this is a vent account and nothing else

I just can, I enjoyed this stupid fic from start to almost finish, grinning like an idiot and then that poly bullshit just gets vomited into the fic?

Unfriendly reminder going online and harassing Jorge or Tayla or anyone on the cast or friends and family of people involved makes you a shitty person. That is an objective fact.

This is a personal issue that should be dealt with privately and we the fandom should act like we're a part of this unless there's explicit evidence that the fandom is a relevant party

The debate about Ariel needing to be white stems from the fact that the original book she's Dutch. In the both animated and live movies she has never been represented as Dutch, in both movies being Dutch has never been an important factor. The most important part of her race/ethnicity is the fact that she's a fish.

Now it can be argued that her being white in the live movie matter because it has real life cultural influences, sure but non of them are Dutch, and more importantly she's still a fish.

The most important cultural influences in the movie are aesthetic and musical.

What I would like to know is why the people saying Ariel being white and Dutch is important are the same people saying it doesn't matter how white washed Sumeru is?

Sumeru is deeply ingrained in Middle Eastern, Indian and Egyptian culture, but the same people claiming Ariel should be white claim that "it doesn't matter if they're white its literally fiction".

Sumeru relies heavily on real-world cultures, every single region in Teyvat does. Everyone else seems satisfied with their representation but why did we get the short end of the stick.