as some of you have maybe noticed i answered a lot of asks tonight and posted a very long essay from my drafts
i wanted to make sure everything was cleaned up and gone because i will be leaving this blog
im tired and do not wish to continue
i know i am leaving things in capable hands and i did have fun for awhile doing this but it became to much
i stopped drawing and i stopped caring about myself which is not great my health is not going to come second behind an anonymous troll blog
but i want to make it clear that im not leaving because of the beetlebabe shippers i am leaving because i am tired of trying to please everyone when its impossible to do so and i am leaving because i want to be myself again
honestly the babe shippers as stupid and awful and annoying as they were, were a cakewalk compared to some of the inhouse drama, and thats something the babes definitely have on us
theyre stupid but they are stupid together
i will miss the fun but i will not miss having to read raes shitty posts or nastis bad takes and i will happily never have to read about smol lydias therapist partner ever again thank god and hopefully ill never have to look at whatever suz is passing off as art any time soon
phew i have been wanting to do that for awhile jesus christ
anyway
dont blame yourselves any of you including the people i mentioned before you folks had nothing to do with my departure i am leaving as an act of self preservation
i honestly feel like a lot of you are better at staying in your lane than you used to be i still hate you of course but hey youve left me alone i can appreciate that
anyway
i just want to enjoy being alive again and pretending to be a 1034 year old dead man isnt really doing it for me right now
as you may know i do not have access to this blogs password so once i log out thats it i am out of here
so i will be logging out after i post this
thank you all for the journey and keep fighting the good fight
remember folks
pedophilia is wrong simulated cp is wrong using it to cope with trauma isnt a good way to cope with trauma trans people are allowed to love themsleves beetlejuice is a jewish coded character and making a poop joke isnt a death threat dont mess with orion listen to bipoc voices never resort to threats of violence dont fuck around with minors rae is an idiot and finally
beetlejuice loves you very much
Thank you all for the support and the laughs over the last few months. No, I will not be dropping any other socials or anything and I do not plan on making a super-secret-super-cool comeback. This is it. I’m going to move forward and I know I’m leaving things in good hands. But also if you ever think ‘wow this is really taking a toll on me’ then please, stop. It’s not worth it. You’re worth more than internet bullfuckery. Anyway. It’s going to be really hard getting back into using punctuation and capitalization, but i’ll get there. Love you guys.
this was written several weeks ago in response to asks i was receiving i am posting it now it is very long the longest i have ever made and it is not very well edited but here it is in this final essay i talk about how shitty rae is about black people in her writing as well as just me talking about how her writing sucks in general lets begin
hello everyone
as you may know i have received a lot of anons in the last week or so about issues of racism in the beetlejuice community both just generally speaking and also within specific spaces
i was very frustrated to not be getting the answers i wanted because i typically do not talk about what i do not see but in an effort to be better about discourse i went looking through discourse from before my time in the fandom and i also received some receipts and information from my followers and from some friends
keep in mind that the voices and thoughts of bipoc are not only incredibly important at all times but in this circumstance it is important that if a bipoc has something to add you listen and learn and be better
i admit that when this happened i wasnt aware of the extent of what occurred and im angry at myself for not doing more at that time and i want to work harder to make sure something like this doesnt go unnoticed again
im a hesitant to talk about months old discourse because i have been criticized for bringing up quote old new unquote but this is very important and i am willing to face whatever comes from to me
lets talk about this
content from our local racist idiot that may be months old but its important
putting my thoughts under a cut to spare the dash but before i begin obviously this is awful
lets fucking unpack this folks
right out the gate op states that she supports artistic freedom but then within a couple words she goes against that statement
being entirely canon compliant isnt artistic freedom and even so if this person has so much respect for canon they wouldnt be out here erasing lydias obvious disgust for beetlejuice in the movie or ignoring lydias age for the sake of shipping that shit isnt canon either
also we love the quick jab at the musical there hilarious we love it dont we because god forbid a licensed and successful branch on a media have any standing in this conversation but whatever
now lets scroll down and talk about the term racebending
the term racebending was coined around 2009 in response to the avatar the last airbender movie a film in which the east asian races of the characters were erased by casting white actors in the three leading roles of aang sokka and katara
whenever the term racebending is used in a negative light it is almost always a case of whitewashing like casting scarlett johansen in ghost in the shell or the casting of white actors of the prince of persia sands of time instead of iranian ones
this kind of racebending erases minorities from beeing seen in media and is wrong
all that being said however racebending has also been noted to have very positive after effects like the 1997 adaptation of cinderella or casting samuel jackson as nick fury in the marvel movies nick fury was originally a white guy can you even imagine
