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Austin Friars
@AustinFriars_
Writer. History nerd. Historical fiction. Adult (sometimes dark) Queer Romances. CEO of tudor/medieval catholic priests and their protestant husbands. 28 . 🍉
Wriothesely's cheetah furcoat
Joined August 2024
- On Black History month, it's important to explain the context of this post rather than make it some *aesthetic*. This quote references Black people stolen from Africa, who rather than accept a life of enslavement, jumped to their deaths off of the slave ships.
- So this is a prime example of how not to handle or write Black characters, especially Black women, especially when you are writing them in relationships. And it shows how it can be harmful when non-balck people write black women. I absolutely hate seeing people get the privilege+Replying to @zanavaneAs it was meant to be... But in case there is any question, I did write all of these things, with specific intent.
- Replying to @ClubConcraveHe is vocally against trump and vance. i never expected the new pope to be perfect but queer catholics have every right to be upset and hurt. but i hope for the best.
- Replying to @AustinFriars_of writing/creating Black female characters, but then admitting with their chest that they make their relationships boring, that they make it so that the fans and viewers view their romantic relationships as boring. In general, Black women in media are hardly portrayed
- Replying to @AustinFriars_in positive, loving relationships. In animation it is even more rare. That's because of harmful tropes like the 'strong black woman trope' where Black women are often times viewed as unlovable, or not worth a relationship. This bleeds into how Black women are viewed in real life-
- Replying to @AustinFriars_writers have said, Mel is supposed to be a 'place holder' for Vitkor. I need you to think for two seconds, how harmful it is to make a Black woman disposable, and less interesting than a white man. I really detest how white and nonblack writers have the opportunity
- Replying to @AustinFriars_as undesirable. But in situations like Arcane, this falls into something called the 'disposable black gf trope', a trope that like it is titled, treats Black women as disposable, or place holders in relationships for other people. As we know by what the fandom and the
- Replying to @AustinFriars_to write Black female characters, but just resort to racism and racist tropes. The animators themselves have also said some very weird, racist, and dismissive things toward Mel as well. This is why I'm always iffy of people who aren't black women writing, creating and handling
- Replying to @AustinFriars_Black women, because you guys mistreat them and write them like this. So many Black people could've had the privilege and chance to write and handle a character like Mel. I know you aren't going to care, but whatever. And I know to a lot of people she is just a character
- The genre is misleading. This is both horror and erotica - erotic horror. When the author markets this as dark romance, people expect a dark romance. Not horror erotica. I think that if they just marked it properly, people wouldn't be scratching their heads confused.
- Replying to @lisasxlibraryI do hope that this is written to show how harmful he is to her. this sounds so fetishizing of black women.
- Replying to @AustinFriars_but there is an ongoing issue of Black female characters being poorly written, disposed of and mistreated by both nonblack creators and the fan base, and that saddens me. Some people just like creating/writing black characters so they can *check off* representation
