That’s what alchemists do. 

                    That’s what alchemists do. 

                    That’s what alchemists do. 

                    That’s what alchemists do. 

                    That’s what alchemists do. 

i’m still here. work has just been wild, and my personal life has taken a hit. i’m in good spirits, i just need to focus a lot of things professionally. i treat rp tumblr as a way to socialize and also strengthen my writing pursuits, so i’ll be around in an effort towards fostering personal discipline and consistency. what that means is i want to be here (and on other blogs) to write, develop ideas, and strengthen habits. but i step back when it’s not great for my emotional well-being. 

i’m also trying to be more active in pursuing irl things on which i’ve procrastinated: PT, hot air balloon rides, auditions, learning to do things like fencing or krav mega…i’m trying to be my own personal hero. so bear with me.

Arrogant White Male Genius Learns To Empathize With Plebians After Experiencing Personal Loss

Arrogant White Male Genius Disrespects All Women Save For One Exceptional Woman He Also Happens To Find Attractive

Arrogant White Male Genius Reaches Maximum Efficiency Thanks to Unpaid Emotional Labor of One Long-Suffering Woman

I’m so much more interested in heroes who are kind at their core; who didn’t have the world laid at their feet and who didn’t have to lose everything to understand the intrinsic value of life.

poe dameron. cassian andor. gabriel reyes. jesse mccree. james vega. reyes vidal. raphael santiago. lance mcclain.

(and before you argue that jesse isn’t canonically latino, every single latino jesse fic/post/art comes hand in hand with some transparent “latin lover” bullshit where he sweet talks someone in spanish or uses his ~latin charm~ in some way or another)

and this is specifically about the treatment in lgbt fandom spaces. you guys aren’t immune to perpetuating racist tropes and you do it without any sort of acknowledgement or desire to change. even if there’s been some retrospection into the poorly written bilingual characters in fic recently, yet people continue to write and spread posts about every other racist aspect of the latin lover trope.

making them all promiscuous and overtly sexual? making them all “rough and dirty in bed”? giving them all “dirty mouths” and describing them with “deep, low voices” and talking about their accents using sexual descriptors? these all tie back to racist tropes that contribute to the sexualization of latino men.