#whitewashing cw

[ourinquisitorialness]

Companions Reimagin (Bellara Davrin Neve Taash)

Changes the appearance and icons of several companions to unique ones. Affects Bellara, Davrin, Neve and Taash.

So....there's a new disgusting mod to report on Nexus.

Not only does it whitewash every single companion of color, which is already more than worth the report, the mod also uses AI art to replace the companion tarot cards and steals content from other modders, at least one of which is in the comments on the mod saying that they didn't consent to the use of their mod for this abomination.

We cannot tolerate this racism in our fandom.

Go to the mod page and click the "Report Abuse" button as seen below, then select the option "I believe this mod is breaking the rules". You can report it once for Stolen Content and once for Inappropriate Content / Hate Speech.

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[otherclawdeen]

Ngl it's super annoying to me how ppl use Clawdeen's g1 doll (which does in fact have more black features than g3 btw) to justify her g3 doll being more eurocentric bc that just feels like a really weak excuse to cope. Literally erasing erasure atp. If we're being serious, the g1 dolls for Wolf siblings and the de Nile sisters were whitewashed too. It's not okay to whitewash characters of color just bc it's been done before erm what the helly lol?! I don't even get how some of y'all complain abt g1 purists and then turn around and use g1 problematic shit to justify g3 problematic shit. Looking back, Mattel was pretty misleading to market the dolls with darker skin in all those boovies just to put out lighter dolls. It's not okay even if the dolls were designed to look more like the webisodes bc the movies had way more reach and likely more budget. Back when g3 started, it had been so long since I'd looked at g1 mh dolls, I forgot how light they are. It's not such a big deal with the characters that are pink, orange, green, blue, etc., but it gets particularly questionable with regards to the characters with brown skin. Even just in a shallower sense, I think all the Monster High characters just looked better with the skin tones in the cgi boovies than the g1 dolls.

[wooyoungisbaby]

im being so serious rn, stop fucking whitewashing wooyoung!! his skintone is dark - do you like his actual real self or not? whitewashing idols isn't doing them a favour, it's cruel and it perpetuates the idea that light skin is more attractive and desirable. it treats idols as issues for editors to "fix". the colourism in kpop fandom needs to stop, it's so rampant both in fan photos and news outlet photos :)) im gonna come for your fuckin kneecaps

[fictionkinfessions]

why did they make steve in the minecraft movie white - a steve alter

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[summerstrash]

genuinely baffled by the level of whole-ass-showing that l*zzie *ls*n stans reach on Twitter. Like, I saw one go into the replies of people who are not talking about mcu wanda, who are explicitly talking about updating the comics character's wiki page so that it better reflects how she's currently being drawn (giving examples of recent covers she's featured on), and say that, referencing the posted covers, "the fan arts don't even look like her that's a whole other woman"

and i'm just like. dude those are official art. Wanda's finally being drawn with respect given to her Romani heritage. you're just obsessed with a literally pale imitation of the real thing. That's a whole other woman, boyo. Get out of our house.

[atjsgf]

Finished the live action ATLA. Honestly? I actually really liked it, more than I thought I would, and I wasn't even particularly skeptical about it.

I liked Katara and Sokka's dynamic here actually better than I did in the cartoon. Maybe I would be more attached to Katara being parentified in the cartoon if it was ever resolved in that show, but it wasn't, so I'm fine with it being discarded and taking a different angle with her characterization and relationship with her brother.

I have no complaints about the performances given by the actors (though I do agree with the criticisms of casting light-skinned actors for Katara and Sokka, I still enjoyed the performances, though I know I'm coming from a place of being, like. White. With that--like, people with darker skin might have a harder time enjoying the performances despite that and that's valid).

However, Dallas Liu as Zuko was a highlight for me, he absolutely killed it in every single scene. Easily my favorite casting choice in the whole show.

I also really liked bringing in Azula earlier and not making her just like a demon child who enjoys being evil. The golden child-scapegoat dynamic between Azula and Zuko even as they've been separated for years is interesting and I liked it. (In particular I never liked how Azula in the audience of Zuko being scarred just smirks, so I like how in the LA she clearly has more mixed emotions about it. To me she looks morbidly fascinated and afraid at the same time, which feels right to me.)

I thought the show did a good job of covering the most iconic s1 episodes within their limited time frame by tying them into a connected plotline with each other within Omashu. Also I know the secret tunnel ep was s2 not s1 but I think it worked for this plotline, and I liked that it centered on Katara and Sokka's sibling bond instead of a forced k/ataang moment. (I don't care for that ship but Aang antis do not think I am one of you!)

As for the Sokka no longer being sexist thing: I don't know why we're pretending "Sokka being sexist in episode one, meeting a woman who fights good three episodes later and immediately changing him mind and being normal for the rest of the series" is like some huge plot point that Sokka's character falls apart without. The live action is only eight episodes long, it can't cover everything and I'm fine with it looking at that non-arc and going "yeah, that's not fundamentally necessary." He still felt recognizably like Sokka to me.

(Also others have pointed out that misogyny is cultural and we don't really see much if any sexism in the SWT aside from Sokka, certainly not to the level that Sokka exhibits in ep1, so it's kind of an odd trait for him to have to begin with. Like he just decided independently that women aren't as capable as men? Bruh.)

But yeah, I actually really enjoyed it and I hope we get a second and hopefully third season.

[luckyspacerabbit]

just bc bioware lightened kaidan and ashleys skin in me3 doesnt mean you have to too 🥰

[felassan]

Covers of early Dragon Age comics; several parts that make up a whole. The art is by Nick Thornborrow and Ramil Sunga. Matthew Goldman says they did this image in Gouache, which is a very uncompromising medium, just to show they can. The original version of the picture nearly got thrown out, but Matthew saved it! [source, two]

Bonus:

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