A masterpost of resources & posts on how to respectfully draw and represent Piper McLean as a Tsalagi/Cherokee character, and a few posts on the issues with her canon depiction. I am not Native, but a majority of the posts linked here are by Native people.
Note: if you are not Native, you do not get to decide what is or isn’t racist against Indigenous people, no matter how much research you do. Listen to Native voices on Native issues.
Note #2: please do not bombard the creators of these posts with questions unless they say they’re comfortable with it. They are not google. If you have questions, direct them at me or just google them.
- some tips on drawing Piper
- + checklist of what not to do when drawing Piper
- How to Draw Native Skin (Tutorial)
- General How to Draw Native People (Tutorial)
- General How to Draw Dark Skin (Tutorial)
- color picks from Piper fanart vs photos of actual Indigenous people
- on representing dark eyes & Piper’s eyes (archived)
- on Piper and feathers
refs: some photos, more, this blog, you can also look through the Piper tags of my blog, piperisgay, tsiligililimclean, finding-my-culture, etc.
further research on indigenous rep: @indigenousfantasy, @writingwithcolor (particularly this!), justin’s (Plains Cree native) representation wishes, rep for dark skinned Native folks, etc.
why piper isn’t good rep: long post on topic, Rick didn’t even research Cherokee land, also check the rr crit tags, etc.
Feel free to add on, especially Indigenous bloggers! I will edit as I find more. And also feel free to share this when asking people not to draw racist Piper.
this isn’t about drawing specifically, rather it’s about graphics and edits, but something i constantly see in Piper’s tag and in the pjo edit tag. i saw one today and commented on it, actually. OP either deleted it or blocked me.
stop making Piper edits and using faceclaims that are not native. it’s not hard to look up native actors, i promise. there aren’t a lot of them, but it’s still not that hard. if i had a dollar for every single Piper edit i saw with Jasmine Hollins, Christina Nadin, Ashley Moore or some other non-native actress/model, usually a very tan white girl or an asian girl, i’d be as rich as ricky boy himself.
don’t find a pretty tan girl on pinterest and crop it aesthetically and add a few filters to make her racially ambiguous. stop doing that shit.
stop fucking doing it.
