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Writing With Color – General Topics

A collection of WWC posts that deal with more general writing advice, character creation and diversity topics applicable to most marginalized people, particularly People of Color and some ethnic and religious groups.

Writing Characters of Color: The Generals

On “Overthinking” Writing Characters of Color

On White Authors “Getting it Right”

On White Writers Writing Characters of Color (I, II, III)

Researching PoC + Supporting Writers of Color 

So You Want To Save The World From Bad Representation

Writing POC with Little Experience

Writing Authentically From Your Own Experiences

Useful Non-WWC Posts

Diversity Exists in the Real World by shiraglassman

How to Write WOC and MOC if you are White by kaylapocalypse

“I feel pressured to be inclusive in my writing!” by nimblesnotebook 

On White Fear & Creating Diverse Transformative Works by saathi1013

Diversity/Representation Topics

Diversity vs. Exploiting Cultures

Diversifying a Predominately-White Cast

On “Diversity Quotas”

On Excluding Diversity Out of Fear

Different Heritage POV’s in a Story

Including Realistic Diversity Naturally

“Normalizing” Protagonists of Color

Villains of Color

White-Dominant Rural Areas and Diversity

White Privilege, Publishing, and Diversity Quotas

Writing: Making Efforts in Diversity 

Character Creation

Character Creation: Culture or Character first?

Character Design and Assigning Race and Ethnicity

Characters’ Races Added Last During Development 

Determining your Characters’ Race and/or Ethnicity

More on Assigning Race after Writing

Characters of Color & Culture

A Discussion on Culture and Erasure

“Culturing” Culturally-disengaged PoC

Characters of Color with “No Culture”

Mixed Race + Disconnect from Culture

Stereotyped vs Nuanced & Audience Perception

Tradition and Culture vs. Stereotype

Western Neutral Characters

‘Whitewashed’ Character of Color?

Fantasy & Coding

Defining Coding (& Islam-coded Fantasy)

Denoting Race in Fantasy Setting

Fantasy Races Based off of People of Color

Naming People and Places, Avoiding Explicit Coding

Racially-coding Aliens

Real Religions in a Fantasy World

Religion in Fiction & Fantasy

South Asian-Coded Fantasy Caste System

Whitewashing in a Fantasy Setting

Including Racism in Fantasy

World-building: A Fantasy World without Racism

Writing Sensitive and Controversial Topics

Do I Need Permission to Write About Marginalized People?

Writing a Genocide to which you have No Personal Connection

On Outsider-Written Stories About Issues Of Another Group

Outsider-Written Stories, Issues of other Groups, Speculative Situation

Writing about Prejudice between People of Color

Reclaiming negative, dehumanizing stereotypes outside the group

Representing yourself when “yourself” isn’t white

Racism and Micro-Aggressions 

Everyday Racism, Friendship and White Allies

Incorporating Micro-Aggressions in Writing

Racist Characters + Including Racism in Stories Not “About” Racism

The Pitfalls of Racist Character Redemption Arcs

PoC Educating White Privileged Friend (Context: Black Characters)

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Also finish Sea of Stars today and I can not think of a better description than that

the ideal friend group:

history nerd

autistic dude with a pet salamander

jesus figure warrior-cook

cyborg pirate assassin

immortal alchemist who still has a thing for his shitty ex-boyfriend

solar deity

lunar deity

bardcore band

shapeshifting sentient glass container

and last but not least, the souls of five child geniuses piloting a mecha

Ngl, this has this has great potential for fanfics or comics is so in character with John 🔛🔝

Boring John Ward Headcanons

So like i watched the wendigoon video and cant play the game til it comes out on xbox and only retained half the info so yeah

-I just think John is like..a nice dude idk. A real door holder. Lets pretend he didn't experience The Horrors for these ones cause I like my guys to experience joy

-NOT a horror movie guy, probably thinks they're wrong or something. Not necessarily because of his religion but because Why Do You Want To Watch Murder. Can be convinced to watch them. Also they terrify him so there's that.

-Most things scare him. Lil wet cat. Lil wet scaredy cat. Clowns yes but also like I said, most horror movie. Jumpscares. People surprising him.

-He likes nice surprises though

-I know. I KNOW I just like said he was kinda jumpy and this is SUCH a stereotype but lets talk fashion. Sweaters, sweater vests, button ups. Mostly black button ups, sweater vests tend to be dark blue.

-Sweaters that he wears are not for that soft boy aesthetic nor are thick and cozy. They come in all sorts of colors most notably cream, dark blue, navy, occasionally black, forest green, and dark red. black usually comes with turtle necks on those days.

-Bisexual, canon I know. I don't think he really has a preference but I think he doesn't really have a type. Don't be cruel, maybe. People are constantly surprised with who he's with.

-Never wears shorts, shoes are always formal, always has a gold cross necklace, very semi formal-someday I'll do some drawings.

-His hair has literally never changed ever.

-I don't think he swears a lot. He doesn't say 'heck' or anything fun. He just doesn't swear. On occasion yes, but he's polite about it. "Fuck," he says, distressed, "Sorry for the language, but I just don't know what to do right now." You get it

-when he gets nervous, flustered, embarrassed etc he doesn't use contractions. He's all "should not" "would not" "do not" "will not" no won'ts, don'ts, or can'ts here.

Yeah these are probably out of character but i'm just making him up at this point.

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Hi, hello, what is perspective?

Hi! I want to draw people with a lot of emotion captured, but I don't really know how to do it so that the viewer feels something. I want to show more emotion, I guess? (This was really unclear, I know :0) Thank you so much!

What a great question, @everchangingotps​!

I think studying anatomy helps a lot. Facial muscles are a bit complex, and they move in different ways to make the frowns and smiles happen!

Here’s a few great resources I found:

Human Anatomy Fundamentals, Mastering facial Expressions - super comprehensive. Definitely worth the read!

Muscles of Facial Expression - Anatomyzone

Drawing facial expressions  - Xia Taptara on Youtube 

Folder of Facial Expression Tutorials!  Super useful

Expression tutorial by shingworks - cartoon style 

If you liked this post, please consider reblogging this post so more artists can see it! 

Also it would mean the world to me if you checked out my art at @astrikos! 

Thank you for your continued support! 

Just making sure that you haven't DISSAPEARED. hello feather

i should rlly be posting stuff huh hellooo im fixating on faith right now smile (i need this man to a deeply concerning level thatll be all goodbye

Same, Forky, same.

I can’t believe he’s finally coming to the anime. Happy for him!