z33r0:pandorasprings:wolfwum:ivynajspyder:fantasticallyperfectass:wolfwum:Hello, Night Vale Fandom.
z33r0:pandorasprings:wolfwum:ivynajspyder:fantasticallyperfectass:wolfwum:Hello, Night Vale Fandom. I’ve noticed a lot of people directing harassment towards POC fans over their dislike of white Cecil headcanons. I’ve also noticed a lot of people expressing their adoration of how “different” the headcanons for Cecil are.Well, here’s a breakdown of all the Cecils I’ve seen today in the tag (excluding cosplay, including fancasts). White fans, I want you to take a look at this and really understand that you’re not being left out. POC fans are irritated that, once again, the fandom has defaulted to white—defaulted to white on a character who had absolutely no description of him, and all of the “different” versions of white Cecil honestly portray the same guy just in different art styles. And this is only over the span of twelve hours.Just because a headcanon is popular doesn’t mean it isn’t problematic. Be more mindful and creative.You know what is just the best? This probably won’t get a lot of notes outside of Night Vale fans of color. White fans will see this, feel victimized, and ignore it in order to go fanwank over more blond Cecil, because it is more probable to them that a man in a desert town has tentacles and three eyes and is white, than it is for him to be Native, or Black, or anything but a jar of fuckin’ Mayo.There’s your fuckin’ unpopular opinion.Oooh nice someone else did this too :O I had debated posting mine but now is as good as ever, I hope that is okay? I had a pretty big sample size I took over several days last week or so.Actual number breakdown:White: 560Brown/Tan: 52Black: 11Asian: 13Native American: 8Other/nonhuman skin color (blue/green/gray/etc): 44I’m not sure, is this a better or worse ratio of white to POC than you see with casting in Hollywood…?Aaaaaand, if you’d like a bigger sample size :)i don’t listen to nv but this is important. what’s interesting but not at all surprising is the non-human skin color is greater than black/asian/native all put together.Not going to lie, I defaulted to white in my own head, but this may be only because the first comic I saw had Cecil being white.. also yellow eyes. I have never actually seen an Asian Cecil. I only balk at a portrayal when I see the artist has given him salt-and-pepper hair or like white streaks, which just seems weird to me because Carlos has it too and just.. idk.. It’s super cringey though, that white people are up in the faces of POC over being irritated at too much white cecil. Come on guys, ffs, this is a good fandom and I want to keep being part of it and be able to be proud of it, this means you need to not suck at life and not be all white tears and shit okay? Welcome to XKit.Please wait, initializing the XKit Installation Tool.Depending on your internet connection, this might take a few seconds.Please do not navigate away from this page. -- source link