Tho I Didnt Realize How Absolutely Fucked The Thing With Francesca Was - Tumblr Posts

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)