i read this piece from an academic that said quote writers can change the race and cultural specificity of central characters or pull a secondary character of color from the margins transforming them into the central protagonist unquote
racebending like the kind that rae is so heated about is the kind of creative freedom that leads to more representation of bipoc in media which will never be a bad thing ever no matter how pissy you get about it
designing a version of a character as a poc isnt serving to make them necessarily better it serves to give new perspective and perhaps the opportunity to connect even more deeply with a character it doesnt marginalize or erase white people it can uplift poc and if you think uplifting poc is wrong because it tears down white people or whatever youre a fucking moron and you need to get out of your podunk white folk town and see the real world
the numbers of times a bipoc particularly a bipoc that is also lgbt+ has been represented in media are dwarfed by what i as a white dude have seen myself represented in media is and that isnt okay that isnt equality and its something that should change not only in mainstream media but in fandom spaces as well
lets move down a bit further to the part about bullying straight people which is hilarious and lets also talk about the term fetishistic as well lets start with that
this person literally writes explicit pornography of a minor and an adult are we really going to let someone like that dictate what is and what isnt fetishistic
similarly to doing a positive racebend situation people may project lgbt+ headcanons on a character because its part of who they are and it helps them feel closer to the character and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that
depicting lgbt+ subject matter on existing characters isnt an inherently fetishistic action generally things only really become fetishistic when the media is being crafted and hyped by people who are outside of lgbt+ community for example how young teens used to flip a tit about yaoi or how chasers fetishize trans people
but drawing a character with top surgery scars or headcanoning them as trans is harmless and its just another way to interpret a character literally anone could be trans unless if their character bio says theyre cis and most of them dont go that deep so it really is open to interpretation and on the whole most creators encourage this sort of exploration because it is a good thing to get healthy representation out in the world
as for it being used to bully straights thats just funny i dont have anything else on that like if youre straight and you feel threatened and bullied because of someone headcanoning someone as anything that isnt cishet youre a fucking idiot and a weak baby idiot at that like the real world must fucking suck for you because lgbt+ people are everywhere and statistically a big chunk of your favorite characters arent cishet sorry be mad about it
lets roll down a bit further about the big meat of the issue which was when several artists were drawing interpretations of lydia as a black girl which i loved but clearly this person didnt love it because they have a very narrow and very racist and problematic view of what it means to be a black person
and before i move forward i must reiderate that i am a white person and you should listen to the thoughts of poc people like @fright-of-their-lives or @gender-chaotic it is not my place to explain what the black experience is like and it certainly isnt this persons either
implying that the story of a black person isnt worth telling unless if the character faces struggles like racism and prejudice is downright moronic
why use the word kissable to describe a black persons lips now thats what i call fetishistic and its to another extreme if youre talking about a black version of lydia on top of that
the author of this post says herself that shes white so clearly shes the person whos an authority on the black experience and what it means to be a black person right am i reading that right or am i having a fucking conniption
how about allowing black characters to exist without having to struggle why cant a black version of lydia just be a goth teenager with a ghost problem who likes photography and is also black like she doesnt have to move to a hick town and get abused by racist folks she doesnt have to go through any more shit than she already goes through and if you honestly think thats the only way to tell a black persons story you need to get your brain cleaned
you know nothing about the complexities about being a black person and i dont either but you know wh odo black people who are doing black versions of canon characters they fucking know
lets squiggle down just a bit further
so the writer has issues with giving characters traits like a broad nose or larger lips if theyre a woman but if theyre a man suddenly its totally okay to go all ryan murphy ahs coven papa legba appropriation when approaching character design like are you fucking stupid do you hear yourself is that really how you see black men like what the fuck is wrong with you
none of the shit youre spewing takes bravery it takes ignorance and supreme levels of stupidity
do you really think you with your fic where a black lgbt+ woman is tortured and abused where you use the n word with a hard r to refer to her like that shits not okay its fucking depraved and yeah we know you love being shitty but like christ on a bike thats so much
can we also talk about this
what the fuck is this fetishistic bull roar garbage calling this black character beyonce dressing her up in quote fuck me heels unquote are you are you seriously gonna write this and say its a shining example of how to write a black character youre basically saying ope here she is shes a sex icon haha im so progressive and i clealry understand the black experience hahahaha fuck you oh my god
