#diversehighfantasy

[fansplaining]

With fandom the kind of racism that you most commonly see isn’t things like racial slurs and hate speech and white hoods. What you really see is a constant communal prioritization of white people and white characters, even when there are non-white characters in major roles. This is a trend across almost all fandoms.

Holly Quinn in Episode 22A of Fansplaining

[skywalkerapologist]

FYI if you would like to tweet directly at the company that made the Comic-Con poster that excluded Finn and Poe, you can do so here: https://twitter.com/IntlTrends/status/1009486868965199874

They’re already getting some heat and are at least replying. It’s good to speak up when stuff like this happens and some R/ylos are already trying to pipe in with “TRUE ART SHOULDN’T KOWTOW TO SJWs” so, y’know, if you have a twitter consider sending them a quick note.

[weiwanyin]

@diversehighfantasy speaking of diversity issues in slash fandom I went through the entire list and is Finn the only actual black character on it (at 94?). I'm not as familiar with the other fandoms but from skimming the ships tagged with characters of color, I'm pretty sure he was.

Fandom looks like fandom.

[proudtoehaver]

@diversehighfantasy

I have been thinking about what you wrote in reply to an ask the other day, in connection to the Rey Solo theory, about why Leia didn’t tell Rey at the end of TFA that she was her mom and I think you’re absolutely right. 

It would make so much sense for Leia not to do it because she was always focused on the bigger picture and setting herself aside, she would definitely want Rey to focus on finding Luke and getting him back. Plus it’s implied that Rey is supposed to bring him back quickly - not what seems to happen, but that was the plan - and Leia can tell her then.

After all, Leia is the woman who after being tortured and seeing her planet destroyed focused 100% on getting the Death Star plans to the Alliance (her own words to the general in charge: “we have no time for sorrows”), then on saving what remained of her people. And who the morning after learning that Darth Vader was her father was set to attack the shield generator on Endor.

And at the end of TFA there’s only her left after all.

Han might have suspected who Rey was, but it’s been 12 years at the least since he’s seen his daughter and he’s a man who’s still in a state of grieving. He’d likely tell himself that he’s imagining it all when Rey seems familiar to him. 

The Kylo kidnaps her and he sees Leia again.

He might tell her his suspicions then and there, maybe not, either way Leia does recognize Rey when she gets to D’Qar. (This also goes a long way towards explaining why Leia ignores Chewie rather than JJ’s weak ass official explanation.)

But she doesn’t tell her because there are bigger things at stake and personal concerns must wait, that has always been the way for Leia.

And I just remembered something from the BTS video from The Last Jedi.

This is Leia and Rey (with her back towards us) and it’s clearly on Crait. Quite probably it’s the first time since TFA that the two of them sees each other.

Leia looks... not quite sad, more distressed and upset. It’s possible that Rey has learned the truth while she was with Luke - or maybe Kylo realized and told her - and now she’s angry with Leia for saying nothing. 

Or maybe she’s suddenly confronted with Rey and has no idea how to explain to her.

Man I wish we could see Rey’s face here.

[ourinquisitorialness]

This might be a stupid question but what is Hu/xlo?

Ah, not a stupid question! Hu/xlo (also known as Ky/lux) is the shipping name for Kylo Ren x General Hux, who you might know better as The Unstable Emo Sith Boy and The Literal Nazi from The Force Awakens.

Aside from the fact that there’s no basis for shipping them together whatsoever (Hux has literally 3 minutes of screentime and probably spends 2 and a half of those minutes bitching about how much he hates Ren) it’s also become a ship that some associate with racist members of the fandom who would rather write slashfic about two white men who literally murder millions of innocent people than write anything about the movie’s men of color – specifically, Finn, who’s one of the film’s heroes but features in sparingly few fics on AO3.

@diversehighfantasy has written a lot about the subject, which is mostly how I know about it as an issue in fandom. You can read their opinions in their fandom racism tag if you have an interest in the topic.

tl;dr “ship and let ship,” but I personally don’t see any basis for Hu/xlo and I can see why others have pointed it out as symptomatic of deeper problems within the fandom.

[fandomisnotyoursafespace]

http://halfhardtorock.tumblr.com/post/158029905903/solacekames-diversehighfantasy

The very URL of that post is a shitshow. A woman who used to drool in public posts over her prepubescent son’s friends, turned anti. A blog created by the biggest wankers in Star Wars fandom to harass people who don't ship what they ship, under the guise of "anti-racism." And an asshole who unapologetically defended a serial harasser, abuser, and blackmailer because they’re on the same SJ "team."

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Um yall know DHF is biracial right? Not all of us look like Laura Harrier or Zendaya. Is Meghan Mariel a white woman too? I’m not white passing but my sister is. We still gotta black dad. Yall anons be way out of pocket with this mess.

You know I didnt actually know that but you right about the anons.

mod velonius

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

How is diversehighfantasy black? She's really pale and her lips are white ppl thin. I feel like she's a white person trying to fake being a PoC and getting mad on our behalf while benefiting from the system.

Uhmmmm....you do realize that Black people come in all shades and while there are dominant features within our race everyone doesnt have them.

I dont think she is race faking just off that. I could be wrong but I'm like pretty confident that I'm not wrong about her race faking.

mod velonius