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Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:06:57 +0000

I can’t, I’m so obsessed with Conan Gray rn…

Is it concerning that I’ve listened to Never Ending Song like 20 times today

Diversity? She prolly never heard of it-

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:35:28 +0000

BEFORE YOU READ: If you're a fan of Kotlc and are a huge stan of it, and may be offended, click off this post.

So, I was thinking about reading Keepers of the Lost City but I thought, hmm... Idk because everyone seems exactly the same: white, tall, skinny, straight, cis ''perfect" people. A few days ago, I was video calling Athena and she said when I finish Uncle Rick's books (bless that man and his BOOTIFUL creations UwU) I could read Kotlc. So I told her my complaint. I know that race and stuff is a minor aspect of books, they can be the most awesome, pinnacle of amazing books that only have white people, but as a not perfect, not super skinny, Latina girl, this is important to me. I Googled exactly this: "why is everyone in keepers of the lost city white" lol.

Anyway, I found a Fandom article about it. I was pretty shocked to see all these other reasons why they books are crazy... uhm, undiverse? No that's not a word TwT

First issue: The Song kids. They were just called "east Asian" and didn't actually specify where they were from. Their names are a random mix of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese names. If you're gonna add a character from a different culture, research it. That's what I'm doing with Skye Jeong from Wildest Dreams. (a new character who's POV is first in the forth or third chapter) She's Korean, and instead of choosing the randomest asian surnames I could think of, I googled common Korean last names. Their eyes are super light.. Blue? "Probably the lightest out of the whole series," is what the post said. Not a lot of colored people have light eyes. Not saying its impossible, but it's rare. And everyone has blue eyes. The Asian siblings act like their straight outta an anime or K-Pop group-

The sister is a stereotypical UwU Asian girl who's all KAWAAAAAAAAIIII!!!!!!!!! LIKE BREH. The brother is the cool guy with colored hair. I don't know a lot of Asians but that's just rude. One of the Asians I knew was crazy dead-pan and kinda annoying. The other was super cool and nice. Also, I didn't mention their house. It looks like a Chinese temple, which is supposedly a beach house. WHO THE LITERAL !#@$ LIVES IN A TEMPLE SOLELY BECAUSE THEY'RE ASIAAAAAAAAAAAN (no offense to the people who do)

Second issue: The gnomes??? I mean, they're basically slaves? And the worst part is, the author Shannon something or other described their skin as DIRT COLORED. And they all have blue eyes and work hard for the perfect, more beautiful elves. Without getting paid. WILLLINGLY WORKING FOR FREE. This is disturbingly similar to black people who were forced to be slaves. BRO! That struck me as incredibly racist. I heard one of the gnome girls had brown eyes and was ridiculed for it. STOP IT JUST SHOOT ME NO-

Third issue: THE FREAKING ELVES!!

All of them are perfect beings who are the most drop dead gorgeous, skinny, blonde hair and blue eyes donning perfect, perfect, perfect species. I also read that Sophie the main character has a sister, Amy and she was a little chubby, Sophie went years without seeing her and the first thing she noticed was that her sister was thin now. It's like Shannon something or other can't have a slightly heavy-set main character?? So, no "hi", no "I missed you," just "Oh. You lost weight." GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- I don't call "making poor gnomes bust their butts working for you all day without even paying them" perfect. AT ALL. So these elves are the pinnacle of beauty. These are beauty standards. I have darker skin, almost black hair and dark brown eyes. I'm not anorexically skinny. I have dry skin. I have a few moles. I have to wear glasses. Does that make me an ugly ahh girl? Imo, no, I think I'm pretty. (not trying to sound braggy I'm just confident-)

Forth issue: NO. LGBTQ. REPRESENTATION. This is the breaking point for me. EVERYONE IS STRAIGHT. EVERYONE IS CISGENDER. Not that it matters, but why can't Shannon something or other just add a gay side character? An agender background character? WHYYYYYYYYYYY NOOOOOOT.

Fifth issue. Half of the colored people are either bad guys, or the author randomly gets rid of them after a few books. Without explanation.

Thanks for listening to my rant, guys :)

Again, no offence to the people who read and enjoy these books! They sound really cool, I just have about.. *counts* 1,982,345,671 complaints about them-

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