#bipoc fandom

[dhampirdreamerz]

slight rant abt being BIPOC in the CV fandom

why are castlevania game fans so racist and gatekeepy ? Like just watch nocturne I don’t care that “it’s not accurate “ it’s a cartoon based on a game! I bet you that Pokémon isn’t accurate! And other games like danganronpa and any sonic cartoon . Game adaptations aren’t always loyal ! And that’s alright! It just means we’ve gotten more creative and are able to add on from gameplay.

castlevania game fans are some of the most toxic people I have met on this site! if someone like Netflixvania who cares! They aren’t hurting anyone!

if someone likes the bipoc designs, WHO CARES!

Y’all look dumb asf gatekeeping

what did Netflixvania ruin? Your idea of annette being a white damsel in distress? the fan sexualization of Maria and shipping her with alucard despite her being 12 in rondo of blood? And 16 in nocturne ?

what did WE bipoc fans ruin?

we are just making your game fandom more loving and inclusive to all!

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

I’m seeing people talking bad about carli who btw never did anything wrong to Mia but in fact did nothing gay was best for Mia but loving and wanting Mia with Alison who literally outed her on socials threw her that party she didnt want with people she didn’t know and Alison didn’t care because she really threw the party for herself in way to show off her being good hot gf or whatever but is the fandom seeing that nope because it wouldn’t be typical fandom if they didn’t hate on the bipoc character and condem them for doing the tiniest of mistakes but love and be so utterly understanding for the most basic yt girl/yt character really as long as they find them hot/pretty and definitely if they are wlw/sapphic or even mlm as long it’s just yt character really that’s very basic looking is least interesting character in the show has horrible personality and everything they love them as long as they find hot and if they are queer coded in any way and even if they aren’t queer coded or hot it’s just as long they are yt characters really because it’s always the same yt character good

they’ll be so understanding defend their every move excuses their every character flaw mistake and be the most compassionate forgiving empathetic people ever they can sympathize or just get full on aminisia about their many shitty nasty comments and behaviors but a bipoc oh yeah never them so they have to be held on different standard then yt characters and they’ll never understand forgive them or empathize or sympathize with them maybe bc they aren’t bipoc so they can’t connect or sympathize or understand people that don’t look like them but for whatever reasons it’s always the same in fandoms and I’m so sick and tired of it and y’all not about too ruin this amazing show bc y’all want the poor yt character to get everything again for the million time im film/tv poor my yt fav meow meow character who deserve better bla bla like she didn’t treat Mia like shit when she came back to school and literally outed her it’s exactly how they treated Eric for hurting their poor meow boy adam even tho adam had bullied Eric for 16 mf years it’s always the mf same they acted liked

Eric was the devil in disguise but Adam was the poor baby who got hurt by the evil cruel demon child and didn’t deserve that and deserved better plz I’m still sick to my stomach on how they villinazied vilified and said the most cruel ugliest nastiest a lot of it came down to racist sh*t about him remember how they were same old same old typical fandoms and how they treat bipoc characters and now they acting like cute Carli who they don’t care about murdered their grandma just because Mia wanted her from start not their yt fav character like please even the people who like cam aren’t mad about her doing that to cam but they think they have right to think about her like that or talk about her like that nope they don’t! And saying Alison deserves better then Mia while also wanting Mia with Ali (is ironic) bc their poor yt fav meow meow likes Mia and wants her! Mia never wanted Alison let’s start there and even Mia deserves better then Alison who uses her illness for insta likes!

[qt-pop]

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Captain America as a Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs quote. 

I keep thinking, like everyone, that America is in an extra amount of trouble. We feel like we are seeing the rapid destruction of what little good we had going for us.

And I’ve also been reflecting on how it felt growing up in this country, specifically in a part of the country that wasn’t red, or ‘overtly racist’. I wasn’t experiencing the racism of the ‘50′s so without being able to name what I was experiencing it became a personal problem and not a systematic one. I had great disdain for this country’s institutions but I only had those emotions in short bursts because I couldn’t survive burning that hot all the time. I ended up apathetic and disconnected from almost every part of myself.

What I and other BIPOC know is this has been the standard. We have been living this reality for generations. It is just now coming back around to affecting non-BIPOC folks enough for it to feel like the collective end of the world (verse just the end of the world for a few).

We don’t need a positive take on this time, but I am still finding deep comfort in works by and about BIPOC who can envision a future that is based in community, that supports us all. Where love and connection are ready to grow into the spaces that are left once these institutions come down.

[qt-pop]

QT/BIPOC fandom

In the conversations around the Mackie Debacle (AKA the Variety Bullshit), and a few other conversations I’ve seen, people have continuously pointed out that the majority of fandom is white and straight. It is important to remember that our little bubbles we create on the internet aren’t necessarily the majority, but the minority/majority dichotomy is old and tired. I don’t want us generalizing fandom as something white and straight and toxic, even if that is the true majority.

Fandom historically and presently is a place for those that are left out of the mainstream and canon. It belongs to QTPOC and BIPOC. Of course, it is overrun with white hets, they appropriate everything, but that doesn’t make it theirs. It doesn’t make them the default.

I saw this important post about people justifying the way fandom is based on the fact that its strength is that it is unmoderated. The poster points out how fucked up that logic is and the importance of taking extra care in the spaces we are creating.

Because it isn’t unmoderated, it’s moderated by us. By the collective, by the fans. And the abuse and racism and toxicity make it clear there are systematic issues with the way fandom and fan spaces have evolved.

QTPOC and BIPOC can’t create spaces that are untouched by racism and homophobia, it gets into everything, it’s internalized, it can’t be rooted out by us alone. That’s the work of those that benefit from it. We can moderate our spaces though. We consistently have flourished and thrived inside despicable conditions for centuries. It’s exhausting and we have every right to our anger and displeasure and to voice that. And we have every right to our joy and passions. 

Fandom is for QTPOC and BIPOC