Harringrove magazine/actor AU

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

hey tomgreg nation, how do we feel about tomgreg x leyendecker sketches. i feel. feelings.

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Wouldn’t my writing be worse off if I forced in elements like diversity?

If you are asking this question, you have yet to challenge the “default” of your culture’s media. Consider that the majority of modern Western media fill their casts with white men, and when there are women or POC, they stick out conspicuously. Many people view adding diversity as tweaking some white man characters by toggling race or gender. But this assumes that “white man” is some default, standard character template.

If you feel pressured to include diversity in your writing, distance yourself from this pressure and ask yourself why you feel it. If you feel attacked when seeing campaigns for more diversity or criticism of all-white, uninclusive media, sit with the discomfort and ask yourself why those who are different from you say they need diverse media.

These are people whose voices and faces are rarely visible in entertainment. Despite this, they enjoy an adventure as much as anyone, and have become accustomed to projecting onto white characters. Yet, when the reverse is asked of white audiences to acknowledge protagonists of color, it becomes a difficult ask. These character choices are immediately questioned, discredited, fought against, and accused of being “woke” or “unrelatable.”

This resistance reflects a larger issue: the imbalance between audiences’ empathy towards the majority/“default” and empathy towards those perceived as Other.

By mostly reading about white people, they become easier to relate to. By the same token, if we are not reading media and histories from the perspective of POC, we end up with more people who literally fail to relate to POC. When we talk about hope-deficits, increased alienation and lower self-worth among marginalized populations, underrepresentation in media is a big factor. Imagine for a moment: never the beautiful princess in the tower, never the badass hero riding dragons; always the two-second sidekick.

People of color are people and want to be seen and treated as such. Not as a burden to devote your time to, but people who have a place in the world, fictional or no. Really, writing a world in your story that is all or mostly white is more unrealistic, more forced—after all, there are far more non-white people on Earth. Becoming comfortable with diversity requires unlearning White as the Default and POC as the Other. It takes setting aside feelings of pressure to emphasize, open your heart and listen.

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MERIDA+HICCUP || YOUTUBE AU

I really dont care about youtube personalities/stars AT ALL but after seeing the trending video of Liza Koshy breaking up with her boyfriend it inspired THIS

you ever spend super long on something you know no one else will give a shit about???

CREDITS!

this post is nothing without the gifs and try as I may, I’m just not that type of editing gifted. Credit to the original creators:

shoresy scribblin

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literally them tbh

You guys might look at this and think: "DT, do you expect us to read all of this monstrous pile of dialogues?"

Well if you truly love me you would tolerate any of my nonsense 😤 including this very specific conversation of these kids that's been going on in my head since forever

(I'm pretty sure Jocelyn would think Leonardo da Vinci and Leonardo DiCaprio are brothers at some point)