I've talked about how White artists get a lot more attention for their nonwhite OC's, and White artists get a lot more praise for drawing ""accurate"" depictions of racialized cultures versus people from those cultures accurately depicting themselves, but there's also this phenomenon that I think it stems from where certain artists (a lot of them White, but it's not exclusive to them at all) will go through some effort of research to depict a specific demographic in an art piece, but not out of a real desire to be accurate.

One example frequently is when People just slap tuuniit on the ATLA Water Tribe characters to give off the impression of being "more accurate" but they clearly don't know anything and didn't do enough research outside of copying photos of Inuit from google, because we frequently end up with artists depicting the 14 year old Katara with tattoos that, in Inuit culture, signify she is already married and has multiple children

(Sticking with a Native perspective bc I'm ndn), A lot of the time I truly think there's Artists that care more about looking more "progressive" to other moniyaws by depicting Native aesthetics they don't actually understand or know anything about, because to other people (their audience who is not Native) it looks more "accurate", even when it's not. It's an ignorant artist presenting vague Native aesthetics to an ignorant audience for brownie points, because this brave, white knight artist was so wonderful as to not draw them as an overtly racist caricature (lucky us /s)

Because there's 1 of 2 ways artists will react:

Like these artists aren't doing this out of a desire to be accurate or culturally sensitive, it's out of a desire for praise & brownie points from other moniyaws for having done it.

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It is Kana Watanabe fight week people

I'm the girl in the mall becoming increasingly more gay as this spectacle progresses

Im the kid working the non-stick pan kiosk wishing wlw would find less destructive mating rituals

Tumblr should let us Boop with knives for this upcoming Ides of March celebration

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the lights are too damn loud

Guys someone in my area posts pics of restaurants w their reviews. Relatively normal thing, right? Except every time it's a pic of this dinosaur creature next to their food

I love it

The grim reaper was initially illustrated as doing a mundane, regular job that everyone has seen done - a reaper swings his scythe and the hay falls, just as easy as people fall as death swings. Now many people who have never been to a farm only know the scythe as the weapon of Death personified, and farmers in most places of the world don't even use them anymore.

Imagine Death personified as someone doing a modern regular, mundane job. Imagine thinking "hoo boy, this is it for me. The Grim Bin Man is coming to collect, hauling my sorry soul into the trash compactor of his great eternal garbage truck."

my yesterday's outfit (thinking it's warm enough to wear light clothes) and my today's outfit (at home having a fever)

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Sometimes a family is an eccentric detective, an odd doctor who keeps up with him, an energetic child that bites and pickpockets, and their housekeeper, and I think that’s beautiful