#graphicallyill

@monstersandheartache IT'S SO OBNOXIOUS and it's not like the thing with Clint Barton where they straight up erased Clint is deaf so a lot of people just don't know. Matt is IN CANON blind this is a Canon fact in the show and people are just like well but he's a cishet guy like ok yes but.......unless ur argument is "why is most disability rep cishet white guys" That's not really relevant??? He's still disabled and disabled people get fuck all when it comes to representation and very rarely are main characters but this is HIS SHOW like. Idk that seems like a pretty important fact and erasing to make get like #woke points with people is Fucking awful (but like. People do this with tyrion lannister all the time as if it's not a big deal that he's disabled and PLAYED BY AN ACTOR WITH DWARFISM WHO GETS TOP BILLING. Like. That's a big deal but yeah let's erase that bc tyrion is a guy like. My duuuuudes). And going to @graphicallyill point - YEAH LIKE. and we see him read braille like every episode I think, and Foggy will read stuff out loud to Matt, he's got a shitton of sensory issues like with the silk sheets, and like we literally see him just sit in a corner and scream when his injury with the first fight with the punisher knocks his hearing out bc he can't see now he can't hear and he freaks out. When he's out daredeviling, literally someone hands him a paper and he like aggressively takes it and hands it off to Elektra bc HE CAN'T READ IT. HE'S BLIND. and to make the comparison to Clint again - after the fraction run, they just did a 'hey Tony made Clint super sonic hearing aides so now he's all good' and never addressed it again which is a) bullshit and b) erasure but that's not even what happens here? He's got this cool couple of pages in the comics where he goes over what he can and can't do - he's color blind, he has to fold his money bc with the new printing he can't feel the numbers, he can't tell the differences between receipts the ink isn't raised enough for him to sense it, there's a whole lot of stuff he mentions that's impossible or difficult to do and that translates to the show like. Just bc he can do some stuff doesn't mean he's not blind, he is always blind I'm so. Like why are people like this.

but jamestown was made by the same people who did downton abbey which was essentially Rich White People Problems: The Show so like. Ya kno.

@graphicallyill 😚😚😚 But seriously like ok when you've got a fandom that is 1. As big as the da fandom 2. As old as the da fandom (I mean 8 years isn't like ancient but it's still a decent chunk of time for a fandom to be around) 3. Based around a piece of media written by people with a White Man's Idea of Oppression that therefore makes some stuff in the writing.....less than stellar lol Ur just. Ur gonna have a lot of assholes. Like. A whole lot of assholes. And people are gonna get really nasty in any fandom but when especially when u throw in that third point, you get some serious nastiness. It's just....mess. and u also tend to get vast droves of people trying to simplify characters so u get like fandom headcanons being put forth as canon and behaviors ascribed to characters bc people blow things out of proportion and shit so u get people grouping characters like Alistair, Anders, and Cullen together even tho the only thing they have in common is blond hair, light skin, and the barest of relations to the chantry - and even then, Alistair isn't even blond or light skinned, he's just whitewashed to hell and back by the shitty lighting in the game and the fandom. And they all have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIPS to the chantry. Like at least u could argue anders and Cullen are both sad boys bc of the chantry (altho again. Completely different reasons). Alistair is not a Sad Boy bc of the chantry. Alistair is a Sad Boy bc of a lifetime of being told he is worth nothing and the chantry was only one part of that - and not even the most important part bc u bet ur ass Eamon and Isolde had way more of an impact than the chantry. Like. HE'S NOT EVEN SAD ABOUT THE CHANTRY. AND HES NOT EVEN BLOND OR WHITE GUYS. HE'S JUST BUFF. BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN A COMMONALITY BC NO WAY ANDERS "LITERAL NASTY SEWER GOBLIN" ANDERSSON IS BUFF. Anyways. Mess. And that's just the tip of the old iceberg lol. That's just the tip of the iceberg on how /Alistair/ is talked about, I haven't even gotten into the other two dudes here. Like. I'd like to believe I am a smart person so by this point in my life I know better than to engage too hard with fandom.

IF I HAVE TO REMEMBER THE LITTLE BO PEEP NONSENSE EVERYONE DOES DAMMIT SUFFER WITH ME

@graphicallyill like. I had this "friend" in middle school - we almost came to blows in a library once that's how much we hated each other but we had all the same friends and one day (when I wasn't there) his mom said to him that she thought I was faking my knee pain and one of my friends described it as this guy like exorcism-twisting his head all the way around to stare at his mom before going "if you look at her legs next time she's over, you will see the right one is small and malnourished and sorta freaky looking and the left is perfectly healthy. you can't FAKE a MALNOURISHED LEG MOTHER" which a) the moment I decided maybe he wasn't a complete dickhead b) possibly the funniest way anyone's come to my defense c) is unfortunately a really common occurrence for me bc people are assholes! like. a flowchart of "who gets treated good physically disabled or mentally ill people" would both at the same answer: NEITHER IT SUCKS EITHER WAY and I'm not sure why this is such a hard concept to grasp (i mean I do, ableist society and all BUT STILL)