#aph poc

[hws-indias]

“Sorry! I’ve been a little busy,”

“Work never ends, you know? But I should have some time now!”

INBOX: OPEN

//It has been forever since I logged onto tumblr, and life has changed a lot. I finally graduated and currently am applying for colleges, but hopefully I should be able to post again. Anyways, please send some asks! 

//Also a close up because just look at this funky fella:

[meliissa-art]

Traigo oxidado el corazón

Me hace falta cuerda

Mi alma necesita transfusión

Sangre de mi tierra

Regreso a la cuna que me vio nacer

Regreso a este barrio que me vio correr

Lo que fui, lo que soy y seré, por mi isla bella

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[k1t-y]

strawberry francis

also inspired by the corsican wildcat ("cat-fox" found in corsica, a region in france) because cat > rooster (the apparent french national animal). i want to start adding animals (and/or other aspects, like flowers and other identifying cultural features or practices) specific to the country in either real life or in fandom.

[armemeblogs]

India: Wtf is wrong with you?!

Pakistan: Wow, you could start with a “good morning”.

India: Good morning. Wtf is wrong with you?!

[picturespurple-68]

A reminder for my blog:

In light of recent events, if you spread any sort of hate/disrespect to Asian people or their cultures (or associate with anyone who does), then you can fuck right off my blog. I don't need your unwashed, racist ass here, thanks.

[apersonwholikeslotus]

OKAY BUT I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS NOW

Alfred and Charlotte (Bermuda's human name, idk why I picked it I just like it; her name is Charlotte-Anne bc yes William was one of those ppl to give his kid two first names) being twins has already stuck in my brain holy- I think it's here to stay.

I'm just very much enjoying this idea of Mr. 3.797 million Miles(2) and Ms. 20.54 Miles(2) being twins. I'm also enjoying it being common knowledge 10/10 everyone knows they're twins, yes everyone thinks it's weird, William is not answering questions at this moment. They were born in 1608.

[aphverse-confessions]

its your fav mcd-was-a-political-thriller anon and im here for a spicy take: Jesson needs to stop making blatant microaggressions as cutesy 𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖗𝖐𝖞™ questions or as a hahaha funny gag™ when werewolves and mei'fwa are written to be discriminated minorities.

In MCD s1, we're told that werewolves are dangerous brutes who are aggressive, but then we're shown how level-headed Bodolf is, how the western wolf tribe actively helps Aphmau and how they're genuinely good people. We even have a sweet arc where Donna accepts Logan for being half-werewolf and they both adopt Yip (who's the only surviving werewolf member of a GENOCIDE). S1 actively subverts the expectation of werewolves being dangerous or stupid, they're equals to their human cast members. ... Then S2 Ep72 (0:30—2:05) happens where Aphmau and Zoey are being fucking racist to Yip where the following conversation ensues:

𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶: 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘠𝘪𝘱? 𝘡𝘰𝘦𝘺: 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘠𝘪𝘱 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶: 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸…

***𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘠𝘪𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵***

𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘞𝘰𝘸, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭! 𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶: 𝘠𝘪𝘱? 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦! 𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦! 𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶: 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘢? 𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘏𝘦𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘖𝘓𝘍 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸?

𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘶: 𝘈𝘩, 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺, 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯, 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘠𝘖𝘜’𝘙𝘌 𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘓𝘓 𝘛𝘈𝘓𝘒𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘖 𝘔𝘌 𝘓𝘐𝘒𝘌 𝘐𝘔 𝘈 𝘋𝘖𝘎! 𝘡𝘰𝘦𝘺: 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴? 𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭.. 𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰… 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰, 𝘐 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦——

***𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘵***

𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘶: 𝘍𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩!

