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Clearly a Fangirl

@not-so-secretfangirl / not-so-secretfangirl.tumblr.com

["Love is a luxury." "No, love is an element."] 27. Argentina. Welcome to the shrine of my latest obsessions (and my all-time favorites, too). Sorry for the mess
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lamaery

I've been binge-reading through Skip Beat! again last week and couldn't help but to scribble some of the main protagonists. It is always exciting trying to convert manga characters from a style very different to my own. Especially Ren is just hellishly difficult to get right. argh.

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some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

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