#( this is the ONLY thing im gonna say regarding fc choice and whatnot

[ripgray-moved]

RE: the 'this fc has this disability therefore the character must' weirdness.

as a both mentally, cognitively and physically disabled person i really am over that sentiment. i act to escape from my illnesses (most of the time at least.) and really like. . . unless its just impossible to separate someone from their disability then why limit them? same for similar things like 'queer people must only play characters who match their identity' its just so weird to me since acting is meant to let people look beyond their limits. i'd love to study if there's any connection between that and the chronically online idea that everything must revolve around activism. the idea that if you are part of a marginalized community, you must live and breathe activism. its a tiring and horrid idea.

anyway people like shouting out weird af ideas online and i've found in the past few weeks that the internet is even weirder once you start disconnecting from it. lol.

(you don't have to publish this i just had thoughts i had to blurt out.)

i don't have much to add as i already spit my thoughts out both in the comments of the og anon and the tags, but i thought everyone could gain something out of reading this. unplug. stop being weird if you genuinely have ideas like the one anon was complaining about. people are not the characters they play.

also, as a tiny aside, because i have received anons about this before and have even had to block some rph blogs about it? poc people can be from """predominantly white / western countries""" ( using these words INCREDIBLY loosely ofc-- it more reflects people's own racism / ignorance as they don't think white / 'passing' people have culture of their own which is. lmao. go outside ) and are NOT ALWAYS ingrained in their og culture. it can be as much to do with geography as it can be race / faith, etc. case and point: my older fc for pete is indian but is from britain. stop putting them / their culture on weird asf pedestals through celebrities that may / may not even engage with the culture / faith / suffer the mental health problems their characters do and vice versa. it's ACTING. get over it.

stop. being. weird.