simping 4 my girl drew

i will never ever be able to forgive rick for smearing piper the way he did. the daughter of a cherokee movie star and the greek goddess of love and beauty had SO MUCH potential and instead of taking the time to research what piper’s culture/heritage could’ve been like he simply decided to slap some feathers in her hair, make her a thief and call it a day

Even worse than the fact he did this is the fact that rather than listening to people who are raising awareness about this, there’s fandom members who refuse to acknowledge it’s bad, continue to include said butchered rep on the basis of preserving canon, and create content with said traits. Sometimes canon is problematic. Sometimes content creators do bad things without realising how bad those things are. We can and should call that out, urge writers to do better, and fandom needs to acknowledge that it’s okay to criticise the books, and the author, the world won’t end, you won’t be forced to stop reading the books. Especially when the fallout of Piper’s canon portrayal is a sizeable number of young people who now believe it is perfectly okay to portray Native people in that way. And that can lead to them influencing their peers and other fandom members, so it spreads. People, especially POC who call it out, often get shot down for calling out fandom racism. It’s become controversial for a blog to say “hey, it may not have been intentional, and I’m grateful for the rep, but this is a harmful racist stereotype and we’d like you to avoid using it”. It shouldn’t be controversial to say Piper’s canon portrayal was problematic. Especially the part where Jason likes her “despite” her being Native. Like her being Native is a trait that would normally make her unlovable therefore he’s a good guy for loving her despite it. We usually use “despite” in situations like: “I love my cat despite the fact he bites” or “I love school despite the homework” or “I love this jumper despite the fact it itches”; it’s used to single out a negative trait that we do not love when making a sweeping statement about what we do love.

drew tanaka is and still is a kid dealing with the trauma of her half-sister dying in a war via self-sacrifice and all at once becoming the counselor of her cabin and having a sudden responsibility coupled with fighting in the war herself and supporting her camp throughout even when aphrodite kids are seen as useless and meaningless to fights but you all brush that off because she’s rude when we first see her and you know what? that’s not valid.

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yay 😍

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When people say Amy is Annabeth (lMAO AS IF ANNABETH FOLLOWS RULES) and Percy is Jake (more like fandom Percy) but in reality, Jason is more like Amy and Piper is more like Jake. Sorry is true, I don’t make the rules.

sometimes i feel the urge to draw piper or think about piper or post about piper and i gotta smack my own hand like no! move on! the piper you know and love never really existed!

my whole blog. we stay projecting, what can you do