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Hey guys you should totally get into this thing i like. Yeah it's mid at best. It also aged poorly. You'll get nothing out of it at all. You'll like the idea of it more than the actual thing. But at least only takes half your natural lifespan to finish it

from3am

The 3 main reoccurring black characters in the Game Changers universe have all been given the same trait (being described as loud or yelling) which is also a racist stereotype. This was something I picked up while listening to Common Goal and thought to look into more as it sounded familiar.

In Heated Rivalry JJ is explicitly described as loud.

In Common Goal Carter is explicitly described as loud.

Now, Bood isn’t explicitly described as loud but is described as yelling disproportionately in comparison to other characters.

For Role Model, named characters are described as having “yelled” 12 times (counting the one repeatedly named instance of Troy yelling at Dallas Kent as 1 and not including generalised yelling during a certain event). The breakdown is: 1 for Dallas Kent, 1 for Ilya, 1 for Wyatt, 2 for Dykstra, 3 for Bood, and 4 for Tory.

In TLG, named characters are described to have yelled 11 times. Break down is: 1 for Shane, 1 for Ilya, 1 for Coach, 1 for Crowell, AND 7 TIMES for Bood.

This was honestly a questionable characterisation choice, especially when you have a random side character beating (or losing by 1) to the angsty mains who are arguing the whole time. I am not even kidding, I think every time Bood appears in a scene he is the only character yelling for no reason.

To the point of the post, how the fuck do you manage to attribute to every reoccurring black character the same racist stereotype? There isn’t even a half asked excuse of “well it’s just a character trait i liked for him” because really? All three? Nor is there the excuse of “i do this to all characters” because trust me, i checked! Max and Ilya are introduced as being loud, and Harris is described as laughing loudly (a lot). That is still disproportionate representation. See above for my breakdown of yelling.

And I am sure this wasn’t an intentional inclusion, it is just so questionable and highlights some unconscious biases. i think this type of thing is worth keeping in mind when making the argument that other POC characters traits happening to align with stereotypes has nothing to do with their race. When HR was published JJ being “loud” was one instance I am sure would be called just a character choice, but by TLG it is a pattern.

Clearly there is room for stereotyping to seep into this writing and it would be nice to stop pretending that we need 5 different characters of the same race to establish the pattern.

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cumaeansibyl

Any story which refers to Haiti as an impoverished nation, which is all of them, should also mention that when Haitians won their independence from France, French gunships showed up and demanded they pay something like 22 billion dollars in today's money to compensate France for the stolen land and enslaved people they could no longer exploit

It took Haiti over a hundred years to pay that ransom and it's difficult to explain just how badly that fucked up their entire development, especially since France also demanded a 50% discount on everything they bought from Haiti just to make it harder. Like! No wonder they're impoverished!

Anyway if France would like to assist Haiti in its current difficulties they could always pay back the fucking money they extorted

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For the Nikki Wood show agenda😭

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brightleaf

by.aikaflores 7.31.2026 the right people at any place, at a moment in time we’ll always remember. Seoul, you were special 🫰🏼🇰🇷

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neoncomplex 7.29.2026 🇰🇷 SEOUL SQUAD 🇰🇷

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art-of-dragonheadskilax

Well it being black history month is reminding me how I wanted to doodle something like this down for a while. Since it’s been a lil detail I always take notice of in drawings. These are very simple depictions but I hope it’s enough to give the general idea! Feel free to reblog

quailfence

[Image description taken from alt: Drawing Scars on Brown/Dark Skin. The left illustration is how cuts and burns looks on brown and darker skin. Top level is the common depiction of using light pink to color it. So no melanin? typically not how most scars look. Of course there’s the condition of raised scars or stretch marks which could look lighter! Next row is showing how they are when scabbing which is reddish and dark. Third row is an aged, finished scar. Burns are marbled in look. They're darker than the skin tone. Last row shows how a fully or nearly fully healed scar, it's lightly visible but still darker than skin tone. Right illustration is a torso with scars with a diagonal cut to show the difference between left and right side. Left has pink light scars, healing? Or just an oversight? Right has darker colored scars. Normal. Same applies to top surgery scars. For recent surgeries that alter the areola, it is pink as it heals (nipples are pigmented on dark skin btw so it’s a weird look) After full care and recovery they’ll look normal (dark). End description.] @a-captions-blog

brightleaf

by.aikaflores 08.01.2026 Locked in and spent some time capturing moments of @hudsonwilliamsofficial in Seoul 🇰🇷 📷 @fujifilmx_us X-T30 #hairandskinbyAIKA styled by @neoncomplex

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brightleaf

hudsonwilliamsofficial 07.30.2026 KOREAAA! DOWN! BADDDDD!!!!

(bonus: all the movies referenced in his post)

#oh thank you #that’s lovely #hudkorea was so much fun #hudson williams #movie recs #hudkorea

lesbianroselandry

it's like . oh my god. no, i don't think a romance novel needs to be a sociopolitical thesis on the real life consequences of being closeted and queer (and in shane's case, autistic + racialized) in a highly bigoted environment, or the geopolitical implications of being a high profile queer russian athlete. but when the romance novel itself brings these things up, only to then brush them off like they're not real concerns as soon as the author stops wanting to think about them, that is both lazy writing and just plain insulting.

i do actually think it is offensive for an author to dismiss queer characters' concerns of homophobia as just internalized shame and selfishness and self-hatred and cowardice. i do actually think it is offensive for an author to bring up homophobic legistlation in russia as a major concern for an immigrant character only to then decide it doesn't matter to him at all, actually, because writing him as an immigrant and doing any research about immigration is somehow too much to ask of ~a romance novel~.

and frankly, i think people who go "oh my god it's just a romance novel!!! you guys are asking too much/reading too much into things!!! it's misogynistic to criticize the romance genre like this!!!" are actually far too comfortable insinuating that the entire romance genre is, by default, full of homophobia, racism, and lazy writing. i actually think it's entirely possible for romance novels to treat the subjects they invoke with care.

if reid didn't want to write about closeted queer people with any compassion, and instead wanted to accuse them of only being closeted because of shame, selfishness, and cowardice, she could have made up a fictional world in which homophobia is simply not as severe an issue as it is today. instead, she chose to invoke homophobia as it exists in the real world, and then simply victim-blamed her closeted characters for being impacted by it.

ultimately, she writes as though the closet is the ultimate sin. this is why she discards ilya's immigrant storyline and doesn't care about the impacts of russia on him as soon as it no longer plays into the ~forbidden romance~ trope in hr. the closet is evil, and wanting to stay closeted is shameful, and therefore ilya (her obvious favorite character) must want to come out. the long game follows the same exact formula as game changer, just with more cruelty in its ending. (it's like if game changer included two sentences about scott getting physically hatecrimed at the end, but glossed over it immediately because he was just sooooo happy to be out it didn't even matter.)

so like. yeah actually i don't think it's asking too much of a romance novel to engage respectfully with its own subject matter. if the author doesn't want to engage respectfully with a topic, then they should just... write about something else. i don't think this is rocket science as a concept.