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Please read the FAQ and Navigation before asking! Mobile Users: Search FAQ Mobile & Navigation Mobile. Welcome to Writing with Color, a blog dedicated to writing and resources centered on racial & ethnic diversity. We share writing advice, guides, book recs. and I have a crime boss supervillaintype character who I wanted to make Japanese American. He gets superpowers which start a redemption arc for him, and will eventually be a hero or an antihero. It occurred to me that I might be playing into a stereotype with the crime boss thing. It wasnt going to be Yakuza or anything, but should i reconsider making him Japanese? I feel like there are a lot groups that are stereotyped as criminals but also i didnt want to play into the white crime is cool thing Japanese followers, we would appreciate your input! (If you are not Japanese, please refrain from commenting. Here is why Hi! This might sound like a really stupid idea, but I wanted to create characters to review things from different perspectives (one is half-Chinese for example) and show their characters through the reviews. I was never going to pretend like theyre real, but I have conflict on whether this is problematic and a bad way to do things, or whether making them all white and closer to my lack of privilege. CREATING CHARACTERS TO REVIEW THINGS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. I think your intentions are good (in wanting to show different perspectives) but the issue is that with creating characters of different races to review real-life things, it comes a bit too close to digital colorface (pretending to have that PoC viewpoint when you’re white), and also would take away from actual PoC reviewers, who ought to be centered when reviewing things that involve their own back route of the stream. The Photo makes me feel dual emotions as i tend to stare the longest into this soul.” > Hi! I’m trying to write a contemporary fantasy story including > faeries and half-faeries, but I know based on some other asks on