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Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

the doctor says she’s fine otherwise though; no concussion, no symptoms apart from her total lack of memories. nothing to do but rest and wait for them to come back, he says, shrugging like the massive dearth of identity - the black hole in her memory spanning from the beginning of her life until precisely twenty minutes ago - is something he can just shrug off.

he takes her home though - Johnny, her husband, handsy enough as he leads her out of the hospital that she has to imagine he’s done this with her before - and drags her to bed the same day, brushes off all of her concerns by reminding her that his hands and lips only feel unfamiliar because she took a tumble and shook her memories loose. they’ll come back to her eventually though, and won’t she feel silly then trying to bat her own husband’s hands off her when he was so worried about her.

(that’s not the truth though, is it? but how is she to know that he just wandered in off the street, a stranger in the right place at the wrong time. was in the hospital for some other reason - couple stitches after he nearly cut open his hand doing a bit of work in the yard - when he spotted her unconscious form as the paramedics wheeled her in on a gurney and just followed them to her room, lying through his teeth the whole while. couldn’t believe his luck when she woke up and couldn’t even recall her own name.)

but seriously I wanted to write for Zuko and a reader who told him, while drunk, that if he was married to her, there will be no way that one child is enough. She'll climb him everyday, any time, that other people would be the ones to tell them to stop having kids. That doing it raw everyday is not a competition nor an achievement. 😌 That they are already the father and mother of a nation, they don't need to create another one related to them by blood. She was so wasted that all Zuko could do is blush and stutter. A Fire Lord who were caught off guard by the person they least expect to share such bulgar unfounded promises.

Sharing a bit of the stuff I've written already so I won't forget huehue 😋

“college is absolutely nothing like this” “why are we writing four people on the team scoring a hat trick in one game” “so tech work is nothing like this, hope that helps!”

listen, I respect others’ opinions even if I don’t agree with them, as long as they’re not disrespecting or harassing anyone. so this is not to throw shades at op. but a gentle disagreement and a reminder that, while people can absolutely do whatever they want when it comes to fictional characters (as long as they’re not harming anyone in real life), the point of shipping has never been about whether or not the ship is canon. for decades, the point of shipping fictional characters is that it’s fun. that’s it. that’s all. there are so many ships where characters aren’t even from the same source material and therefore have never met in canon.

I’m not telling you or anyone what to do, but as someone who’s been in fandom space for so many years (way before tiktok became a thing), my advice is: you will find liking fictional characters, shipping and engaging in fan contents so much more enjoyable if you don’t treat canon as a rule, but a suggestion instead (so whether or not you will follow canon, how much of canon you will follow, if any, is entirely up to you). don’t let canon limit and dictate what you can or can’t enjoy.

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