#All of my illustrated y/n's are poc

[mermmarie]

There's also a now-deleted post that inspired me to make my own small series on, erm, how the bay boys would hold your hand in bed(as all couples do!!!! Sfw handholding) and idk if it sounds fucking cringe but instead of some grey yn hands I am making them poc bc of you(I remember ur OCs? It's so long ago I forgor- and how you've mentioned not enough poc stuff in tmnt. I mean I likely would've done it regardless, I have like 3 white OCs out of 40, but wanted you to know it's with you in mind)

Bonnie is my only oc for the Bayverse (and Rise). Although I think you might be confusing the inserts in this post as my ocs? Or possibly Aida who is @/seafoamtaffy's oc.

Regardless!

You bring up something I've wanted to talk about for ages but have been reluctant to actually discuss because... well...

I was afraid of being stereotyped as the 'over dramatic black woman' just because I'm black and speaking out about black/poc matters.

But fuck it. Lets finally get into it.

I would love it if you made brown/colored Y/N's or inserts in your post because the representation is lacking. Specially in the TMNT fandom which is somewhat ironic because I think a lot would agree that the turtles take a lot from, or have adopted a decent amount of black/poc culture.

I get the whole point of Y/N's, readers, and inserts is quite literally within the names. It's supposed to be whoever is consuming the media right? But... There is just... something so inherently white about how it's usually done.

I don't know if non-poc see it like I do. Probably not. But even when I come across the grey colored y/n drawings I immediately interpret them as white.

Would it exclude a majority of fans if you made your y/n's, inserts, readers brown or poc? Yeah. Welcome to our world. We have to suspend our disbelief nearly all the time when it comes to stuff like this.

But you don't how much it means to us when we're actually represented in our favorite media.

Ultimately I can't force anyone to do anything about it. But maybe voicing my thoughts about this will make others more considerate. Who knows?

Thanks for thinking of me. 🤎

[lady-raziel]

Do you also find it annoying how people will trash talk the USA by using statistics for the whole country instead of looking at them by state?

Like, for example, how they’ll claim we have terrible standards for paid maternity leave, but they’ll use the baseline for it and completely ignore the fact that paid maternity leave is different in each state.

Yeah. I think it’s difficult for people from other countries, especially smaller countries who are geographically small and overall more culturally cohesive, to grapple with the idea that America as a whole is a very challenging country to generalize. Like, yes, ok. I work at a government agency that looks at federal level statistics— the work my coworkers are required to do by statute requires them to look only at federal level data and draw conclusions based on that data. With large scale statistical analysis, you CAN say “based on census data of everybody, the AVERAGE demographics are x, y, and z and the AVERAGE income is x, the AVERAGE person pays this much in taxes, etc.” And those sorts of conclusions are valuable in certain senses and in certain situations.

However, making generalizations like that for a country of 333 million people is really only a very narrow view of the whole picture. People have said before that it’s more like America is actually 50 small countries in a trenchcoat, and honestly that’s not far off! It is pretty difficult to say “all Americans are x” when conditions in Alabama and Colorado can be literal opposite ends of the spectrum.

Even the “red state” and “blue state” generalizations can be pretty misleading— take Colorado again, for example. Colorado is widely considered a “blue/liberal state” because of the large high-population density progressive cities on the front range of the Rocky Mountains where most of the residents of the state are. However, this discounts the fact that in the rest of the rural areas of the state, especially the eastern half bordering Kansas, attitudes and policies are much more conservative.

Here’s a map that might be illustrative:

These are Colorado’s 8 congressional districts. Congressional districts are required to have approximately equal levels of population—therefore, you have geographically tiny districts in population centers and geographically large districts in rural areas. So the ENTIRE purple portion of District 3? That has the SAME number of people living in it as the tiny district 1 that contains the capitol of Denver. I’ll add another layer— despite Colorado being a “blue state,” that purple district is represented by Lauren Boebert, a notable MAGA conservative. So really, even in Colorado it’s hard to generalize and say “all Coloradans are x” because no they’re not—you have a variety even in the same state.

If you want to get EVEN more in the weeds, you can have wildly different types of demographics even within Congressional districts.

Here’s the map for Colorado’s 6th congressional district, currently represented by Jason Crow, a Democrat.

This district includes the city of Aurora— known for being a highly diverse area that has a high refugee population. You might also know the city of Aurora for being the site of the 2012 theatre shooting as well as being the home of Elijah McClain, a young African-American man murdered by police officers in 2019. So this Congressional district contains a large POC population and is not homogeneous. But this district is also interesting in that it also encompasses the WEALTHIEST CITY IN THE STATE, the 96% white Cherry Hills Village— which, considering Colorado has highly wealthy mountain resort towns like Aspen and Vail, is saying quite a lot. And this city is mere miles away from Aurora, where economic outcomes tend to be very different. Yet they are in the same Congressional district— so even on a local level its hard to make sweeping generalizations about most things and say “this is the one number or set of numbers that represents everything for everyone.”