on top of that theres a point where this character is only referred to as curly hair or the fact that the n word is used in the fic with the hard r like thats hands down not okay for you to use especially not in a manner like this jesus christ
oop heres a little more a sampling for you of the hell i am enduring in reading this drivel
oh boy lets put a leash on the angry black woman character lets put her in a leash and have the man imply hes a master like are you kidding me are you for real and what the fuck is with calling her shit like j lo and beyonce do you actually think thats clever at all are you just thinking of any poc that comes into your head for this
also lydia fucking tells this girl that she shouldnt have lost her temper like she got fucking leashed im so tired why is this writing so problematic and also so bad
hold up before i lose my head lets look at some of her own comments on the matter of this character and what happens to her
hi hello youre just casually tossing the word lynch out there in the wide open world as if thats not a problem that is still real like are you fucking unhinged there have been multiple cases of this exact thing happening in our firepit of a country in the last five months alone like how can you still have shit like this up for people to read how can you be proud of work like this in this climate
and also what the fuck is that last bit
what the actual fuck
i dont speak for black people as a white person but you do!? im sorry i had to get my punctuation out for that because wow thats fucking asinine just because one black person read your fic and didnt find the torture and abuse of your one black character abhorrant doesnt mean that the vast majority of people not only in the fandom but in the human population with decency are going to think its okay because its not
i started this post hoping to be level headed and professional but jesus fucking christ this woman is something else white nationalism is alive and well folks and its name is rae
if you defend this woman you defend some truly abhorrant raecism
editors notes
in order to get some perspective on these issues more fully some of the writing by the author was examined and on the whole it was pretty unreadable but i want to just call back to the very beginning of this essay where the person in question talked about holding canon in high regard but then in their writing they just go around giving people magic and shit and ignoring the end of the movie entirely like are you canon compliant or nah
the writing doesnt even read like beetlejuice fanfic it reads as self indulgent fiction you could easily change the names and its just a bad fanfic from 2007
also can we talk about writing the lesbian character as an angry man hater like its 2020 dude and als olets touch on that girl on girl pandering while beetlejuice is just there like here we go fetishizing again wee
i cant find a way to work this into this already massive post but
im going to throw up
okay so thats a lot we have covered a lot today and im sure my ask box will regret it but this definitely should have been more picked apart when it happened
please feel free to add more to this i would love more perspectives than just my own.
At this point you have the inflated ego and arrogance as some babes on here, you and other anti babes blog here haven't done much to really "help" unless making antis that dare question you feel unsafe in their spaces and you let your friends and followers attack them until they leave then thank them for "supporting you" then congrats you did a great job. This fandom was the same before you, leedia, and ew babes decided to "help" stick to shit posting that's what your good at.
thats actually very funny to read
that i have an inflated ego
when my self esteem is at such a critcal low
like
thats honestly more funny to me than it is tragic
i know who youre talking about and im sorry bu that person did that to themselves by not approaching me directly and talking out the beef with me
theyre the ones who pushed me into getting angry and theyre the ones that got upset when people agreed with me that they should have been more rational in their approach to me
theyre probably mad because i blocked them before tlaking ot them which you know thats fair that was a shitty move from me but i just wanted the messages i was getting to stop i unblocked that person and here we are with the messages again
i cant make you happy and i dont really want to anymore
you win though youre going to get what you want in the end stay tuned
"covering my bases now i can be kind of an asshole" "im pretty mentally ill and pretty reactionary and cant afford therapy at the moment" we get it you're edgy and white so you can make excuses for being shitty while you and your friends shame bipoc for being same way. It's ok guys can say you only care about non white people in this fandom when you can use them.
i bet you feel pretty big and cool right now huh
im tired of trying to tiptoe around you trying to make you happy
youre an asshole and if you werent on anon people would tell you that to your face because this isnt how you teach people to be better
luckily i have some really great friends that have helped me be more sensitive to issues so i dont need a cowardly butthead like whoever you are trying to tell me if im a good person or not
thanks for playing i hope you enjoy being bitter about an anonymous person online forever bye
The post about you getting sprayed w the hose made me imagine Beej as a big, fluffy persian cat with color changing fur and weird teeth (a la Wilfred Warrior, the cat from the "MA THATS A WEIRD FOKIN CAT" videos)
the-whxle-being-dead-thing || Hey, Beetlejuice. It's me, Beetlejuice. Not the same Beetlejuice that sent you the first ask to make a point, but I'm another one sending you this ask to make the same point. How are you, BJ? Nice haircut, looks great on you.
hi
im sorry i never responded to this i wasnted to wait until i could draw again but thats probably never going to happen
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