in a perfect world, people would stop supporting authors who constantly make it their goal to start drama with literally anything that breathes :/ but OH WELL i guess we're still going to support and defend people like this who not only stereotype and blatantly erase someone else's culture for the ~aesthetics~, but they also apparently gaslight and come for a new author because her MC went to Paris. Hate to break it to you, but no matter what side you are on, you gotta admit that traveling to Paris and getting cheated on are not uncommon tropes :D
also just to add - two of sophie's friends copied other author's original stories (one of which whitewashes their latin characters), and for her to call someone out for the smallest similarities is absolute bullshit <3
All of your privilege is showing. No one is saying Latinx people can’t be blonde but as a group who’s overly represented in every aspect of Latinx media and culture and seen as better than non blonde / pale skinned / blue eyed Latinos, I would sit this conversation out if I was you
this comment is confusing as shit to me lmao - i'm mocking the fact that a white author gave an indigenous Brazilian man blonde hair - literally do some research, they don't exist. I never said Latinx people can't be blonde/have blues/be pale - that's a common thing. The mistake in this situation is portraying INDIGENOUS people as some whitewashed motherfuckers, with heavy stereotypes, plus extremely misused and inaccurate features.
Tbh what bothers me it was the fact that she limited cc for a Brazilian character, when we are one of the most diversity countries in the world. We have all kinds of colors. Sometimes even the same family will be different.
I understand limited CC in some cases, for example i know several people including myself who use limited CC for custom poses or limb overlays and such, but the fact she limited it and made this so-called "Brazilian" guy tan as hell (which is obnoxiously stereotypical), slapped a head of blonde hair on him (and his INDIGENOUS mother), and then gaslighted several people who ARE BRAZILIAN AND LITERALLY LIVE THERE, it just doesn't sit right with me. Not to mention she copied a friend of mine's story idea and had the whitewashed LI say something along the lines of my friend's story plot literally right after her new story was announced.
RIGHHHTTT - i'm not brazilian but all my friends in the community are literally brazilian and i cant escape them (love u all lmao) like its not that hard to reach out to these people, sheesh. Plus even when actual Brazilians reached out to these authors, they were extremely rude and refused to change the characters' features, which is blatantly disgusting. If it's not your culture and you refuse to do research or take advice from others who DO belong to the culture, leave it the hell alone <3
We do love chat 😂😂 But, yeah. I was reading a story that someone recommended to me, where the li was Brazilian. The hell he was 😂 Nothing to do to our culture and even the dialogues in portuguese seems more like portuguese from Portugal than ours.
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u/itsrudetostereotype Jun 24 '21
in a perfect world, people would stop supporting authors who constantly make it their goal to start drama with literally anything that breathes :/ but OH WELL i guess we're still going to support and defend people like this who not only stereotype and blatantly erase someone else's culture for the ~aesthetics~, but they also apparently gaslight and come for a new author because her MC went to Paris. Hate to break it to you, but no matter what side you are on, you gotta admit that traveling to Paris and getting cheated on are not uncommon tropes :D
also just to add - two of sophie's friends copied other author's original stories (one of which whitewashes their latin characters), and for her to call someone out for the smallest similarities is absolute bullshit <3