#this was all lowkey a massive self hate campaign

[riarevenge]

Stupid question from a dumb American. In England is it a thing where white girls who have some questionably dark tans use POC emojis? I feel like I’ve seen that a lot recently from English white girls I’ve run across on Insta. (Also this is not me saying white girls in America aren’t ignorant. Just that the two groups seem to do ignorant differently)

yeah, i see it quite a bit. and really, not to rant, but i just think it’s a marker of other behaviours for most of em. people are shocked jesy nelson still has supporters but it doesn’t shock me, she got away with this for YEARS when poc were the only ones talking about it because it sparks a conversation i think many girls, especially british ones, find uncomfortable. the fact is, it feels like the majority of white girls here tan and/or get lip fillers. and that in itself isn’t an issue, but a very large portion of these girls do this to the point of looking almost racially ambiguous. and for a lot, they’re tanning very dark, to the point it’s problematic, and getting lip fillers but it doesn’t hide the fact it’s clearly a white woman. and i think these girls keep quiet during conversations about jesy nelson, or defend her, because it’s easier to do that than have to examine your own behaviours and inspect if you also are a culprit of stn like this. it’s to the point where a lot of woc are being accused of black/brownfishing themselves, like jade thirwall! because people can’t even tell who’s white half the time here. i have olive skin, (my fam calls my natural skin colour light caramel but i hate the food reference😭), but because i live in a fucking cold country, have severe anemia/vitamin deficiencies and an ED, im a lot paler than usual at the minute and yet, for the most part, people can tell i am not white by my features. these girls that overly tan, a lot of them you can tell, but some get so many fillers and work done that you can’t even discern who is under all of that work. and let me be clear, i don’t care at all about people tanning, getting surgery or cosmetic procedures done but i do care when it makes woc have to constantly explain ethnicities and backgrounds bc nobody can tell who’s white anymore! it’s frustrating because they get to look how they want to look without facing what woc have to because of looking that way. nobody is racially abusing lydia smith from edinburgh because no matter how hard she tries, she’s a white woman! she can still make herself look racially ambigous and not receive the abuse woc get. and like under all that tan, you’re still 👱🏼‍♀️ this! i don’t care if you make it the slightly tanner emoji, the older members of my fam use 👩🏽‍🦱 for all the girls in our family bc they deem it the most similar even if certain ones of us don’t use it ourselves, i have poc friends who use a shade lighter or darker depending on hair colour. but when emily from newcastle and lydia from edinburgh are using 👱🏿‍♀️ instead of 👱🏻‍♀️. that’s weird.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Story I had for a manga/anime series:

So as sort of an “anti-shonen”/satirical take on the shonen genre, we start off with our shonen MC. Basically, a stand-in for Monkey D. Luffy, Goku, Naruto, Ichigo, Deku, Tanjiro, and so on. We start off at the end of his supposed series with him taking down the final boss (the “Kaguya” of his show). He wins the battle and is later elected leader of his village/nation/country. So...happily ever after?

Nope, that’s just the prologue. We then cut to 10 years later. The country is in disarray with massive civil unrest, scandals from nearly every major leader, and the economy in complete shambles. Our shonen MC, once a highly-respected hero, is now washed up and tired. The only thing he can boast about is his previous successes, which are only the battles he won in his previous series. It turns out, although he was a great leader during wartime, he was absolutely terrible as a peacetime leader. 

That’s when we’re introduced to our real protagonists, our take on the “shonen trio of protagonists”. And each of them are also subverted takes on shonen manga/anime tropes:

1) Our main character is a female politician with dreams of campaigning against the shonen MC. So besides being a female main protagonist in a shonen-themed series, the real MC isn’t a fighter but a strategist. Other than that, they fit the role of the typical shonen MC (innocent, somewhat naive, believes in the power of friendship, wants to overcome despair, etc.) 

2) The “edgy” one (our Sasuke/Hiei/Shadow the Hedgehog) is a jaded police officer who is tired of the original shonen MC’s terrible and corrupt administration. He’s “edgy” only in the sense that he’s become disillusioned by the state of his nation. 

3) The third main character, the “funny” member of the trio, is a washed up former hero. Even though they were a hero in the past, they’re now an alcoholic who jokes about how they used to have the people’s respect. Basically, imagine if Rock Lee from Naruto fell from grace and now just wallows in his own self-pity. 

The focus of the series  is the female MC’s rise to power and her goal of unseating the former shonen MC from his leadership position. The main trio has to deal with various threats to her campaign, such as politicians who are loyal to the former shonen MC, corrupt institutions, criminal organizations who feel threatened by her, and so on. Also, since this is still technically a shonen series, the trio has to go up against larger threats that you would typically see in a shonen (ghost ninjas, alien samurais, soldiers from Heaven, kaijus, take your pick)

Some other subversions: 

1) The shonen trope of reaching a new level of power is no longer seen as a good thing. The civilians no longer care about how high of a power level you can reach. This is to reflect the change in times since the people are now less concerned of large threats coming to destroy the world and are rather more concerned about leaders being capable of running the nation. 

---------lowkey though, imagine if the female MC turned the anti-power level stuff into a campaign talking point? Something like, “While Shonen MC was using his time in office to achieve Ultimate Warrior Form VII, I was using that same time to strengthen our communities, empower the oppressed, and rebuild our nation’s economy.” 

2) Along the lines of the previous point, the female MC doesn’t “level up”. Instead, she beats her opponents by cleverly outwitting/outsmarting them. So in this regard, she’s more like the protagonist in a detective anime. 

3) The protagonists encounter a “loli” who they mistakenly believe is a child. It’s later revealed the loli is a 50-year-old woman who suffers from a birth defect that keeps her looking like a child. In addition, she absolutely despises people who are attracted to her because she looks like a kid. 

4) I imagined that there would be an arc where a major villain has a flashback to their childhood meant to make us sympathize with them. But then, just as we start to like them and want to see their redemption arc, the edgy protagonist shoots them in the head. 

5) The former shonen MC’s “simple-minded”, “goofy”, “naive” personality is now viewed in a deeply negative sense. Although it was cute and charming back during their prime, the people hate it now because it’s indicative of their poor leadership skills. 

6) As kind of a dig at fan service, the female MC regularly has to deal with people wanting to see her naked/lewded. And every time she gets these kinds of requests, she thinks to herself, “Is that really all I’m worth to these people?” Also, she takes the Billie Eilish-approach when presenting herself in the public by making sure her curves are covered by baggy clothes. 

7) As a separate dig at fan service, there’s a recurring character who works as a stripper who is constantly drawn like a typical fan service picture. However, she reveals to the female MC that she deliberately overcharges her customers and that she has nothing but contempt for her “fans”. 

TL;DR - My idea is basically a shonen version of “Watchmen”.