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Every single person of color I’ve spoken to: yeah, my heritage has really affected me as a person in a billion different ways. White queers in my comments for some reason: yeah but do you HAAAVE to keep bringing up the fact this character is Indian? 😥
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Anonymous 4w

Like it makes me so mad. Yes, a desi lesbian probably always has to think about racism. She’s probably very tired of it too!! Idk I feel like as white fic authors we need to be doing better idk.

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Anonymous 4w

yeah it’s bizarre to me when people want to ignore a huge part of a character’s identity. personally i loveee when authors put in little details surrounding woc characters bc i feel very underrepresented in fics

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Anonymous 4w

Oh absolutely! I’m working on expanding my characters and practice writing characters of different backgrounds. But when I’ve read fics like that (to understand better) the comments are always so hostile. And also when making characters different religions when it was never stated is a problem??? But making them queer is just fine?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

completely off topic but OMG IM WRITING A NOVEL ABOUT A DESI LESBIAN and as a desi queer myself thank you for faithfully writing characters of color 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

THIS!! So we can hc them as gay but making them any religion ever isn’t allowed??ESPECIALLY IF IT’S NON-CHRISTIAN OMG.

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