***𝘠𝘪𝘱 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬***

𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘙𝘶𝘧𝘧! … 𝘞𝘏𝘈𝘛!? 𝘕𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘚𝘌𝘌𝘕 𝘈 𝘎𝘜𝘠 𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘚𝘌 𝘈 𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘊𝘒!? 𝘐𝘍 𝘐 𝘋𝘐𝘋𝘕’𝘛 𝘊𝘈𝘛𝘊𝘏 𝘐𝘛, [𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬] 𝘊𝘖𝘜𝘓𝘋’𝘝𝘌 𝘒𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘋 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘖𝘕𝘌! 𝘡𝘰𝘦𝘺: 𝘖𝘩 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘠𝘪𝘱, 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘠𝘪𝘱: 𝘠𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮'… 𝘏𝘌𝘠 𝘞𝘈𝘐𝘛 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘕𝘜𝘛𝘌! ... Oh my fucking god, Jesson. When I was rewatching MCD, I cringed so hard into my skin and I had to do a double take if they were fr doing this for the bit. Im sorry, my like for MCD Aphmau and Zoey TANKED after that scene oh my fucking god. Yip is a survivor of the eastern wolf village, a tribe that was murdered in a G E N O C I D E because of Zane and... theyre treating him like a fucking dog? B R O? It's even worse with Mei'fwa with how in PDH, Aphmau was asking Kai if he could go 'Nya!' to him or if Mei'fwa called the bathroom 'the litterbox' because MCD had an arc in Nahakara Village where Aph was discriminated against being a Mei'fwa. Also Kaitlyn being a canonical racist against werewolves cus they beat up her brother?????? I know jack and shit about whatever the hell happened to MyStreet beyond S3, but hearing about Aph's mom having a race kink is ಠ▃ಠ Like, oh my fucking god these microaggressions are awful, and I HATE how they're being played off as jokes because its so discomforting as a POC. These jokes would be absolutely fine if Jesson didnt made werewolves or mei'fwa victims of oppression/discrimination. Please, rewriters of MCD and MyStreet alike, please do not repeat this😭😭😭

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[mbslost]

Doesn’t Gatobob’s game consist of homosexual intercourses in certain parts? Isn’t it’s genre mature, heavy? But suddenly, ((people)) go berserk over a drawing of a GERMAN character in an uniform belonging to an ideology she doesn’t even support in any form, and hasn’t shown to. Many artists have actually done this, including Jackce - As she, as a mexican artist drew aph Prussia in a natsoc uniform. Shes mexican, would this automatically consider her a natsoc, fellas?

If we follow this logic regardless, the creator of Jjba would also be racist because of a specific arc and character he has created, Rudol von Stroheim.

The behavior of other people she is familiar with isn’t something she has to apologize for. She doesn’t need to take any responsibility over somebody’s actions.

I’d be plain hypocrisy if she was a national socialist with homosexual and “poc” ocs, kek

quite nailed the point here. another good perspective must say.. although the "poc" thing confuses me a bit ")

[sakotisssss]

the way some people treat aph italy like he’s a POC is so unsettling to me… like use actual POC characters

[ares-the-godofwar]

Are y'all rplayers white? Why isn't there any poc god?

ooc // uhm. do some scrolling. when dio made a picrew of their character, there was totally a poc skin tone. when aph described how they imagine their character looking, literally one of the hcs mentioned said POC SKIN TONE. don't make assumptions pls💖🥰

[doomspiral]

hello! I was the anon ask you received yesterday, and i wanted to send it to you off anon if that helps with resolving the issue properly and clarifying a few things. again, i stress that there is nothing wrong with facing the facts—i knew lithuania was going to win most likely because he's european, white and therefore more popular. what i meant was just how you referred to the other poc countries—i didn't have an issue until you used the word "sacrifices." i understand it may have seemed like a harmless joke and as if i am being overly sensitive over a small word, but it was hurtful—both to me and other poc friends who saw the post—because it seemed to perhaps confirm an unconscious thought by the fandom, which is that we exist as accessories to the popular characters and that we don't have much agency out of them...

for context, i remember browsing through the aph south korea tag to find the round 2 poll, and after voting for that round i looked at the reblogs to see what people had to say out of curiosity, after which i had seen the tag of your reblog. as a south korean and a poc it really stuck with me and felt like an unconscious admission: that pocs will always be unpopular, yet people seem to pretend that both are on an equal status

the small things that you can brush off your mind stick with us, because it relates to us and how we are seen in this fandom. but whenever we, the minority, voice these concerns, it usually ends with our voices being dismissed as "not being able to have fun and enjoy the fandom" or "raining on the parade."

i don't want to assume that the final post about how fandom must be treated was a vaguepost about the ask, but simple things such as "just have fun and don't be a party pooper" is on the similar vein as "they're just characters" or "hetalia is just an anime." now, this wouldn't be an issue if hetalia wasn't an anime about countries(meaning there is history and politics)! and so a lot of pocs struggle to have fun in the sense that you do because even though exclusion isn't upfront and obvious, it's all in the little things.

i don't wish to accuse or say that this is how you think of us, but rather a reminder. no matter how influential you are as a blog, being a small or big blog is not an obstacle to stepping back and seeing if what you do or say is inclusive to everyone!

