[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. A lot of what the media tells you in a non-explicit way is that white is the default norm. It's neutral, so everyone can identify with it... and to a certain extent, that was very true for me. I grew up surrounded by mostly white people and when I started writing, most of my characters were white, too. I felt nervous writing about someone like me because it felt (and still feels too autobiographical, as though people are going to be scrutinizing that character more closely than the others, checking to see if it's an author insert.

To be honest, that makes me feel so twitchy I haven't shared much of my writing that contains POC characters with anyone. It's not just white people who worry about messing them up, after all. And If I mess up a POC character who looks like me, I feel like it's going to look really, really bad and people will question how I can screw that up.

[darkmanifest]

It's not just white people who worry about messing them up, after all. And If I mess up a POC character who looks like me, I feel like it's going to look really, really bad and people will question how I can screw that up.

Seriously, I worry about this all time, to the point where the voices of characters like me, or like people I actually grew up with, feel more unnatural compared to the voices of those I have no personal experiences of. Like I'm faking it or something, even though I lived it (to a certain extent, last I checked I didn't have magical powers). It's very weird.