Black Characters And Blushing

Black Characters and Blushing

entropyalarm said: When describing embarrassment, blushing is typically used as an indicator. I’m white, but I recognize that darker skin tones shouldn’t show blush the same way as lighter tones. My friend, with medium skin, told me it only shows in her nose and ears, felt more as intense heat radiating from her cheeks than a visible color change. What is your insight on handling blushing? I feel this is especially important for proper portrayal of PoCs in romantic situations.

Anonymous said: You’ve written some great advice for describing black characters, but I was wondering whether you have any advice for describing a black character blushing? I have face blindness, so I’m having a lot of trouble with this. (otherwise I could just look up pictures and describe those) So sorry to bother you!

I’m glad you’ve asked. It bothers me how often I’ve heard “Black people don’t blush” which only seems to be another way to dehumanize Black people (and defeminize Black women) for not possessing this base human reaction, even if it’s not always notably visible.

Everybody blushes. Or rather, can blush. It’s the physical act of blood rushing to the face, ears, and other areas of the body; how visible the output doesn’t dictate whether one blushes or not.

While fairness has its part, I think blushing and how visible it is has a lot to do with the individual (some folks have better blood flow) + the undertones within their skin.

I’m going to steal my undertones chart from the Skin Tone Guide here:

As shown above cool skin colors have undertones that mostly fall under red/pink shades.

I’ve seen dark cool-skinned people with naturally rosy cheeks. I can only imagine when they blush, those reddish undertones are emphasized or brightened.

On the other hand, warm skin is usually in the golden, orange spectrum. Not so much reds. Still that doesn’t mean red coloring doesn’t appear on dark warm skin tones.

I have warm medium skin with golden orange undertones, and I definitely get flushed from extrinsic factors, such as if I exercise hard (I turn a berry-red coloring), plus the winter cold pinkens my nose like Rudolph.

I’ve also had friends call me out on blushing, but I can’t tell you exactly how that looks for I’ve never checked a mirror at the time, though I imagine it’s like a slight tinting or an enrichment of the undertones in the skin, brightening them, paired with a “coral to dark red” reddening.

In general, though, it can be redundant to constantly refer to blushing to show shyness or embarrassment with characters of any skin tone. It seems blushing is one of those things that happen more often in stories than daily life. Kinda like green eyes.

For variety, also consider these indicators: 

~Pages from the Emotion Thesaurus, seriously every writer should buy this book 10/10 would recommend.~

To reiterate; dark (cool) skin with red/pink undertones might show blushing more notably than warm skin, as an enhancement of those reddish undertones. 

Dark (warm) skin without red undertones, more “richening” of the undertones with pink to dark reddish coloring as an influence, likely depending on how harshly they’re blushing.

In any case; if you’re describing the blushing from the character’s perspective, it makes more sense to focus on heat and sensation.

Followers, any personal experiences or thoughts?

~Mod Colette

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WORDS for SEX  scenes

want some good words to use for soft, sensual, love making, rough, smutty smut?

Okay so I found these as well hope you all like them and use them 💘

Verbs:

Gaze Stare Desire Crave Want Need Yearn See Ache Throb Pulse Flare Burn Intoxicate Overwhelm Stun Stagger Flutter Kiss Steal Coax Encourage Soothe Brush Bite Scrape Scratch Nip Nibble Lick Taste Suck Lave Drink Feast Feed Swallow Lap Savor Devour Consume Flood Deep Safe Delve Explore Worship Drown Abandon Immerse Ease Open Part Spread Slip Dart Trust Offer Ravish Assault Invade Fill Crash Force Plunder Capture Imprison Restrain Claim Sweep Swirl Caress Massage Cuddle Snuggle Cup Nuzzle Tickle Stroke Trace Trail Skin Graze Strip Reveal Gasp Breathe Inhale PantSigh Whimper Hiss Growl Cry Moan Groan choke beg murmur whisper scream roar tease torment torture play work toy course strain swell surge squirm twist curl struggle wiggle lunge lower fulfill explode shatter come apart

Nouns:

scent fragrance flavor tang spice embrace hug strength beauty hunger longing touch act grace skill instinct passion madness obsession freedom wonder sensation treasure seduction persuasion ecstasy rush greed plead rumble fever frenzy euphoria elation rapture longing pleasure satisfaction gratification  service edge shock jolt rhythm texture friction vision goddess, inamorata soulmate lover gentleman rake climax encounter pupils mouth skin flesh velvet goosebumps 

Adjectives:

fervent sincere gentle careful patient persistent insistent unrelenting determined slow sweet pure delicate silky smooth soft tousled tangled creamy rosy supple taut weak yielding vulnerable unguarded exposed intimate unbidden forbidden dangerous untamed wild frantic hungry starved daring eager desperate hesitant shy breathtaking exquisite delicious powerful primal warm hot heated fiery scorching ravenous

hard stiff erect firm solid ridged thick heavy plump full bodied Shapley generous rough fast rapid swift brutal blunt savage blunt raw merciless insane violent irresistible alluring wet luscious juicy succulent ripe lush sumptuous voluptuous sinful wicked filthy erotic sensual sexy sultry addictive undone spent raw rapid invade nudge pump surrender numb quiver tingling squirm spasm  groan 

For all of those lovely blurbs where the reader is an actress...Is it bad if I feel like, if the Kardashians tried to start some real beef Black Twitter would shut it down so fast before T’Challa or anyone else caught wind of it? Like they’d for sure find out, just after Black Twitter already destroyed the Kardashians for tryin to come for our royal family.

