2025-06-05 20:07:22 ¶ ●

Was it ever stated that helen distortion is a black woman. This hit me rn

2025-06-12 19:12:31 ¶ ●

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late to this but as a black tma fan the fact one of the only characters thats near-unanimously depicted as a black woman is the canonically tory real estate agent is ummm well i feel a certain way about it. not only does most of the main cast usually get depicted as white or ambiguously brown but of the couple side characters who are depicted as explicitly black one of them is a reactionary? it really seems like some fans thought they needed to design *someone* as black to not look racist and just picked a side character at random without any thought put into it.

Wait you’re so right. It’s both quite strange and completely predictable, considering that the show peaked during covid and the majority of the fans were young white queers drooling over (gay) representation.

You have a few canonically black characters like Anabelle, and yet fans instead decided to take one of the characters least likely to be black (if you take their canon political views into consideration) and made them black for some reason. Possibly only so that the two Distortions contrast, since it has no other nareative significance from a fan point of view, and Michael is universally depicted as a skinny blonde twig.

Same as making Martin “the police would never do anything bad” Blackwood black

2025-06-13 13:18:05 ¶ ●

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I very much agree with those points but would like to say that I think most Helen-Distortion designs are very, very pretty. Would you say it's wrong to enjoy them?

Idk man i don’t think I have the right to judge that. Do whatever you want just do it away from me