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musical-chick-13 · 18 days

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Once again: the so-called "General Fandom History," in terms of which things get held up as Iconic™ or Well-Done™ or Worth Analyzing™ has disproportionately focused on (cis, abled) white men. Some of us would like to not have everything be focused on this one demographic and would, in fact, love to not constantly hear--implicitly or explicitly--how stories about people like us are inherently less interesting or less worthy of telling.

"Remember your history," WE KNOW THE HISTORY. AND WE WANT TO MOVE ON.

#'we BUILT this site you OWE us' I don't owe you shit I didn't come here because of you and I don't have to pay attention to you #I ask again why are you SO BOTHERED by people taking 2 seconds away from literally one of The Biggest Ships Of All Time to #hype up a different interest. why does other people having interests you aren't into make you SO MAD.#and I know how this sounds in light of ME getting mad lmao. and this whole thing doesn't have any like. real-world political #ramifications or something. but I do not know how to explain to people that maybe only focusing on stories about (cis abled) white men is..#less than ideal!!! and how that cannot be the only thing we do!!!!!!#mel's petty era #ALSO. I'm between shows right now so if anyone wants to rec their favorite media that focuses on people of color then give me a shout #(god that sounds like me being performative. that is NOT what I'm trying to do I really just want to further diversify the media I watch.#slash read. I have a to-check-out list that's 10 miles long and I need to find a way to pare it down and the best way to do that is #through recommendations I've found.)

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