#mixed race man

[moonfirebrides]

Jordan Peele for W.S.J.

[fredwkong]

Hi, I just wanted to say I really enjoy/appreciate the diversity of guys/characters you use in your stories! I'm a white guy who's into racial change as a kink, but I often feel weird about it because so much of the content dives headfirst into uncomfortable stereotypes/outright racism. When really for me the important bits are 'guys of all types are hot and it'd be fun to be a hot guy of another type', and imaginining a complete change like 'what if I suddenly woke up in South Korea as a Korean guy, what would my life look like?' Imagining becoming a new person, inhabiting a new culture etc. is something that's just fascinating to me. I'll admit I particularly like Asians myself and I enjoyed reading you writing about Asian immigrant experiences as it's not something you see much in these type of stories! I'm rambling a bit haha, just wanted to let you know I appreciate what you do in this area.

I think this is one of the sweetest things anyone’s ever said about my work. Thank you! You’re awesome <3

I really do think all guys are hot (yes, even you reading this) and it’s all about presentation and confidence. Some of the things that are hot about diverse guys fall into racial stereotyping, and that’s more than okay. However, there’s more to you than a stereotype.

What do you mean, you’re white? That’s ridiculous, you’re clearly Chinese. If I’m not mistaken, you’re from Hong Kong. I love the bustle of Central myself, but with your build and more rugged masculinity I bet you hike Sunset Peak every weekend. Yeah, it’s an incredible view, I’d love to see pictures.

You must live quite a regimented life if you work in finance while maintaining that incredible body. Ah, you’re the type who walks into the gym at 6 AM, aren’t you? Any later, and the heat would be unbearable, even though you love to feel the sweat drip down your perfect muscles. Still, you aren’t quite a cookie-cutter Asian finance bro, are you? You keep a bit of stubble, and your muscles are just a bit too pumped. Don’t tell me, you love going to the club to tear off your shirt and dance, right?

Well? You have a whole city to take on. Don’t let me stop you ;)

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

Angola🇦🇴 + Russia🇷🇺

[the-feirefiz-blog]

Rescue from damnation

How many white women have been condemned to childlessness by their white oppressors. But now black rescuers have fought to clear the way to freedom for white women and are fulfilling wishes for kids wherever they are expressed.

[laniidae-passerine]

obsessed with the idea of What Will People Think that permeates actions in Barry. even though it’s a terrible idea, Barry goes on fun runs to support the family of the guy he murdered and posts evidence of it online because he wants to be seen as a good guy. Sally’s mother being more concerned about what the women from her church might say about Joplin than about the real abuse her daughter endured, because they don’t care about that. Cousineau making an awkward public apology to Annie and then later trying to capitalise on Barry’s arrest so he can be a big hero. The big song and dance Cristobal and Hank have to do to hide their relationship and trick people into thinking they’re enemies. Fuches constantly bragging about being The Raven because he wants to be the coolest guy in the prison yard. What people think doesn’t matter. What people think means everything.

[skitskatdacat63]

Cannot stop thinking about how Fernando was the first one to hug Seb after Monza 2008:

[chaoticlandworlder]

What is with the practically psychotic hate for Lance Stroll? I'm not even his fan- more indifferent- but the hate he gets is sickening. Like just see the recent 'Never have I ever' vid- so many top comments on youtube, instagram etc. are just spouting shit about him (attacking his looks, calling him window licker wtf etc.) based off the 'Never have I ever stood up someone question' (and of course they conveniently ignore all the other drivers that also said they have because it's trendy to hate on Stroll).

Of course, standing up someone sucks but first of all we have no context at all, and more importantly, it's clear the commenters don't actl give a shit about that because they're only hating on Stroll. This is literally just one instance of the way these F1 'fans' are so quick to seize any opportunity to put down Lance. Honestly, it's so off-putting, pathetic and sad.

[quillandrapier]

Being someone who's black jamican and Indian is so strange right now.

Ive not seen this level of racial confusion since I was a child. Literally it's really not that strange someone be of multiple hereitages but for some reason if someone is mixed between two non white ethnicities people lose their goddamn minds.

Yes, Jamaicans and Indian people can meet. Some meet on a night out in a club, like my parents did. Then they can have kids and those kids are both black and Indian. It's like we haven't moved past racial segregation. I know conservatives are doing this on purpose but god is this annoying.

[leqclerc]

I know Charles is disappointed that they didn’t convert this to a win when they had probably the best chance since Singapore to do so, and I know that because this isn’t pole -> 1st a lot of casuals who just look at the standings and results will inevitably use this to dunk on him, but I have to say that was probably my favourite Charles performance in all of 2023.

