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Dedications for my Stranger Things fic?
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Prime having all these upcoming shows lacking Black actors (Black actresses in particular) but filled to the brim with white people, canceled Gen V, a show with a bi Black female lead, and have the rights to many Black led books but hold their adaptations hostage. Hmm....
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In HOTD's attempt at being a more "feminist" retelling, it actually became a more misogynistic one, and I've been aware of that since s1. But now people are surprised?! Please, not today.
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The Hunger Games movies work because it's white actors leading the charge for a revolution, allowing white audiences to relate easily and view themselves as the heroes to narrative, without ever really thinking about it on a deeper level. This could also be why so many of them get upset when you mention the racial aspects within the book, framing it as just being a class issue while ignoring the fact that racism and classicism go hand in hand.
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@sukibenders it’s so insane to me because I always imagined katniss as a Native American (I literally recasted her in my fic to be Native American) but some people can’t actually read into things and hints about the race. Having a white women being a white savior and leading the rebellion is not lost on me or many other people but other people have a tendency to ignore that when they feel represented by someone is known to be an unreliable narrator
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To reiterate my first point, I can bet you that had Katniss been played by an Indigenous actress, she wouldn't be framed in a similar light as she is now, with a lot of white people trying to emulate her. They would definitely be trying to find ways (even more) to paint the Capitol as being right, or frame Snow as some sympathetic villain. This point can literally be displayed by, not only, Rue's death (a character they, for some reason, thought was white even with her description) but also how they treat Lucy Gray, Sejanus, and Lenore Dove, all of whom are played by actors of color. Notice how quickly so many people were willing to sympathize with Snow (often bc he was attractive now), it never fails.
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It's also why they get testy when you bring up the possibility of Katniss being a woc, and how they'll spend hours working through the logistics of why she's not, but won't take the time to analyze how a lot of the political themes in the book reflect in our world today. This is why a lot of BIPOC book fans often find themselves unable to relate to escapist fantasy like their white counterparts, because the fantasy often takes real world inspiration. Hard to escape from something when it follows you everywhere.
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"And I don't want a ghetto wedding," Well, well, well. Can't help but laugh.
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Another assassination attempt...wooooowww
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Lowkey though...I kind of hate that, when a woman is cheated on by her boyfriend or husband, some will go "That's why you should get a girlfriend/need to be with a woman," as if the same thing also wouldn't happen. Like women can cheat too. Our gender doesn't necessarily make us absolved from that. (I could also go into how, often because of misogyny, this aspect isn't talked about much or is waved off because people don't view women as equals, but for another time.)
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Like if this wasn't the case, you wouldn't have so many sapphic women having to hear how, when it comes to cheating, their partner would be fine if it were women because they don't see them as much of a "threat" in comparison, among other things. Or how, for bi men, the possibility of them cheating with women receives less heat than the thought of them with a man. It all just ties back into misogynistic rhetoric, just with people attempting to repack it. I'm not falling for it.
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Some Azula stans make me chuckle because you'll be stating how, even with Azula being groomed by her father and the Fire Nation indoctrination, she still participated in colonization and should be held accountable for that. You'll say all that, and they'll go "But what about Zuko?"...same rules apply. Is there a conversation that needs to be had about how Zuko and Iroh are given more grace and means for redemption in comparison? Yes, but a lot of atla fans, especially some Azula stans, take that as means to just side step over all of Azula's actions, and I don't like that.
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Fire Nation propaganda is a real thing in this fandom because if it's not Zuko glazers, then it's some who love to gloss over just how heinous their acts were. Like the aesthetic of the Fire Nation really has gone to some people's heads.
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N*ah Wyle can choke because how you going to say "support future projects" of the actress who, because of you, has to go look for new opportunities due to being pushed out of her old job? Like, don't speak about Supriya anymore, sir.
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The Boys originally calling out the superhero genre, specifically like the MCU, only to now just following in a similar pattern. Oh, that's that Marie Moreau voodoo right there, love to see it.