Ways Writers Can Be Inclusive 101

ways writers can be inclusive 101

“my cheeks turned pink in embarrassment” → “my cheeks heated in embarrassment”

“his hand ran through my hair” → “his hand ran over my head/hair”

“her bright pink pussy” → literally anything else

stop using mood boards of only white couples/children (heavy on this one)

using children names like eveleigh ann (do i need to explain..)

her hair was put in a messy bun/her long silky hair…

Respectfully, I know it’s just fanfiction, but if you’re going to write reader insert fics then do the bare minimum of making sure it’s actually inclusive and not white coded. Many of us shouldn’t read an x reader fic and imagine a white woman every single time. Stop taking criticism from bipocs, saying your writing is not inclusive, as hate. Let go of the mindset that having a bipoc in your writing means they have to go through some racial struggle or you must talk about their culture (a lot of bipocs don’t know their culture/where they came from). It shouldn’t make you uncomfortable to write them in your stories, we’re normal people too. If it does maybe a reflection is meant to be had. Like i said, it’s just fanfiction and it’s supposed to be fun, but some of y’all are purposefully exclusive and still tag your writing wrong.

And if you can’t handle it, tag ur fic as an oc or white!reader. Because it’s not right for writers to attack people asking for inclusivity and playing victim bc they know they can.

T’Challa/Star-Lord in What if… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord? (2021)

favorite crime

pairing: steve rogers x black!reader

summary: steve never knew but he was your favorite crime

warning: cheating??

a/n: this is a rewrite of one of my old one shots that i accidentally deleted.

2014

“i made some calls back in russia and this is all i could get for you” nat says handing me the files and i smile. “thank you so much” she smiles before hugging me, i hug her back tight before pulling away.

“you really care about him don’t you” she asks and i nod “good because he really needs someone like you in his life” i smile at her before hugging her again.

2016

i was sitting in my cell staring at the blank wall in front of me as tears fell down my face, i felt like a fucking idiot but steve got his bestfriend back.

“y/n” i hear from beside me, i look over and tony looking at me sadly. “hey” i greet as i stand up to walk towards the glass that’s separating us.

“i’m so sorry tony” more tears fall down my face as i apologize to him, he shakes his head “love makes you do some stupid shit i would know” i nod as give me a small smile.

“he’s going to come back for you don’t worry, he loves you too”

2018

“miss y/l/n i am not letting you help an enemy of the state back into the country” ross says and i huff in annoyance. “this threat is beyond the government ross, this is half of all life we are talking about not just earth but every other planet in the universe” i reason and he sighs.

“y/n you have been romantic with mr. rogers i have no reason but to believe that you have a certain opinion on him” he says and i roll my eyes “this has nothing to do with what happened between me and rogers two years ago this is about the state of the universe so either you let me do it your way or i do it my way” i warn.

“fine” he sighs and i smile “thank you so much general”

2023

“y/n i’m not doing this i’m sorry” tony says and i nod as morgan plays with one of my braids. “i know tony you’ve got everything you want now and i’m not trying to ruin that all i’m asking you to do is think about it” he sighs before nodding.

“i see he finally did it” he says nodding towards my hand that has a ring on it “yeah i really wanted you to be there but you had your reasons” he nods before smiling at me.

“if he fucks up you let me know alright” i laugh at tony’s warning and soon he joins in too.

now

steve fucked up and he fucked up big time and tony wasn’t here to fuck him up.

i looked at the bench where an older steve sat staring off into the distance, his hair was now a silver instead of a blond and his physique has changed a lot but most of all he has a band on his hand.

i knew exactly what he did and my heart broke, more like shattered. bucky pulled me into him and rubbed my back gently as sam talked to steve, i clung onto bucky like my life depended on it as i felt my knees get weak.

i felt a tap on my shoulder and i looked over my shoulder and see same nodding at me, i nod back before wiping my tears and letting go of bucky.

i took a deep breath before walking over to the bench that steve was sitting on, i sat down next to him and stared of into the distance.

as we sit in silence i think of every happy memory we shared and how he probably wasn’t happy, instead thinking of what his life would be like with peggy and i just being there to fill the empty space for a while.

i shed a few tears as i take the ring off of my finger before placing it in the space between us, i get up and walk away from him leaving him alone.

we could’ve had it all

pairing: thor x black!reader

summary: you and thor could have had it all

warnings: angst, death, blood

a/n: i am in no way trying to take away from loki’s death i just wanted to reverse the roles. the reader also has telepathic powers.

