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zoskyto-art · 2 years

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An afternoon picnic 🧡

#iris the mermaid #alia the elf #zoskytart #plus size art #fat art #illustration #character design #my art #mermay 2022 #pride 2022

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glacierclear · 10 months

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and i loved to watch her swim.

#my art #fanart #oc #iris #leon kennedy #mermaid

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deerlumina · 11 months

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All my Ace Attorney mermaids from Mermay 2022

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#ace attorney #aa #mermaceattorney #mermay #mermay2023 #ace attorney fanart #maya fey #pearl fey #iris fey #susato mikotoba #Dahlia Fey #gyakuten saiban #artists on tumblr #lumina #mermaids #Dahlia Hawthorne

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romancemedia · 8 months

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Cartoon Romances + Beach

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bookishfeylin · 1 year

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Racebending vs Whitewashing 101

In this essay we’re going to be answering two questions: Why is it ok, from a race perspective, to make white characters POC but not the other way around? And why don’t you make original characters that are POC instead?

There are quite a few reasons, and I’ll be discussing them all below the cut for anyone who's genuinely curious about this and wants to educate themselves :)

⭕️ Firstly: most white characters have no plot relevant reason to be white. White people are considered the default human being, so their race or culture *usually* does not affect or contribute to the plot or story or game in any way. Like, pick your average piece of media with white characters in it and see if they actually *have* to be white for the story to work/make sense. Unless being WHITE plays some important role in the story, then in most cases, characters do not need to be white. This is especially true for non human characters depicted as white (mermaids, faeries, aliens, etc.). Unless being a *white* non human is important to the story for a specific reason and then they can be almost ANY race. For example: In Gremlins do Billy and his family have to be white for the story to still work? Does making the Skywalker family POC impact the plot in any way, shape or form in Star Wars? Is being white relevant to Iron Man's, Batman's, or Superman's stories at all? Why do the main characters of Jaws have to be white? Do Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, and Claire Dearing and Owen Grady, from Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, respectively, need to be white in order for the movies to make sense? Does being white play an important role in Indiana Jones' character, or would the movies still work if he was another race? Does it impact the story if I were to change the Russels (Maddie, Emma, and Mark) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, from white to black?

⭕️ Conversely, people aren’t as used to seeing POC in media, so often their existence is “justified” with some form of racism. It would not make sense to make a character facing racism (say, antiblackness) white (for example, in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, Tiana lives in a segregated Black community that is decidedly poorer than the wealthy white community Lottie lives in, and is denied the ability to buy the mill to make into a restaurant because it would’ve been too hard for a woman of her “background” to run a business)

⭕️ Another way POC are “justified” in western media is making something specifically about their culture. Unlike most white people in media, we cannot simply *exist* and, say, survive an alien invasion, or steal the Declaration of Independence, or get sucked into portal to a magical land, or survive a natural disaster, or have a very very very bad day, or solve a mystery about a haunted house, or worry about prom. No, our culture almost always has to play some SIGNIFICANT role to “explain” to the audience why that character is not white. Not that that’s a bad thing. For example, Mulan is about a Chinese woman overcoming the deeply ingrained sexism in China and becoming a soldier. The movie is all about China and Chinese culture, so it makes no sense to make her white.

⭕️ Making a POC white plays into whitewashing and colorism (the basic idea that paler skin is better/more beautiful/less “savage”). For example, in slavery lighter skinned ppl were “better,” and were allowed to serve in the house because, being lighter, they were viewed as closer to white and as being “more human.” Changing or “improving” a POC by making them white is just feeding into that nasty idea that people with darker skin tones are “less than” or aren’t real humans. Conversely, there is no relevant history of white people being considered “less-than”, or, you know, NOT HUMAN for having lighter skin, in fact lighter skin tones have been promoted as desirable for centuries. White people by and large aren't harmed psychologically from seeing a character being redesigned with darker skin/being racebent, because society has never told them that their lighter skin makes them nonhuman or undesirable, unlike I, a Black woman, who’s been told all my life that darker skin is masculine and ugly on a girl and that I would be pretty if I only had lighter skin :)

⭕️ All those reasons are important, but there is one MAIN reason why racebending works but whitewashing does not: representation. Representation is very important and very powerful, impacting our own self esteem as well as impacting how we perceive groups of people who are different than us (x, x, x, x, x). Representation can help you develop empathy for a certain group, or it can perpetuate harmful stereotypes about them. White people are represented literally everywhere in Western media--books, movies, TV shows. Even most toys. It’s not taking representation away from them if we make a white character a POC--they have tons of other characters to make up for it! Even if we NEVER had a white main character in any movie or TV show ever again, white people still have the past century's worth of media with themselves as the main characters for them to watch. Conversely, we have comparatively few prominent characters that are POC in Western media, and even fewer that aren't just side characters or walking stereotypes. Making them white takes away the limited representation POC have in the west. Racebending (either in fan art or in reboots of a series/movie) is typically done by people who lack representation and want more.

