Oct 20, 2025
i have a confession to make (yes, another). which i feel MANY will not agree with me about. it's a bit.. elephant in the room of my skull. i am fearing for my life posting this.
i have a bit of beef with paul kidby. NOT AS A PERSON but as an artist. if you know me you can already guess why. it's not the style (which i love and has attempted to emulate in my younger years), it's not the potrayals (many of which are quite brilliant)...... it's this sort of. you know. a slightly noticeable uhm. issue. uh. and im going to put it the way i would in a private space with my friends because i don't want to mask my opinion for palatability. the issue is, quite precisely. erm.
does bro draw black people???????????
#discworld#and i KNOW he was terry pratchetts illustrator of choice. i know. but i also can't believe that a writer like that would#make 100 full shiny ten tens% characters white and maybe add a couple asian people for peace of mind#so i gotta yk. ask. what's up with that#also paul kidbys art is the reason why i don't really post my art in eastern european and esp russian speaking spaces bc well.#we all know how russian people act about even pinkie pie or smth being portrayed as non white#(if you don't go on pinterest)#so can you imagine the amount of a response i could be risking if i post ponder#who even on the discworld wiki is listed as “caucasian” which isn't even the right word to describe white#xyloblogging#xylodiscourse