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thanos

the mad titan was standing right in front of me, his armor gold and shining in the light of the fire surrounding us. the bodies of asgardian people everywhere, some dead some alive but on their way to death.

thor was laying on the ground next to thanos, he hasn’t moved it what had felt like forever. thanos picks him up by is armor and walks with him towards loki, he drops thor in his knees and looks directly at loki.

loki’s is surrounded by thanos’ childrens, each one of them holding a weapons at them. i kneel to the left of loki as i multitask watching heimdall and the interaction between loki and thanos.

“the tesseract or your brothers head” thanos looks directly at loki “kill away” loki doesn’t even budge as the words leave his mouth.

i look between loki and thor with wide eyes, i can sense loki knows i’m looking at him confused. painful screams leave thor’s mouth as thanos put the power stone on his temple, his screams get louder as thanos presses the stone into his temple further.

i feel myself start to tear up as i watch the man i love scream in pain, “alright that’s enough” loki yells and thanos removes the stone from his head.

“we don’t have the tesseract it was destroyed during ragnorok” i look at thanos as i speak up and he just smirks at me before looking at loki again.

loki raises his hands and the tesseract appears in his hand and my eyes widen in shock, he walks up to thanos and goes to hand him the cube.

out of nowhere hulks tackles thanos startling me, i watch as thanos and hulk fight. the fight ends fairly quickly, hulk is on the ground unconscious and thanos is standing over him.

thor runs up to thanos and attacks him as i discreetly run over to the hulk and attempt to wake him up, i shake his shoulders and tap his face lightly but i get nothing.

i hear struggled breathing so i look up and see thor being lifted up by his neck “no” i scream as i get up and run but one of thanos’ children uses their magic to push me back and up against as wall.

“stop please” i cry as i watch thor struggle in the hands of thanos, thor makes eye contact with me and i know he wants me to connect with his mind.

“i love you y/n” i cry as he repeats the words over and over in his mind “i love you too, so much”. one of thanos’ children shoved a spear through thor’s heart, he screams in pain as they remove the spear and stab him again.

i run away from away from hulk and run over to thor’s body, i drop to my knees and cradle his head. “thor please baby stay with me” i cry as i plead, i pushed the hair out of his face as i gently caress his face.

i moved one of my hands grab his and he squeezed with all of the strength he had left “i love you” he grunts as he tries to mask his pain, “i love you too but you’re not dying, you’re going to live and you’re going to rule asgard along your brother and we’re going to get married and have kids and then grow old” i cry as he smiles at me, that twinkle in his eye still there as he looks at me.

“i-i’m sorry” he coughs and blood pools from his mouth, “it’s okay” i continue to hold his hand as the ship burns around us. “you know i’m happy that you’re the last thing i get to see” the words only make me cry more as he struggles to keep breathing.

“we’ll meet again” his words are barely above as whisper, his body goes limp and his hand drops from mine.

i sink further into the floor and hug his body, as a broken cry leaves my chest. my heart breaking as the love of my life lays lifeless on the ground.

as i cry a memory a memory of thor and i in the gardens of asgard strolling around after dinner.

“you know love we should get married and have kids you know we could have it all”

we could’ve had it all

moral of the story

pairing: bucky x black!reader

summary: bucky has been distant your entire relationship and you finally find out why

warnings: mentions of alcoholism, cheating, harsh language, violence (hitting and shoe throwing)

a/n: now this is coming from a place of hurt on my part bc i’m dwelling over a past heartbreak but i felt like bucky was a good character to do this with. i know bucky would never but just for the sake of this he did.

