#is it weird i headcanon him as east african and south asian... he just has that east african swag i cant explain it!!!

[almondpiglet]

kabru wips as i figure out how i wanna draw him...

[menalez]

Please lmk your thoughts bc I'm white so not really permitted to have opinions on this probably. Do you get annoyed when canon representation of 1 minority is disregarded as not woke enough so fanartists draw them as another minority -minority to the fan's country, not necessarily the creators country- to "diversify" whatever media they're from? Examples: I just saw someone draw Aang's parents but instead of being asian, the mother is black. No biggie. Headcanons exist. It's just seemed weird to me because mainstream western media already doesnt have a lot of asian characters, so why was it less cool to draw her asian like she is canonically? And then I've seen the same with anime. I saw a popular artist change the races of the cast of Love Live to make some of them not-Japanese because "the cast is too homogeneous", disregarding that japan itself is fairly racially homogeneous. So, while they arent all white as snow, a japanese creator thinking to make half the cast non-Japanese straight up doesnt make sense and isnt problematic of them?? Idk. I see this all the time and it makes me feel for poc who have their representation deemed "not diverse enough" but I'm white so idk if my concerns are accurate or not. Would you feel some type of way if a bahraini character or half arab/half African character was turned asian or indian by fanartists because they didnt think the canon heritage sufficed? Or would you just not care, since its fanart? Even if that headcanon takes over like black Hermione did. I just know as a lesbian I cant stand when half a fandom starts headcanoning canonically les characters as bisexual or asexual because a lesbian character just didnt do it for them. I'm hungry and I'd like to keep my breadcrumbs :/

hmmm yeah i see ur point, i think on one end i get it to a degree with like anime bc it hardly has any brown or black characters but i feel like at the same time anime is hardly representation for any group there is besides japanese ppl, and even then it doesn’t usually represent Japanese people appearance wise. with stuff like aang... i don’t get that personally, i don’t see why they wouldn’t just have him be south east asian (which i assume is close to what he is, that or maybe Mongolian). it’s not like they’re a highly represented group and in fact it’d be good to represent that. in terms of sexuality i do feel more strongly mostly bc when a character is written & presented as a lesbian, it’s gross to me that someone would headcanon her as being opposite sex attracted. it just seems like blatant homophobia to me. in the same way id probably feel quite offended if they took a character of colour and decided to make said character half white or just white for no reason. so for me it kinda depends, with a lot of anime i wouldn’t see the issue with it but with the avatar example u gave, idk... it seems tonedeaf to me