race & culture in fandom - For the past decade, English language fanwriting culture post the days of LiveJournal and Strikethrough has been hugely shaped by a handful of megafandoms that exploded across AO3 and tumblr – I’m talking...https://tmblr.co/ZPNIgwZlZt8Xam00 …
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On another level, I suspect some ppl (albeit subconsciously) assumed writing about a POC-centric fandom = free cookies. Like, there have been enough arguments about POC characters being neglected in fandom that probably some ppl went “aha, nobody can accuse us of that this time!”
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But precisely because so many of those POC characters were done dirty by their canon, fanworks often constituted an improvement by default, even if they were still imperfect - but bc there were still white characters, when ppl did get called out for doing POC characters badly -
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