Why don’t you make original characters that are POC?

⭕️ Most of us would prefer original characters. I WANT original characters of color. But when we do make new characters that are POC, or new stories with POC leads (especially if they are dark skinned POC) they are usually ignored or overlooked by consumers in favor of white characters or white-led stories (Finn and Rose vs Kylo Ren and Hux from Star Wars; and Black Lightning being wayyyyyy less popular than white-led DC shows; Still Star Crossed being, like, forgotten?). This often happens on movies and on television shows, and usually the end result is that the new characters of color are written off or are minimized in the show/following movies because they are not profitable (once again, what happened to Finn and Rose in Star Wars) or the shows are canceled (Black Lightning, Still Star Crossed). Or the story is labeled “woke” and “political” and is boycotted by the same people who said we should make original characters in the first place.

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I'm not saying you have to *like* racebending white characters. I am merely EXPLAINING why one way is racist and the other way around is not. But the sad thing is, all these reasons are common sense. Most people know we have a racist history, they know it’s wrong to make Tiana or Black Panther white even if they have problems articulating *exactly* why: because the point of these characters existing in the first place is to show that we’re human too. That we can be heroes and princesses and role models too, despite centuries of being told we were nothing. We still live in a world where being white is considered the default human, and nonwhite people have to be *justified* in their existence, because most of us weren't viewed as human for centuries. If it truly bothers you that much, then support original characters of color and diverse franchises instead of white characters and predominately white franchises. That way you will send a message—we all will—that we want more original characters of color. In the meantime? I, a Black woman living in a white-centric world, am going to enjoy all the characters of color I can get.

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sleeplessdreamer14 · 7 months

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what a soft-shell Cas is turning out to be @aalbliii

#little mermaid AU #my stuff #treasure planet oc #my art #artists on tumblr #disney au #disney fanart #sophie iris #sophia moana iris #luca iris #cas #someone else’s oc #treasure planet #the little mermaid #little mermaid

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charmixpower · 11 months

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Hello!! I drew me and my friends Winxsonas together 💕

Going to the right: I'm on top, @snarky-art aka Taylor, @parola-di-winx aka Nove, @giantratbf aka Bee, and @nymphietonkslupin aka Madhu

They're all wonderful, so definitely check out their blogs!! Talyor, Bee, and Nove also drew us all! So keep your eyes peeled for that!

#tw spiders #I got full licence to slightly redesign their sona's to make them look more alien XD #Madhu gets fishy traits. Taylor gets fun iris. Nove gets a tail (that she kept XD). and Bee gets dark sclera #so thats why mine look slightly different compared to the other versions :p i went ''can i creature yall?'' and got a resounding yes #fun facts!#Madhu is half mermaid. Taylor is from the same planet as Mirta.#Bee is from the same planet as Amyrl (& maybe Chimera's fam). And Nove is from the same planet as Lucy and Katy.#im from the same planet as Francis and Anne on the Eros side. Eros is part of the water element planet cluster and Koria fire.#which is the same mix that Stella has (Sloaria being fire elemental and Noctilucae is water elemental)#winx club #winx #winxsona #Winx sona #winx club sona #Winx oc #Winx club oc #magic winx #Winx fairy animals #winx fanart #winx club fanart

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ziananami · 2 months

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💜🎶 Girls with purple hair part 1🎶 💜

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platinumtulip · 1 year

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oc | mermaid iris 💜✨

#iris #mermaid #tulip art #illustration #oc

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scattered-irises · 2 months

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Me getting off my ass and finally typing up that one fucked up fic written on paper that I haven't updated in like 2 years:

#writing from iris #shitpost #its the little mermaid

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zestyleaf · 10 months

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Iris from rune factory frontier! I thought it would've been cool if her design became a combination of her blanc and noire looks at the end of her quest instead of just choosing one or the other.

I dub her... Iris gris

#rune factory games will be like btw this character is a vampire/mermaid/ghost/etc. no we will not elaborate.#or acknowledge the existence of vampires/mermaids/ghosts/etc in future games #the whole series is kind of allergic to worldbuilding its so funny. lovingly tho #rune factory #rune factory frontier #rune factory iris #my art

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2gredvisions · 2 months

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