(ask is from a few days ago)
"Please keep this anon if you decide to post as this is more of a rant, but yet another fan (they’re a journalist as well but mostly a fan) was rewarded with a “random” opportunity to become a writer’s assistant for season 3 today. Idk much about them beyond fandom saying they’re trans and they’re a Devil’s Minion shipper/Daniel stan, so here we go again with yet another white person that’ll be allowed near Jacob and Delainey while giving zero fucks about them. But Naomi had to lose her podcast right? It’s all so tiring."
^^ those last tweets are deleted now, it seems (here's a post with the full thread from the time).
I looked into this person myself after getting this ask (my screenshots are below). It's someone who has talked about racial issues before (with DnD and that LotR show, I think??) but....never tweeted about it wrt IWTV, which is insane. Their article for the show that's mentioned in the tweets below also glosses over it in favor of focusing on queerness only. Their novel is about a white witch when it seems like it should prbly be an indigenous story?? I got the feeling this is someone who feels they're doing everything "right" wrt not being racist, but ends up not doing much at all bcuz they're too afraid to step outside a certain comfort zone about it and kinda feels like it's not their fight deep down. Their story about how they got hired too (under the cut) is also the most white privileged thing I've ever read. There's so many ppl in this fandom for the show to pick from if they want to include fandom ppl, yet most ppl picked / named are white ppl who are clueless about the majority of racial themes in the show or fans of color who align with white fandom ideals and won't rock the boat at all about racial things otherwise either. Like u said, we all know what happened with Naomi and the podcast by comparison.
idk. first impression anyway. looking forward to the anons I will get for posting this and calling me a bitch idiot for not being "nicer" and "ruining" fandom for ppl. whatever lol.
if this were me, I'd never have publicly announced this tbh. I get that it's a job account but idk how u can have a history interacting with the iwtv fandom and think this is gonna go well for u once u upgrade to getting a job. wouldn't fucking be me.















