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That is why I always suggest to not take these criticisms too seriously.

People have varrying opinions on representation. Nobody is going to be completely pleased. You are all basically trying to entertain everyone which as you may know, you just cannot do in real life. I suggest you just draw what makes you personally comfortable. 

This is my opinion: Representations aren't that important.

Now hear me out on this, what I meant by this is representations normally made just cause people want to see themselves portrayed well in fiction. I know that since I get giddy with seeing brown people on screen regardless of their morality or role in a story. It just feels good, but it is not required. 

I will not get triggered seeing Filipinos portrayed as loving bananas, like japan seems to think, neither would I get pissed at seeing an ensamble of white people in a show just as long as I like the characters and that they're well written regardless of their gender, sexuality, and race.

So I suggest you all chill. You can't please everyone. Just leave Taako as blue and at least silently agree that people are still going to criticize you regzrdless of what you do. That's just how it goes.

On The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel, Blue Taako, and Representation

 Yesterday, we revealed some pages for our graphic novel adaptation of the first Adventure Zone arc, and received some criticism of the direction we went with for Taako’s coloring. This artwork reveal came some months after the first reveal of some of our characters, for which we also received criticism of our three leads, all of whom were white in these initial designs. Us and the graphic novel team realized that, yes, that is extremely bad, went back to the drawing board, and had several long discussions about how to best rectify this situation, resulting in the artwork revealed yesterday.

More or less all of the criticism we’ve received centers on Taako, whose skin is a pale blue color in these designs. What we’ve heard most is disappointment that Taako is not realized in these pages as a person of color — or, to be more specific, a Latinx or explicitly Mexican character. There was concern we had failed to follow through on an opportunity to get better representation for Latinx listeners, instead opting to take a safe route, and make Taako a fantasy color without any kind of real-world connection. Much of the criticism also focuses on how that color (or, to be more specific, green skin) has anti-semitic connotations.

This conversation was happening in certain corners of our fandom long before the graphic novel art reveal took place yesterday. We’ve heard criticism from some folks over our policy of not having canonical visual representations of any of our characters — a policy that has resulted in a genuinely humbling ocean of fan art, but also some instances of in-fighting between members of the community who take umbrage with one another’s disparate interpretations of these characters. Another criticism of that policy is that it inherently does not foster good representation, and in fact represents a noncommittal way of handling racial representation on this show.

Here’s the truth of the matter: I think all of this comes from this underlying friction between where The Adventure Zone and us, its creators, were when we started doing the podcast, and where we, the show, and you, the community, are at now. 

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I know that Graham is gonna die at the end of season five so I’m just gonna do that thing where I hallucinate and think that Graham and Rosa are some place together and that they’re happy. They’re some place where it’s always warm and they get to laugh about nothing in particular and Karina, Walter, and Jonas visit every Saturday for dinner and to play stupid board games because I have no doubt that Karina and Walter both share a love of cheesy cat themed board games and even though Graham pretends to dislike them everyone knows he secretly loves them. And there’s never a lack of coffee.