Hey there, thank you for coming off anon for this. I’m sorry for how brash I am about anonymous messages, I’ve just been in online fandom spaces since 2006 and have been sent a lot of bait that reads as well-intended, and seen it get muddled and ugly within hours. I know that messaging someone like this can be intimidating so I hope my response reassures you that this is an okay and good way to go about things that have hurt you, regardless of who did it.

I agree actually, that my wording was not good. Ideally, someone who knows me would have said something by now but it's possible those are the people who know what I meant and let it slide bcs of that. I used excitable text about it, but the thought process was actually that I didn’t think the lineup was fair for a first round, and that the act of seeding a character we know damn well is popular among horny bloggers being lined up with notably less popular characters I very rarely see people going ham for. Did I say that? No lmao, that point was left to the wind and this was the result.

You are correct to not assume the fandom and fun post was related to my responses to the anon, it 100% was not. I had moved on by then and was thinking about how my favorite rarepairs now have people talking about them and telling me it's because I made it look fun or interesting. Back In My Day and frankly what I’m used to, it’s fandom that’s broken into little groups that talk about a character/ship/trope most often, while also branching out now and then into larger fandom when they catch an event the other group is doing. I do stand by the fact you have to make your own corner of this fandom, not just to convince anyone but because that’s what is going to make it worth participating in the first place.

This is a different topic than fans of color pointing out that the largest groups are for white m/m ships and made up of mainly white fans, and what that comes with in the larger scheme of things. I have 0 intention of speaking over that, which is why I make and share a lot of posts about fandom positivity, and roping your friends into a good time, while also sharing posts from fans of color outlining the problems they face in fandom.

TL,DR; If I do something shitty, anyone can pull me aside and say “hey dude, that sucked” and I will listen if they want to go into further detail. This has happened plenty of times already and will happen plenty more, does not hurt my feelings. I also do not trust anons to do this or actually care about the outcome. I’m sorry that I caused you distress with my response to the latter.

[meliissa-art]

Mini comic: Ivan and Lena during the early 17th century

[ID: Blonde man, teenager, with a ponytail with purple eyes and purple scarf. He has an expression of confussion as he thinks, "why does she laugh each time she sees me?". End ID]

[ID: Drawing of an asian child laughing while covering her mouth with her hands. She wears a light blue dress, a silver headpiece, and has dark purple eyes and black hair. The text says "laughs" as a description of what she is doing. End ID]

[ID: The same blonde man from the first drawing seen from a low angle, which is the asian kid's point of view. In this point of view his nose seems so big it covers almost all his face. End ID]

Lena (Yakutia/Sakha) still sees him like this hahahaha

Note: During this time, Russia was still the Tsardom of Russia. I am still learning about russian history. I based Ivan's outfit by a statue of a cossack and the colors the character usually wears in the anime. If it's not historically accurate, I apologize.

[bunnywithablog]

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[armemeblogs]

India: Youre right…

Bangladesh: That’s…that’s an unusual phrase for you. Did you just learn it?

[amber-isnt-a-precious-stone]

[ninarances15]

Please don’t get mad at me, this is just my opinion on the matter.

