepy ass lana del rey fans

WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE WANNA BE LITTLE GIRLS ITS PISSING ME OFF BE A GROWN WOMAN. NOW

if a black woman did the same thing sabrina carpenter does she would not get a fraction of fame or be actively bashed as a nastttty slut for doing it and i know this is true bc whenver we talk about white pop girls vs black pop girls the black ones r always talked about as more vulgar and perverse meanwhile their peers like ariana grande r making songs about getting fucked so hard she can’t walk but bc shes white she still gets to be called dainty and delicate and a uwu soft girlie

oh! the Black lead is annoying and insufferable and u want him to die? but you like the other two (white) leads just fine? oh the Black woman who's made morally questionable or evil decisions is irredeemable and no matter what new information you learn there's just "something off about her"? but the white woman who's made morally questionable or evil decisions is understandable or even just yass evil girl boss moment slay? three page essay due on my desk monday explaining why. with citations. the rest of the class and i are dying to hear your analysis.

yeah... theres quite a lot going on in this post that i dont know where to start from first lol but yeah it happens i guess and a while ago i thought it only happened mostly between white woman x black man couples but after being on tiktok for a while i guess i was wrong and internalized racism runs deeper than i expected. i have seen a black girl influencer on tiktok that lets their white boyfriend say the n word and be microaggressive and she don't call it out or say shit about it but when the relationship is over and the guy is the one to break up with her, mind you is when you'll hear her mention how racist he was and how they're glad he broke up the relationship . I also recently saw what i can confidently call slave play or some kinda kink lmao idk it has to be cause tell me why a full grown black woman is picking literal cotton on a cotton farm and joking about it all because her white boyfriend suggested the idea. I honestly don't know what to call it because i have seen it happen several times that at this point i think its safe to call it a severe case of low racial self esteem and plenty of black women nowadays suffer from it, most don't even check themselves or realize they have it. Its pretty sad ngl how much they value even the most average looking white man and trip over themselves in the comments asking if he "does chocolate" only for said comment to remain ignored by the influencer who obviously does not fancy black women if you just glance at his following and i don't even wanna get started on that shameful dumbass "pasta and lobster" trend bullshit.

on the point of including black people in the show (or any period show), a lot of the outrage can sometimes come across as performative to me. it's one thing to feel upset about how little screentime black characters get compared to white characters (a valid criticism, believe me, I Know! give me an hour and i could talk your ear off about how this constantly annoys me as a black person who's damned to enjoy period pieces), but it's another to Only get upset while not actually creating content for said black characters, Especially when fandom (not just hbo war, but in general) is famous for taking Extremely minor characters and creating entire worlds with them, to the point where you wouldn't know they're minor characters at all until you check out the source yourself. richard macon, alexander jefferson, and robert daniels each have only 20 or less posts about them (at the time of publishing this post). in my own fandom experience (within fandoms both big and small and old and new, whatever), i've seen more content (posts, art pieces, analyses, fics, etc) made for minor white characters in less than a mere week's time (it's not a competiton lol i'm just giving a perspective here). so idk. obviously, there's nothing anyone here can do about a show that's already been filmed and released. we got what we got. thas it. at least in the great wide world of fandom, you can actually do something about it, turning the big into small. there's precedent for that. otherwise it just feels like complaining for the sake of complaining

Preach, just made a point about this not too long ago on my blog

The fact that so much of what Malcolm says is just to fight for your rights by any means necessary and back then it was seriously seen as "lunatic fringe side of the civil rights movement" lmao