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The lack of Mel centric fics on A03 is really dissapointing but I'm not surprised. Also why see they all focused on Jayce and Victor? Or them as a ship?? All of them are centered around Mel in the disposable Black Girlfriend trope.

thelanguiddreamer

The Mel Archive at least has some options - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/MedardaArchive

Unfortunately a lot of arcane fans don't know how to tag so it's always hell finding fic about HER. But it's out there.

leaving-fragments

woosung - phase me teaser

#this man has never released a bad song #woosung #beloved

tranquilitybasemoon

06.01.1986

Happy birthday, Alex Turner!

#beloved #alex turner

moonlightlia

*crying*

fuck cube. disrespectfully.

#for real tho

flakevintage

Janet Jackson - I Get So Lonely

#kid me was so obsessed with this song lmao #what did i even know about loneliness #janet jackson #queen

nightlilly0110

“People ship Jayvik because they think Jayce and Viktor have more chemistry than Jayce and Mel”

and

“People ship Jayvik because they dislike Mel due to misogyny and racism”

and

“People ship Jayvik because they want mlm representation and can easily find it in two business partners that are close friends and have history”

are all statements that can and should coexist.

These are not interchangeable. Some people ship it for the wrong reasons, yes, but the wrong reasons are not the only reasons.

thisislostinlace

Tell me why this happens whenever a lead is Black? Why even when it's a male lead. Nobody shipped Diggle x Ollie in Arrow it was Olicity forever until it murdered the show. But Diggle and Ollie's relationship was the heart of the show for 8 years. Same for Sam and Buck in thier show, he'll or even Sarah and Bucky, who is Sam's sister. Nobody is shipping it.

When Andrew Garfield suggested a Micheal B Jordan as a male MJ people shat thier pants over a bisexuality Peter Parker, and Black MJ. No fandom content was created and the biggest takeaway was that people were grossed out and disgusted by MJ being Black.

Don't believe me, research what Zendaya has to say about it.

This exposure of antiblackness in fandom spaces which is mega exposed when romantic leads are black women started about 15 years ago when the pilots for True Blood, Merlin (BBC), and Vampire Diaries aired and professional critics and high volume content creators lost it when the lead actresses for Gwen and Bonnie Bennett weren't immediately killed off and replaced. When confronted about the quality of thier performances their haters suddenly fell back on these excuses:

NO CHEMISTY WITH MALE LEADS OR THE REST OF THE CAST: they were casted because of thier chemistry reads

Badly written characters: this coming from monster of the week shows were secrets were kept about super powers

Bad female characters: the female villains were mass murders, sadists, and one note woe is me characters

Badly written black characters: they were token characters who were they being compared to...other token ass characters??

Their love interest have more chemisty with their same sex best friend!!!: well that's what happens when you underwrite a love interest and have their friend spend the vast majority of thier time with the male lead but here we a bigger problem.

Who should write the story? The professional storytellers who know exactly what's going on, why, how, and when certain narrative events will happen? Or should the fandom have their demands met?

Fans should never ever ever demand anything from content creators. Content, yes. But not creators. First, creators have very little say over the finished product when there is money involved or a production cycle. Secondly fans tend to forget, well at least non black fans do, that if you don't like the narrative, you can leave. That rectangular hole in the wall can be used at any time. I'm being serious. If the official content hurts more than helps, for your sake leave. I left so many shows and fandoms once the black character was killed or never started fandoms if there are no black women. Why would I spend my precious free time and energy only to get kicked in the teeth AGAIN? For me it's a bye bitch or a never-hello to begin with.

Black fans, particularly Sci fi/fantasy female fans are used to being excluded, overlooked, mocked, written out, ignored by fandom content, and mainstream fans in and if themselves. In every poll or survey for any of these shows when asked who is the character you most dislike, it will always be a black character. Always, doest matter who best-friendly, how subservient, how useful, or what ever the character is. The audience will ALWAYS see a black character as annoying, shady, manipulative, selfish, self centered, and just not up the most woobified white leads ass enough. Every fucking time.

Non white characters are never thier own leads, unless the cast is of the same ethnicity. Ever. To have nuance, the full scale of human emotions has always escaped minority characters. So here for Arcane, Jayce isn't white and he loves Mel who never once manipulatived him? What did she get out of it...dick? I mean she offered a grown man options that were already there and asked him to choose time and time again. It's not Mel's fault Jayce likes to go rouge.

