#Underrepresented Groups

[snobgoblin]

I wanna draw him shirtless for his swimsuit but tumblr might nuke me off the face of the planet if i do that (he's trans)

[the-physicality]

oh i'll say one more thing [i haven't weighed in really bc it's too messy] but it would be a really shitty thing to do to put someone who has barely started their general management career into the shitshow that is currently pwhl minnesota... especially if someone like darwitz wasn't respected [from what i've read]

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Uh wait I just realized the number of characters in this (Moth Wizard's) universe who are not Jewish is currently zero... Well, depending on what I end up making the Cool Character™ be but like they are the only one who is even potentially not Jewish. All other characters are very explicitly Jewish as an important part of their character. I didn't even notice and like I didn't plan to make everyone Jewish I was gonna make it culturally diverse. I still will obviously, I have like a hundred characters to go before it might get crowded, but wow all of them are just Jewish so far huh? Actually. All of them are basically orthodox too. Wild. I mean I know why but. Still.

[bastart13]

What do you think about them changing Asra's mom's headdress/scarf style?

I wear I headscarf myself so it was nice to see the visual representation especially considering headscarves aren't exclusive just to us muslim women and many other cultures and religions wear them but I also understand why people would be confused about Asra cause at an extreme surface level look he seems "muslim coded" (tbh just arab coded but people get them mixed up) but drink alcohol and ect so could be kinda offensive.

But I think it should have kinda been obvious to people that he can't be muslim but is clearly Middle East inspired so it makes perfect sense why his mom is wearing a scarf like that. Like why are they interchanging the two. Especially in a game where real world religions don't look like the exist.

( Honestly, it wasn't even about representation for me mainly, I just really loved her character design 😂 )

I understand why it happened, but also why people would complain about it. Headscarves are often associated with Islam in modern culture and since there's no real world religions in the Arcana they felt it was safer to distance themselves from styles that covered her hair to avoid the rest of her outfit failing the other related modesty conventions. But as you note, headscarves aren't exclusively muslim and considering the deserts and temperature, the style made logical sense.

I guess it's the typical fantasy representation issues where you can be inspired by a culture without wanting to copy it whole, but it can come off as unrepresentitive or offensive because it isn't whole. Not even mentioning how the cultures aren't monoliths to start with and different people from the same group could praise or criticise it because people want different things from their media.

In the end, I don't think I have the most informed/important opinion on it. I'm not muslim and the muslim families I know don't wear headscarves so I don't have the best sense for the culture around them for such a nuanced character design discussion.

[musical-chick-13]

I hate to tell you this, but many gays also love Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. (A musical show about discovering your identity and the negative effects of internalizing harmful societal ideas about relationships, which also has canonically queer characters in it.)

[britneyshakespeare]

it is weird being an aromantic asexual who is incidentally attractive. like. i just came back from a concert with my friends who have known me for years and know that about me. some of the very few real-life friends who know that about me actually and i only told them relatively recently. regardless. the only reason i had bothered to bring it up w them is that they had seen me in SO many situations that telling them “i’m asexual” was if anything just clarification. just confirmation, like, don’t worry. it’s not an inability to attach to others or whatever. if you can’t tell. like they’d seen me be pursued by quite a few people in our time as friends and at some point it seems like a curious thing if i only ever seem to feel negatively about anyone who’s attracted to me, ever, no matter who it is. and they were understanding and i knew they’d be. yeah.

we were talking on the way back about bucket list concerts we’d still like to see. we saw stromae which was a really big one of mine (my fucking boy btw, i had an amazing time). i mentioned that i don’t have very many, as i’m rarely the person to be like “yeah, let’s go to a concert” unless i have people i know i wanna go with. like i’ve been meaning to see the jonas brothers w my sister and sisters-in-law ever since they came back because it’d be a fun thing for us since we always listen to them together. 

but i would genuinely love to see super junior someday, like just for myself, wherever whenever if i was just able to get transportation (i don’t drive). i’ve loved suju for years but i got really back into them in 2020 in the pandemic as a sort of nostalgia comfort thing (but also the music they’ve put out in recent years is like, literally the best in their discography, they just keep getting better w age). and i had to go on this tangent to explain it, right?

in the first months of the pandemic, there was something weird happening to people psychologically. some kind of end-of-the-world loneliness. i mentioned that i had like 5 or 6 different people in my DMs at the time interested in me. not all of them men. and the friend who was driving said “you know, diana, if this were literally anyone else talking, i would think that this is some enormous humblebrag—”

and i like. didn’t even think about it that way. i was just trying to make my point that i had a serious thought in 2020 of like, when the world opened back up, just doing one (1) seriously manipulative thing in my life and convince one of those men who was thirsting for me to buy me tickets to super junior and go with me. it was hypothetical. this hasn’t happened and all but certainly will not. i would not feel good taking advantage of someone’s feelings like that. 

but i had to go on a tangent even before that because i was like. oh my goodness. i didn’t even realize that was a humblebrag. i’m sorry. i’m just telling a story.

[failfemme]

stop asking random people on the internet if you're disabled or not!!!!!!

[sprnklersplashes]

“people only headcanon wednesday as aroace because they hate autistic people and don’t think they can have relationships-” 

touch grass. I am begging you. touch grass.

[femmehysteria]

wow cool paid research opportunity for undergrads of "underrepresented ethnic groups"

eligibility criteria: must be black or indian or pakistani

oh :(

[earthylight]

when people say “not all men,” it’s completely missing the point and feels like a slap in the face

[xoxoemynn]

Honestly I think the best proof we have that Lucius is still alive is that if he had actually been killed then OFMD would have been drowning in Emmy noms for the queer tragedy of it all.

[toxicorum]

on my hands and knees begging for Māori rep that isn’t star wars, please fuck god can we PLEASE get some rep PLEASE

[orangespottedgiraffe]

z

[cosmermaid]

That protagonist would be a woman if the writers weren't cowards.

[underthetulsansun]

idk if i’m reading too much into it but is it not weird that they made the villain of black lightning an albino man?

[waterberry-strawmelon]

I know it’s my own damn fault, but I can’t help feeling bitter and disappointed about Fantasy High Junior Year not really exploring/even mentioning Riz’s sexuality any further than what scraps we got sophomore year