[ SECRET POST #4243 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4243 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Are there other fandoms besides HP where people racebend characters? None of my fandoms do this.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a pretty big thing in the Homestuck fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Do the trolls even have a race?

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, it's more like no races are 'confirmed' so fans tend to draw all the kids and human-versions of the trolls as whatever race they want. So, Dave may be a white guy, or maybe he's Chinese who knows.

[(Anonymous)]

X-Men. Magneto is often drawn very, very dark skinned.

[(Anonymous)]

that's, uhhhhh. hmmmm. that seems not great.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? Has his ethnic group been retconned again in canon? I have no idea whether he's supposed to be jewish or romani at the moment.

[(Anonymous)]

Was he ever Romani? I thought just his kids were on their mothers side

[(Anonymous)]

He was very briefly said to be Romani in the early 90s but that was retconned. He's explicitly and canonically Jewish. But for some reason this makes people draw him with very dark skin which is just gross in its implications.

[junee]

I don't think it happens much anymore, but around the time the Avengers first came out I would occasionally see someone draw Bruce Banner with skin noticeably darker than Mark Ruffalo's.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much every fandom that is popular on tumblr will have characters get drawn as a different race, trans, with freckles, and fat or all at the same time.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I didn't cackle at this, but I did. It's very much a popular tumblr style.

[(Anonymous)]

Les mis does a lot. It’s more common in book fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

I get it for just about every character in LesMis because France did have her fair share of POC except they do this to Enjolras a lot as well and. No. Just no.

[(Anonymous)]

People love doing this with anime characters who are clearly Japanese, because if they're not dark skinned they're not "real" POC.

[(Anonymous)]

I was surprised when I saw people bandying the term 'White Asian' around before I realised I was on tumblr and of course we're doing that.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more common in fandoms where thoughtless authors(1) did not include a main character of color. It's really glaring in Harry Potter, where you have to dig deep to find CoC...I think the Patil twins are the only overt ones, and they are such minor characters.

(1) Look, I love JKR's writing, and she's not a bad person...but she's sucks when it comes to race and always has, like many English people.(2)

(2) I say English in a judging way, because I would understand it more if JKR came from, I dunno, Poland, where basically everybody is white. That's just not true in modern day England.

[(Anonymous)]

You don’t have to dig that deep to find Angelina and Cho.

[osidiano]

Isn't Dean Thomas canonically black? He's played by Alfie Enoch in the movies...

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of the major cities it actually is true that most people are white. I never saw a black person until I went to University.