Thread by @sqiouyilu

another year in which I remember, once more, that I am not living in this timeline

https://twitter.com/sqiouyilu/status/1448030076776312834

this headcanon casting came about roughly ten years ago on tumblr when I first started exploring “okay, but what if instead of dark-skinned characters always being evil in movies & TV, what if the evil character is light-skinned and the good character is dark-skinned, on purpose”

once my brain landed on “then daniel henney and sendhil ramamurthy” then it was as if I were launched by NASA via catapult into the atmosphere as a satellite and I have never stopped nyooming since

tumblr was where I first explored this idea of a secondary world culture where white represents badness and death and evil and black represents good and life and abundance—which is not unlike how chinese conceptualizes the colors—and that ended up in #InTheWatchfulCity