Like I said I sent a long ask earlier but tumblr is a cruel mistress and ate it. Anyways! Wanted to say I hope you saw I replied to your sweet ask, thank you SO much for dropping that in my inbox, you are always such a pleasure to see and a huge inspiration to me. you’re such a kind human being and I just love your presence on this site.
That said, I had wanted to ask about writing POCs specially reader inserts… I read your tips on writing to be more inclusive, but I wondered if you ever wrote specifically for POCs at all? Such as reader with dark(er) skin tone, different hair texture/color, etc. Sorry if this is at all insensitive, I am just very curious and love to hear your thoughts on topics like this!
heyyy lovely!! i did saw! i just didn't knew how to reply sorry, but it made me very much happy!! thank u so much for ur kind words! hehe i still don't get used to being this appreaciated it 🥹🩷🩷
but answering your question: uhm publicy? no, i never posted a fanfic where my reader is a woman of color, but i have some drafts that have a similar concept, like curly hair (i have curly afro hair), that were requests that i need to finish and post. another concept more closer would be my brazilian!reader (that it's unfinished, but the topic more important of her it's her culture around her and not her actual body or type of hair, brazilians aren't known exclusively for having a specifically type of hair or skin color). for a long while i never imagined writing some kind of reader where her skin color was the main point because the thought never came on my mind — and tbh i don't know how i would made this the high/main point of the fanfic + i never read a fic with a black!reader or smth 😕 —, and when writing i always imagine some kind of version of myself, so the skin i visualize it's like mine, light black skin, but ofc i don't actually word that in the fanfictions because it would exclude a good amount of people and my intention it's to be for every woman feel included in the reader insert.
in conclusion: i don't know how i would make a fanfiction highlight the !reader skin color beyond briefly mentioning in their characteristics, the fandoms i'm in i never bumped on a character x black!reader to have a better knowledge on how to made this the main point. — but now that you made me think about this question, i think it would come from my personal feeling about how i love when i see a favorite character have a love interest where's the woman is a person of color, i love interracial couple because of that (and bc my parents were a interracial couple), mainly when the woman it's a black woman. because most of the time black women (+ being latina doesn't help in that) are much more objeticfied and sexualized, so for a long while in media they usually aren't the 'end game' of the protagonists and not the chosen ones, because of who they are and most of the time only reduced by their bodies and being 'agressive' 😕. in my mind peter maximoff (quicksilver) would match SO WELL with a black woman, it would be his type, idk i just think it's a beautiful matching... (couples where the woman is black and the man is white are usually my favorite ones bc of how i saw this in my life with my parents) but ofc this comes from a totally bias place because i am a black woman, so uhm. 🤷♀️ i would love to feel that much desired by who i am and not only my body by my favorite characters. — so if i were to write about this topic, i would write how the character saw me, my true self, i am a neurodivergent black and latina woman, being mistreated or reduced to nothing is quite easy, so that's why i love SO DEEPLY the trope/line where the character (or f/o) CHOOSE me, i love those classics "because i want to be with you, because i love you". they saw me truly by who i am and did their best to understand me, and they do. so i absolutely adore when a character is a simp who worships head over heels their black woman by who they are and not only their beauty.
i hope i wasn't a waste of your time and didn't repeated that much of myself, i think i did- sorry! i, myself, need to know how to write about this topic, i feel a little embarrassed by confessing idk that much either! 😞 but i don't have any black girl friends and who are interested in fanfiction/writing! 😭 i'm tagging this so if anyone see this and wants to give me tips, i would love too!
