duanlarissa:

nursey-nursey-please:

as a white™ to other whites™ in the omgcp fandom i feel like a lot of y’all are afraid to write poc because you dont want to get shit wrong but like fr. its not hard. just dont talk about being black or asian or latino if you dont know what its like. thats it. you can still write them, and have them be your main character, and allow them to be complex. you can be white and write a black character!!! all you have to do is not write about the black experience because you dont personally know about it. that means that you can still have them be black, like things that are typically associated with black culture (if thats what the character is like), and still have human emotions!! it can be done well, like if you take a gander at @geniusorinsanity who writes an amazing nursey!! and if you REALLY don’t feel comfortable making content like that, you can always reblog it!! support those creators, like @hoenursey and @omgcphee and @duanlarissa and @oluranurse and like a billion others!! follow accounts like @omgpocplease !! dont be afraid to show interest in those characters because even if you get called out, its a learning opportunity man. if someone calls you out then you just learn about what you did wrong like nobody is perfect but if you recognize your mistakes, own up to them, and strive to be better itll be okay!!! like the characters you want to, but dont be deterred from the ones you do because you dont want to make people angry!! its just a process of life my friends, we are all on a learning curve. (make content for non-white characters broski. it will enrich your life.)

#honestly even if someone writes something culturally inaccurate/racist#the poc affected by it are not likely to say something about it ti you#bc theres a big chance that the writer will dismiss or invalidate their concerns#rather than listen#and then the writer’s other [white] fans swoop in to agree that it wasn’t racist#and to comfort that writer’s feelings#completely ignoring the poc’s valid concerns in the first place#and thats not even touching upon what multiple people insisting its not racist will do#in making the poc question themself about whether it was racist or if they were just being sensitive#and sometimes the writer demands proof and then the proof needs to go thru hoops#ti be considered credible but its exhausting to have to deal with the invented standards#or the writer will say they never saw the racist thing happen and thus it cant be racist#when its not their place ti say what is racist#if theyre not part of that marginalized group#when fans of color are in a fandom and dont see as much focus on the chars of color as opposed to the white chars#esp minor white chars or white chars with the same amt of screen time as the chars of color#it tells us something#that chars of color and poc in gen are not valued in fandom and irl#i mean poc already knew that but fandom is an escape for so many people……#for white ppl it seems its an escape from poc. for poc the devaluation of poc irl/everywhere is not something we can escape in fandom#white people are not affected by racist microaggressions in fandom. poc are#its completely unfair that white ppl and poc can have such unequal experiences with fandom (via @omgcphee)