Cryptid

Mae-ho Aniseya:

Star wars fans hate black women

i was around that fandom at the time the show was airing and it was VILE from all sides. media, irl, tumblr, even people supposedly "defending" her were doing it in the worst most backhandedly racist ways ive ever seen

also,, like despite this being a story about her sister and her, she STILL GETS SIDELINED FOR HER SISTERS Dark ROMANCE. like the narratove treats her soo badly

Taissa Turner:

taissa is not necessarily hated but more ignored. as the only Black main character, she tends to get way less attention than the others. if she does get attention, it's mostly about her relationship with her (white) girlfriend van without any serious exploration of her character. though there are some works including her on ao3, it's mostly her and her gf being a background couple without any further thought to it. if you look through the top posts on the yellowjackets fanart tag, it takes forever until sth about her pops up (mostly her and her gf again). i actually really like her relationship, but it feels like people only care about taissa in that setting. and again, she is a main character with tons of interesting scenes and a lot of complexity that rarely gets discussed. she also has a lot of very interesting dynamics with the other characters and even though the yellowjackets fandom is big on multishipping (and shipping in general) taissa is rarely included in that. she and her canon gf also get way less attention than many of the other pairings (even though they are THE canon lesbians of the show). later on taissa has a wife who is Black btw and pretty much completely ignored by the fandom.. the show is definitely partly to blame for that, since her wife kinda falls into the disposable Black gf trope and the writers generally fumbled tai's story in parts. however, she's still a very intriguing character and other characters with potentially worse writing still get a lot of love. (there are also some instances of her being described as bitchy, too mean or egocentrical when that's literally not true at all. but i can't speak to much on that bc i prefer not to engage with this and i also think it's not a major part of the fandom that sees her that way.)

tai is the heart of the show!! she takes initiative, she moves the plot forward and she gets the job done (the giver was literally written about her… like she is doing the shit the other characters don't want to do, she's a literal self described handy lesbian!! also imo a character that truely understands the relevance of community, always sticking up for others when necessary regardless of sympathy etc) she cares so deeply about the people around her and goes to great lengths to support them some examples: 1. offered to give another character an abortion, so she doesn't have to do it on her own (mind you, they weren't even close or anything atp) 2. lead a mission to get rescue to get her help (they're stranded in the wilderness) for which she literally risked her own life 3. supported said character through the entirety of an incredibly traumatic birth 4. paid for another characters rehab several times without telling anyone or expecting anything in return 5. killed a wolf for her gf 6. joined a cult for her gf yellowjackets is also a show that heavily plays with the question of "is the supernatural real or is there are psychological explanation for all that?" and tai is one of two characters who are really at the center of this question due to her having some form of alternate personality which is super interesting imo like this other personality stems from her being deeply repressed and never allowing herself to be truely seen. she constantly puts on a mask and she kinda doesn't deal with her problems at all. like she's carrying complex religious trauma from her childhood into her adulthood plus all the surival horror trauma she never deals with… idk i love her so much, i think she's deeply interesting and i wish people would talk about her more