when asexual woc talk about existing in intersections of racialised misogyny and acephobia, the conversations starts with the fact that our bodies are objectified and dehumanised by white patriarchal culture. lack of sexuality is almost incomprehensible and lack of sexual availability for men – any kind of unavailability regardless of whether they’re ace or not, either bc we’re not interested, not sexually attracted, or in a relationship – it is literally seen as insubordination by certain men who think it’s their god-given right to a woc’s body.
women of colour are hypersexualised and objectified in different ways because of our race, but our universal experience is based on how our culture promotes the idea that our bodies are for male consumption. as an asexual woman of colour, it means that our lack of sexual attraction is seen as something to be conquered, or fixed, or a wrong to be righted. for white men, it’s another space to colonise.
so when the predominantly white ace discourse brings up again and again that “acephobia isn’t real” calls ace people “straight people who don’t have sex”, you’re erasing the way many ace woc are trying to navigate our bodies and sexual agency as asexuals. don’t derail this by saying what we face “isn’t acephobia, just misogyny”, we’re facing intersections of both that have arisen from a culture of compulsory heterosexuality and white supremacy. many asexual women of colour have talked about it and you do not get to silence our voices.
white people on both sides of the Discourse need to acknowledge this, especially in regards to the erasure that goes on in the white ace community and non-ace poc need to stop throwing us under the bus by pretending that we don’t exist and our sexuality is irrelevant.
i need yall to know that myself and all the ace ppl i know irl are woc and this is EXTREMELY real
The other thing with this ‘same face’ thing is I promise that if you draw ana/pharah/symmetra/dva/mei/sombra with, say, mercy’s features that art is going to look white washed
I do gotta say as much as I have always harped on Overwatch for same face, like, tumblr always voices that as “blizzard can’t design women” or “lazy modelers” which I don’t really think is the case, other than in casual hyperbole. I think it’s important to point out as well that there really isn’t a huge variety in their handsome male faces either, they just have the benefit of facial hair and more masked faces that sort of distract from that fact.
Yeah def, on one hand I applaud being nit picky about all this, I think it does lead to better art from the people who end up absorbing pieces of the discussion. But I also think having a better sense of what is extremely intentional/calculated, and what is sort of collateral damage of the production process leads to better critique, which leads to better art.. and so on
This, but also literally how is her face different in the short other than like lighting and game hair??? Her face in the short IS ALSO the Overwatch/Pixar Girl face??
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This could plausibly not be the case with Brigette but they’ve said how they make the cinematics is taking the in game models and assets (maps/etc) and improving those models and different rendering etc for the purposes of animation – so it’s probably the exact same model just more detailed/render differently/different lighting/etc.
Some Black Panther studies! Follow my Instagram for progress shots and more sketches, I’m gonna draw every character eventually because they were all FIRE. WAKANDA FOREVER
Also timeline thoughts: torbjorn has a prosthetic in the group shot in ana’s origin short (although there’s also a version of this image where he doesn’t have a prosthetic? But the one in the short itself he does) which puts operation white dome before that photo was taken
Blizzard are trying to trick us into liking torbjorn by starving us of lore for anyone else
fearlessstateofmind backup 