#just a pattern ive noticed

[angycryptid]

if i had a nickel for every time Douglas Adams wrote a major character who's autistic as hell and constantly says odd shit that somehow moves the plot along to every other character's dismay then id have 2 nickels which isnt a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right

[patchymoon]

every mentally ill teenaged anime girl needs a gf named alice to keep them from doing bad things

[yoursonlucifer]

no one:

lucy dacus: how can I put girls kissing in this music video? music video with girls kissing?

[altschmerzes]

if the only time you bring up A Secret Third Thing is when someone has suggested generally celebrating or uplifting platonic/queerplatonic fictional relationships in spaces that ordinarily obsess about romantic ones to the exclusion of all else perhaps consider why you’re doing that and also stop.

[umblrspectrum]

ive been struggling big time coming up with anything funny to draw that hasnt been done yet so have my rw au art dump

[schizopositivity]

Anyone else notice a pattern of increased psychotic symptoms during the summer?

[hodari-pavels-good-boy]

I'm gonna be honest I don't think any of yall have any media literacy or know these characters at all. And everyday I'm proven right for taking a LARGE step back from this Fandom and its subsequent communities

the way tish rapidly changes from nice to angry in .1 second is highkey scary lmao. do y'all think her niceness is genuine or?

[show-tunes]

SO WHEN WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME THAT THE PATTERN ON HIS DOILY COLLAR IS UPSIDE DOWN CANDY CANES

[thirdmagic]

[isabelopaque]

[aropride]

guy who "should probably be in therapy"

[shrimpinvamp]

some of you guys draw big shot era spamton like young murdoc niccals

[lucifer-the-fetus-eater]

new tf2 theory

you may fascinate the tf2 community by giving them a horrifying little man with a thousand yard stare and an aura of tragedy that surrounds him like moths surround a porchlight

observe:

[im-smart-i-swear]

kuron voice do i look like i was born yesterday

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

I feel like I might be overthinking this, but I honestly think those home renovation shows push patriachal gender roles and stereotypes in their own way. A lot them typically consist of a man and woman duo (sometimes a married couple), the woman is always the designer who nags and frets about the colour palette and overall look of a home because that's typically seen as a feminine thing. Meanwhile the man is always the contractor and the one who actually does a lot of the dirty work cause obviously men are the ones who would want to build things and not be concerned with things like paint colour and what furniture and accents will look best with that funky accent wall his female cohost picked. Not to mention the fact that many of them feature scenes poking fun at women for not knowing how to use power tools cause of course dumb females don't know anything about building and assembling things. It's very subtle mind you, but there's a consistent pattern.

[sh1-n0bu]

my issue with the natlan characters being white (color, not ethnicity) is that

1: it doesn't make sense from a environmental standpoint. If they're based on all these places with more sun, wouldn't the natlan genetic pool have adapted so that those in hotter places have darker skin? for example: Mexico, Africa, India, any other country on the equator? (Not including European integration)

2: why blend all these cultures of color beautifully (i was so looking forward to an aztec based region) just to put a pale person in their place? We *know* they can put poc characters in their games. We have plenty of colored npcs, Arlan in Hsr, and even the eremites.

And 3: I saw an edit of the main three people have been upset about with darker skin (the green and black guy, little Geo girl, and white haired hydro girl) AND I COULDN'T EVEN TELL THEY WERE EDITED UNTIL I READ THE CAPTION. They were gorgeous, truly. The truth is, genshin's sales in other countries would spike if they made these new characters darker. There would be that much more representation, opening the community to others who would grow the community

Tldr: There's no reason to make these characters pale other than origin country specific beauty standards. Everyone, and I mean everyone, no matter poc or not, should refrain from spending money on genshin for the foreseeable future. It will be difficult to those used to buying their primogems, especially with the new Nilou skin dropping, (looking at you, whales) but we gotta.

And come on, the new Kirara skin can totally hold us over

exactly! hoyoverse CAN make darker skin tone but they just DON’T want to. a few example images i’ve gotten from the enemies

every enemy we have came across have a darker shade of skin than the playable ones. even the fatui enemy has a darker/ombre type of shade of skin color. and from what i’ve seen the new enemies in natlan had darker skin tone than these ones. i have another point i have forgotten to mention in my latest post answering abt the natlan situation and this may seem like a huge stretch but hear me out.

we all know and have heard of the ‘big black beast’ writing racism right? how media will portray POC as the aggressor, enemy, the wrong side, the abuser, the pet etc etc. basically using a character’s skin tone to hide their racism. and please take this with a bag of salt as i may be reading too deep into it here, but isn’t it odd how the enemies always end up having a darker shade of skin? not just entirely POC but south asian ones too.

paimon and traveler have always been shown to be wary of or even downright afraid of every darker skinned character they meet in sumeru. eremites are darker skinned and have POC features (dreadlocks), the new enemies shown in natlan trailer does as well (dark skin and POC feature like dreadlock). its almost as if they’re trying to do the ‘big black beast’ racism in writing thing