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pro-royalty · 6 months

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Tyla

#tyla #beauty #woman of color #person of color #pro-royalty

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crookedteethed · 21 days

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WOC p. links | r.c.

Warnings: 18+ literally porn, that's it. that's the warning. 💕

Worshipping Rafe's cock on a sunday night

Rafe’s little rabbit

Taking backshots from Ghostface!Rafe

Getting his cum all in your braces

Rafe fucking JJ's girl and filming it on snap

Rafe <3 eating you out

Breeding season

Frat!Rafe taking you slow in his dorm

Crying over Rafe's cock

Rafe taking his anger out on your tight hole

Rafe turns you into an anal pro

Worshipping Rafe's balls

Making love on the side of the road

First time doing anal

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telekinesis-mind-control-comics · 2 months

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#storm #ororo munroe #mutants #woman of marvel #woman of color #xmen #x men #uncanny xmen #marvel comics #marvel

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fyblackwomenart · 8 months

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"Beauty Within" by renLo

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the-pessimists-paradigm · 10 months

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renlo · 2 months

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'Jade'. Microsoft Paint.

Took a day off to recuperate from work and classes, so I had some time to draw something fun! :)

Pose reference!

#Art #Digital Art #Illustration #Microsoft Paint #MS Paint #Green #Natural Hair #Black Artist #Women of color #Woman of color #Person of color #People of color #WOC #POC #Black Art

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indica-vixen · 1 year

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This dress is to die for 😩

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leejoonho · 10 months

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Kim taeri as Gu Sanyeong

1.05 REVENANT (2023) dir.Lee Jung Rim, Kim Jae Hong

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multifandomeweirdo · 3 months

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Psyche from Lore Olympus

I just needed to rant about her whole character in Lore Olympus. I am a non-black person of color, so this is my opinions of her through the lens of my experiences and knowledge.

This is how she first appears:

This is after Aphrodite turns her into a nymph:

This is her after her human form was restored:

Her while becoming a goddess:

And this is her after becoming a goddess:

Her design:

Some people complain about her design. I agree that her design is inconsistent. She had straight hair, even as a nymph, until over 100 episodes in. I personally don't mind the change in character design. I'll just headcanon that Psyche straightened her hair or styled it specifically in the earlier episodes, and wore her natural hair in the later episodes.

I see a lot of people criticizing her design saying rather racist things, such as "she looks ugly now and that her earlier design was much better." They also say things like "She's forced diversity. Why do we have to bring diversity into this?" I think the art quality as a whole has declined, so yes, Psyche looks worse, but all the characters do. Specifically calling out Psyche feels more like racist beauty standards than a criticism of the art decline. Also, phrases such as "forced diversity" are just silly. Andromeda, a figure from Greek myths, was the princess of Aethiopia, which was supposed to be somewhere below Egypt. She was described by Ovid as dark-skinned, though she has been white-washed by Western artists (that's why she is now portrayed as white). So yes, there was some (not a lot) diversity in Ancient Greek myths, and anyway, it's a modern retelling! In this modern age, with more awareness of race and issues surrounding it, I don't think it's a bad thing to have a more diverse cast of characters.

I don't think that Rachel Smythe originally intended for Psyche to be black, and it was a lazy choice to change her so late. Additionally, she remains the only black character. However, I'm glad that she met the bare minimum of including diversity, as many authors and artists, even today, don't do this.

I think her design is cute overall, though I wish there was more effort put into Psyche's hair. I do like that they kept her brown skin when making her a goddess, instead of giving her an unnatural skin color. My main gripe is that in the myths she had butterfly wings, not these weird purple feathery things. Even the pearlescent wings during her transition to a goddess were better. But the butterflies belong to Persephone in Rachel Smythe's retelling, so Psyche can't have what was one of her symbols.

Now for the criticisms:

I saw this on @genericpuff's page, but the trope of a white man (Eros) "saving" (kidnapping) a woman of color (Psyche) from her horrible arranged marriage is harmful. Again, I don't think Rachel Smythe included this part intending for Psyche to be black, but that doesn't change the fact that this trope has had very harmful implications and effects throughout history.

Then, Eros leaves her when she, tricked by her sisters into trying to kill him, realizes that he is a god. Aphrodite turns her into a nymph and uses her as a test for Eros.

In the original myths, she completed difficult tasks given to her by Aphrodite to prove her "worth" as Eros' wife. We could talk about how she got help for these tasks, but still. The point is that she chose to go through all that for love.

In Lore Olympus, she is merely a test for Eros to pass. Which has some implications, especially since she is a woman of color.

There's also the harmful trope of a woman of color being turned into a nonhuman. Add on the detail that in the Lore Olympus world, nymphs are lower class. Again, implications.

