I’m not sure where to begin with this as I normally don’t post anything other than my art here, but I have seen enough from your side to prompt me into making this post, so I suppose we should start with the obvious:
1) Swearing, editing my works, and worse of all, throwing heavy accusations around like there’s no consequences and being proud of it. I might not know who you are but I can tell you’re rude and ignorant based on first impression. You have already lost quite a bit of my default respect that I have for anyone before we even begin.
2) I read that you’re a PoC and most likely belong in the group of minorities from where you’re from. Now that’s something you and I have in common, but our biggest difference is, I don’t throw accusations lightly like you did me.
3) Now let’s talk about art. I have seen people trying to explain to you how color, light, tonal values work, but you seem convinced that as long as it’s not a direct eye-dropped tone, it’s considered whitewashing. There’s a difference between giving a dark-skinned character a lighter shade due to lighting/mood and downright turning them white. And just for clarification, I generally favor pastel-like tones with saturated values at times, which usually resulting in a softer and brighter shade in the things I colored.
Let’s have a look at the official art:
We know that the creator is trying to convey an atmosphere. Marina is being colored close to a beige tone here, but we can tell she is still shades darker than Pearl, and naturally so. Everything here is meant to look soft and light to convey a sense of relax.
Here’s another example of light and mood:
Notice the differences in how the creator colored in these two pieces. One is not more ‘right’ than the other. They’re just being depicted in different mood and settings, often times exaggerated to display a more dramatic effect.
4) I’m not sure if you’re still with me, but I shall continue on. Your heart is at the right place and your cause is noble. Racism is a very bad thing and I should know, but I think you’re picking the wrong battle. You’re accusing people of something that isn’t intended, creating more enemies than allies, making the environment hostile for the wrong reasons. Your lack of understanding and proper knowledge in certain field has, frankly, caused more harm than help towards your goal and, indirectly, hurting the art community.
I don’t bear any ill will towards you and I’m definitely not expecting an immediate change, but all I ask for is that you take a step back and think things through before you decide to throw down the gauntlet again.
what was team gai if not just a better, more functional, well-rounded version of team kakashi?
like what actually was the sandaime actually expecting actually by giving these impressionable trauma-laden kids and sakura to a white hole of drama like kakashi
If you get a spare 22 minutes, this is worth a watch. I wasn’t going to share it initially because it’s almost entirely about white characters. Just at the point where I realized how incredibly white the video is, Pop Culture Detective points out the racism behind the fact that the trope actively makes white men look fundamentally good and sympathetic, like heroes even when they’re not being heroic – and that, of course, men of color are not viewed romantically when they’re the abductors.
Not that they should be! The way the video is edited, putting so many clips back to back showing white romantic leads abusing their love interests, is disturbing. It’s unsettling. It explains a lot about the Star Wars fandom – it explains a lot about fandom in general. These trends aren’t progressive in the least. There’s absolutely nothing edgy or subversive about making the toxic white guy a sweetheart in the end. It’s the absolute status quo that needs to BE subverted,
Since there’s a MAP/NOMAP (Meaning “minor attracted person” and “non offending minor attracted person”) flag going around trying to say it fits in with the LGBT community. I would like to say those people aren’t fucking welcome here. Pedophilia doesn’t belong in the community. Call me a fucking anti all you want but being this MAP bullshit is literally pedophilia and it’s VERY illegal. So fuck every single MAP/NOMAP that exists. Unfollow me if you support people in that so called “community” or are a part of it.
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So these Christian anti-feminist protestors showed up at my school and were just yelling misogynist things at everyone, when this guy suddenly walks up in front of them mid-rant and just starts…. singing opera
me, a person with too much time: how long did coran wait to cryofreeze himself? did he do it right after allura fainted? in that case, was alfor the one who cryofroze him? was alfor the last thing coran ever saw?
you: uh,
me, on a roll: or did coran wait? did he see his king off to a fight they both knew alfor could not possibly win? and even then, how long did coran hesitate? how long did he hope? how many minutes, hours, days did he spend gazing out at the stars, waiting for a call that would never come? and only then did he, completely alone in a castle built for thousands, finally freeze himself?
you:
me, rapidly blinking: did you notice how solemn coran’s face was in the split-second after he woke up from cryo-freeze? is it because he knew he would be waking up in a world post-altea, post-voltron, post-alfor?
