#not to gatekeep

[theliterarywolf]

Seeing people wanting to play the I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream point-and-click game due to hearing that the original short story inspired TADC

[atlantisnebula]

okay I lied. I don't want henry creel to be a fan favourite but perhaps simply to be not hated by the GA.

[a-queen-in-chains]

Seeing posts in the general HotD tag of ppl shipping Larygon now that they're running away together when us freaks been here since S2 E1

[cubbihue]

I don't know why. But, on one hand, I understand. I get it. Some people relate to Encanto through other means not like it's original purpose. Like making statements that they see a specific character as disabled, or ND, or with a specific chronic illness. It's like that with every media. You see parts of yourself, no matter the media's intents or purposes, such as a Trans-experience in Harry Potter, or a Queer-experience in a non-Queer show's protagonist.

But on the other hand. Its extremely frustrating.

As a Latine, to see a movie that means so much to an entire generation of Hispanics and Latines, get reduced to something as minute as "🥺🥺 Bruno was outcasted because he was ND" or "🥺🥺🥺 Dolores is literally autistic and nobody is talking about this impact within the movie"

It's.. very very frustrating. In the same sense that Mr. Beast is recreating Squid Game beat-for-beat while ignoring the purpose of the message level of frustrating.

It's like. Encanto is very clearly visibly about Generational Trauma, the trauma that comes from immigration, the displacement of families, the expectations of elders within a Latine family, and the dynamics one must uphold as a Fellow Latine. They literally highlight this with the animated short with the Raccoons.

So seeing these people (Mainly White) grab what is clearly meant to be about the generational trauma inflicted upon children of displaced elders (aka: Immigrant Families) within Latine culture-- and just

Take it at face value? Ignore it? Make "uwu its all about being Gay, obviously~" ?

I don't know how to put it in words. But it is extremely frustrating.

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

There’s always gonna be shitty ppl in fandoms w weird ass ships but that comes with the territory of a popular show. Hopefully s&b becomes really popular. No matter what anyone ships, canon is still going to be canon and that’s that. Don’t gatekeep the fandom though

It is not my intention to gatekeep anything. I merly say that having witness fandom doing shitty things to characters of color before, especially women if they came between their fav m/m ships. I am concern that the same thing would happen here.

If people want to write Jesper/Kaz fics and write lengthy meta that attacks characters they are still free do to do. Me saying that I hope that trend does not carry over into this fandom if the show becomes popular is just me expressing an opinon.

I have read countless posts and articles about how those people in fandom impact real people of color in that same fandom, I am just hoping it does not happen here.

Even if canon is going to be canon that has never stopped the people in certain fandoms that like a specific ship (like st*rek from t**n w*lf) to be absolutly horrible to characters of color. I hope history does not repeat itself for the good people in fandom that will have to deal with that bullshit.

[ringoisbabygirl]

this girl i was talking to said she liked emo music, and i was like okay could you play some? AND SHE PUT ON LANA DEL REY 😭

[gwarden123]

It's really weird listening to people talking about a story who don't seem to realise how popular The Little Mermaid, the original, is in Japan.

Nor how popular home media was in Japan at least twenty years before the story was set.