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• “Olive toned skin” BITCH IS SHE FUCKING GREEN?! Olive toned skin is just an excuse for readers to praise the author for including PoC, but when the character is white washed in the movie, the author can say “oh well, olive toned can mean white” (@ Suzanne Collins)
  
• Writing high fantasy books where all the characters are white, even though the human default is to be black. Humanity originated with black people so why the fuck would you not have high fantasy be about black people? That doesn’t make sense. 
• Saying someone has thin eyes or “slits” for eyes when you mean to say that they’re Asian. Just fucking say that they’re Asian. Don’t sit here and act like the defining feature for Asian people is their eyes. Do you know how fucking racist that is?
• Having the heroine of the story almost get raped and then having the hero of the story show up to save her. AND THEN NEVER BRINGING IT UP AGAIN. Did you know that there are other ways to show male characters being heroic and chivalrous than using rape as a plot device? 
• Post-apocalyptic America. This is the future of one of the most racially diverse countries in the world. But 99% of the people are white. 
• Making mixed race characters have light/pale skin so that your readers can think it’s okay to whitewash them. It’s even worse if you DEFEND the whitewashing (@ Mara Dyer fandom/Michelle Hodkin)
• Racial ambiguity is fucking dumb as hell. It’s just an excuse for you to act like your book has PoC in it then when they’re whitewashed by fans or in the adaptation, you can act like it’s fine (this is the same principle as the olive toned skin bullshit). Just give your characters specific races. It’s not that hard. 
• Killing off PoC just to make white characters sad (@ Sarah J. Maas - I’m still pissed about Sorscha and Nehemia)
• Writing an Indonesian character and then defending BOTH casting choices when the actor is not Indonesian EITHER TIME because you think all Asians look alike (@ She Who Must Not Be Named)
• Writing gay characters and having all of their characterization be about them being gay/coming out. 
• Writing PoC and having them all be half-white because apparently you’re only valid as a character if you’re part white. 
• The girly girl being a total bitch because she’s blonde, hot, and rich? Just because the popular girls didn’t like you when you were in high school doesn’t mean that every girl who fits that stereotype is automatically evil.
• Male love interests who stalk/abuse the heroines? What kind of message are you sending to young readers when you say “if he’s cute, it’s okay if he stalks/abuses you”. 
• Boys fighting over girls? When was the last time you actually saw two boys fighting over a girl? 

This is just the tip of the iceberg.