#diveristy

Best thing about Superatural is it's recognition of cultural practices, even if Sam and Dean sometimes don't follow that rule generally themselves.

Our diversity as the reader to the yandere

I always see our diversity as the reader being questioned when it comes to sexuality to the yandere. People wanna know how would they handle it differently or would they still love us?

I'm bisexual, when reading a male yandere x reader with the anonymous asking "What if darling is Aromantic? Asexual? Aromantic and Asexual? Trans? Bisexual?" The questions are answered with this "They will love you regardless because they're a yandere." Do they truly love us for who we are or do they love us because we are the exception? Or have their question being answered with this "They will try to change you or have a way around it." Are they doing that because they have strong beliefs against it or are they doing that because they can't have us in that way?

I've read this Wattpad story of male yandere x reader called Husband. By MoonlightTofu. Check it out, it's very interesting and got me invested. Their yandere inspired me to have a question in the reader. Their yandere was a white German man, typical blue eyes. In Chapter 12 Spoken Truths (Part 2 FINAL). Before falling in love with us or becoming a yandere. They were racist towards us, called us slurs, any name in the book for being a (your race) girl, young, old, Yankee, not speaking German, your sex for being a girl. And we can insert our race in the book and imagine the terms of words that were used against our race, our sex, our ethnicity, our age. Anything that was part of us. But the yandere didn't change his way though, he was still calling Americans, Yankees and being hateful towards them while we are one of them and being in a relationship with him. he was called out by our friend. His excuse was "She is not one of you guys." Just being somewhat of a hypocrite.

This sparked an idea for me. What if a yandere was a xenophobia, a racist, a misogynist, and didn't like them as much but since we're their love they'll have to make an exception for us and do a double standards thing? "Well, you're accepted because _____ and they're not." While still hating the people who are like you. When you should be treated the same way as them to have fairness. That will be the most conflicted relationship when approaching that problem. I don't want the yanderes to only be love bots because I feel like it would be boring. I read some yandere x female reader that has the yandere has its own character. So let's not be scared to make the yanderes have their personality and give them feelings towards a topic or a subject that will affect their darling or how we feel about it whether it makes them a bad person or not and that will create a conflict or a difference making it thrilling. Got us questioning them: "How would they come around with this problem because we are something that they don't like?" For example (this is a soft one if you don't want a yandere to be a bigot), a yandere doesn't like antisocial people and they have a darling who's antisocial. So the yandere forces them to talk and engage in the conversation, not wanting them to be dry. This conflict creates an exciting feeling.

Like a conflict like this: What if the yandere wants to live a peaceful life but their darling wants to live a dangerous life?

Or another conflict: What if the yandere is a investigator but darling is a murderer?

Last conflict: What if yandere is a street justice kind of person but their darling is in a gang doing illegal activities?

Also are Ramen and Diversity twins?

Jacko,Diversity and bluewire are 16

Blossom is 19

Along with crow being near 20

Mana is 18

And eclipse is 13

I think that’s the kiddos that are here for right now-

Hopefully this is the right title. This is something I have been thinking about for a while. This is also going to be pretty long and if you can hold on for the whole thing it would be appreciated. I want to preface this by saying this is coming from a POC writer and my goal in this is to create a place where minorities can share what we want to see in the media we consume. If this interests you, keep reading. I really feel this is important so I will add tags that wouldn’t especially be related, but are semi connected based on what I have read under them.

Every year, representation gets better and better. People get more willing to share stories (or are allowed to) about minorities. These consist of characters that are diverse, ethnically, racially, religiously, or disabled/handicapped or LGBTQIA+. Basically, straying away from the norm Hollywood has provided to us. There are more characters like us. However, it isn’t perfect. This isn’t really nitpicking, but sometimes representation can be lackluster, for lack of a better word. Representation that is used for the sake of jokes or to earn brownie points. There are two types of representation I would define this under.

The first is stereotypical representation. By this I mean the dreaded “representation” that is characters chalk full of stereotypes. Characters like this do more harm than good. Characters that give people a bad impression of what types of people are actually like. Characters that are treated badly, however this treatment is hidden behind the word “comedy.” A lot of shows kids in the 2000s-2010s grew up with were filled with this. A Youtuber I watch a lot who is also on Tumblr, @harriyanna, has a lot of videos calling attention to this (which are very good might I add). An example of this I think of a lot is in the Disney Channel show Jessie. One of the kids, Ravi, was of Indian descent. The other characters in the show, even his own family, would constantly make jokes pertaining to his culture and accent. Even as a little kid, all of these jokes rubbed me the wrong way. I didn’t find them funny and I couldn’t understand why. Years later I figured out why. The show was trying to paint him as weird and undesirable just because of where he came from. I can only imagine how horrible that made people like him feel. Too many shows have done this to minority characters and have ingrained these ideas into people. In fact, writing this out, “lackluster” is far too weak a word for this.