Now imagine situations like this in every state and every congressional district across America. There is, of course, a place for large statistics, but such wide generalizations especially with context removed really don’t say much of anything unless you’re a data analyst studying something specific. It is hard to say definitively, especially on national data, that all Americans are a certain thing. This isn’t just an American problem with statistics, of course, not all people in any given country or population are going to be the same. Generalizing statistics can be good at a VERY broad overview that represent things worth conducting more specific crosscutting analysis to form more specific conclusions. However, a lot of people tend to view large stats as ways of stereotyping or confirming biases about groups of people in a way that SEEMS scientific or data based. They remove all context or specific crosstabs that actually paint a more accurate, but often messier, picture.

Big clean numbers are nice. But they rarely tell the full story or allow for nuance.

[softeeyoongi]

Boys With Luv

OT7 x Black!Reader

Hello Tumblr!

This is my first bts fanfic so please treat it well! I’d also love to hear your thoughts and opinions about this :,D

Also just so everyone knows before hand- the reader is a black poc!! If you have a problem with that, I’d rather not hear any complaints when you can simply just leave! I’ve posted multiple chapters of this fanfic on AO3 and I haven’t had any complaints about the race of the character so I don't expect any on here. 

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys this fanfic! :D 

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Y/N sighed into the winter air as she locked the door to the small café and brought down the metal shutters as well. Once she checked that everything was secured, she wrapped a scarf around her neck, put on a white face mask and a beanie that failed to cover most of her kinky, poofy hair.

Y/N had been living in Korea for a year now. She had decided to try studying abroad for a few months, with the scholarship she had. After the first month, Y/N decided that she'd fallen in love with the Korean lifestyle. It was very simplistic and a hell of a lot more affordable than living in New York. She was able to easily get an at home job in the field of illustration —which was her major in college— that paid well. Eventually, she was able to leave college even in her 3rd year. For safety money, she decided to also get a job at a small café, incase of emergencies.

It was a big risk to stay in Korea, all by herself and not know anyone there. It was still a foreign country and there was still so much to learn about Koreas culture and the country itself. Y/N was also a foreign and was black on top of that, so she was judged by appearances a lot of the time.

But she couldn't bring herself to care. It was not like she had anything left to lose, as she was an orphan and didn't have an family back home waiting for her. Y/N had few friends and none of them were very close to her anyways.

'Damn, it's cold as hell tonight.' Y/N thought, burrowing her nose deep into her scarf and trudging through the snowy but brightly lit streets of Seoul.

It was eerily quiet tonight, at least for Seoul standards, but it was freezing and it was a Friday night. Christmas was also coming up soon, and decorations could be found on every store and house you passed by.

'It's too bad I'll have to spend another Christmas all alone... oh well.' Y/N sighed

Y/N continued her journey through the cold weather to her 2 bedroom apartment.

 'Ah... Can't wait to get home. I'll have some hot chocolate with marshmallows in front of the tele-'

Her thoughts were cut off when she thought she heard mewling.

"Huh... I must have imagined it." Y/N spoke to herself before returning back to her daydreaming

The mewling sound returned, but it was louder this time. It sounded closer... it sounded... like a cat?

Y/N walked faster through the snow as she attempted to find the source of the mewling. As she trudged in front of an alleyway, she realized that the sound was coming from one of the open boxes that seemed to be haphazardly dumped next to a pile of trash. Y/N approached the box slowly and her heart almost stopped once she saw what was inside.

No, it wasn't just one cat in there.

There were seven cats.

 Seven.

They were all huddled together—probably to keep each other warm— and shivering, a heavy coating of snow covering all of them. You noticed that they were either malnourished, injured or very small. They could probably pass off as kittens. All of them seemed to be sleeping— well except one. One of the cats, the biggest one there, was weakly mewling and licking the head of the smallest cat, who was in the middle of the huddle pile. It was probably the oldest one there, based on it size. It barely looked like it was conscious...

"Oh no, you poor things." Y/N cried before taking off her scarf and jacket, without a second thought

Carefully, she picked up each cat, making sure to be careful of their injuries before placing them in a similar huddle circle as they were before. She then wrapped the scarf around them, before carefully placing them, scarf and jacket, into the box.

"Don't worry, little guys. I'll get you all nice and warmed up soon. Just hang in there." You spoke to them as if they could understand

She picked up the box and grimaced at the weird liquid that it seemed to have been sitting in. Not wanting to get hypothermia and also not wanting anything to happen to the cats, she sped home as quick as she could.

[babbushka]

i knew ab SJ being a w***y a***n supporter but didn’t realise she was racist and transphobic too,,, i mean i’d still gladly drop kick that woman but nah i hate her even more now

Yeah, she’s made a lot of comments about how white women should be able to play people of color and trans people because it’s “Acting” and getting very standoffish when we all pointed out that no, people of color and trans people should be given the roles of poc/trans characters, for a lot of very obvious reasons.

But it also really illustrates the issue in Hollywood where we all as a collective need to push for the support of poc/trans actors playing more roles in general because they are already so disproportionately overlooked by casting directors and producers. They don’t need white women taking away the opportunities they do get. 

It’s just very white-feminist-its-okay-because-girl-power-dont-actually-look-too-close-at-my-social-politics kind of thing.