If anything Jayce manipulated Mel several times and got hugely rewarded for it. He put her on the spot for Hiermerdinger's expulsion and for the vote for Zaun. BuT WhAt AbOuT tHe OpErA???? You mean, again, where Mel offered options about deal making in politics and explained the carrot on the string theory and JAYCE WENT ROUGE AND OFFERED UP HEXTECH AS AN IPO WITHOUT THE PUBLIC NOTICE???

That was the most currupt thing he did all by himself but Mel, who by the way is flabbergasted or just agast at his actions, gets the blame for it. Which happens to ALL black characters by the way. They are always held responsible for other characters reprensible actions.

So why doest the Jayvik fandom say anything? Because the Jayvik fandom hates Jayce. They are Viktor's fans. They tolerate Jayce for his supply truck build and good looks, but hate everything else about him. Unless he dotes on Viktor, then he is behaving and therefore tolerable.

Which is why he's own curruption that he is solely responsible for gets blamed on Mel. Because Viktor would never, and therefore Mel an evil seductress can be blamed for a grown man's decisions. Don't believe me about black women being written out of their own narrative think back to the jokes you laughed at on Mel's expense when Jayce went to visit Viktor at the hospital.

Now think about what you were thinking when Jayce apologized to Mel when he went back to her in the next episode. Did the cheating jokes become more or less funny when you realized that Jayce had fallen for Mel right before the time jump and Mel had grown an interest in Jayce during the trial? So the whole forced het, forced relationship argument doest work because it started at the trial really?

Or did the jokes fall entire flat when you realized that yes, Mel, is the only one who got a genuine un -promted apology from Jayce.

I doubt it. Because Jayvik fans don't want to realize that the painting scene actually happened, or that Mel manipulated Jayce into being there...or whatever instead of realizing that Jayce is there of his own volition, and never wanted to leave. Mel is...wait for it...getting written out of, ignored, and mocked out of her own narrative by fandom.

See the pattern now. Great! Now imagine almost 2 God dam fucking decades of this. And don't you dare hide behind the lack of mlm content because it happens there too.

#tell 'em #it highkey amuses me how many jayvik fans legit despise jayce #like it's weird if a ship requires one to ignore half the character's personality or established traits or canon actions #but that's okay do you #misogynoir #none of this is new #we have been here before

Hey, just wanna say that I've been a fan of your blog for many years even though you hardly post anymore. 😆 I remember you posting about Mamamoo and Hwasa but just saw it as stuff you like and nothing more. That was until the pandemic where I kinda got into K-pop as a whole while working remotely. And MMM became one of my faves with Hwasa being my bias because of her aura and music. And now I'm obsessed and looking forward to her comeback in a 2 days. So now I get it. Lol

YAYYYY

I LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT FOLKS GETTING INTO HWASA. I'm so hype for her comeback. I feel like I mostly post about it on Twitter though. I've been thinking of coming back here but Arcane has taken over my life recently. But hopefully soon. I miss posting about music!

Thank you for the message <3

Happy 55th Birthday Jeff Buckley

November 17, 2021

#jeff buckley

naevarii

someone suggested I draw hwasa

#hwasa #art

femadols

Hwasa ✧ Vogue Korea

#i'm so proud of you sunshine #hwasa

zesbian

do you feel it? a stirring of the earth? a shift in the breeze? the old gods are awakening, new zayn single on friday

#he owns my entire ass.#zayn

zaynmalikupdates

@zaynmalik: #better smarturl.it/xBetterx

#no one man should have all this power over my ass #zayn

longlivestydia

Just look at all these Ovary Explosive Highlights from Zayn Malik here!!

#zayn malik #truly breaking his back carrying everyone

zjmarchives

Gigi hadid via Instagram

#she looks so gorgeous #gigi hadid #zigi #bless her and the child and z

boneshakerstales

so... yeah, actually, you should #ApologizeToHwasa

So let me get this straight. Non-Korean Kpop fans attacked and vilified Hwasa for wearing Korean clothing using Korean material and design - in a scene from a variety show that had no connection to or mention of Africans or Nigerians and did not mock Black culture at all - for… nothing?

Genuinely disgusting.

The fact that Kpop standom weaponizes Black struggle (and other struggles of POC and marginalised people) for clout and to target idols in this way is unacceptable. It makes instances where there is flagrant cultural insensitivity or worse that much more difficult to call out. Not to mention the harassment and bullying being thrown at Hwasa FOR NO REASON, with people sending her death threats, sexualised assault threats, some filling her Instagram with vile comments, some sending this case to media in the hopes of “destroying her”.