[ SECRET POST #1962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1962 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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03.
[Community]


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04.
[Big Time Rush]


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05.
[Avengers]


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06.
[The Decemberists]


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07.
[Tim Minchin]


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08.
[The Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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09.
[Community]


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10.
[The Hunger Games]


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11.
[Nell: The Day Before]


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12.
[Devil Survivor]


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13.
[Homeland]


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14.
[Pippin]


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15.
[Portal 2 & Left 4 Dead]


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16.
[The Avengers, 30 Rock, Psych]


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17.
[FFX]


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18.
[Mad Men]


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19.
[Legend of Korra]


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20.
[Faust: Love of the Damned]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I'm not in the Korra fandom but I don't see what the big deal is over her skin color. From the official pictures I've seen the only feature that defines her as any ethnicity other than Caucasian is that she has tan skin.

[(Anonymous)]

You must be white.

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao I KNEW someone would say that. Actually my mom is Jamaican mixed with Chinese and my dad is a mulatto, so I pretty much look like the female version of Ne-Yo.

[fauxfaia.livejournal.com]

People still use 'mulatto'?! I thought that went out of use in like, the 90s.

[(Anonymous)]

Then maybe you could explain instead of trying to act superior and condescending.

[(Anonymous)]

Fucking THIS.

[(Anonymous)]

you really think there' nothing wrong with portraying her as white?

[(Anonymous)]

Wait...My skins the same color as hers, and my hair's darker, and I have brown eyes.

So...uh, what ethnicity am I?

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

YOU AREN'T WATER TRIBE AND NEVER WILL BE.

Unless you have some form of aquatelekinesis. Then you have a valid claim

[tylesti.livejournal.com]

i enjoy the fact that she has plausibly fit arms. thank you for not anime-ifying this anime chick's arms, show.

/does not know what show this is and has nothing to contribute

[raichu100.livejournal.com]

I don't think Avatar and Legend of Korra are anime?

But yeah, I definitely am agreeing with you about the arms!

[(Anonymous)]

I see a problem with this.
LoK is an animated show. Korra is CLEARLY not white according to her skin color.
You said, "the only feature that defines her as any ethnicity other than Caucasian is that she has tan skin."

the only feature that defines her as any ethnicity other than Caucasian is that she has tan skin.

the only feature that defines her as any ethnicity other than Caucasian is that she has tan skin.

the only feature that defines her as any ethnicity other than Caucasian is that she has tan skin.


It's that way of thinking that sets PoCs back DAY after DAY. It's that white privilege. You're saying her features are Caucasian by default. Which is wrong in itself. You're basically saying everything you see is white by default. Which is unfortunately the mindset of the world we live in.

[(Anonymous)]

I see above that you said you're not white. Fair enough. It's definitely a side affect of living in a society dominated by white privilege though.

[(Anonymous)]

When whites do it, it's white privilege. When POC do it ... it's because of white privilege.

Mmmyep. I'm out.

[(Anonymous)]

Comment OP

I see your point, but I still get the vibe that she was designed to fit the white cookie cutter mold of attractiveness which is small nose, light eyes, thin lips, straight hair and then they slapped on tan skin to make her exotic.

[insanenoodlyguy.livejournal.com]

Or maybe she was water tribe?

I mean, she was always going to be water tribe. That was set up by canon before Korra herself was ever drawn: next avatar in the cycle would be water.

Her options were Northern, Sothern or Foggy Swamp. Ironically, the latter actually would be more of a caucasion appearance. Though Foggy Swamp is actually supposed to be a distant offshoot of southern.

Lets not think too long or hard about exactly how this



Makes this.



I'm going with "alternate world with spirits" and leaving it there.

[(Anonymous)]

Because all POCs are white people underneath!

[(Anonymous)]

'It's that white privilege. You're saying her features are Caucasian by default.'

She has no traits that define her differently from characters that appear to be white on the same show. Get over it.

[(Anonymous)]

What gets me about the water tribe is they DID look more Inuit originally but they changed them to a more dull design. Where characters like Bolin, Mako, Mai, and Zuko (among others) can almost be placed into a real race based on their design.

Korra, Sokka and Katara are just kinda bluh. Basically the "You see what you want to see" character design.

I mean seriously my mom is darker than them and she has blue eyes and dark hair. Were I a kid I'd think Korra looked like my mom and she's white.

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

Small noses and large eyes are not just Caucasian features. Neither are blue eyes.

Ethiopian model, Liya Kebede


Indian actress/model, aishwarya rai


Chinese model, Sun Feifei


Personally how I imagined a toddler Korra would look like

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the last pic was supposed to be this...

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU! Many POC have these "Caucasian" features.

Ethiopians, Blonde haired black people from the Solomon Islands (and Melanesians), etc.

Concept of races is mostly social construed anyway so IDEK why people put so much importance on it.

[kikkyo.livejournal.com]

Actually, the only thing I can think of that would possibly even define her as Caucasian is the blue eyes, but eye color has a canon explanation if I'm not mistaken.

[avatarmn.livejournal.com]

It continually blows my mind when people think Water Tribe people, from the Arctic or Antarctic where the conditions make exposing skin very dangerous, all have beautiful all-over-body tans. What the actual fuck?

[kiena-tesedale.livejournal.com]

Thiiiiiis. They also spend months of the year completely out of the sun, because there is no sun. They do not magically get white during this time.