Come to the mall with me, Koichi. I'll pay you.

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the 40th anniversary album of les mis pre-order is out, and on this, jordan shaw (the black actor playing enjolras) has been replaced with a white actor. the entire thing is directly recorded from the stage 40th show, and yet they've cut out jordan and replaced him with james gish. ONLY jordans songs have been changed!! no shade to james because he's also extremely talented but hes not jordan? he didn't play enjolras in the 40th? and the fact that only jordans songs have been changed makes this just UGH. this is terrible and we need to do something about it

i am also not the type of person to say "we need to do something about this" and stay silent, so do something! I sure as hell am!!! make a fuss about this!! post about it and yell about it and find the "contact us" page on the distributor form, and if you're feeling kind, shoot jordan a kind word on insta at jordanshawuk. this is bullshit and something needs to be done.

He has the one and only 24k gold Koichi chibigurumi.

"fandom etiquette", in THEORY, could work. it discusses what is and isn't okay for people to do concerning how to behave towards others and their fan works. an example is the "ship and let ship" mentality

why i said "in theory" is cuz it doesn't. because people are still like super racist and super misogynistic, even BEFORE 2020

the glorification of pre-2020 fandoms doesn't fly well either for this exact reason. did 2020 allow "normies" to access fandoms, therefore making fandom more unbearable? sure. but before that it was still hell on earth if you weren't a white male.

... i don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but when we think of what demographics of people this "fandom etiquette" affects, the first people we think of are white people. because poc are either nonexistent or hiding so they aren't harassed off of platforms they thought were for everyone. nope. its for the white people to obsess over their own fictional white/pale people.

and, from i've seen personally, none of this "fandom etiquette" talk concerns racism. like it never does. it only concerns "ooh dont harass people over their ships ooh don't harass people over their fics" which are fine i guess but those are barely important in the grand scheme of things. we need to look at the bigger picture

we're talking about making sure people feel welcome and safe in fandoms, right? or does it just apply to the average white person obsessing over their white gay yaoi?

so. until poc, ESPECIALLY WOMEN OF COLOR, feel safe and welcome in fandoms, until people grow the balls to call out racists and kick them out of fandoms, until people are mature enough to discuss racism in their fandoms without getting squeamish and defensive...

"ok well how can we fix this!" by letting us exist and enjoy the same things as you and not being racist or weird about our nonwhite existence let's start there. you people looooove to talk about being inclusive but are the same exact people who will disregard a black person talking about racism/a racist person in fandom because "they were being mean". you love to talk about being antiracist but are the same people who will say or just agree with the notion that black people can't cosplay white/pale characters because "they're not black". shit, i don't care if this is a reach, but you may be the same people who agree with or just simply don't care that a black cosplayer was genuinely harassed to suicide.

doodles frim todaaaaaaay

mostly au stuff

Cute boy, sleepy boy.

Low effort Koimaid.