Just seeing him so comfortable and confident right from the start, from the first practice session, and carrying that into the race was incredible. Watching him overtake the Red Bulls, multiple times, in the most dominant car/season they’ve ever had as a team, was incredible.

Honestly, his entire run from Singapore onwards has been really strong, even if it’s unlikely to be remembered as such because the results belie the effort and performance. It’s so, so satisfying to hear him say “I need to work on this” and then literally see the effects on track weeks later. Improving in mixed conditions? He did that. Trying to get to grips with a car that doesn’t suit him to try and extract the maximum out of it? He did that. Improving his qualifying form after the disappointment of Monza and Singapore? Three poles in four races.

It was 100% worth getting up for Las Vegas, to watch him put in a mighty performance that mentally had me convinced we’re in early 2022. He’s always a joy to watch but it’s a special kind of joy when he’s racing out in front and he finally gets the attention and recognition and praise he deserves. I don’t think anyone has come this close so far this year to really making Red Bulls sweat and work hard to keep him at bay. Charles is good at managing expectations but if even he said the win was theirs for the taking had it not been for the timing of the safety car, then that really shows the magnitude of his performance and how confident he was this weekend. That last lap lunge? Chills.

An unforgettable performance in a season to forget.

[frisbys-artwork]

Meet Koobori & Shin

The oldest of five brothers, Koobori was an animal lover from the start, and had his parents take him to zoos almost weekly. Koobori knew he wanted to become a zoologist and conservationist the moment he watched a documentary on an animal network. He also became fascinated by bodybuilding at a young age, and committed to working out to be able to compete in shows, winning 2nd place in a show held in Bushsray at just 17 years old, and became an IFBB Pro by the age of 22, to where he continues to compete to this day when he gets the chance.

Never the type to sit still, if he wasn’t playing sports or actively with his brothers, he was always out traveling the outbacks of Kiwattle, surfing, and diving in reefs; sometimes even volunteering at schools to give wildlife shows to kids.

Shin was born with strong psychic abilities, able to sense the presence of spirits from a young age. For many years he trained as a Kannushi, and was able to banish yurei and yokai from abandoned homes with much ease. At the age of 17 he had decided to join nursing school, since he always enjoyed helping others.

Both met by pure chance. Shin was heading to school when he stopped to check out a large crowd near a convention building, when he spotted Koobori posing for fans and the cameras in all his half naked glory. When he was too shy to get any closer, Koobori practically shoved his way through the crowd to approach Shin and ask him out to the best ramen shop in the city (he described that any trophies and medals he won didn’t matter as much as wanting a date with the Ustonese guy). Shin’s Common was too broken at the time to understand what the Kiwi was saying, but he could tell by the expression alone on the muscular man that he was being asked out. Realizing he was running late, Shin agreed and handed Koobori every form of contact he had, and rushed to school.

Both now have three sons, Giallo (16), Calder (12) and Oshan (9), and expect their triplets (which Kobori promises will be their last kids).

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Hey guys! Back at it again, and this time with my oldest couple relative to age closeness lol. Yeah, I finally drew an older couple expecting kids, but there’s a reason for that, and that’s because their oldest kid was part of a series of characters I did many, many years ago as the lead of said series. So you can say they aren’t the main characters but that doesn’t matter as I’m not really sure where I’ll head with these two at the moment. I like them a lot, but for further related context Koobori here is actually a modernized drawing of him, now with an improved style and anatomy, design, etc.

Long ago before I came out and before I did much actually characters development, most of my characters were just colorful and there for the sake of being there, so Koobori was married to a woman originally, and so I’ve pretty much decided on redoing the entire characters a new way. Koobori is now married to this guy, who’s an entirely new character, and still has the same amount of kids, only now they’re going to be designed to better suit their designs and origins, etc.

I’ll stop there for now as I want to surprise you guys later on when I get these designs more fleshed out, but I’m happy with this design on Koobori, and I like his hubby. It’s the first time I’ve drawn a fully South Asian characters and damn are they HARD to do.

Here’s the tattoo design on Shin’s shoulder and his badge ID if anyone wanted to get a closer look at them.

Lastly, here’s a comparison of the old and new Koobori. Like wow.

[twigg27]

hypothetical person asking this hypothetical question: "why do you like lucia so much? you know she doesn't have much of a personality and will very likely not return after itsuno is gone?"

[rebellum]

I feel like... Perhaps... Arguing that transphobia is defined by murder and that anything other than murder doesn't even matter... May NOT be conducive to fighting for trans rights.

Like... people want the right to exist as they are. They want to have access to hrt and surgeries and prosthetics. People want access to clothes that fit them and reflect how they want to be seen. People want access to medical care (eg. Getting screened and treated for sex-based forms of cancer can be impossible if you have the "wrong" sex listed to receive those tests). People want to be respected and treated well. People want to not be sexually assaulted and beaten and abused. People want to have access to housing and jobs, and the protection to not lose those things for being trans. People want access to shelters for homeless people or survivors of domestic abuse. People want name changes.

