#racebending

[beepinout]

Some older ppg fanart of the girls and their fankids made by @lune-redd and @askthe-ppgs-rrbs. I also race bended them because I can

[siryouarebeingmocked]

There's also the famous "well, there were a small number of Black Vikings, therefore it makes perfect sense for Vikings Valhalla turn an actual historical white male chieftan into a black woman."

The second part is implied, because not a single person in that article defending the racebending actually addressed that complaint. I had to go to Screenrant for the canon explanation of "the real guy got killed, and his wife took over".

And they immediately admitted there was no evidence of any female Viking ruler, ever, but, but, there COULD have been!

This incident was held up by some people as an example of progressives living down to memes about racebending.

Bridgerton had to invent an entire alternate history to explain black British nobility.

Of course, since musicians apparently play orchestral covers of Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish, I gotta wonder why they even bothered.

Funny thing is, when I Googled for controversy, I kept finding criticism from the left, not the right.

I also remember the times MedievalPOC said it made perfect sense to for a random African trader to head hundreds of miles out of his way, over a mountain range, to a random corner of medival Europe (that is still extremely white today) to appear in Kingdom Come:Deliverance.

Just to be clear; anti-woke people have been wrong about diversity. Both in fiction and IRL. Up to the point of riots and terrorism.

I have argued with them.

But I think it sure is curious that neither OOP nor any of the people in the reblogs had a single actual example. Heck, none of them even named a specific work.

And of course they never admitted their enemies could be right about anything, ever.

[inkpotsprite]

I saw a post criticising those who racebend Batfamily members, particularly Tim. They said that making Tim Asian when Cass and Damian are right there was racist in its own way.

I see their point. Truly. Because Cass and Damian are brilliant and compelling characters and I think that if you want to write an Asian character then it's definitely better to focus on those who are actually Asian first, y'know?

But I also thought about the fact that they basically painted both characters with one brush when referring to them? Cass is Chinese, Damian is a mix of Chinese and Arabic (correct me if I'm wrong on either) whereas I've seen Tim written as Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese. I myself have written him as Filipino.

There are many different Asian countries and cultures, so to just say "Cass and Damian are Asian write them!!" Is a little...eh to me?

I'm part Cameroonian, and if someone where to get mad about people race bending characters to be Black using the argument "Duke's African just write him!" I'd be giving them a bit of a side eye.

Because yes, we should focus on actually writing canon Black/brown characters before racebending. But we should understand that there are different cultures, subcultures, beliefs, ways of living etc. under the umbrella of each race too. Cass and Damian have different cultural links and experiences, you can't just swap in one for the other because they're Asian, Black or any other race we can think of.

Like if you're writing a racebended Vietnamese character you can't just swap them for one that's canonically Chinese and have that be it. So we do need to be a little more thoughtful when starting these conversations.

Personally, I agree with the poster's sentiment and intention, but racebending isn't inherently wrong (melanin beam challenge anyone?) and you can't just swap out one for the other in the name of being "correct" we have to be more thoughtful than that.

I hope my point is coming across clear here? I'm not defending racebending over focusing on canon characters, just hoping that that focus is going to be done with the thought, love and respect these characters (and their very real cultures) deserve 💜

[camations]

black hakuko. blakuko, if you will

i stg this woman is so perfect in literally any and every incarnation how is that POSSIBLE

based on this fanart by temorinki:

[princess-of-the-seven-kingdoms]

Asoiaf Racebent - rukmini vasanth as cersei Lannister

Inspired from this post by @tsaritsaofstory

" I am a lioness. I will cringe for them."

[mr-weirdo-mcgee]

Oh God I have not seen people treat ""blackwashing"" the same way as whitewashing in the wild. This is fucking wild.

"did you just say black washing is fine" and other shit commenters said to any comment disagreeing....like YEAH BITCH!??? White people are the majority!!! I am the majority so I don't know what it's like to not be well represented. Like almost every character looks like me expect one or two characters if you're lucky. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF A WHITE CHARACTER IS TURNED BLACK. I literally see myself EVERYWHERE. I HATE THIS "IF IT'S BAD WHEN IT'S AGAINST THE MINORITY, IT'S ALSO BAD AGAINST THE MAJORITY" MINDSET. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. I'M BANGING YOUR HEAD OVER WITH A HAMMER.

[springylocked]

☏ - never going to attempt to look for eddsworld fanart again because why the hell is this fandom so racist?? i'm trying to find tomtord art and all i see are these racebenders drawing tom as a person of color when he's clearly white like all the other characters. i'm telling you it's not that hard to make an oc if you want a poc in eddsworld.

☏ - another thing i've noticed is that it's literally only tom, they only racebend tom, but i also notice a lot of tom mischaracterization so that might be it..

☏ - i've also noticed that a lot of eddsworld artists have "proship dni" in their bio but then ship tomtord...

edit:

☏ - for starters, tomtord can be a proship due to it being abusive in some interpretations, please do your research before sending me death threats in my asks

☏ - plus, it doesn't matter what tomska said. "oh but he's ok with tom being drawn as black!"...that doesn't change the fact that you're only using that as an excuse to change the skin color of a white man, as tom is white in canon

edit 2:

☏ - we don't need "representation" of poc in every piece of media. representation should be natural and treated normally instead of forcing "representation" onto a white character.

☏ - my argument here really goes for any fandom. if you racebend or support racebending in any context: please block me, i am not a racist and would not like to be friends with them

[vampynocturne]

“black washing is just as bad as white washing!”

“recoloring pale characters is racist!!”

you people love screeching and whining about black and brown people simply wanting to represent themselves, but then suddenly quiet down about actual racism. I’m NOT sorry, I will NOT give a fuck if a random black person on the internet gives a genshin impact character dark brown skin and dreadlocks, but I will give a fuck if the bloody company (hoyoverse) is racist and does not portray cultures properly despite using and profiting off of south asian, middle eastern, African, and South American cultures and traditions in their stupid fucking gacha games. this is not simply about Hoyoverse and their shit games though, it can be about any company/game/media in general that is racist as hell.