#Ash is a POC

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

[unhingedlesbear]

I'm sorry but it's the way I will ALWAYS see SMG fans have such aggressive hatred towards black characters and their only reason for it is "he's boring." and this kind of energy never seems to be extended to white characters they think are boring

You see it with Matt, Ryan, Alex, Nick K and Mark. Like yeah you don't have to like them, but people will put so much energy into hating these "boring" characters. Like if they're so boring surely you can just... not enjoy them and move on but no, it always has to be full on hate. Can't think why...

There's also something to be said about how SMG may often put less thought into characters who are poc which is an issue itself, but just focusing on the fandom here, the hate these specific characters get seems so iffy to me.

Anyway yeah, the SMG fandom has a racism issue. It has a lot of issues.

[nugothrhythms]

Anastasia Du Noire, lead singer of Washington DC deathrock act Cemetery Sex, appears on goth podcast Cemetery Confessions to discuss the prevalence of neurodivergence in the goth scene. Other topics touched on include goth fashion as a person of color and gen alpha goths.

[pokenoire]

After some POC issues about Pokémon

I hope you understand my mind here

[rei-comfort-zone]

what race is ash? I love her sm btw

I actually don't know and she neither🧑🏽‍🦯 (she is mixed for sure, I never had draw her mom to leave in wonder if she is half-white/poc or just poc or bipoc)

Ash is probably around the label of poc, in the ethnicity side, well: she haves latino roots (that also is not specific so everyone can imagine her being of x country<333) but I have my own ideas of Ash's dad being mexican/having mexican roots🗣‼️🇲🇽

But anyways, Ash (and other poc ocs of mine) haves quite a small trait that I gave them from me:

(as a latino/mixed weirdo) is way too difficult to get to explain what race exactly I am since my family is full mixed and is just a mess to understand, I kinda struggled a lot on my youth to understand what I was so I now I just go by "I'm just brown dude🟫" and vibe with it as much I can

[ominous-feychild]

CHARACTER INTRO:

RISING FROM THE ASHES

SAMMY BARDALES

(half-jokingly) “That was all part of the plan to make you think that was the real plan.” - Sammy Bardales

Once a homeless boy of dubious origin in the capital city of Roucon, Kihroin, Sammy was recruited into the prestigious Lotus academy after displaying his prodigious healing magic during the relief efforts of Vemor.

Kieran Caron—founder and headmaster of the Academy—personally recruited Sammy following his aid in Vemor, covering for the expenses related to his attendance, helping him adjust to life off of the streets, and giving him the last name and identity of “Bardales”.

“Sammy Bardales” is supposedly the son of Maya Bardales, an ex-Cirranian coliseum healer who escaped the country with her son, hid within Roucon to avoid re-discovery, and eventually died due to health complications arisen from the plague.

Except... Maya Bardales never existed.

But there's now a lot of paperwork suggesting otherwise.

In Caron's words, he helped Sammy because “regardless of his reasons of doing so... Sammy carried out a highly selfless act to his own detriment. He's the exact kind of person Caron wants attending his academy—and Sammy otherwise wouldn't have the chance to. Thus, Caron's giving it to him.”

So, that leaves reality: who is the REAL Sammy?

Caron doesn't know, and Sammy refuses to tell.

It's left an awkward tension between the two, but Sammy has still been allowed into the academy and given the many advantages he needed to start his life there.

All he needs is to keep the truth hidden.

Convenient.

Because that's something he's very good at doing.

In Other Words...

Sammy is a fifteen-year-old once-homeless boy with near-miraculous Life magic that defies well-established arcane laws.

At the beginning of the story, Sammy's magical energy essence levels “don't match” the strength of magic he uses, he was near-unremarkable to even Caron's trained arcane eye, and he's able to accomplish incredible feats of magic with little to no training.

Sammy was snatched up by Caron and recruited into the academy to help him expand upon his magical feats and (hopefully) eventually use his skills for far greater goods than growing and selling weed on the streets.

... because that was exactly what Sammy did prior to meeting Caron.

Running from city to town to city across Kihroin, working odd jobs and selling pot until he was close to discovery. Then running off to the next.

Although he refuses to voice it, Sammy feels a lot of guilt for the life he lived prior to his academy days. He hid his magic—terrified of others discovering it for similarly-concealed reasons—and refused to help anyone else beyond life-threatening situations... where he then escaped before they could be traced back to him.

He could've done so much good, but he didn't.

Selfishly.

A fact that's been slowly bothering him more and more as the years go by where he does nothing.

So, when he heard of the disaster at Vemor—and that the palace and academy were sending healers for aid—he had to help, right?

Right?

Appearance

Sammy is a Cirranian (Fantasy!Latino), 4'8 (142cm) fifteen-year-old boy who appears to be thirteen at most.

He has tan skin; short, curly brown hair; freckles; and heterochromic eyes—one pale blue and the other dark brown.

He tends to carry an air of joking arrogance, awkward amusement, or complete and utter insecurity depending on his current “act”.

Lastly, Sammy can usually be found wearing hoodies regardless of the temperature, overly-casual clothing (even in formal situations), and crawling with plants. Plants naturally grow over him no matter how often he removes them... or whether or not he had any semblance of plant life around him prior.

It's worse with dirt.

Existence, does Sammy hate dirt.

Personality & Motives

Sammy is a capital-L Liar, a manipulator who's adept at reading people, crowds, and situations and then turning them into his advantage.

Before joining the academy, Sammy used his young age and even-younger apparent age to navigate around social situations, make people underestimate him, and run away at any moment he felt the tables turning on him.

Sammy is a major control freak, terrified of losing control of a situation, and a noted-even-by-Caron flight risk—all it takes is for him to think he's lost, and he'll run away... not even to fight another day.