The gods and goddesses in Lore Olympus look down on nymphs while simultaneously fetishizing them. We see Hera be racist to MInthe and no one stands up for her. We see Hades, who has a flower nymph fetish, dating Minthe but not criticizing his family for their bigoted treatment of his own girlfriend.

I'm seeing some similarities to how people of color are treated. And Psyche, a woman of color, is turned into a nymph by Aphrodite, a goddess. Add on how Aphrodite did all this because she felt threatened by Psyche. In real life, we see how people of color suffer when white people feel threatened by them. So... implications.

Conclusion:

I don't think Rachel Smythe had any harmful intent when making Psyche's character. In fact, I think she probably felt that it might bring joy to some readers to see a black woman represented in Lore Olympus. However, she accidentally wrote Psyche into these tropes that have very real, very harmful implications for actual people of color. She could have used Psyche's suffering at the hands of Aphrodite and the treatment of nymphs as a way to speak on societal issues such as racism. However, she didn't. Hera, a canonical racist, is portrayed as a "good guy" and Hades is rewarded for his fetish with a goddess who looks exactly like a flower nymph but isn't one (similar to how white men fetishize women of color but will only date a white woman. And these white women specifically try to look like the race the man fetishizes, the the point where you could call it black-fishing or Asian-baiting or any other similar term). I don't think she meant to write it like this, but she did. It could be a reflection of her own internal biases, or maybe not.

Either way, this is exactly why research before including a non-white or otherwise marginalized character is so important, especially if you have not experienced that kind of marginalization. Even if your intentions are good, you can write harmful things. Being aware of such tropes and stereotypes can help you avoid them, or if necessary, use them to comment on larger issues. Rachel Smythe did not do that, and now we have a world where the racists are the good guys, rewarded with power and worship, and the oppressed, POC-coded, lower-class characters are punished unless they agree completely with the racist good guys (like the "one of the good ones" racial stereotype where a POC is the "exception" out of a "bad race" because they such up to the white main characters). Meanwhile, the only black character is "rewarded" with godhood, not for completing difficult tasks for love, but rather for doing a god's bidding.

I could be reaching. I could be biased because of my own experiences as a (non-black) person of color. However, I think my experiences are what allow me to recognize harmful things in writing.

So anyway, do your research if you want to include a minority character in your writing. Personally, I'd suggest checking out the @writingwithcolor blog. It's a great resource with lots of information.

Thanks for reading if you managed to survive this long rant.

#psyche #lore olympus criticism #anti lore olympus #lo critical #rant #rant post #harmful tropes #person of color #woman of color

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pro-royalty · 3 months

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Ayra Starr & Tyla

#ayra starr #tyla #black girl magic #beauty #woman of color #black beauty #person of color #pro-royalty

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crookedteethed · 21 days

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#crookedteethed #eddie munson smut #fem reader #90s #eddie munson x reader #coriolanus x reader #coriolanus snow #plinks #coriolanus x you #coriolanus smut #the obx plinks #stranger things #stranger things p.links #eddie munson x you #Eddie munson p links #twitter links #steve harrington x reader #woc p links #woman of color

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telekinesis-mind-control-comics · 2 months

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#storm #ororo munroe #woman of marvel #woman of color #mutants #xmen #uncanny xmen #x men #marvel #marvel comics

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fyblackwomenart · 6 months

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"Spooky" by Brandon Pilcher on INPRNT

#art #print #illustration #artist #brandon pilcher #body paint #skeleton #african #halloween #black woman #october #woman of color #inprnt

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the-pessimists-paradigm · 3 months

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renlo · 1 year

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A simple portrait drawn in MS Paint! I haven't felt super inspired recently, but I still wanted to practice a little bit.

#Art #Digital Art #Illustration #Microsoft Paint #MS Paint #Black Art #Black Woman #Black Artist #Women of color #Woman of color #People of color #Person of color #WOC #POC #Pink

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tyrannoninja · 7 months

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This is my portrait of Twosret (or Tausret), the last Pharaoh of Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty, who reigned between 1191 and 1189 BC. At first she was the second royal wife of Seti II, but after her husband died, she become regent for their stepson Siptah, who in turn passed away at age sixteen after a brief reign of only six years. This tragic development would have promoted Twosret to become another one of Egypt’s female Pharaohs.

However, Twosret’s reign as queen regnant proved even shorter than her stepson’s, ending with a civil war that led to a man named Setnakhte seizing power and founding the Twentieth Dynasty. Setnakhte and his son Ramses III would later describe the dynasty before them as ending in chaos and even went so far as to omit Twosret and Siptah from official kings’ lists to deny their reigns’ legitimacy.

#ancient egypt #egyptian #kemet #pharaoh #history #ancient #african #black woman #dark skin #woman of color #digital art #art

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