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AND THE AWARD FOR BEST BIO RP GOES TO ♥BARTONHOLLOWRPG♥

Congratulations, bartonhollowrpg. And if you’d like to say something (like a little speech, then go ahead and reblog this to add to it.

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Hi! Thank you so much for doing this and everything as it's all very exciting, however, the bartonhollow you have listed in the polling post with all the other nominated roleplays is bartonhollowrp -- which is a bioless jcink roleplay that isn't opening -- but it was us that was nominated as it was in our tag. We are only informing you because we've gotten questions about polling and the awards and just want there to be no misdirection. Thank you so much again and we're sorry for the trouble.

That might have been a small error but to clarify, yes, you are nominated, not bartonhollowrp.

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bartonhollowrpg for best bio and vanishingstars-rp for original

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What do you think of Barton Hollow de-affiliating all their affiliates with less than 30% of their faces being POC?

This question has been sitting in our askbox for a day or so as I tried to figure out what I wanted to say. Obviously, we support Barton Hollow in this decision, they have a very successful roleplay which gives them not only a lot of influence, but allows them to use more poc in their faceclaims as their not in the ‘we need to get as many members as we can’ phase. I know that the main reason against not including poc as much as non-poc in most roleplays is that fewer people take them, which is down to them not getting the main characters in popular TV shows. The situation on TV is getting better, as is the situation in the roleplay world, but it’s going slowly. We support everyone in the roleplay community, so those who have less than 30% of their faceclaims as poc shouldn’t feel like they are terrible people, of course they should strive to include more, as every roleplay should - and not only poc, more body diversity, gender identities and if you specify such things in the bios, different sexualities are needed around here. But Barton Hollow do an incredible job of being inclusive and we really do applaud them, if their new affiliate rule leads to an increase in poc facelcaims in the supernatural roleplay world then I don’t understand how it could be seen as a negative thing.

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We're sorry to say that due to new affiliate rules, we cannot continue our affiliation with your roleplay. We now require our affiliates to be diverse, and have at the very least 30% of their characters be POC. Your roleplay, sadly, did not meet these requirements. However, we do wish you the best of luck with your roleplay, and hope everything goes well!

Don’t apologize to me, seriously, you’re entitled to your opinions and me my own. You’re calling our writing community unwelcoming to diversity and that’s simply untrue. This has been a very sour subject for me personally so I’m going to address this publicly. If any of our other affiliates would like to leave us for something like this then that’s fine in my book because our affiliates will only ever be writing communities I can see the writers here joining. That means welcoming, to every type of character and writer. A writing community that actually is a community, that means they don’t oppress and attack others for their thoughts or opinions.

Let me start with: Despite popular Tumblr opinions, being a “person of color” isn’t about your skin tone. I highly doubt you sat there and went through QUITE LITERALLY all 450 of our written biographies and checked to see the ethnicity of every FC. You went and looked at a person’s face and assumed they were white and ticked us off your affiliates declaring us "white washers". You’re wrong, I’m a person of color. I’m Hispanic / Latina. I’m a 100% Venezuelan that embraces both the culture of my family and the country I was raised in and I’m a polyglot. You would look at me, with my practically straight jet-black hair and my gas-leak-victim white skin, and either call me white or Asian because I “don’t look Hispanic”. Yet, I am, and I have a very very hard time getting tan. Moreover, my father looks stereotypically Hispanic and my mother looks stereotypically black. These labels were never ones they used back home. They are labels forced on us by American SJWs and the American census. However, since I can’t tan (just saying I was famous) if an RP is using me as a FC you’re going to dock off a FC for not using let's say my sister instead of me. My sister has tight curls and dark beautiful brown skin that will tan if she simply thinks about the sun. People look at her and automatically write her off as black. On a whole different level, diversity is in the eyes of the writer. Look at Saoirse Ronan and the many different countries characters she has portrayed are from, the writer had a facial image or a vocal image of that character in their head and Saoirse brought them to life.

This whole POC social justice madness on Tumblr has been taken to a disgusting extreme. Here at SABR, we focus on writing and character development. If a writer wants to write a black actor that was born and raised in America as someone who is escaping the conflicts in Gaza, awesome. If someone feels motivated to write Lily Collins as an Italian transgendered porn star, fantastic. Writing is about the vision and here at SABR we grow not only as writers in technical skill but in knowledge. We study our character's cultures and develop a character. It specifically says in the TOS of Tumblr to not copy celebrities/other people. Actors act, writers write, and roleplay is meant to be fun and a way of connecting to others with similar interests. We promote a hate-free community to protect people from nastiness and name-calling while encouraging people to diversify and learn the real world. I will never be so unwelcoming as to say someone can’t apply here because their desired FC is "too white" and we have "ethnicity quota" to adhere to or else the SJW police will berate us. We have had a massive range of FCs and characters, how dare anyone who hasn't been part of our community judge the writers. SABR has been happy and great without being judgmental and will continue to do so. So think before you send some message like this to other roleplays because being diverse is more than what’s on the outside and it certainly far more important than the FC’s lives, which shouldn't be copied anyways. There are people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds in a variety of non-original countries and that's great because both the characters and the writers get to learn more about the real world.

Being diverse is more than skin! Being bi-tri-whatever-racial, it is all diverse and it is all beautiful. By putting some ridiculous quota on what you call “diversity” isn’t encouraging anyone to apply. You can’t force writers to pick up someone with dark skin. Sure, you can put up bans, but what does a ban accomplish other than encouraging amazing writers to apply to other roleplays. Your plot and biographies may be amazing but you’re treating Tumblr and the roleplaying community as some retail sales department. Your writers aren’t sales reps. They’re not going to hit POC quotas, orientation quotas, or disabled characters quotas. All we as admins/mods can do is encourage and educate, which we do by posting diverse skeleton and canon bios. I also do that by running an RPH specifically for our roleplay that has resources on how to write different kinds of characters. The end result in our long-running group is that we have some of the most amazing characters I’ve had the pleasure of writing and reading here with us to this day. If you want to label diversity as “people with dark skin” that’s your prerogative, not ours.

With that being said 30% of 450 is 135. Below you will find a list of all our posted faceclaims here at SABR that aren’t just “those white people ethnicities” of Australian, English, French, Finnish, Welsh, Irish, German, Scottish, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Manx, Afrikaner, and Dutch (and probably a couple more, but I think you understand). Note: This list doesn’t include any FC that took (quite literally) longer than a minute to research. Also, it’s subject to change but in the nice growing way.

HERE YOU GO!

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