The second type of representation I can only really describe as “a norm person painted as a minority.” I usually see this with POC, so I’ll describe it with that term. This would be like a POC that doesn’t show any traits of their culture. Not all minorities are fully involved in their cultures, this is not what I am talking about. These are characters that wouldn’t change at all if they weren’t POC. Regardless of how involved a POC is in their culture, they will always have experiences, traits, and knowledge they would not have if they weren’t POC or were part of a different culture. Without these aspects, a character kind of falls flat with representation.

Representation has a large impact on the way people see each other. If a person sees a type of person portrayed in a certain way constantly, they start to believe and expect it in real life. This is why good representation is important. It shows people less as caricatures and makes characters feel more alive. Now, where am I going with this?

A while ago I was doing research for a story I was writing when I came across a blog in the search results (this was before I got Tumblr). It was called Writing With Color. I’d imagine a good amount of people have heard of it. That day I looked through it for a couple of hours. I never knew something like this existed. It’s run by a diverse group of mods who give advice to writers who want to include good representation of ethnic, religious, and racial diversity in their stories. You can tell they put a lot of thought into the advice they give. @writingwithcolor is one of my favorite blogs on this site so if you haven’t heard of them I highly suggest you check them out.

What I want to call attention to is this post I found on their blog:

https://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/post/621394779234861056/i-was-wondering-what-kind-of-female-black

This post has stuck with me for a while. It’s a long list of the type of black girls black girls want to see. Reading through it for the first time slapped me across the face in a good way. It was the physical representation of something lingering in the back of my head. It brought it forward and put these jumbled thoughts into words. Why is representation important?

From a young age, I knew I wanted to be a writer. As a writer, I wanted to be able to do one thing: share stories that would make people happy. This post made me clearly realize one of the best and most important ways to make people happy with my writing was to tell their stories.

Fact: good representation brings indescribable joy. I remember watching the Disney/Pixar movie “Coco” and trying to hide the huge grin I had on my face as a Mexican-American. It felt like watching my own family. It felt real. It felt relatable. At that point, I was used to the only representation of Mexican culture being someone having a quinceañera, which is lackluster when you think of everything else they could show. After that movie, I wanted everyone to feel that way, to have a story that perfectly captures a very important part of their life. It took me a while to realize I had the power to create at least one of those stories.  

Now is time for what my English teachers refer to as “a call to action.” I personally have questions I don’t really have places to get answered. This site is filled with diversity. My idea was that we could share our ideas and experiences in hopes that we can take a step towards better representation. Story writers can look at this and take it to heart. If you fall under one or more of the aforementioned labels, I would love to hear your responses. Also, please include your labels if you are comfortable with that. Feel free to answer both or just one.

I have two major topics to inquire about:

First question is what kind of role would you like to see characters like you in? You can model your answers like the post above as this question is inspired by it. What kind of personalities do you want them to have? What part in the story do you want them to play? Any unique abilities or relationships you want them to have? Go as far as you want with this. Also feel free to mention positions you wouldn’t want to see them in or are tired of seeing, as this could go both ways.

The second is what are the more casual things you experience in your life in relation to being a minority? This includes things such as the food you eat, the way you dress, things you say, any unique self-care practices, or everyday struggles. The things that if you saw a character doing would make you go “Hey, I do that!”

I’m not sure who’ll actually read this, but I really hope this post helps.

You know what, Victoria’s Secret should be embarrassed.

Savage x Fenty proved how absolutely incredible, fun and effective an inclusive and diverse runway can be. Rihanna went out of her way to include women of every shape, size, colour, ability, sexuality, and even gender. Anyone and everyone was in the show and it proved that anyone and everyone can be a part of the world that VS has previously cornered off into ‘super skinny, sexy unattainable women’.

The show was a huge success because the lingerie and the models were both beautiful, and inspiring; they made everyone feel a part of the show, seeing someone up there who looked like them.

Instead of moving forward with the times, and bettering themselves, VS have decided that they can’t be bothered to do that, and have just decided that if they can’t have their exclusive runway then there won’t be one at all.

Even one of VS’s own angels couldn’t help but take a dig at them - Bella Hadid said in an interview that she "never felt powerful on a runway" until she modeled for Rihanna's Savage X Fenty runway show.

Rihanna’s strived to create an inclusive and attenable brand, and her runway really proved that’s not only is it perfectly possible, but is also wildly popular.