Drawing Of Happy Matt ( )

Drawing of happy Matt ( ◠‿◠ )

If I take a night off, people get hurt.

I find I have to mention this to people a lot: the way to check your own fandom racism or anti-blackness isn’t how you react to the flawless POC characters, but how you react when POC characters have flaws. 

Like, I’ve known people who tear down Simone from The Good Place, and when I pointed out that none of her flaws are even close to those of Eleanor, from season one or even currently, and suggested that they should consider whether biases are influencing their hatred for the character, they cited their love for Shuri from Black Panther, and characters like her. Shuri is not a hard character to love; she never challenges the audience to see her in a complex way. She is funny, smart, and never burdensome to anyone.

Myself, I hated Katara from Avatar when I was younger. Now, I am able to identify the internalized misogyny and racism in my dislike for her; I hated her because she was inconvenient at times and wasn’t always nice to the characters I liked. Similar deal with Frank Zhang from Heroes of Olympus. But both of those characters (and all characters) were significant for what they represented.

Fandom racism isn’t just hating POC characters for no reason or ignoring POC ships; it also manifests in the double-standard where we’re willing to forgive white characters for more things than POC characters.

DAREDEVIL (2015-2018) 3.01 — “Resurrection”

oh i get it now so daredevil is about matthew’s simultaneous self-loathing and hubris, the former for finding sanctuary in violence and the latter for believing the city to only be safe in his hands by using that same violence. and then it’s also him throwing his heart to everyone close to him in a desperate bid to be considered worthy both in the eyes of god and to himself. because if he is loved. he is good.

the thing I hate the most about the mcu besides all the atrocities is the fact that it means in the mainstream lexicon “marvel” = mcu and not marvel comics. Every time I see that post thats like “I love people who are surprised that there aren’t men kissing in marvel” I go but there Are men kissing in marvel. There Are. I can show you men kissing in marvel if you come down to my cellar