Can you post more PoC girls? (I’m dark skinned South Indian, same as the Bridgerton S2 girls)
This way I can pretend my body has a chance with you even though I know my mind never will.
(submitted by: Anonymous)
I enjoy the stuff I post —I don’t reblog anything that I don’t love in some small way— but even I think it’s too samey-samey.
I get asks like yours every few months, and I always think, “that’s a reasonable request, I’m on it.” Then I start diving into Tumblr search, looking for blogs focusing on BIPoC girls who fit my preferred body type, and I quickly find several issues:
- It’s easy to find blogs full of east Asian girls who are my type. Unfortunately, they’re usually either raceplay-heavy, of full of cosplay and manga.
- It’s easy to find blogs full of black girls who are my type. Unfortunately, they’re usually either thinspo for teenage girls, or vanilla celeb blogs I don’t want to offend.
- I’ve got followers from Sri Lanka to North Africa whose skin tones and ethnicities I haven’t yet had a chance to objectify and encode into search terms, but I suspect I’ll have similar issues with those as well.
(If Tumblr would make Instagram/Twitter embeds function properly on my blog across all clients, I’d pay for their monthly upgrade thingy. That would solve the problem right there… also, Tumblr would make money while increasing my IG usage. Rising tides, all boats, that sorta thing.)
Which leaves me wondering: are there no blogs that are basically “skinny/athletic girls of color”? If you’re out there, blogger-person, let me know… you’ll be in my rotation.