#SKIN HER AND SALT HER

[wheeloftimedevourer]

dvcree fever. EVERYONE!!!! SIUAN FISH SANCHE 🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

[sh1-n0bu]

my issue with the natlan characters being white (color, not ethnicity) is that

1: it doesn't make sense from a environmental standpoint. If they're based on all these places with more sun, wouldn't the natlan genetic pool have adapted so that those in hotter places have darker skin? for example: Mexico, Africa, India, any other country on the equator? (Not including European integration)

2: why blend all these cultures of color beautifully (i was so looking forward to an aztec based region) just to put a pale person in their place? We *know* they can put poc characters in their games. We have plenty of colored npcs, Arlan in Hsr, and even the eremites.

And 3: I saw an edit of the main three people have been upset about with darker skin (the green and black guy, little Geo girl, and white haired hydro girl) AND I COULDN'T EVEN TELL THEY WERE EDITED UNTIL I READ THE CAPTION. They were gorgeous, truly. The truth is, genshin's sales in other countries would spike if they made these new characters darker. There would be that much more representation, opening the community to others who would grow the community

Tldr: There's no reason to make these characters pale other than origin country specific beauty standards. Everyone, and I mean everyone, no matter poc or not, should refrain from spending money on genshin for the foreseeable future. It will be difficult to those used to buying their primogems, especially with the new Nilou skin dropping, (looking at you, whales) but we gotta.

And come on, the new Kirara skin can totally hold us over

exactly! hoyoverse CAN make darker skin tone but they just DON’T want to. a few example images i’ve gotten from the enemies

every enemy we have came across have a darker shade of skin than the playable ones. even the fatui enemy has a darker/ombre type of shade of skin color. and from what i’ve seen the new enemies in natlan had darker skin tone than these ones. i have another point i have forgotten to mention in my latest post answering abt the natlan situation and this may seem like a huge stretch but hear me out.

we all know and have heard of the ‘big black beast’ writing racism right? how media will portray POC as the aggressor, enemy, the wrong side, the abuser, the pet etc etc. basically using a character’s skin tone to hide their racism. and please take this with a bag of salt as i may be reading too deep into it here, but isn’t it odd how the enemies always end up having a darker shade of skin? not just entirely POC but south asian ones too.

paimon and traveler have always been shown to be wary of or even downright afraid of every darker skinned character they meet in sumeru. eremites are darker skinned and have POC features (dreadlocks), the new enemies shown in natlan trailer does as well (dark skin and POC feature like dreadlock). its almost as if they’re trying to do the ‘big black beast’ racism in writing thing

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i— hmm.. i don't know if i should laugh or cry. are c//a stans really this dumb? how do they connect catra punching adora with her “trying to protect adora”? what even is going on inside their brains anymore? has it been turned to mush by the constant exposure to the poor writing of this show?

[dixidin]

Considering that we're gonna be entering Natlan in the next nation of genshin. I have a few words I wanna say on it.

On one hand, I'm so happy we're finally gonna see Capitano and learn about all the new lore, ect!

But on the other hand, I'm really nervous on what hoyoverse is going to be doing with the people in the nation considering the treatment with Sumeru and the fact that Natlan is inspired off of West African cultures and Latin America.

But considering the character designs of Vannessa and Iansan, I have some(what) faith in hoyo (fingers crossed!)

[bigweldindustries]

forgot to share Diana's swollen wingbuds!!! should hopefully see him get his wings super super soon and then he can fully take his place as Ar Di 💖

[zhoras-bitch]

I can stop myself from pretending to be an expert on Korean culture (when I'm not) and obnoxiously pointing out things that seem off to me in the Garden of Eden. But I sure can NOT stop my internal voice from going, 'She would not fucking say that. This would not fucking fly. OMG you cannot just touch a person like that, especially not in public. This would be considered so incredibly disrespectful. This is not how it works. None of it is remotely how any of this works. No. No. No. No,' the entire time I'm reading this story.

[snail-studios]

Really feels like they dulled Zelda's emotions in TotK. In Botw she's an angry teen! She goes D: >:( ;~; >:| O: T_T but in TotK she's just so dull and quiet and she has two emotions: :) and :(

[jakemyboy]

It's 75° on a Thanksgiving afternoon. Pretty nice! 😊

What's with the eyeballs....

[jils-things]

i love you. da capo gang. i love you. orpheus is not included

[ghoulishtomato]

Whitewashed Ahkmenrah isn't real, he can't hurt you....

Whitewashed Ahkmenrah:

That's not Ahk, that's Mark... (For the joke to work you have to read Mark in a Boston accent)

[campingwiththecharmings]

me whenever someone gives me unsolicited opinions about myself:

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

spop creators: *drawing catra with brown fur, not skin*

also spop creators: catra is latina, did y'all know that? yeah, we've got representation. catra is our latina queen!! 👑

[sunfoxfic]

anyway begging artists to learn that Alya and Nino can have different skin colors without Alya being like 20 shades lighter

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

What I think is really funny about some of these "FeMC can't be in P3R" arguments is like.....

FeMC fan: *asking for bottom of the barrel, not even scraps a bug would eat, will take no cutscenes, no new music, or even voice acting at this rate. If we cant have route, maybe a costume/skin instead TT0TT* Some bobo: I don't think that's what the fans want. They want something more Me: Our options ore literally this or NOTHING. We're asking for bs because otherwise it's just NOTHING. Which def not what we want omg

[clueless1995]

i’m trying to treat chibnall’s era with the same grace i’d give to rtd’s era but some of the Moral Lessons are so beaten over your head it’s insane i feel like i’m watching Play School sometimes

[amused-shiba]

thinking about that one time 8 years ago when I went to a dermatologist and she just told me that I have acne because I'm too pale and that maybe I should go get a fake tan from time to time