#whitepass

[thesitharts]

Going absolutely insane watching people completely miss the commentary about colorism Wicked is trying to make in making Elphaba and Nessa black women PLEEEAAAAAASSE

[squishosaur]

guess who was given free reign with tattoo markers...

[corythesaxon]

It’s sad how some of the most shitty people can be other Indigenous people.

Like there’s a reason mixed and biracial people feel the need to identify with one ethnic group or race instead of happily being what they are.

I’m whitepassing and I’m half white.

I am not white. I am not Indigenous. I am both.

We are both and should be happy with identifying as such. We don’t need more hatred within a already marginalized community.

We shouldn’t call that bullying pride.

The person who was being a ᏏᏆ was Apache but felt the need to attack me for having skin that was light. Yet his skin looked just like mine and he had a beard of brown graying hair.

[puppyhigh]

Really Funny thing happened to me once where i was meeting a new online therapist + didnt want to use my birth name so i typed in "lili" but was too nervous to say it out loud so i straight up never said any "hi my name is [blank]" statement. a couple sessions in, this white woman is referring to me as Lee Lee (<= for context i am. somewhat visibly asian)

[jingledbells]

when I was a little girl people would see my mom picking me up from school and thinking she was the babysitter because we looked so different. but now when people see us together people can tell we’re related because honestly we don’t look that different I just look like a whitewashed version of her who’s slightly taller

[kumokumotenshi]

Would you draw the witch Bloody Mary!!>.<

I love her SO much oml thank you for requesting! I was in a huge mood to draw blood lately.

[bmpmp3]

ive mentioned before how ive always thought it was a little bizarre that so many white people's first assumption when they see a white-looking person with a culturally unexpected surname is "oh they're adopted" despite how much more common a person being multiracial is compared to being the white adopted child of non-white parents - although of course it does happen, its just yknow. the people saying this are usually not thinking about the racial dynamics in the adoption industry so much as they are just assuming mixed race people don't exist LOL

but on that end, in my own mixed race bias I usually assume multiracialness first so i did completely forget about another decently common situation where a white-looking adult (often a woman) might have a last name from a non-white culture: i forgot that um. sometimes people (particularly women) change their last names when they get married? neither my mom nor any of my aunties did so you have to forgive me orz

[solitaireships]

Hi, Shepherd! I got your ask, but won't be able to answer it for a while since I leave for work soon ... I still wanted to return the favor, though!

I know Chae-Yeong is one of your OC f/os, so I wanted to ask about your ship with her! How did her and Helena meet, and how quickly did they fall for each other? Also, I'd love to hear more about Chae-Yeong, in general! I'm a big fan of OCs of all kinds, and want to give you a chance to talk more about her!

~ 🪻

Hi Sarah! And no worries, this took a while to respond to for me bcs I’m at work too lol

But thank you, I love talking about Chae-Yeong so much! So the thing with her is originally I made her for an OC focused rw/by fic I was working on set in Atlas, and I wanted to flesh out that world a little more and some characters there. Mainly James bcs I’m also so in love with him and wanted to give him some more background. Initially she and him were just going to be friends, but over time I was like wait. Romance. And I’ll be honest, she was a little bit of a self insert at that point and when she became a part of the TTRPG storyline I ran in college

But so with rw/by, they’re based on fairy tales, legends, etc. And the big inspirations for Chae-Yeong are the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Paper Ballerina from the fairy tale of the Steadfast Tin Soldier. I do also joke she’s based on Batman and the myth of the ethical billionaire lol

bcs Chae-Yeong’s from a wealthy family, but she’s a bastard in the traditional sense of the world. Her mother had an affair with a family doctor who was a Faunus (basically rw/by minority race that has an animal trait of some kind). She has snake fangs that are retractable, so she’s able to pass as human, and she was basically forced to growing up by her father bcs of the stigma that’d give their family by making it very obvious she was the product of an affair. She grew up doing ballet tho, and ended up going to school to become a Huntress (specialized monster hunter) which is where she met James, they were made partners and put on a team together. Shortly after graduating tho, she was forced to quit being a Huntress by her dad and take over the company after her older brother unexpectedly passed away

Anyway, after that she used her position as an opportunity to try to help uplift people below her. She fights for reforms, pours as much money as she can into community stuff, makes sure her company has a program to help people in need get as much support as possible. But an assortment of different personal losses combined with a lot of anger boiling under the surface and no outlet to get that out with led to her deciding to become a vigilante known as the Scarlet Shepherd (which you may notice is where my name is from). That way she’s able to take more direct action against people in power who are easily able to get away with their crimes, and fulfill some of the stuff she trained to do as a Huntress

Anyway, for her and Helena. The two of them met by chance at a coffee shop. Chae-Yeong thought that Helena was pretty and flirted a little before giving her her number. I do think part of it for Chae-Yeong liked that Helena was also a human passing Faunus (Helena’s got rabbit ears, but they’re lop ones so they mainly blend in with her hair unless you’re really close). It took a while for them to get more serious with each other bcs both of them are very much the type to take their time to get close to someone. I think it was after Chae-Yeong told Helena about her being the Scarlet Shepherd that led to them completely falling for each other

[medusa1597]

because i had surgery when i was a kid you can't tell i have strabismus unless I take my glasses off but sometimes ill see people with strabismus and i kind of have this brotherhood of the strabismus fraternal linger going on...but they don't know im one of them 💔

[evilsanlang]

now if you're whitepassing I won't stop you from wearing box braids but I will judge quite a bit I won't lie

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

tbh the person who said that about ryan didn't deny he was mestizo, she eventually acknowledged that but she still thinks he's a white latino because 'his race is white.' the same person also said that white-passing native americans are white, not 'white passing' so i was just like wow nothing is going to help you.

That's so frustrating!!!! Like ok I get that race is an invented construct and its changing but like wtf is wrong with this person? honestly if they keep doing this lemme know and I'll call them out.

mod ali

[tismworld]

nah cause you're right low-key 💀💀💀💀

kinda fucked up that im not a tv show character or like a 14 year old's oc Because i would've been really really good at that

[bijoumikhawal]

We're having discourse about what race the new catholic pope is I guess

[cowchickenbeefpork]

btw. Any edlee/nygmakins post I make on this site or fanfic you must interpret it as this. Get my neurosis. Now

[corythesaxon]

I hate being whitepassing.

Got another “you look pretty white to me” comment when I brought up how Indigenous people died due to whites entering their land and bringing disease.

[techno-rat]

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