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bixels · 1 month
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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chocochurrozz · 2 months
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So I asked my Instagram followers to tell me which characters to draw a few day ago and I decided to share them with you guys
(Reblogs are appreciated my Sonic posts don't really do that well- 💔)
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kings-paintbrush · 6 months
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Twilight Sparkle! - A rare Anomoly, being born to a Ponyville father and Canterlot mother, Ms Sparkle has a rare- but helpful- genetic mutation that is rarely seen! - her Assistant and “son” of sorts— Spike— is a baby Dragon! He has difficulty standing on 2 legs as he’s supposed to.
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There seems to be something written in old equestrian on her cutie mark….
Pinkie Pie! <— Click here for Pinkie redesign Luna and Celestia! what crazy a royal sisters redesign!!
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sepublic · 3 months
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I've seen some people criticize that the "Us weirdoes have to stick together" show doesn't have more visibly nonhuman characters and yeah I WOULD love more for many, many reasons but also. It's almost like monsters in this type of media are a metaphor for real life human beings that are being represented on-screen. You can talk hot shit about empathizing with hypothetical aliens in space but maybe work on empathizing with your fellow human beings of different races, genders, etc., on this planet first. Or at least use the former to get to the latter part eventually.
It’s easy to relate to a fictional creature/culture that can’t actually have opinions, nor exist in a way that takes up space and doesn’t care what you think. That’s why Luz had to go beyond her books and pets in making real friends who she learned to navigate, and vice-versa. The similarities between witches and humans is kinda the point, and it means that Luz didn’t avoid her struggles in interacting with her fellow humans when going to the Boiling Isles; She figured them out as she was meant to. The same problem but hidden under a palatable appearance that Luz felt confident about, like a placebo it was always in her.
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caffeinatedcarny · 3 months
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second to last we're in the home stretch! 🗣 He came out so dang cute, maybe my favorite so far!
Fluttershy
Rainbow Dash
Twilight Twinkle
Rarity Applejack
Spike
Please do not use or repost without my explicit consent<3
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quabiitv · 7 months
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this MIGHT be lalaloopsy...
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maxgicalgirl · 2 months
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This whole colorism thing with Natlan and Hoyoverse has got me feeling just…so sad. Like as a white person I do NOT get to have an opinion on the entire ordeal, but it makes me sad that so many people are being misrepresented and that something I love is the cause of so much hurt right now. It feels like such a big issue without a clear method of action on my end - I’ve done the surveys, I’ve signed the petitions, but I’m also not the demographic affected and therefore not qualified enough to talk about it either. I hope Hoyo listens to the outrage, because the game isn’t fun unless we’re all getting to play it and get the same level of enjoyment out of it and having fun together, but it also feels so hopeless that I don’t know what to think right now !!!
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pinkcreamypeach · 1 month
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Lala *Drops another princess peach redesign*
This is the 6th one..
Oh and Mario 🍄 😁
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They're both POC in my version. *Blinks blinks* 😊
@bberetd @peaches2217 @maceincognito @house-of-xiii @magnas27 @keylovesstuff @supergay-64
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artemishasthebluez · 8 months
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heres. alastor with poc features i hope i did him right
if theres anything i should change lmk :]
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nagitosstolenhand · 8 months
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alastor w curly hair edit. og screenshot undercut
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mydanishdarling · 8 months
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I’m honestly too lazy to write want I would rewrite about what I heard about this movie (I’m not giving my money to watch this movie) lol. I probably go deeper into my version of WISH, cause it just seems so fun to imagine what could have been …
Anyways my redesign of Asha and my design of Star boy (Astro, original I know lol) Heavy inspired by the concept art —- also still think about the colour palette as I did really love the colour she had in her early designs (maroons, beiges and so on)
I really rushed this as you can tell but I needed to get this out of my head — besides that really happy with How this turned out :) The difference of the 2nd page Astro has a coat or a vest looking coat that I thought would be nice to have at the end of the film, he can give to Asha, granting her the ability of a Fairy godmother… that’s just one of the many ideas I had .. Hopefully I can continue this cause I’m lazy and drawing something from my mind is hard :P
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superspecial-awesome · 3 months
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No matter how bad things get at least there are people drawing atem interpreting the blonde parts of his hair as locs and the black/pink parts as an afro
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chocochurrozz · 24 days
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Knuckles bagging two of the prettiest girls
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anroko-draws · 1 year
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Do you have any more character designs for your Steven Universe Rewrite that we haven’t seen?
sorry for the inactivity yall i’ve had so much shit goin on lately lmao
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but i have drawn more!!! considering going back and re-redesigning my previous drawings
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viveela · 2 years
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I don't go here but I think we were robbed tbh
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angelsbeenburied · 10 months
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Ty to all who reposted my Tord design w kind words kisses kisses. Finished up a sketch from my last post cuz I couldn’t sleep last night.
Thinking abt how ppl redesign Edd and Tom as black and brown individuals all the time but always keep Tord and Matt white/incredibly similar 2 their original designs…what does it mean…what is its place…
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