This post is especially dedicated to:
Black and brown people,
Physically disabled people,
aroace, nonplatonic, relationship-replused people,
touch averse and solitaremit people,
people who use pronouns other than she/her and he/him
nonbinary and genderqueer people
and everyone else who finally, finally gets to see some fucking decent representation...only for bigoted fans to immediately erase it and steal it for themselves and spam the fucking tags with the erasure and bigotry.
[ID: a twelve panel comic showing two stick figures, one seafoam green, and one lavender purple.
Seafoam has many circles aranged in front of them, showing characters in representation that are like them. Lavender has only three.
In the first panel, Seafoam is grinning widely, and Lavender is smiling. Both look happy, though Seafoam is happier.
Then Seafoam spots Lavender's representation.
Seafoam moves closer to Lavender, staring at its representation. Lavender, thinking Seafoam is simply admiring them, smiles, and asks, "Pretty cool, huh?"
Seafoam then reaches out for Lavender's representation, and Lavender, alarmed and confused, asks, "Wait what are you doing?"
Seafoam, picking up the representation, grins, and replies, "Making them like me!"
The representation turns blue, no longer purple. Lavender says, "But you already have so many that are like you!"
Seafoam deposits the stolen representation with the rest of their pile, and, grinning, replies, "I want these ones too!"
Lavender cries, "But now I won't have any! Those were the only ones I had!"
Seafoam smiles contentedly, and replies simply, "I'm okay with that!" The representation that was once Lavender's is no longer recognizable.
For two identical panels, Lavender stares at the smiling Seafoam in silence.
The last panel shows Lavender with its hands around Seafoam's neck, its eyes glowing red, and the whole thing motion blurred slightly as it screams in red, spray-paint style text, "I'm going to fucking kill you!!!!"
End ID.]
Bonus for people who Dareâ„¢ to headcanon characters as queer, Black or brown, or any other oppressed category.
[ID: A two panel comic, with Seafoam staring in disgust at Lavender, saying, "Hold it. What do you think you're doing?"
Lavender, holding a single ball of representation, smiles nervously and replies, "Well, you have so many and I don't have any, I just want this one…" It trails off.
The next panel shows Seafoam screaming and throwing their arms into the air, eyes glowing red and they scream, "You can't do that, get your own you fucking snowflake, who do you think you are, how dare you say this character might be like you you fucking freak, get out of here!!!" with many exclamation points at the end. Lavender, shocked, stares ahead silently.
End ID.]
Anyways, don't fucking interact with this post or my blog if you think "blackwashing" is an actual problem or at all comparable to whitewashing. Literally just shut the fuck up. Black and brown people creating representation for themselves is not the same fucking thing as white people whitewashing Black and brown characters. White people cannot be the victims of racism.
Darkening a character's skin for positive representation will literally never be fucking comparable to whitewashing.
