Cut The Check!

For anyone wondering, this is the fic that inspired this post.

And what's crucial about this, what a lot of white fans want to ignore, is that the AO3 mods absolutely refuse to take these fics down. The creators, runners, and supporters of AO3 are largely white and largely apathetic to the various ways that Black people get dehumanized. Just go through any post made by AO3 defenders and they're more willing to argue about sex and purity than the myriad forms of violence that white (women, mostly) will engage in to dehumanize Black people for their personal enjoyment. It's chronic. It's racist. It's absolutely flooded AO3 and the mods cover up their antiBlack apathy (or outright antiBlack antagonism) with claims that doing anything about this is censorship. They fully and wholly believe that """fan engagement""" is more important than racism--if anything, they don't think it's possible to even have fan engagement without virulent antiBlackness.

"I never said pilot."

this is your daily reminder to appreciate sam wilson thank you