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angorwhosebabyisthis · 2 years

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[racism mention, extremely violent fatphobia after the cut cw]

eight is a really interesting character--much more so than the writers intended him to be, tbh--and it's a real shame that both the authors' racism and the fandom's behavior drove me away from getting invested in him for so long.

the racism i was just like 'wow this is beyond me to even begin to unpack at this point in time. jesus.' but also. the entire fandom using their love for them as a reason to make endless rabid hate posts about your fave, in many of which they fantasize about 'slitting open the fat bastard's belly and gutting him like a pig,' and getting dozens of notes for it will put you off a character a little bit. just slightly 🤏

#LL tag #the salt files #fatphobia cw #gore cw #it is really fucking bad be warned lmao #LL number five #LL number eight #there were other reasons including 'hit saturation point with navrina within a week of joining the fandom'#'and it took years before it wasn't in Near Every Single Post and Fic; five hate aside but also in a large majority of the five hate'#but uhhhhh those were two of the biggest ones lmao #like i still don't know how far i am equipped to unpack his deal because of the landfill-sized can of worms that is #everything to do with the vish/nu natio/nalists. because holy shit lmao #but it is at least less general sense of Wow This is More Racist Than I Know How to Even Begin to Put Into Words these days #and also he has more parallels/foils with five than they meant him to tbh #let him get past the stage of 'i feel guilty for tricking people into revering and dying for me because i was lonely'#'and then abandoning them'#and then hit 'holy shit i was pressured; manipulated; adultified; and dehumanized'#'by being used as a figurehead for an extremist right-wing terrorist organization'#which like. i don't know how to tell these authors that making your main rep for brown people a religious terrorist organization #is still maybe a little bit deeply fuckin racist even if you go It's Okay They're Our Buddies!#and in fact the way it plays out is kind of a hundred times worse than if they hadn't #i can't accurately say i wish they had gone into it either way because jesus christ with these people can you imagine lmfao #but like. still #racism cw #LL crit tag

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