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i remember the day he asked me out, i would have been what you described the happiest girl in the world.

if i had know what the future held maybe i would have never seen him again after the first date.

through out my entrie relationship with bucky he was distant, i knew he had his reasons but at some point he had to make an effort. sadly he never did and each time i was left disappointed and disappointment at some point in time leads to anger.

the anger took a while to build up, approximately two years. spending years of “loving” someone and ending up disappointed and angry was never how i expected my relationship to go, especially with the man who i thought was the one.

i initially thought it was my fault, that i was being too clingy. i distanced myself and i guess that gave him the ok to distance himself even more.

when he was away i found myself staying up and waiting for him to return, i stay up for days. days eventually turned into a week and a week turned into two. sometimes i thought he’d never return and honestly on some occasions i hoped he wouldn’t.

when he was home he wouldn’t talk to me, always looking at the tv with some sort of alcohol in his hand. in my attempts to talk to him he either completely block me out or tell me to go away once again leaving me disappointed.

i dont know why i stayed with him, i wanted to fix whatever was happening but talking to bucky was like talking to a brick wall. i also was in love or so i thought, maybe it was a placebo for the hurt and pain i felt.

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i walked into the kitchen to see bucky sitting at the island with a glass of brown liquor in his hand, “we need to talk” he looks at me confused “about what?”. the clueless look on his face makes me angry “about us bucky because clearly there’s something wrong” i say and he shrugs “i think our relationship is completely fine” he takes a sip out of his glass as he looks at me.

“of course you don’t see the fucking problem because you are the fucking problem” he looks at me shocked “i’m the problem?” he’s in complete disbelief. “yes bucky you are you’re never here, you’re always gone and it’s been like that for the last two years and you don’t know how much it affects me because when you are here you stare at the tv like a zombie” the tears are hot as they fall down my face.

he stands up and walks towards me “did you ever think that you could be the problem?” he practically spits in my face as he yells at me “you were so fucking annoying my god asking about dates and trying to do this and that you never stopped, i never loved you shit i barely even liked you steve was the one who talked me into asking you out anyway” i look at him shocked as the words leave his mouth.

“you peice of fucking shit” i yell as i hit his chest “i hate you” over and over again, i yell this words as i continue to hit his chest, i don’t stop until someone pulls me always “let me go i wasn’t done” i struggle to get out of the strong arms that were holding me.

“she was good you know she was way better than you were she made me feel so good” i take my shoe off and throw it at him in complete anger but he dodges it. “you know i was actually planning on ending this earlier so we could get hitched and make her my old lady” he continues and i just cry in the arms that are holding me.

i didn’t want to believe anything he said but it’s so hard not to, part of me wished this was some sick joke but it wasn’t.

“i hope it doesn’t last, you don’t deserve any ounce of fucking happiness coming your way because you drained me of mine, i hope she cheats on you too yeah get a piece of you own medicine” i look dead at him “karmas a bitch and i hope it bites you right in your ass” he just stands there and it pisses me off even more “get out” i look at him “get the fuck out now” i throw my other shoe at him and this time it hits him but it doesn’t nothing.

he walks away and i immediately break into a fit of sobs in the pair of arms that are holding me, the placebo had run it’s course.

i never really knew the man i “loved” for three years but my mother told me young people fall in love with the wrong people sometimes but that’s good because in the end it’s better for me because that’s the moral of the story.

Edit: I will delete this post as soon as I reach my goal!! I’m not going to be one of those people:)

Hi guys! I know it’s been forever and I’m really sorry about that. I feel like everything has happened to me in the time I’ve been away. I really want to start writing again, but it’s kind of overwhelming for me sometimes, so it might come as I can write you know? Anyways I found out my blog had been hacked by those raybans people while I’ve been gone (nice).

However, what I really wanted to ask is if anyone can donate to me. My goal is $200 to take my dog to the vet. He is a husky and the love of my life. Recently a spot has come up on his nose and it’s been growing everyday. I love him so much and I couldn’t handle it if anything happened to him. It’s been all I can do everyday to make ends meet and I don’t have anyone in my life that I can really rely on to help. I’m attaching pictures so you guys know it’s legit. My cash app is $Rt1915 and I also have Venmo, though it is my real name and I’d rather personally send that info to someone than post it on here (I know I’m a freak it just gives me anxiety). Anything you guys could do to help would mean the world. He’s my baby and it breaks my heart to be struggling so much and not be able to help him. He’s all I have and I can’t stand the thought of something happening to him.

Please help me help my baby!

Cash app: $Rt1915

(P.S. sorry for the annoying tags, I just have to make sure it’s seen!)