Caligula Was A Pretty Fucked Up Guy, But In His Defense If Everyone Called Me A Nickname That Meant "little

pov you are a fish or perhaps a berry

I was a brown kid raised among other brown kids in South East Asia and yet, every single time I wrote a story in class or I came up with an idea for a play, I used traditional white European names and all my characters were white. So were those of the other kids. Even with no white people around us, the default race in anything fictional was white.

Every single book I read was white. Enid Blyton, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl all wrote books about white kids. The Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, the Meg Cabot novels. All the cartoons, all the early 2000s Disney channel shows, all the made for TV movies. Everything features straight, white children and all anyone wanted to do was to emulate them. When there was some representation of other races, it was secondary, tertiary characters. Or white passing actors. To think that our own stories aren’t worth it unless we acted white enough.

I didn’t want to be Shanti in the jungle or Jasmine in the Taj Mahal or the weird kid in the background everyone made fun of for being an “other”.I wanted to be Hermione and Annabeth and Nancy Drew. I would pretend my name wasn’t my full long Indian name but Keira, or Kara, or Katie and insert myself into the fantasies of my childhood. Even in my own head, I didn’t think I was good enough to be myself. I grew older and called myself Keer when I moved to the UK to compensate and shorten it for white people to pronounce better (why? racism.)

It took me a long time to accept that my story was worth telling, that my skin colour and heritage and religion were not inferior both in real life and on the page. It took me an even longer time to realize that I deserved to see people like me on the screen and the page in a way that doesn’t burden the character to be an ambassador for my entire race but she just exists, like I do. I still am shocked that I can’t even name one single Asian leading character from any of my childhood novels - Asian! The continent with 60% of all humans!

I want the default race to be non existent. I want a class of children to think up a story and not have 90% of them come up with straight white characters. White is not the default. Representation matters.

@batman-catwoman1, as much as I like the idea of a blog dedicated to batcat fanart, I notice the huge lack of credit to the original artists.

^^^ THIS is not enough. Love cannot go to the original creators because they're not even being properly cited. You can repost one of their drawings and get hundreds more notes/likes on it than they did-- and you didn't even provide a link to where you got it.

Yea, it seems easier to just download a picture you like, repost it on your account, and just reap the benefits, but it's seriously so disrespectful. I recognize some of the og artists and they make it clear that they either do not want their art to be reposted AT ALL, or a simple mention of their name/account will do; most of this info in in their bio. You don't seem to acknowledge either. I was going to send an ask or a dm, but you only allow those you follow to dm you.

Giving credit is not hard, like at all. It's as simple as:

Art by *insert account name* on *insert social media*".

It's a hot topic that's still overlooked by many. I know you probably don't have malicious intentions, but doing this kinda stuff does a lot more harm to the art community than it may seem on the surface.

Male comic fans like this need to grow the fuck up. Like sorry you can't get hard to a fictional green lady anymore 🥺

Uhl just wanted some older lady to love him back 😔💔

Lenora and Uhl never becoming canon physically hurts

I just learned the tiktok AI voice that reads all the text out loud is a STOLEN VOICE

Bev Standing is a voiceover actress and did NOT consent to this. Tiktok took previous content she created and utilized it without her permission or knowledge, and with NO compensation.

Here is a short interview regarding the issue

She is also now suing them and if you want to help support her in doing so, here is a gofund me helping her be able to do so.

gofundme.com

Stand with Bev Standing, organized by Maria Pendolino

Bev Standing  is a lot of things in the voiceover industry. She is a voice actor, a coach, a m… Maria Pendolino needs your support for Stand

mutuals i'm giving you a star sticker rn.

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

the phantom: sing for me my angel of music!!!

9 year old me honestly believing i had both the vocal range and operatic stylings of miss christine daaé:

Anyways look at this pretty cloud I saw today. Very nice.