#Racebent

[mouna-bat]

You're so cute when you cheer us on... I love you, my Julietta!

my final Blacktober piece for 2023 is Aizo and Yujiro, the idol duo LIP×LIP from the Honeyworks music videos, and the anime Heroines Run The Show!

The images were inspired by the music video for "Romeo", my fave LIP×LIP song~

[kradeiz]

(I make it a point not to repost other's artwork but horizonalillacs twitter account is gone and I can't find them anywhere else, so if anyone knows where to find them, please let me know.)

[mermaidmelodyedits]

Snow White🍎 Racebend🤎

Just a fun edit✍ to see what Snow White🍏 might look like with an alternative design✨

I was inspired to do this because growing up I always assumed Snow White🎀 was Latina, mostly due to her brown eyes and black hair. Technically having darker skin contradicts the whole “Snow White'' name, but I kind of don’t care. I really love💘 how she looks with a darker complexion!

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[lee-makes-drawings]

Ariel but black and genderbent because I can :)

[r0seart]

Ayo it’s James Potter!!!

I don’t get to draw this guy a lot but I need to work on my muscular bodies, so here’s the quidditch jock himself needing some free time from his shirt.

Abbs are a lot harder to draw than you think…

[mk-wizard]

In response to how Hollywood race-bent April O’Neal... Take a good look at Dr. Baxter Stockman, who is an ORIGINAL CANONICALLY black character in the TMNT lore...

Baxter is a deep, fleshed out, relatable and iconic character not just in TMNT lore, but in general. If you want TMNT to have a black character, your wish was granted before you even thought of it. He’s right there! Heck, you could even reimagined him to have a redemption arc! I mean, why not?

And this, friends, is why race or “any” bending bugs me. It’s because great characters of the group you mean to represent get forgotten in favour of riding on the tail of success of established white Christian straight (usually) male ones.

I say, nuts to that. Baxter is not only a worthy enough black character. He’s a worthy character PERIOD. And so are the others.

Say NO to bending and YES to showcasing the existing.

Say NO to race bending April. Say YES to including “Badass” Stockman.

Say NO to any-bending. Say YES to giving the existing minority characters the spotlight at long last. They waited long enough.

PS: I am well aware of the debate over April having been originally conceptualized to be black. As someone who was there when she first came out, let me put the rumour to rest please... That fact is only semi-right. April O’Neal was named after one of the creator’s then beloved who was partially black, but her race was originally up in the air and leaned more towards being Japanese. She was like what Mr. Smithers in the Simpsons was when it first started; a character that was still in the process of being built. In other words, the original concept of April was... everything and nothing. However, once the creators figured her out, the definitive version of her is white with red hair. And as for that hairdo she originally had when she was still in the works...

It was the 80s. Back in the day, ALL women did their hair like that. Even my mom, who is white, did her hair like that. It was the style. I hope this clears things up.

PS part 2: Because it was brought up, I am well aware that Rise did the race swap first and had the audacity to include Baxter yet dumb him down. However, Rise in my opinion was not a good show and wrote everyone badly and offensively. Also, it was short lived for being so foolish. Me putting my foot down now is because this is a huge “strike three and now, you’re out”. Mutant Mayhem has the potential to be good, but it has specific glaring problems. Rise was an idea that just didn’t pan out. It was not worth taking offense over because it disrespected every character equally. April’s race swap there was just one of many. In way, that was Rise’s objective. To be silly, but it took it too far to the point where the show wasn’t even offensive. Just childish. I get that I don’t speak for everyone, but that was how I interpreted Rise. It was a parody that came and went.

[hereditaryconditions]

CATELYN STARK: you would see how gentle a woman can be

[deathiscoldbatman]

If you start discourse for the sake of discourse on this post I will block you as I am tired of people, but honestly since I only log onto social media every 4-6 months at this point for the sake of not being bored I figure that I can just throw this into the void and never look at my notes for this particular post. It’s just going to get ignored like all of my other posts anyway. Speaking as someone who’s a fan of racebending characters into more than one race, I find it a little disheartening that the only character racebends that ever get attention of any kind in fandoms are Xrace - black. Not to shame anybody, of course, seeing as I’m not white [living in a majority white country] and my first response to any and all internet beef will always be “please just go outside and talk to people in your own community for once, or read a book or do literally anything other than fight with random strangers halfway across the world’; but especially when white people reblog those redesigns it feels a little...performative, almost. Like some people’s only way to show support to black people, though specifically black Americans, is to mass reblog art in a half-assed kind of way.

Not sure how much this post makes sense and it does hurt to breathe let alone try to form coherent sentences right now because hooray for being disabled. Also no I’m not talking about The Little Mermaid 22-23[?] edition or The Batman or anything officially published, just fanworks.

