#bluerose rambles

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Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

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Love how Zevran's and Isabela's friendship started all because Zevran killed her bastard of a husband, and now they fuck about it whenever they see each other again. Nobody doing it like them.

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Probably one of my biggest complaints about Davrin's whole storyline is that Eldrin should have been black, I fully expected him to be, and if you don't understand why that's so important or why it would have hit differently then that's on you.

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Writing tip of the day from your resident expert on interracial couples. Please, please, please learn how to stop centering whiteness in your interracial ships! 🙏

What do I mean by that? Well, if you find yourself in a position where your headcanons largely center around what the character of color brings to the relationship but that same focus isn't invested into what the white character brings to the table, then you're centering the ship around the white character! If your headcanons largely focus on all the things a character of color is doing to make the white character happy, but you're not putting in that same effort to ensure that the character of color is treated well and getting their needs met too, then you are centering the ship around the white character!

Mind you, it's not a competition. No one is keeping score of what each character is doing for the other, but it does become glaringly obvious at times when majority of the focus leans one way. It is tied to race —dare I even say, rooted in racism— but don't let that word scare you away or get your feathers ruffled. If you want to improve, acknowledge when you do this, learn from it, and put in the work to develop the character of color's side of the relationship as well. Not always simple for some people, but it's possible.

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The experience of being a Wyll Ravengard fan is thinking how he should have had more fans to interact with in-game as a folk hero, only to realize if you're making any sort of creative works for him, you're the real life equivalent of being his bard.

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Give me more unhinged, evil, and/or morally complex characters of color please. (If evil, then why hot?) If I wanted to see evil white men all the time, I'd turn on the news.

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Early morning salt, I can already tell I'm gonna have to block Ast/arion's tag at this point lmao I cannot overstate how much I do not care about getting even more content for that man. Love the character within the game itself, or how he started off at least, but damn I'm at the point where the disparity between his content and Wyll's is making me never want to touch b/g3 stuff again.

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Back on my bs about fandoms needing to be more normal about characters choosing to be childless, whether it's canon or a personal headcanon. Some people be sounding like the fandom equivalent of bringing a baby into a relationship to fix it when talking about these characters who would not, should not, and honestly have no reason to have children.