#bipoc fandom

why are castlevania game fans so racist and gatekeepy ? Like just watch nocturne I don’t care that “it’s not accurate “ it’s a cartoon based on a game! I bet you that Pokémon isn’t accurate! And other games like danganronpa and any sonic cartoon . Game adaptations aren’t always loyal ! And that’s alright! It just means we’ve gotten more creative and are able to add on from gameplay.

castlevania game fans are some of the most toxic people I have met on this site! if someone like Netflixvania who cares! They aren’t hurting anyone!

if someone likes the bipoc designs, WHO CARES!

Y’all look dumb asf gatekeeping

what did Netflixvania ruin? Your idea of annette being a white damsel in distress? the fan sexualization of Maria and shipping her with alucard despite her being 12 in rondo of blood? And 16 in nocturne ?

what did WE bipoc fans ruin?

they’ll be so understanding defend their every move excuses their every character flaw mistake and be the most compassionate forgiving empathetic people ever they can sympathize or just get full on aminisia about their many shitty nasty comments and behaviors but a bipoc oh yeah never them so they have to be held on different standard then yt characters and they’ll never understand forgive them or empathize or sympathize with them maybe bc they aren’t bipoc so they can’t connect or sympathize or understand people that don’t look like them but for whatever reasons it’s always the same in fandoms and I’m so sick and tired of it and y’all not about too ruin this amazing show bc y’all want the poor yt character to get everything again for the million time im film/tv poor my yt fav meow meow character who deserve better bla bla like she didn’t treat Mia like shit when she came back to school and literally outed her it’s exactly how they treated Eric for hurting their poor meow boy adam even tho adam had bullied Eric for 16 mf years it’s always the mf same they acted liked

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Captain America as a Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs quote. 

I keep thinking, like everyone, that America is in an extra amount of trouble. We feel like we are seeing the rapid destruction of what little good we had going for us.

And I’ve also been reflecting on how it felt growing up in this country, specifically in a part of the country that wasn’t red, or ‘overtly racist’. I wasn’t experiencing the racism of the ‘50′s so without being able to name what I was experiencing it became a personal problem and not a systematic one. I had great disdain for this country’s institutions but I only had those emotions in short bursts because I couldn’t survive burning that hot all the time. I ended up apathetic and disconnected from almost every part of myself.

What I and other BIPOC know is this has been the standard. We have been living this reality for generations. It is just now coming back around to affecting non-BIPOC folks enough for it to feel like the collective end of the world (verse just the end of the world for a few).

In the conversations around the Mackie Debacle (AKA the Variety Bullshit), and a few other conversations I’ve seen, people have continuously pointed out that the majority of fandom is white and straight. It is important to remember that our little bubbles we create on the internet aren’t necessarily the majority, but the minority/majority dichotomy is old and tired. I don’t want us generalizing fandom as something white and straight and toxic, even if that is the true majority.

Fandom historically and presently is a place for those that are left out of the mainstream and canon. It belongs to QTPOC and BIPOC. Of course, it is overrun with white hets, they appropriate everything, but that doesn’t make it theirs. It doesn’t make them the default.

I saw this important post about people justifying the way fandom is based on the fact that its strength is that it is unmoderated. The poster points out how fucked up that logic is and the importance of taking extra care in the spaces we are creating.

Because it isn’t unmoderated, it’s moderated by us. By the collective, by the fans. And the abuse and racism and toxicity make it clear there are systematic issues with the way fandom and fan spaces have evolved.

QTPOC and BIPOC can’t create spaces that are untouched by racism and homophobia, it gets into everything, it’s internalized, it can’t be rooted out by us alone. That’s the work of those that benefit from it. We can moderate our spaces though. We consistently have flourished and thrived inside despicable conditions for centuries. It’s exhausting and we have every right to our anger and displeasure and to voice that. And we have every right to our joy and passions.