PLEASE DON’T BASH ANY OF THE PEOPLE OR ARTISTS THAT ARE MENTIONED! PLEASE DON’T! EDIT: I advise people to read the notes on this post. The people who commented on the notes make valid points. I also would like to add, I apologise for the many people I have offended, I didn’t do research that much, before making this post. You can color the characters in any way you want. Just don’t go up to certain people in real life and tell them what they should or shouldn’t be, because they don’t fit your image of them. Again, I am so very extremely sorry to anyone who was offended by this. For a lot of Fanders, I know many of you have seen the “Flirting With Social Anxiety” video from Sanders Asides. And therefore, be very familiar with who Nico Flores is, and that he is definitely a Latino. And there are many people who are saying that whenever someone wants to draw Nico, they shouldn’t give him white skin, since he’s Latino, and that would be considered white-washing or racist. I get it, we all want diversity, because for years, when we study history or consume media, usually we see a lot of white people (or POC people with white skin only or POC people who originally don’t have white skin, but have been whitewashed). But nowadays, people are being more open and encouraging for diverse representation, when it comes to those who are POC.  But here’s the thing, I wanted to say something. Having the “This person is a Latino, so drawing them with white skin is bad, while drawing them with a dark or tanned skin is right” isn’t really good. Because there are Latin Americans who have white skin. Heck, even Nico’s voice actor is a Latino (from what I’ve read), but is very white passing. Because of this, I think the animators made a clever idea to not add colour to the FWSA video. But just because you see a Latin American with white skin, that really shouldn’t make them any less of a Latin American. (Heck, I’m Filipino, but I don’t have tanned or dark skin like how people would expect. But I am white passing, but that doesn’t make me any less of a Filipino. Not all Filipinos have dark or tanned skin, some are white passing. Some actually WANTED to have white skin, because we have our own issues about colourism.)  I also feel like this would be a good time to talk about Hetalia😅. I found this deviantart post: https://www.deviantart.com/hachijinkx/art/No-need-for-the-Whitewash-Deen-316599809 that has a fanart of Seychelles. In Hetalia, in the previous seasons, Seychelles has been portrayed as having white skin, despite being the personification of an East African country, which would mean she should be black. And the artist mentioned how Turkey, Romano (South Italy), Spain, Greece, and etc. are whitewashed in previous seasons. But people in the comments mentioned how countries like Greece, Spain, South Italy, Turkey, and Seychelles isn’t whitewashed. Because Turkey, South Italy, Greece, and Spain are Western countries, so it would make sense to make them white. Also, I used to attend Spanish class, and my teacher would show me and my classmates videos of Spaniards speaking in Spanish to teach people, and majority of them are white. Yeah, there are some Turks, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, that are a bit tanned, but majority are white. Whereas for Seychelles, there are some African countries who have white-skinned Africans, or those with European ancestry. And most of those people come from South Africa (I’m only familiar with two people, Troye Sivan and Luke Alexander: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyUgwOjD7ju4MbmTACYWCRg, both South African, but have white skin, but they moved to Australia). So it’s ok to make Seychelles white, because African countries are diverse, and not all Africans are black. At least, that’s what I’ve read. And this Hetalia related post that I found: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHebqR5pm7r/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link, also talks about this type of thing. How the fandom makes the skin of Western countries like Italy and Spain a lot darker, while make Asian countries like Japan a lot whiter than Westerns. It’s ok to make fanart where some Western countries are just a bit tanned, but not to the point where you will make them very dark. Because it’s unfair to make Western countries have darker skin, instead of POC countries, and it rubs off the wrong way. But it’s Hetalia, it’s filled with stereotypes, so I won’t really be surprised, if the country has the wrong skin colour, accent, or human name. Overall, I don’t think it’s wrong to draw Nico Flores from Sanders Asides with a tanned or pale skin, since he’s Latino. And people do it out of diversity, and show that not everyone is white (or for artistic purposes or to show that not all Latinos are tanned), and I encourage that! But it’s not right to say “he’s Latino, so people should NEVER draw him white”, since there are some Latinos who are white passing. But if someone draws Nico with white skin (so far, no one has done that), please don’t bash them. As for the Hetalia one, I feel like it’s best to do research when coloring your fanart. Since Hetalia has a bunch of stereotypes, and that the countries in the anime represent the entire people of a certain country.  I just want to be honest, I’m very scared someone might come at me when I mentioned the thing about Seychelles. And that coloring her white is fine, since not all Africans are black, and that is supposed to be justifiable. But there has been a long history of whitewashing, so people probably won’t be fine about Seychelles being white, and I understand that. Because again, there has been a long history of whitewashing and the mindset that everyone should be white.  In general, just keep in mind that groups of people are different. Not everyone is white, not everyone is dark, and all that jazz. And it isn’t right to tell a certain group of people what they should or shouldn’t be, because you have a one-dimensional view towards them. Like for example, you can’t come up to me and say I’m not Filipino because I have white skin. I still very much am. (I also feel like people would justify whitewashing POC characters with all of the things I have mentioned above. And say stuff like “This is a fictional character! It’s fine to change their race!” To be honest, trying to be in an argument like that will just give me a headache, and it might just lower my IQ.) I want to hear other people’s thoughts about it.