late to this but as a black tma fan the fact one of the only characters thats near-unanimously depicted as a black woman is the canonically tory real estate agent is ummm well i feel a certain way about it. not only does most of the main cast usually get depicted as white or ambiguously brown but of the couple side characters who are depicted as explicitly black one of them is a reactionary? it really seems like some fans thought they needed to design *someone* as black to not look racist and just picked a side character at random without any thought put into it.
Wait you’re so right. It’s both quite strange and completely predictable, considering that the show peaked during covid and the majority of the fans were young white queers drooling over (gay) representation.
You have a few canonically black characters like Anabelle, and yet fans instead decided to take one of the characters least likely to be black (if you take their canon political views into consideration) and made them black for some reason. Possibly only so that the two Distortions contrast, since it has no other nareative significance from a fan point of view, and Michael is universally depicted as a skinny blonde twig.
Same as making Martin “the police would never do anything bad” Blackwood black
I very much agree with those points but would like to say that I think most Helen-Distortion designs are very, very pretty. Would you say it's wrong to enjoy them?
Idk man i don’t think I have the right to judge that. Do whatever you want just do it away from me
While we're talking about popular fanon character designs that people maybe didn't think through, as a butch lesbian I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fandom deciding Daisy is the only woman in the cast they'll consistently portray as masc? I actually pictured her as relatively feminine while I was listening because of that line about her enjoying having a "soft" flower themed nickname. Did we just decide Daisy is the token butch because she flies into murderous police brutality rages? Because that's not...great.
Yes on GOD!!! I’m almost certain I’ve already made several posts about this exact thing, but I can’t find them now so I’m gonna say it again.
Daisy canonically enjoys feminine things. But the fans wanted to squeeze her into a lesbian pairing, and since she’s known to enjoy violence, they all jumped to the assumption that violence = masculinity. Which is both mischaracterization in regards of her character and just straight up an AWFUL stereotype. SHE’S NOT EVEN A BUTCH IN CANON!
I just had a realization regarding TMA fan character portrayals in general. Gonna make a separate post about it
why did you change your username 😞
Idk felt like changing something. Im still martinblackwoodhater’s biggest fan I just shortened it
pride month means there will be an uptick in supremely unfunny gay homophobic elias jokes, as well as bad jonmartin takes
Is this hating on me I don’t get it