#fandom rpt

imo the entire handling of the situation really is the worst part abt this. @scatteredhq i get it sucks when anons don't come off anon when u want to have a discussion about these things, but this answer was. not it

if someone claims your group is not playing enough dark-skinned poc.. to bring up the "erasure of other underrepresented poc" is just ridiculous 2 me. if someone is talking to you about you playing a lot of light-skinned pocs, at least take them seriously and don't dismiss that by bringing up a different issue

+ to bring up tokenism and "quotas" when being told to be more diverse? HUH? pushing for a group to be diverse is not a conversation about tokenism. if your first thought about someone asking for more representation is tokenism? you're missing the point. yes, making a character diverse jus so anons stop bothering you is tokenism because you don't actually care abt writing diverse characters, you care abt shutting anons up. representation has to go beyond just apps and a faceclaim change. you have to actually integrate their culture and ethnicity into their character - THAT'S representation.

and while the anon saying "oh you're the least diverse group" probably isn't accurate as far as mfrp goes bc i've seen some REAL cis white groups in my time, maybe don't try to divert the topic from yourself? just looks bad

i'll be honest with you: i have no idea why typical diversity rules wouldn't be able to be used in multifandoms. because this is exactly what i mean when i say that white people are the default, even in the rpc. shit like this happens, constantly, and it's so annoying as someone who has helped provide people in mfrp with faceclaims only for them to choose the cis white way out.

i think mfrp could strongly benefit from the rule that every additional character you bring must be a person of colour, whether that's playing a canon character of colour or making a character be a character of colour - and then following characters must continue to be diverse (whether that's through making them non-cis, body diverse, neurodivergent, a muse with a disability or an older muse) while still ensuring there's a 1-1 ratio that muns must ensure that AT LEAST half of their muses are people of colour.

again, not just this, but also ensuring that the muns actually do write them as diverse characters and not just using diverse faceclaims or saying they're diverse on the app to bypass the rule. really hone in as an admin and ensure each character is properly being represented appropriately. if you have any concerns about how a character is being portrayed, say something and correct the behaviour.

though, i'm mainly uncomfortable with irl faceclaims due to personal reasons and from being a poc, since back in the earlier days of mfrp, it felt like a wild west.

i'd love plenty of faceless groups, though. the only issue is, where to look.

that's understandable! again, not every person is going to be comfortable with irl faceclaims while some are, and that's okay, it happens. i definitely know what you mean though about the earlier days of mfrp where characters of colour were slim to none, and i do think having irl faceclaims and the lack of resources for people of colour (especially japanese faceclaims for anime characters) were a huge root cause of that back then.

i do think it's weird imo to use zendaya as a fc for mary jane— zendaya IS the mcu version of mary jane, but idk it's just kinda! weird to me, esp with how mcu has the confirmed the spiderverse through the different peters. and so to use zendaya, you're also making it so michelle can't be played, or as if you're erasing her character. the other peters don't all look alike, so why should mj and michelle? if you want to keep to zendaya's ethnicity, then there are fcs you could use

As a primarily comic roleplayer I can admit that there’s honestly aspects of some adaptations (especially mcu and arrow verse) that I honestly get frustrated with for nominal characterization reasons.

However .That does not mean I can be rude or turn my nose up at mcu or arrowverse roleplayers for playing from those verses.

Issues such as whitewashing or disability religious or sexuality erasure etc in adaptations are a totally different story, but a well intentioned roleplayer playing any from either comics or live action both deserve equal respect. People always matter more than characters.

But yeah so to mcu and arrowverse/other non comics verse adaptation writers, from a comic roleplayer This anon sees y’all and if I see y’all being treated poorly for simply not playing comics versions I’ll gladly call out !