Absolutely, sometimes when I see stories like that I wonder if they’re even written by, I’m assuming, Black girls… or not? They’re just so on the nose and atrocious, but sometimes kids write like that (at least, I sincerely hope they’re children, lmao).
The views on those stories never cease to amaze and confuse me, too, lmao.
Having a blah day today just watching YouTube
Hey Everyone!
My name is Ahmarri and my pronouns are she/her. I hope you all have had a productive week so far. 
hi ahmarri!!
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I am Badria and my pronouns are she/her
I am from North-East Africa (my family, not me. I was born in US)
I am an Ace sooo…yeah 
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@All I think I’m going to start a daily questions or prompts segments to up the chat in here.
What do you think?
Hello! 
I’m all for it, sounds like a great idea!. I would be posting more but my rewrites have me locked down 90% of the time right now. Who knew rewriting three novellas whilst planning out two more would be such a headache? 
lmao I FEEL YOU I thought when I finished my book I would have free time but now Im doing queries and its like okay… I cant keep going with my series until I know everything in book one is cannon so what now? WHAT NOW?!
Yes exactly! The kicker for me is that I never realized how disconnected my novellas were until I began this rewriting process. The end result now is that I’m basically doing entirely new works that are remakes of the originals. The even bigger kicker is that now some of the minor characters I’ve created are so good that I’m considering doing spin off novellas for them. Alas, the conundrum of undiagnosed ADHD that is the male ENFP mind.
Y’all I wouldn’t read this if you moody
'm finding with my stories I’m writing the same girl with different backgrounds. She’s me in some way or another she is me and that isn’t exhausting my readers yet but I’ve noticed online a lot of people have a true issue with BIPOC (Biracail POC) and here’s where it gets heavy and here’s where it gets problematic.
A writer I enjoy said that writing BIPOC is the safe way to write black characters. As one I have never felt safe in either lane. She went on to state that people don’t like to write black love and I thought… All my MCs don’t end story with a black man.
Not a full one and here is the heavy. I found myself asking how can I write a love I haven’t experienced.
Fucked up I know but I find whereas I LOVE black men and black people the men I’ve loved didn’t love me to the capacity of the other men I dated. I could just write these character and have them HAPPEN to be ABC but it feels disgenuine.
I’m having a lot of weird guilt about this.
That’s literally me when it comes to my prewriting of characters especially when I intend to write in first person. It’s a tremendously difficult task to write a unique character who isnt somehow based on traits we ourselves have or have the general mindset that we do so you aren’t alone there.
Again, I completely get this. Speaking purely from my own case, while I know I probably have more Black in me than anything else since I’m still unsure of my father’s exact ancestry, due to my light skinned appearance and being raised by my grandparents who are an interracial couple, I identify more with being Biracial than African-American. I feel I sit on a line between the two since I’m not the classic definition of Biracial nor am I truly familiar enough with African-American culture to completely identify with it.
I honestly understand where you are coming from and I feel that this issue is a lot more complex than most people would like to admit it is. While I am a firm believer in Black love and the idea of us being a united community, the truth to the matter is that our community is a lot more diverse than most people would like to admit and there are as many shades of cultural and identity differences as there are skintones in our community.
Hell it’s even different in certain geographic areas since the Black community here in my current location in Virginia is culturally so different than what I experienced growing up in Maryland that at one point, I was called an arrogant Northerner or bourgeois by an older Black man when I was at work. Keeping in mind, that where I grew up was only about 120 miles to the Northeast of Charlottesville.
Anyway, getting back to the point I was making, I feel that each and every one of our experiences is unique and it’s not anyone’s place to say what the Black experience is or should be in light of the differences in our community. What should be said is that we should be respecting those differences and embracing them since we are all unique. Your experience is entirely different than mine and both of ours may be entirely different than someone from a place like Ohio or Kansas or even a newly arrived immigrant from the Motherland in a place like Louisiana. So I would say, making my point about all of this, write what you know and if people don’t like it, then they don’t have to read it. As long as it’s accurate, not cliche and avoids full on African-American stereotypes, write what you want. Don’t feel guilty or the pressure to conform just because a few people may not like it. Hell, the MC in my current WIP ends up in a bisexual polyamorous relationship with a Nigerian male vampire and a mixed race female half-vampire and I could care less what people think as long as I stay true to myself on it.
What’s funny is I never use that. My grandparents are indeed African but you don’t ever see any white people saying English American so I always rebuke. I’m American I have ABCD decent but I’m black since black isn’t monolithic. I mean… We have Anime companies damn it
This. This is the narrative we need to be more open about. People think BIPOC and think someone like me lighter completion eyes etc. But my literal twin brother is dark skin with thicker hair but not what people consider that.
It’s like a weird fetish or something.
All this
I giggled I got triggered and went “yep and you’re a bumpkin!”
I don’t want to be that person. But I’m a be that person and say I think some of that came from jealousy. Working in a field where some of my subordinates are decades older than me there’s this condescending thing where they see us like their own children and can’t cope with the idea that oh this is my equal.
This is the content I need
Also ALL THAT literally that should be posted somewhere
Hello everyone! I haven’t been on in a while.
Hi! (neither have I, though I’ve mostly been watching all these conversations unfolds from the shadows and occasionally hearting posts.) How r u?
Honestly, I’ve always felt a bit like an outsider when it comes to being black (@AnaWryneck I don’t like the term African-American, I mean I’m Caribbean-American but most “African-Americans” have very-well established roots in America). In most of the schools I attended, I was usually rejected by the white kids, the asian kids, and the black kids, though most of my friends were white or asian. I remember feeling so ashamed to be the black girl who could only say I had a black friend. And aside from that my afro-caribbean culture is quite different from the standard black culture where I’m from. Not to mention that I’m lightskinned. Hell, even my family often teased me saying I was wasian. So yeah, cultural identity issues and guilt been there, personally i say it’s just not worth it. I mean I write books with ethnically diverse casts because I’d like to see more stories that aren’t just the white protag and her one black/asian/latino friend and I’m tired of opening books and assuming (correctly) that the protag is a white burnette or redhead who’s lover is a blond white boy. You make books about characters you love no matter what people say. Someone needs your stories and the people who do will read them.
Lol, I need to read your book.
just popping in since i realized i’ve been so MIA from here. 
Hey everyone, what’s cracking besides the keyboards on ya’ll devices?!
i passed my chem test