#representaion

ARE SO UNCOMMON (not including backgrounders) and like?? we gotta talk abt this tbh

thanks for asking!

writing poc as a white person

absolutely! in fact I would encourage it. please write many poc in your stories. however, there are a few things you should know.

many people think it’s bad for a writer of a differing ethnicity to write about the struggles of another ethnicity. because you might mess it up. solution: have a poc in your story, but don’t write about how being black/asian/hispanic/etc. affects their life. which is a legitimate concern, but! at the same time it is necessary to point out those differences because we are all intrinsically different because of our ethnicities and it would be a worse crime to ignore our unique differences.

that was a lot to take in, wasn’t it? probably because those two statements were pretty much contradictory. so what does that mean for the writer writing about a character with a different ethnicity than their own?

here’s the most important thing: don’t get really deep about race and ethnicity or whatever, but don’t completely ignore it. it’s a part of all of our lives and it’s not meant to be left out. so, mention it a few times, leave it out for the reader to see, but don’t give a lot of page time to it. ask the question, but don’t answer it, because you can’t.

another smaller thing to remember; a lot of mixed race people exist! I myself am wasian. don’t write mixed race people the same as mostly black or mostly white people. do some of your own research. I may even make a post ab mixed people specifically?? maybe

hopefully this helped answer your question, if you have any more, feel free to send another ask or message me :)

Sup gamers, gamerettes, and game people.  Miles here back at it again with the shizzy rpg maker stuff.

First item of business.  I bought aesprite.  Because of this the color pallet of the game is going through some tweaks and receiving some overall visual touch-ups.

Here’s a before n’ after of Greenton Forest!

Before

After

As you can see I’ve changed up a lot of the colors, as well as added a cool lil parallax thingy to the trees.  I hope these changes aren’t too jarring.  Lemme know if you prefer the old or the new!

In other news a new map is in the works!  Here’s an early look at an amusement park place you get to visit during your quest!

I’m trying to see if I can somehow make the roller coaster ride-able but no promises.

Finally my most exciting news.  New characters are on the way!  Including a new party member!

Meet Triangula

Triangula is a butch lesbian fighter class with two arms and no legs!

Twice the punch and none of the walk!

I’m hoping with this addition I can add more diversity to the cast of characters in a way that is un-offensive or pandery!  I’m also wanting to add a dating feature to this game.  Because Square Legs and Circle Girl are both BI, they will have plenty of options within their party to choose from.  (Spoiler alert, Rovarli WILL be a party member).  This means you can play one session of the game where square and circle date each other and another session where cirlce and triangula date eachother and square and rovarli date each other.

This is all super ambitious and I worry some of it will fall through the cracks or will straight up be scrapped from the game.  In the event that I were to get rid of this feature, which relationship path would yall prefer to see?  Just to be clear if Circle and Square get together, rest assured there WILL be companion characters for Rovarli and Triangula to get with, so either way there will still be some gay/lesbian representation goin on here!

Please leave some feedback in the replies/reblogs!  And reblog this post if you can!

In the meantime you can play the demo here

https://gamejolt.com/games/squarelegs/440852

You know, everytime we see Arab women on tv shows or movies especially in hollywood, they almost always look like this:

Which is a very important representation. However, I sort of started getting this feeling that everytime anybody hears the phrase “Arab woman”, the same image pops in their brain again and again. And while this is an accurate image in some cases, Arab women don’t all look or dress the same.

Some of us do fit that image, but others may look like this:

Others might look like this:

Or like this:

Or this:

Or this:

Or even like this:

Oh, and have I mentioned this?

And while I’m happy we’re getting a little bit of recognition and representation in hollywood, it is not enough! And I for one, would like to see some changes, which is why I created this little post, where I own none of the pictures above, to kind of show some of the different ways we might look SO THE NEXT TIME I SAY I’M ARAB, I DON’T GET THE “BUT YOU DON’T LOOK ARAB” REACTION.

Radio Silence // Alice Oseman

Synopsis: Francis Javier isn't just the boring, academically focused headgirl of her school, not that she has any friends who know the real her. The Francis who wears fun clothes and draws fanart for her favorite small podcast, Universe City. After the creator contacts her to draw for the show, she accidentally finds out his identity. He's the boy that lives across the street. She used to be friends with his sister. She's the reason she ran away.

Points of interest (includes possible tw): multiple main characters of color, demisexual (own voices) and bisexual and gay representation, child abuse (emotional, non-physical),

Opinions: This is a great book. It’s like a mix of Tash Hearts Tolstoy and what I think Welcome to Nightvale is, with some hints from Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle series. It’s very much about friendship, and I really appreciated how blatant they were that the main male and female characters were not going to end up together because goddamn it is annoying how often that happens for no good reason. 

I always love me some representation so it’s great how much there was in here. The characters have a range of sexual and racial identities, and the author makes a point to use the exact word for each of them in at least one scene (big points there bc bisexuality and any ace spectrum hardly ever gets that). 

The characters are all very much written by a younger person, because it is obvious that they actually know the kind of things that teenagers are actually into. There are references from disney channel movies to Hogwarts houses to tv shows like Parks and Recreation and Supernatural. It’s all very tumblr but not in a cringy way, more like someone who’s been around here a while.

I don’t really have any negatives for the book, what it did it did well. I am not gripped with the need to go out an buy a copy for myself, but I will likely be checking it out from the library again at some point. It’s definitely something I would recommend, go check it out!