Selfship spaces, even in the current year, seem to stagnate to the 'default' of thin white person. It's jarring how, for example, a fat person will note the rising fatphobia growing in the world, and seek comfort with their F/Os, only to find all the imagines and fic and art to be thin.
It's always language that denotes thinness and whiteness in fanfiction and imagines. It's always "visible jawline", "prominent collarbones", "thin fingers", "dainty legs". It's always "carded fingers through your hair", "the pink hue of your cheeks", "button nose".
That isn't to say these don't have a place in selfship spaces. Everyone is welcome regardless of gender, race, and everything else. But thin white folk are so used to being the default, to being the only thing worth thinking about, that they don't even pay any mind to the fact their disadvantaged kin are struggling with real life oppression, and go about their day. Some will never acknowledge it, and some will acknowledge it and degrade other selfshippers for that struggle.
When you have the privilege of being the standard in real life, you forget that there are people who are mistreated because they aren't you.
So for all the fat selfshippers, the black selfshippers: You matter. You deserve fat-centric selfship spaces, you deserve black-centric selfship spaces, you deserve to have both at the same time.
It isn't "cringe", it isn't "annoying", and it isn't "entitled" to want selfship spaces to include you. You deserve to be included.
