hell is other people

This goes for many things but I think... some of you should have more patience and fully comprehend some of the posts/responses on here before quickly responding or asking a question that could be answered by reading the full thing 😭 I'm working on being more concise but I just have so much to say lol and this requires a lot of nuance that I do my best to deliver. I don't want to come across as elitist I understand people have different experiences with reading and how they were taught, but I think letting go of instant gratification and just have patience for the learning process, it would help a lot. Use context clues, and sometimes if we are not online, just by reading the comments and observing how we phrase things, you will get an answer to your question. I distinctly remember one time someone sent in an ask and was like "I felt really uncomfortable by the response that said [EXACT OPPOSITE OF MY POINT] but I could be misunderstanding" like yes, you totally missed the point on that one. It's really frustrating because I spent a lot of time on that ask and others only for someone (and likely more people who didn't send in an ask) to say the exact opposite of what I said even when I was careful by using phrases like "often" "not always" "this does not ALWAYS mean this but." It is very discouraging when answering asks with more detail because if I don't end up adding a bunch of distracting disclaimers then someone will be like "You forgot to mention this!" No, that's not always true. Again, I want to work on this but it's a two way street, you know?

Sometimes, people send in very well-meaning asks that are along the lines of "Hey can you tell me how not to make an Asian character racist or orientalist? What is everything I should avoid? Thanks!" If it was something we could list out in quick bullet points in a single post, why would we have a whole blog dedicated to this 😭 It's a really overwhelming question and it's like, well where do we even start? That's why Mod Teto is often urging for more specific questions so we can give you a more tangible answer because there's nuance in many of these situations lol. If you can search it up on the internet and get a very clear cut answer, then maybe it's not really a question you have to ask us. Yes, you can have shy Asian characters. Yes, you can have smart Asian characters. But do you tend to make your Asian characters remain in a certain niche? Why is that? Is there a wall or discomfort that stops you from making Asian characters take up space in other fields like athletics? A lot of what we try to do here is examine biases, and that also requires patience.

dark-skinned spider centaur love interest who's part of a cannibalistic incestuous spider race where the females are larger bc haha big hot abusive women

which means we've got a bunch of dark-skinned women who are incestuous sexual abusers of the males of their species

white protagonist love interest who is based off griffith from berserk looks-wise but i have also been told that character is like. a serial rapist. so maybe not the best choice

white protagonist leads dark-skinned love interest around with a rope noose around his neck

author makes 'jokes' about the dark-skinned love interest with a specifically "proud curved nose" being objectified

the sexual dynamic between the two MCs is supposed to be the dark-skinned love interest finally getting to be the rough dominant top to the pretty boy white twink protagonist

@deep-sea-horror yeah

it's vile how this shit is handwaved repeatedly on a pretty big chunk of the tumblr demographic out of a sense of fear that any serious criticism of this image would be seen as kinkshaming. as though interrogation of the author's obvious fetish for bestial noticeably tanned (yet still repeatedly white) violent women would be somehow morally wrong in some way. as though racism should be ignored as soon as it makes someone horny.

the image itself is especially galling. tiny fragile pale delicate genocidal colonizer twink with his skin as white as his hair (the design of which is directly based off an anime rapist who infamously sexually assaults a main character who is a woman of color on screen) holding the rope leash- so, a noose- of a deliberately muscular, darker-skinned animal man who is directly referred to by the white author as a "dog" who is "well-trained enough" to "retrieve [his leash.]"