So Kim is fed up with how much publicity you get without even trying and 99.9% of it is positive. She finds herself look through your Instagram-admiring and envying how beautiful ALL of your pictures were.

The ones with T’Challa were subtle and gracious and hearts and crowns flooded the comment sections. Even your bare faced selfies were drop dead gorgeous.

Let’s face it, you were the black woman she’s always tried to be. You had naturally full lips, your body was naturally curvy, and you actually had worked your way to your success and that lead you to marry A KING. Everything on you was natural except the occasional weave you rocked but damn even that shit looked real.

Your melanin was always poppin and even when you posted you in a bonnet as a joke people still were drooling over you. She had every right to be mad, you were that bitch.

She went to your twitter and saw how funny you were. You had a constant hashtag that always seemed to be trending, #QueenY/N. She began watching all of your interviews and clips of your movies and Broadway shows. You were truly talented and beautiful. She began to reminisce on the day she invited you and T’Challa to dinner and how upty you to acted. How closed you two were. Then when you and Beyoncé posted pics of your daughters having a tea party with their dads…Then the cherry on top of this cake was you not inviting North to your daughters party. Latter two you had nothing to do with but hey at this point she just wanted a reason to call you out.

Like the green monster jealously always did, she caught herself going to twitter and @ you. “I’m just over here thinking about shit. You guys want to hear some tea about your beloved @QueenY/N?”

With in seconds people were telling her to hurry up and spill. But Black twitter just sat there posted up like the bestie ready to fight. “Whatever you gotta say keep it to ya fuckin self Kimberly😒”

“Girlllll why you always messing with them people??? They don’t care about you sis!”

“Y/N is probably somewhere getting her pussy ate by the finest man in the world- unbothered. While you selling dollar store perfume and tryna spill tea no one asked for.”

“I’m ready for her to spill this stale tea so I can go in on her desperate ass👊🏽.”

The Shaderoom posted a pic of her tweet and then the responses on their Instagram: #KimK said she has tea on our lovely Queen of Wakanda👀 but people aren’t here for it. Well we are and we’re also here to prepare for the memorial service of Kim because when this is all done shawty is over #QueenY/N #Wakandaforever

Kim ignored the comments bashing her and ignored her Pr team telling her not to go through with it.

It was 8pm when she went live on Insta. The first 20 minutes she was just teasing the audience about the tea she had and when she saw she had nearly the whole world watching she began to run her mouth. “So here’s the problem I have with Y/N, when we first met she was really sweet and nice and everything was cool. But I guess after she got married to T’Challa she started feeling herself. Guys never forget where you come from.”

Social went crazy as she continued to speak, “I invited her and T’Challa to dinner with my family and I. I cooked-“

A comment read: “shit that was the first problem right there.”

“I cooked some to die for soul food and they just sat there like they were about it all. They left earlier than planned like they had to be somewhere but they were just trying to get away from us. Then I see she and Beyoncé posting pictures of their daughters on a play date. Beyoncé and Jay Z never invited North out for a play date and Hov and Ye were so close.”

She blabbered on and on, “I think Y/N is fake and bitchy and she thinks she’s above everything. She’s worse than Beyoncé. The fakery is too much.”

*Cue funeral music* Sis had came for you and Beyoncé- to highly influential black Queens with die hard fans.

She soon had to temporarily delete all of her accounts. The fans petitioned for E! to take down their show and let’s just say it was a shit storm.

She had to go on interviews to apologize and a couple of times she cried. “I’m receiving death threats. Please just stop, I apologized already.”

No one wanted to be seen with her or deal with her. All her sponsors snatched their deals away. It was a mess. When the news had finally got back to you and T’Challa, you two felt bad well he did. “Maybe we should tell the fans to ease off of her.” T’Challa said. “Hell no that bitch opened her mouth to speak on some shit she could’ve easily talked to us about.”

“She’s getting death threats Y/N.”, “I didn’t tell them to do that. Beyoncé didn’t tell them to do that. They have minds of their own.”

He sighed, “Sometimes I wonder what I am going to do with you?”

“Whatever you want.” You winked.

This picture 😩 his lips parted open like that are SENDING me🙌🏾

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