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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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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- they didn’t need to deal with that criticism to stay engaged in the fandom. They could just go “well fine then, it’s too hard, I’ll stick with the white boys” and leave in a huff. But they can’t do that in a fandom with *no* white characters, and it’s confronting.
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