Hot take? Whatever
If you cannot pay respects to one culture without relying on Pinterest boards and Orientalist fantasies? DONT WRITE THEM, I DONT care how good your story is, it’s a no for me.
If you cannot color your POC characters correctly, and yes that includes the fact that POC have lighter palms and soles of feet in comparison to the backs of their hands and their color isn’t some ashy discolored bullshit, THEN DONT DRAW THEM.
I’m sick and tired of the standard being “when he’s a brownie
” and it’s the most ashiest, orientalist stereotype of a character ever fucking written. WE deserve better representation and respects to our cultures than some half-assed colonizer fantasy.
And yes ofc this includes and happens to Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian cultures by white people but they are NOT the focus of my rant.
COSIGNED!!!
hoping the creator of "an unsettling scent" practices more with coloring darker skin tones because the couple of very dark skinned characters there were looking real lifeless and inhumanly grayish. the coloring for that series is generally cool-toned and desaturated, but it could still look better even in that style. the characters the......
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04 03,2026
