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>>2550066blogposting but as a black woman, representation is nice but at the end of the day it never mattered too much to me. (For ex. I related more to Princess Daisy as a young tomboy than I did any black character on TV.)
That being said, i've never been the kind of person that HAS to see someone that shares the same physical traits as me to know I can do something. But I think that's rare in human beings to not need that kind of external validation.
Most people are visual creatures like that and need to see it, which is why we have this whole dumb topic that's been lasting for years.
No. 2550095
>>2550083I feel you,
nonnie. I'd rather see different kinds of women than the forced diversity we've been getting in the last decade. A tomboy princess would be more awesome. Also, I love princess Daisy's colors. It's interesting because I've grown up in the cosplay scene for the last 20 years now and black women cosplaying has never been an issue, but recently more people are focused hard on it. I just want better written women characters in general.
No. 2550107
>>2550095fr its so weird. I cosplayed as L and another black friend of mines cosplayed as Envy from FMA back then and no one gave a shit that we were
POC or w/e, we all just cared about the source material. I never had that insecurity that I couldn't cosplay as my fave character because we didn't share the same race/gender like I see now in the cosplay community.
This weird hyperfocus on race etc. has actually divided us a lot more imo than unite us.
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thoughts?
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>>2550095>>2550095as a kid I felt more represented/connected to characters that shared my personality traits rather than just looks. probably because I was already surrounded by people who looked like me. relatability is important for kids but it’s not exclusive to just race
>>2550353>>2550181it’s not AI. it’s just the type of generic art that gets fed into AI
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Yes, it's a troon.
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what the fuck is he talking about?
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>>2550066I think representation may be nice for small kids, but honestly, I never cared for that. I usually enjoyed way more the dyanmic of trying to become like the character rather than the character having to be like me.
No. 2550590
>>2550458Funny Cdpr is being considered a woke company only now when they went out of their way to remove a lot of shit from the witcher books, like kek. Geralt wants
adult women. Woke shit probably also includes Geralt not wanting to bang someone he considers his daughter. Witchers are meant to be fucking ugly, if anything Ciri is a witcher supermodel even on a bad day.
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>>2550066Personally, when
I want representation, I just write my own fanfics.
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>>2550651Responding to say this. I view race bending for "representation" the same as when dumb "fans" horribly mischaracterize because "it's my headcanon". If you truly love a character, you wouldn't change them in a way that disrupts the fundamentals of what and "who" that character is meant to be, even down to the design essentials of what makes that character physically themselves. If you "need" to redraw a character as a different race than what they are, or if you "need" to rewrite them in a way that's objectively stupid compared to what the source material is actually telling you just so you can "digest" and like the character, you're not a real fan. You're just in the fandom to fuck around. It is for that train of logic that I also personally believe that 99% of coomer artists are not real fans of the movies, shows, books, comics, and games they make porn of. When 90+% of them cannot even get the physique of the character accurate to what they're meant to appear as, I'm going to have a difficult time believing that they truly have respect for the media itself.
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>>2550003>(…) children or troons arguing on Xitterthat's all this general is kek that might as well be the only box (and yet I keep coming back)
it also hurts seeing danganronpa and homestuck in the same box, even if i get why
>>2550153>>2550418I have zero sympathy at this point, twittards are so used to being feared and coddled they thought everyone else would keep their heads down and do as they say forever
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Can we include parasocial celebs in the fandomsperg thread? I think Jelena shippers are a good example but Royalfans are literally group psychosis. It's been a decade and they're still saying Meghan seduced their precious Harry. The current tinfoil is Meghan faking all her pregnancies kek
No. 2552013
>>2551962This reply seems ai generated hmm
>>2552010These cretins have nothing to dianafags