My personal thoughts on Black x Readers as an African American
You know something that I constantly wonder about? How most (insert character here) x Black!Reader's are usually dark smut fics.
Like I go to look for a fluffy fic and all I find is y/n getting railed in their sleep non-consensually! These stories always have a bittersweet twisted ending. Now if that's your thing go off but NOT IN EVERY S I N G L E STORY! You don't look up x black!reader smut non-con you just look up x black!reader and that's all that's there.
In my experience of searching AND I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING, most of the time the fic doesn't even mention the reader being black or only gives like 1 description like "y/n's luscious black curls" AND THAT'S IT!
Most of the time the tag x Black!reader feels more like just a tag to get reads rather than an actual attempt at creating more representation!
The thing that I think gets under my skin the most is the fact that most of the stories are FULL of stereotypes about African Americans! The tags almost always have the Daddy kink, choking kink, spit kink, Drug use, toxic relationships, abuse of some sort! Or there are like 40 tags of black Y/n getting SPECIFICALLY violently fucked!
OR the story points out how y/n "picked out her huge afro and put on her large hoop earrings" or "y/n put on their Air Jordans and went to see their baby daddy for the child support that he owes" (I'M SERIOUS)!
I just wish that there was more appropriate representation in the x reader community rather than the few good stories that we are given. BECAUSE TRUST ME there are some really good cute ones that have fluff or romantic smut or getting railed BUT that's not the WHOLE DAMN STORY (and even if it is it's done in a respectful manner!)but there are so few.
And I can already here the argument "WELL, WHY DON'T YOU CREATE SOME REPRESENTATION YoURSeLf!" I will. Not much will change if I only complain about it and I am aware of that BUT it is not my responsibility to create every peice of representation that appropriately represents my community.
One peice of positive representation versus 100 peices of "representation" can only change but so much.
But then again that's why I'm writing this post if I want to see change the first thing I have to do is at least bring attention to what I see as the issue.
But what are your thoughts on the issue?
This is my oc, Tricity Boltz and her alter ego, ShockWave! She’s often moving around in the city through the electrical wires and she’s not on the clock, she’s practically obsessed with fighting villains in video games and collecting superhero comics and just adoring saving the day!
I been looking at the PPNKG comic and tried to analyze it/come up with headcanons:
I never realized how much Brute talked, I always thought she was the quiet pessimistic girl, but I feel like she always tries to get a word in. I think Brute thinks she's the leader or the commanding one, like she's the one calling the shots when she's just adding onto whatever Berserk or Brat says (like adding on "And blue" to Brat's "Maybe something in black" or adding on "C'mon girls, it's back to business as usual" to Berserk's "that's ok.. we can still bust up Viletown".
While I like the headcanon of Berserk getting easily obsessed with people (especially Blossom), I think (based on my interpretation of their personalities in the comic) that Brat would be the one to get more attached to the idea of defeating and getting revenge on the PPG in a "fair" battle. Berserk and Brute moved on pretty quickly, but Brat was the one to get petulant.
It's interesting how the PPNKG are so in sync and treat each other well to the point where they finish each others sentences. Brick scolds and hits Boomer and even the PPG have disagreements, but the PPNKG always seem to be on the same page about most things. Maybe I can write something where the PPNKG are co-dependent and have to learn and discover themselves without their sisters. I don't know.
The way they treat the Professor isn't really that bad in my opinion. I honestly feel like it could have been worse, they just act like teenagers who want their privacy (they just say it in a aggressive way). I think they value their room (and their privacy) and being outside their house because Oppressor Plutonium is very controlling and treats them like lackeys.
(I'll update this as I get more ideas)
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