I like to stay out of drama but this bothers me:
why do people feel the need to address “underlying problems?” Like girl, it’s a fandom, everything’s imagined, there’s no “people mischaracterizing” like, it’s always Adler for example “he’s evil and you can’t make him a loving husband!” NEWSFLASH! HE’S A CHARACTER people can make him whatever they want, Adler could turn out to be fucking J-lo and do a god damn backflip! And people always get on the shit of like “well you read Adler wrong, he’s not this way so I don’t take you seriously” like hello?? I don’t even know you, so who cares, you’re not the ruler of all things Adler.
second people complaining about underlying racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia. Like I understand those do exist, there are posts made that are blatantly racist, and homophobic and so on. But for the most part?? Like if you think people only like the white male characters maybe get off the tag for them and go make posts for the other characters?? Like I know my blog is usually on white male characters but i just favorite those characters, that doesn’t make me racists?? Just cause Graves says some mocking shit to Mexicans I’m not “internally racist” I’m a fucking Mexican?? I will admit some characters don’t get enough love, for example, Gaz, but sadly he’s kind of a token black guy and activision doesn’t really give him enough attention (I never played MW1 reboot so maybe they did in that, but from what I’ve seen he’s just there to be pretty). And for people calling out these words, it’s like the boy who cried wolf, like I don’t take the claims of racism, or homophobia, or whatever else seriously anymore because everyone says it 24/7 like I definitely care about those things but we’ve overused it so much. And I promise you I’m not any of those things, I’m Bi myself and a raging feminist.
overall I guess the point I’m trying to make is people are kinda just making up “underlying problems” because we’re bored and they want to seem deep and it is problematic(woah am I doing it too….) because we’re all becoming numb to this accusation. We should hear “that persons a racist” and all be very alarmed because THATS NOT OKAY but we’re pointing out things that aren’t racism, or whatever else, just because we’re bored.
like we don’t need to create discourse, we can all just draw hot ladies and gentlemen and write silly little blurbs. That’s the point of a fandom, not to fight. We’re supposed to be a little community, not blaming each other for “underlying” shit every second
btw this is aimed at nobody, I promise, like I’ve been seeing so many of these, and no hate to anyone who points these things out, but I just wish we could have more positive and less accusing additions to the fandom. Like I’m sure you all have wonderful ideas.
I love you all, give urselves a lil smooch for meeee cause it’s almost valentines dayyyyy