Acting like all of those things don't matter because at least they weren't murderered by an individual (and instead die of suicide or state violence, or survive and suffer) isn't okay.

[thechromebucket]

Marvelous Mermay: Into the Mer-Verse

The only time I ever cared about Peter Parker was during his Spider-Son/Iron-Dad relationship with Tony. Otherwise, Miles Morales is now my Spider-Man; because "Into the Spider-Verse" is the single best comicbook movie I've ever seen, as well as the best animated movie of its decade.

It stands to reason that there's a universe where Earth is covered in ocean, and everyone is a mermaid or merman. Whether this is "our" Miles visiting that universe, or their Miles milling around at home, I leave open to interpretation. 

[babygirlificationn]

Devious little fella.

[mermaidsirennikita]

https://x.com/yukitsunaurda/status/1859357803392950434?t=15mdHebDx_zZmZRWVSUBnA&s=19

did you see this...

YES.

Emerald is officially one of the hackiest hacks to ever hack in my book. And honestly? I don't know what to call this other than blatant racism.

Edgar Linton is not "the nice guy" (though I do think a lot of modern love triangles unconsciously or consciously take a cue from the Heathcliff/Cathy/Edgar love triangle). He is symbolic of everything Heathcliff is not or perceives himself not to be. He's also aspirational for Cathy, who views him and his family as what she SHOULD aspire to, even though she's denying her true nature.

(Which plays into the Romantic themes of the novel, of course; Cathy is probably denying the natural self and world on a symbolic level. On a more basic level, Cathy basically no set identity, or is perhaps completely muddled because she does have an identity and won't accept it. I always say: Remember that Catherine Earnshaw dies between... what? 20-22? She's not a fully formed person and never gets to be, and this is why casting someone in her thirties as Cathy is absolutely not something that works. I also find that Cathy, while not a good person, gets a bad rap when people equate her behavior with Heathcliff's, because a) Cathy did not abuse/rape anyone (edit: Cathy doesn't rape anyone but she is abusive to Heathcliff at first) b) Heathcliff continues his bullshit for decades, where Cathy dies so young and her behavior really reads as that of a very troubled young woman, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. I JUST HATE THIS WHOLE PROJECT.)

Heathcliff literally refers to Edgar's whiteness when (very, very sadly—like, whatever Heathcliff becomes, it's an extremely sad passage) discussing how Heathcliff can't be what Edgar is simply because he's "low", doesn't look like Linton, doesn't act like Linton (by no fault of his own, as Hindley treated him like an animal and he never had the opportunity to learn Linton's graces).

In another story, Heathcliff is the bootstraps guy who kind of admirably comes back, somehow having made a sizable fortune, where Linton is the product of soft generational wealth. And frankly? Never has Heathcliff's strength of will (whatever that will was used for).

But because Linton is white and upper class and Heathcliff is neither of those things, this is an immeasurable block, a ceiling on Heathcliff's rise. Linton is representative of that ceiling. And he's also representative of the way that society essentially perverts peoples' true natures. Catherine does not think to be anything other than what she is—wild—until she gets stuck with the Lintons for a while and comes to see what she is as WRONG and puts the Lintons on a pedestal. This is why I think it's important to remember that while the Earnshaws have this land and money, they're not *THAT* high. Catherine is marrying up when she marries Edgar. And while she's very much a white woman, she is not a white woman who comes from exactly the same type of class as Linton, because the Earnshaws are, essentially, messes.

(Insert Heathcliff and Cathy are half-siblings theory here,)

And marrying Linton and caving to the pressures of white society basically has her dooming the lot of them. Including Linton and his sister.

Which—by the way. WHO IS PLAYING ISABELLA.

Part of the "Heathcliff is meant to be read as a man of color" argument lies as well in the way in which everyone acts as if Isabella and Heathcliff's marriage is like, this total aberration. And yes, Linton just hates his ass, and yes, Cathy is both jealous and very aware that The Boy Ain't Right and Isabella is signing up for suffering. But there's an underlying tone that says... Perhaps.. There is another reason why Heathcliff and Isabella *cannot* marry (even though they do it anyway). Is it perhaps because Heathcliff... is not white?

I mean, yeah.

So now you'll presumably have Isabella as a woman of color. Which is just as narrative-fucking as Shazad as Linton. When he could've EASILY been Heathcliff.

Worst take on colorblind casting EVER.

[ahalliance]

i feel like there’s this stereotype in gender studies that only women can be interested in them or only women can want to talk about female historical figures and like . i’m not a woman just because i decided to take a gender studies approach to my essay 😭