Doin My Best

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

is nowhere to be found for people of Iranian descent so excuse me if I didn’t care when Crazy Rich Asians came out. The Asian community has already had Fresh Off the Boat and other shows, and my white American friends love watching K Dramas. I myself watched a Chinese historical soap on Netflix. I just don’t think that Asians have a problem with representation- especially positive representation. I have never seen even one Persian character on a TV show. Nope, not even a sassy best friend. Never once.

I didn’t realize how much the following would affect me.

So I clicked on this thumbnail because I care about how mainstream media are reporting the recent propaganda by the Bolton and Pompeo administration. I did NOT expect this 2-parted joke.

For context, he was showing a news clip in which a reporter said “There are Iranian fingerprints all over this tanker” or something like that.

I wasn’t even mad. I’m used to Iranians getting lumped together with Arabs. But I still automatically said to my fiance, “Hummus isn’t Iranian.” Then Trevor went on…

I lost my shit. I couldn’t believe The Daily Show *didn’t* just stereotype a country of 80 million people by saying we eat hummus.

But not only that, he used a Farsi word, sabzi, something we actually eat! And then he shamed the audience for laughing about the hummus, and knowing nothing about Iranian culture.

I was giddy the rest of the night.

There’s no representation for Iranians in the media, so this tiny, stupid joke made me incredibly happy. I felt seen for the first time ever on TV. Thank you Trevor Noah.

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I'd ship it too, but I also want to theorize a bit because we have next to no actual info on what they have between them behind closed doors. (learned my lesson with Paperhat, never again) Three ways this duo could go:

All canonical content for paperhat was nothing but Black Hat abusing Flug. The fandom was the one that put on rose tinted glasses and romanticized it.

Black Hat never did what Ozzie did

Ozzie cuddled with Fizz out in the open

Ozzie put Fizz’s well being first after Millie hit him with the guitar

Ozzie never once hit Fizz and when he got pissed at Millie and Moxxie, Fizz showed no fear of that anger being turned on him

Black Hat;

Smacked Flug for bringing him water

Rearranged his bones just to summon him

Calls him mediocre and a failure constantly

I’m not sure what ‘lesson’ you mean here. I suppose you mean learn not to to let the fandom look at things through rose tinted glasses, but you can’t act like paperhat was anything but canonically abusive. Especially compared to Fizzarozzie. I’m sorry if I sound rude but I was very negatively affected by the Villainous fandom and their view of paperhat, acting like none of the canonical abuse existed or that the abuse was hot. That’s kinda the premise of the ship.

Acting like Fizzarozzie could go down that path would imply that the fans were justified in their interpretation of paperhat.