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PoC Character Inspo on Pinterest

In response to this post I did some extra work filling out my character face claim boards on Pinterest and found there actually are a lot of good onsite pics. One just needs to search outside the primarily white & pretty “character inspiration” tag. 

Here are some safe search terms I’ve found useful so far:

poc character inspiration - woc character inspiration - character inspiration black/asian/latina - [insert ethnicity here] character inspiration - mixed race

indian character inspiration - native american character inspiration*

interracial character inspiration - poc couples - blaxican - blasian - 

#b(lack/Asian/white)m(an)a(sian/black/white)w(oman) couples** 

poc lgbt couples - fem black couples - [idk hard to search sfw lqbt pics] 

Cons

Pinterest searches are skewed toward photos of women, and what male photography can be found will generally fall into the “hot” category.

Searching “character inspiration” will always bring back only the most gorgeously Photoshopped human beings. 

Other keywords will likely bring back Instagram pics which aren’t very “story” like— especially if you’re writing a world sans smartphones.

If you search “[any race] girls” Pinterest will automatically show a disclaimer about their policy on nudity. Search for women not girls. 

Hispanic and Latino mean different things which confuses searches, and they apply to a variety of nationalities so be specific. 

Same goes for Asian, pick a nationality or be doomed with the skinny white girl equivalents of East Asia. Ain’t nuthin wrong wit skinny Asian/white girls, they’re just annoyingly prolific online.

BE VERY CAREFUL SEARCHING FOR LGBTQ IMAGERY. I was quick to clear my search history after finding content for this post. 

Hey, if Pinterest writers start tagging PoC inspo pins with relevant terms it will make them easier to find— plus, making your collection searchable may get you more followers. If anyone knows of any additional and exceptionally useful Pinterest keywords, please tell me. I’ll (gladly) test them out and add them to the list. 

Thanks @prideandpen, @lmartinezwrites, @boothewriter, @brynprocrastinates, and @ashleyddddd. I hope you find this useful. 

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*No worries, Pinterest search generally knows the difference between East Indian and American Indian.

**Search for specific interracial pairing i.e. bmaw, amww, ambw etc., but make sure to also type “couples.”

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Couldn’t explain it better!

Why do I write?

People ask me “Why do you write?” and I never have a good answer. I just like doing it . I never even considered myself to be good at it until I started sharing. I’m a shy person so I guess I communicate better by writing. It’s a way to keep a thought going forever, and I think that’s pretty cool. Writing is a form of art and I’m an artist so I feel like it fits my life style. Everything that you do has a subsection. There’s different forms of art and I would like to attempt as many of them as I can. So I guess my answer to the inevitable question “why do you write?” is because I’m an artist and creating is what I do best. 💜

Notice

Hi everyone! As you noticed in my last imagine, I didn’t use Y/N and used the name Melody instead, I am so sorry for the inconvenience as I have been writing my own personal fan fictions and have been using the name Melody in them, so It’s practically a reflex for me to write melody in the imagines, I hope it doesn’t bother and you can just replace Melody with your name, I may also describe how Melody looks like unconsciously as well, so sorry for that. If you’d like yourself in the imagine just replace everything with your name and features.Thanks for understanding, also I have a question to ask. 

Should I just put Melody, or continue to type Y/N?

Memories just flooded back when I heard this

THIS

Reblog if you would be devastated if you found out one of your followers committed suicide.

No seriously guys, comment on peoples fic.

Writers as desperate for comments. Desperate. 

I’m in a writing group with around 40 people and one of the common reasons people don’t post their work is because “no one ever comments on it, so no one is reading it” which blows because their work is amazing and instead it’s sitting in storage.

Comments lead to posting more fic. Trust me. 

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