My Worst Enemies Are People Who Say The Inosaku Fight Was About Sasuke. Like Truly Why Would Kishimoto

My piece for @naminezine ! 

This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

reunion?

“With fandom the kind of racism that you most commonly see isn’t things like racial slurs and hate speech and white hoods. What you really see is a constant communal prioritization of white people and white characters, even when there are non-white characters in major roles. This is a trend across almost all fandoms.”

— Holly Quinn in Episode 22A of Fansplaining

What would your gravestone say? x

i think part of the rsn is that majority of fandoms perception of aomine is persistently negative but treated as Harmless Fun, evident in the frequency of ahomine jokes (even though theres little in the text that suggests stupidity - immaturity+naivety yes but those are not synonymous to fandoms mockery of aomine the “basketball idiot”; im also not keen on belittling others based on how they perform academically, another distorted yet widely accepted as Canon Truth fandom readily adopts. we dont even really see aomine in an academic setting, so all these hcs of how he sucks at school and only attends just to play basketball are unnecessary bc EVEN IF WE WERE GIVEN CONCRETE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS, it shouldn’t even matter???????? his athletic talent+his worth as a person are not connected to his scholastic achievements and the lack of the latter is not grounds to trivialize him)

perhaps fujimakis and fandoms colorist prejudices arent as in-your-face as reos “campiness”; theyre innocuous at face value, but bc fandom extrapolates and blows them up into memes/fandom-wide interpretations, im surprised fandom is still upholding truly baffling, discriminatory impressions theyve had since aomine was first introduced in the manga

fujimaki (and by extension knb fandom) and the relationship with colorism

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