long tangent but y’all have got to stop saying that white washing and “black washing” are equally bad.
when someone lightens up a dark skinned character that has roots of racism and colorism cause you’re saying that lighter skin is more prettier than darker ones. doing that to characters of color is basically erasing the already very little rep in media. That’s Bad.
when someone darkens up a light skinned character that has no roots to racism and colorism. there’s no such thing as opressing light skinned folk. there’s no such thing as “black washing”. most people who do this are POC who want more darker skinned representation in a light skinned world. i.e. darkening Midoriya BNHA’s skin to connect more with him. (btw saying this is an example of erasing his asian race is dumb cause dark skinned Asians exist. dark skinned mixed people exist.)
people who suggest that “black washing” is real honestly don’t care when white washing happens. or they use multiple excuses to justify why this character is lighter when it boils down to racism and colorism.
The largest storm ‘since records began’ is currently building in south east Asia/ the Pacific – its looks like it’ll be skirting the Phillipines and hitting the area around Hong Kong and Macau around Monday the 17th.
This is Typhoon Mangkhut
Those little green lines are islands and countries.
It is LARGER/STRONGER THAN FLORENCE
It’s currently typhoon 10. The highest cataorgoy and equivalent to a category 5 for American hurricanes.
Jfc, pray for South East Asia
Here are some statistics that show how powerful Mangkhut is:
At its peak on Wednesday, Mangkhut became the strongest storm of 2018, with wind speeds of 285 kph (180 mph).
Typhoon-force winds stretch for 270 kilometers (168 miles), which is the distance between Paris and Brussels.
Tropical storm-force winds are expected to extend all the way south to the Philippines’ capital, Manila, and as far north as Taiwan.
On the Philippines’ island of Luzon, more than 30 million people are expected to face tropical storm-force winds.
More than 4 million people are in the path of the most destructive typhoon-force winds in northern Luzon.
Satellite images from Wednesday show the comparative sizes of Florence and Mangkhut.
30 million people. That’s a lot of fucking people.
Don0303 