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I debated about posting about this, because it’s a subtle and difficult issue, and I don’t want to tell the Raven Cycle fandom how to live their lives. I don’t want to hamper creativity or enthusiasm.

But.  

If you are going to racebend Ronan Lynch — aggressive, petulant, thuggish Ronan Lynch — as a POC, please, please, please consider racebending the rest of the characters as well. There are two big reasons for this:

1) When only Ronan is made into a POC, not Noah or Blue or Gansey or Adam, it begs the question: why is the fandom seeing him, and only him, as a POC? It just comes with a subtle suitcase full of stereotypes and questions, and I don’t know — it makes me uncomfortable to see only tough-guy Ronan racebent. 

However, I wouldn’t have posted merely for that. Also important is 

2) The books are shamefully white-washed; I’ve posted about how my next project is going to be better but there is no point sugar-coating the present. When the fandom continually racebends Ronan and only Ronan, you’re giving me credit for representation that isn’t there; people coming from the outside believe that POC Ronan is canon. 

Please: Point out that the books are white. Keep holding me to better writing. Racebend the characters. But please, racebend all of them, not just the punk-ass kid who gets into fights.  

me: the film industry has become so saturated with males in positions of power that the perspectives of actual women cannot be shown on screen, and they cannot tell their own stories because they are systemically barred from doing so by being denied money or directorships. even those that can overcome these obstacles have to answer to conventions put in place by male filmmakers and if they try to break those conventions they are criticized for it. women have been directing movies since their inception, and in fact the first person to use film as a medium for fictional narrative was a woman but their work is never recognized or celebrated on the same level as that of men. women are erased, silenced, and abused by the industry and deserve to be treated better. all of this is multiplied in effect for women of color and non-cis people

crusty user on tungle: just pick up a camera and make a movie u dumb bitches and stop complaining

can i just point out that i love ronan lynch. i love ronan lynch so much. i love him. ronan lynch. so much.

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beauty and the beast was not meant 2 be a live action movie………..at least when it’s animated there is some natural suspension of belief but now. you are forced 2 confront the fact that a real human woman is falling in love with a lion/buffalo and just live with that discomfort for 2 hours and 10 minutes

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