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Seth Fitts

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tearsofthemushroom asked:

i'm writing a fantasy story in a trad pseudo-medieval-europe setting and i have three main characters. the protagonist is a (fantasy-equivalent) south-asian girl and the two deuteragonists are a tailor's son who is black and a prince who is white. the prince is a magician and in this world that is very rare. is it problematic to have the one white character of my trio also be the one that is marked out with 'special' powers? (the other two do have their own story-important skills). many thanks!

White Prince with Powers, PoC with None

Some questions to ask yourself. I feel addressing them will help you determine if there’s an issue here or not:

• What was the intent of giving the white person powers and no one else? Are there any non-white people in the story with powers?
  
• What makes the People of Color special and stand out? Such as special skills, a shining personality,etc. I don’t believe everyone needs to be powered up to be special, but are you demonstrating that they’re interesting characters as well in the writing?
  
• Do you focus more on the white person and hype them up over the Protagonists of Color?
  
• How do you bridge or at least acknowledge the power dynamics between the PoC and magician prince?

~Mod Colette

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Black Queen Wearing Head wrap

anonymous asked:

So this isn’t so much a question about “how do I write…” but more “how do you feel about…” so I apologise for that in advance!

I am writing a fantasy novel and one of the characters that my MC meets is a queen who I am writing as a black woman. In the first scene that she is in I describe her as wearing bright colours and wearing her hair in braids. But then in a later scene, I described her as being among her friends and family and wearing her hair in a head wrap that matches the dress that she is wearing.

I’ve done a lot of research on the history of the head wrap and I am well aware of the connections with slavery in America. My question is; how would you feel if you read this character was written in this way? It is not a huge problem if you think that it should be removed from the story, but I’m trying to ask as many black women as I can.

Thank you in advance!

Sounds perfectly fine to me. She has her hair in braids, and then she wrapped it up to match her dress. Just simple style choices, eh? I’d just keep it at that, as nothing has to be too deep about it.

~Mod Colette