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The cost of knowing yourself.
having now seen a photo of the actor who plays francesca, i gotta say the evidence is strongly pointing to TWN’s approach to actors of color being “change their hair and eyes so they can pass for white, unless they’re dark-skinned and then let people pat us on the back for keeping their natural hair (but still make their eyes blue sometimes)” and that’s REAL fucked up, y’all. really really fucked up.
(francesca actor photo in question:
like holy shit, they whitewashed the FUCK out of her, i had NO IDEA)
(the notion that “istredd’s eyes are blue bc he’s a mage” does not hold up when plenty of other mages have brown eyes, so let’s not even start with that. not to mention it was a CHOICE in the first place, not an immutable law of reality)
to the beautiful writers that might see this, ao3 is currently being scrapped by an AI company called RIVD. this isn't your usual AI text scrapping, they are specifically targeting ao3 to feed their own AI / "tech-orientes" fanfiction site
their "takedown form" demands that you give them your full legal name and address. they do not say what they're doing with your personal details. there's no proof that this form works
until ao3 comes out with a proper statement or manages to lock their scrapped, just lock your fics for registered users
33-year-old Ugandan marathon athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed in this summer's Paris Olympic Games, has been killed by her ex-boyfriend. He doused her in petrol, set her on fire and burned her alive when she came back from church with her two daughters.
Gender-based violence is a major concern in Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and worked. In 2022, at least 34% of women in Kenya said they had experienced physical violence, according to a national survey.
Her death comes after the killings of fellow East African athletes Agnes Tirop in 2021 and Damaris Mutua in 2022, with their partners identified as the main suspects in both cases by the authorities.
Our thoughts are with her family, who are left without their loving relative and the family's main breadwinner.