[rairacrow]

Esta es la que menos me gusta, así que la dejé de último. No pensaba hacerle el pelo largo, pero creo que fue una buena decisión.

Tal vez los rasgos asiáticos en sus ojos no se noten por que los tiene cerrados, pero sí los edité. Además, traté de hacer su piel un poco más pálida y pinté su rostro con el clásico maquillaje chino.

Difuminé todo el line-art para que encajara bien con la imagen y no se notara tanto la diferencia con las líneas originales.

..................... Y aquí acabamos con la serie de princesas racebent. Me gustaría hacer una segunda parte con las princesas 3D, pero ya veremos, mis habilidades en photoshop están más o menos xd.

[gunitnekoh]

Genderbend and racebend art is fine (except whitewashing) I just get annoyed that the “opposite” gender is always sexy-fied

[the-barefoot-hatter]

people, can't believe i have to say this, Asha and Isabella don't look alike. look at the wildly different profiles! they are just both disney brown girls with dark hair in purplish dresses

Similarly, Asha does not look like Esmeralda

or even really Elena

you know who's face profile she does map over?

friggin'

rapunzel

the hair even parts in the exact same place!

c'mon disney, did you have to reuse this body model AGAIN? you think just because you tweaked it very slightly, we wouldn't recognize the same silhouette??

disney, you just did Encanto, did you learn nothing about designing female characters? You also did Raya, and Strange Worlds, and Moana-

let 2010 gooo already

[jesncin]

I'm curious about you referring to white voice actors playing non-white characters as "skinsuit representation". Would you feel the same way about a white character voiced by a non-white voice actor? Is it important only if the character has specific cultural ties?

I personally think that most of the time the most important aspect of voice casting is how well they play the character, and everything else is secondary.

The key flaw to this kind of logic is that we simply don't live in a meritocracy. The industry doesn't hire solely based on skill, systemic biases come into play. I don't have a problem with like, Phil LaMarr voicing white Aquaman in Young Justice because if POC voice actors voiced only POC characters, they wouldn't get a lot of jobs because of how white the media and the industry is.

So when a white actor voices a character of color, to me, that's taking away one of the few job opportunities designed for actors of color. There's hiring based on skill and then there's also labor justice. How can new voice actors of color gain experience in voice acting professionally when there's so few jobs for them to get to hone their craft? It's about how the talent behind animated projects should reflect the diversity they're presenting on screen. You can't claim to be a "diverse" show when that diversity is only on screen. That's performative.

And to your point "the most important aspect of voice acting is how well they play the character",,,how does a white voice actor do a better job voicing a non-white character than a more authentically cast voice actor? It's the same logic behind when you say "is it important only if the character has specific cultural ties" How would we arbitrarily measure how culturally connected a character is? And is that a fair metric for deciding if that animated character is worthy of being casted authentically? Regardless of where a character falls in this chart I made, I think they all should be casted authentically.

I hope that in the inevitable animated musical biopic about my life atrocities and crimes, the movie doesn't use the fact that I'm not particularly culturally connected to justify casting Scarlett Johansson as me. Or Awkwafina.

[mermaidmelodyedits]

☀️Rapunzel Racebend🤎

Just a fun edit✍️ to see what Rapunzel🎨 and her family might look with an alternate design✨. I was so disappointed when they announced Rapunzel🖌 and just made her ANOTHER white and blonde princess👑 (although I do like her design, especially her purple💜 dress👗!!)

I did keep her hair blonde👱‍♀️ in this edit, because it’s color🌈 comes from the magic flower🌼 in the story📖. If anything, I think her having darker skin emphasizes her unique💫 blonde hair way more!

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[sbrown82]

You know why!!!

[vicontheinternet]

An producer will make the executive decision to racebend a character then make that character the exact opposite of the original character and put that character through hell that they won’t put the white character through that’s not represented

[atopvisenyashill]

I will die on this hill that making the Velayrons black and not the Targaryens was a pointless move, so I would flame the fires more. Make Harwin black. The Strong boys just don't have the bad white wigs. The fandom would shit itself.

YOU AND ME ARE VIBING HERE bc in that post I made forever ago about how you could theoretically racebend characters in the dance without breaking the lore of the story, one of the houses i cited was house strong. they don't intermarry with anyone else, they're extinct in the modern day, and there's already a lot of social commentary here and I think you could add some interesting layers by making the Strongs PoC, especially since legitimization and wedlock stuff is already so heavily tied to class, and class is so heavily tied to race in our modern day.

But you are RIGHT that a lot of people would be SO FUCKING MAD about that lmaoooo but i don't care i think it's infinitely more interesting if Rhaenyra has these biracial boys that she's desperately trying to protect, enough to start a bloody, awful war, only for the war to kill them anyway. I also think it says some really interesting things about Corlys as well (and I think if u combine that with making Corlys biracial as well, and his kids multiracial, it's just interesting).