Just... to run away.

But it's different at the academy: under his newfound false identity—and after the years it's been since—surely he doesn't have to keep running?

He's no longer committing crimes, he's no longer refusing to help others so he can remain hidden, and he's able to use the countless people-skills he developed over the years for good.

Sammy often hides his sharp eye and social savviness behind a joking, silly, and/or insecure persona, where he tries to make people underestimate him and think he's less competent than he is.

Despite the manipulation that's marked so much of his life, Sammy wants to be a good person.

He really, really does.

He's just terrified of things catching up to him.

Rising From The Ashes Taglist:

@honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @illarian-rambling @ashirisu @urnumber1star

@the-letterbox-archives @48lexr @aalinaaaaaa @thecomfywriter @an-indecisive-nerd

@leahnardo-da-veggie @world-of-iridensia

Introductory Taglist:

@paeliae-occasionally @pluppsauthor @thelovelymachinery

(request to be added to the permanent taglist if you'd like to be! You will be dropped after a few introductory posts!)

Dividers made by @saradika!

[yourdailyqueer]

Brandon Ash-Mohammed

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Afro Caribbean (Trinidadian)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comedian, activist

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Ash Ketchum from The Pokemon Frenchise-Aromantic Asexual

Requested by @fernstarsblog

Status: Alive

[pdulcis]

"ENAMOR" — COMMISSION WORK

Dropping here this commission piece I did in the past month for the wonderful @/elaiasconstellations (in IG) featuring Elias and Laia from An Ember in the Ashes Series by Sabaa Tahir 🖤🖤🖤

[guessillcallitart]

taglist: @aloeverawrites, @your-absent-father, @rbbess110, @yesireadbooks, @full-on-sam, @anonymousfoz, @the-mindless, @athenswrites, @albatris, @jacqueswriteblrlibrary (ask to be added or removed)

(moodboard pics from pinterest)

[shrimplykrillyourself]

tiktok lifesteal fans try not to white/graywash poc challenge go!!!(LEVEL IMPOSSIBLE)

[tate-lin]

Moon & Seraph Pitch Week

Hihi jumping into pitch week with day 1 - stories about characters of colour!

Joker of Ashes

You set me on fire. You can’t abandon me.

Burnt alive and left for dead by her own mother, Minh wants one thing and one thing only—to get down on her knees and beg for forgiveness. Now on the hunt for a woman long presumed dead, she has to lay low and away from her powerful and influential foster family if she wants to stay ahead of the search. She has the wit, she has the power… But none of the right skills needed. Alone and resourceless, she‘ll have to get creative. A phoenix wasn’t reborn from the ashes that night. A monster was.

Themes: Family, love, what it means to be alive & a person

Current Stage: Prepping! Gonna start my first draft during Camp NaNo this year

Content Warnings: Graphic violence, child abuse, mental illness

You can find out more here! 💖

[ashhearthelpsaa]

#ZACHARONI. // A PSD COLORING.

This psd coloring is inspired by Zack Addy from the television show Bones. He's one of my favorite characters on the show, so I decided to make a psd inspired by him!

This coloring is people of color friendly, but it may white-wash certain people. You will have to tweak it to get it to work on everyone. This coloring is a pastel psd with a heavy focus on purples, greens, yellows, blacks, and whites. Reds, magentas, blues, and cyans will look purple with this coloring. Oranges may look red or dark purple, depending on the scene / image you're using.

If you download this psd, please like or reblog this post. If you decided to use this coloring, you must give me credit. You can do this by posting a link on your blog somewhere or reblogging this post.

You can download this psd via my deviant art for free or purchase it on my payhip for 4.00 usd. If you like what I do, please consider checking out my ko-fi.

deviant art. // ko-fi. // payhip.

[justashamwithwastedpotential]

Made a quick skin tone replacement mod today for anyone that's interested. It's pretty limited since there are only 24 options but it's out there to use

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I've been playing s.aints r.ow (2022) so much as of late!

(n.eenah looks so cool...)

CHECK OUT THE GANG ‼️‼️‼️ THEY'RE ALL MY BESTIES‼️‼️I wanna make an s/i just so she can be stupid with them!

This is my player character!

Her looks are obviously inspired by mine, with the skin color and the red glasses (wouldn't be me without my red glasses haha!), but we have some different features. There's also a red jacket because I wear my favorite red jacket a lot and that's the signature color of many of my s/is!

My player character is so fun and cool and I love her so much!

The friends are so goofy and funny!

[ominous-feychild]

CHARACTER MOODBOARDS:

RISING FROM THE ASHES

INCLUDES: rfta's mcs

CHARACTERS: ✦ Carmin Lévêque ✦ Kieva Caron ✦ Sammy Bardales ✦ Mei Li

CHARACTER MOODBOARDS:

CARMIN LÉVÊQUE

KIEVA CARON

SAMMY BARDALES

MEI LI

INTRODUCING THE RISING FROM THE ASHES MAIN CAST!!!

To those unaware, I'm finally officially introducing two of my oldest stories: Rising From The Ashes and Waves of Misfortune!

If you'd like to be kept updated on these stories, please ask to be added to their respective taglists! I'm going to tag everyone current-ly ;D in any of my taglists for the first few posts for each story, but will drop off for anyone who doesn't voice their interest!

Dividers made by @saradika!

"Everything" taglist: @honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @illarian-rambling @ashirisu @urnumber1star

@the-letterbox-archives @48lexr @aalinaaaaaa @thecomfywriter @an-indecisive-nerd

Other taglists: @paeliae-occasionally @pluppsauthor @thelovelymachinery @leahnardo-da-veggie @world-of-iridensia

Please tell me if you want to be added to Rising From The Ashes (RFtA)'s permanent taglist! Otherwise you'll miss them in the future!