lrt “write what you know.” is not actually an advice because believe it or not, writers DO write what they know. they write what they believe in, they project their knowledge, imprint it on the characters. hence, you can almost always tell when the writer is racist because...

... of how they write the characters did and said.

there was a good thread about how j/kr being transphobic & racist shown through h/p.

this is something i realized after years of writing fanfictions. there is always a little piece of my thought, in every fic i’ve written, whether you realize it or not, whether the characters i wrote are opposite of me or not.