Kingdom of Knuffel

Hi all! Is the "Spring" avatar contest going?

@Chrizine: I am absolutely fine with you shortening my name. It's way too long.

On the topic of changing ethnicities and genders, I do remember quite a few people being angry about Hermione being black in the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" play... In my personal opinion, I think it's dumb to care if it isn't integral to the story. But I also understand people wanting to feel represented through movies. There's not really a good reason for every character in a movie to be white, after all.

(Better luck next time, Akili!)

Annnnnd I do believe Spring is still ongoing?

@Lulu, (may I call you Lulu as well), you said there was no good reason for every character to be white, but what about movies set in an area where there was no people of colour? Or even in an area where there are only people of colour?
Like, England in the 18th century (at least I dont think there was any).
Like I am all good for people in movies being whatever colour, as long as it fits to the story, and not just added for publicity.

Sure. Call me whatever.

England is the worst example you could make, as far as I know it started going multicultural in the 16th century with Henry the VII and the Orient Spice trades.
But I'm not talking about these very specific settings in which you are unlikely to see anything but white people or poc. I'm talking about these everyday movies. Like love movies. Comedies. Action hero movies. Set in our times. There's no real reason for everyone in a contemporary movie set in the US to be white. For example this picture. What harm would it have done to have a black actor sprinkled in with these reporters? As much as I know about the black to white ratio in the US, at least one of these people should be black for it to be an accurate representation. This is what I mean by "there's no reason for every character in a movie to be white". Sometimes you don't even get background characters to be diverse, making the main love interest black should change 0 about their character and everything about their ethnicity's representation in media. If it changes their character, they've got the wrong actor.
Of course it shouldn't be "Oh look we have black actors instead of white ones, look how inclusive we are buy more tickets watch this movie". But sometimes, you've gotta ask yourself how much of their character depends on their skin colour. If none, I don't think it needs to matter.
However, as long as people care about the skin colour of a character that doesn't have a specific reason for it to be any tone in particular, they'll make it out to be the selling point even if it means nothing in the grand scheme of things, I guess
Honestly though, some whitewashing is just atrocious. Tiger Lily in that Peter Pan movie? For goodness sake, her whole character consists of "is native american". Casting a white character here is just... dumb.

Uh anyway end of rant. Sorry about that.

The only place that I can think of that would have almost no people of different ethnicities would be Japan before they opened up to the west. But even then there was the occasional people who washed up on shore from shipwrecks. And also I believe that the Dutch were there for a bit.

But yes, I am also talking about modern times. There are always white people everywhere. Like in the Walking Dead? It's set in Alabama and Georgia and places like that. There's SO many black people in those states. So many. But 99% of the background zombies are white.

Pfft, well I failed at that >< Different time+place then yeah

And I totally agree. One thing I do find funny is that a movie set in WW2 Germany (It may be the movie adaption of the boy in striped pyjamas, I can not remember), and someone was complaining that there was only white people, and the someone replied that there were only white people there at that time. But how they said it was hilarious :')

But I 100% agree that there should be more diverse people in movies

Can I enter this avatar for Spring contest?

Hello Kyokka! I haven't seen you post in here before?? (Or am I just blind LOL)
That avi is adorable :)
I love the dress, and I need to get it! Does anyone know what it is called?

Hi rebecca! I was Vitka Lynx here, I changed my UN yesterday
The dress is Leilah Knuffel Dress (Ecru).
Ahh, if you mean the dress on a DA, it's Lady Antoinette Dress (Lime Green)

Omg XD
I had no idea you changed your username! I used to see your name here and there in the forums! I thought u were like a user who has been on hiatus for a while

And yep, the Lady Antoinette dress! I really should've got the set when it came out but I decided not to and I regret it so much TTwTT