the phenomenon of fandom is so weird to think about partly bc it’s like, you can just accidentally wire your brain to feel like you’re doing the worlds best drug when you see an image of harry styles
My personal thoughts on Black x Readers as an African American
You know something that I constantly wonder about? How most (insert character here) x Black!Reader’s are usually dark smut fics.
Like I go to look for a fluffy fic and all I find is y/n getting railed in their sleep non-consensually! These stories always have a bittersweet twisted ending. Now if that’s your thing go off but NOT IN EVERY S I N G L E STORY! You don’t look up x black!reader smut non-con you just look up x black!reader and that’s all that’s there.
In my experience of searching AND I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING, most of the time the fic doesn’t even mention the reader being black or only gives like 1 description like “y/n’s luscious black curls” AND THAT’S IT!
Most of the time the tag x Black!reader feels more like just a tag to get reads rather than an actual attempt at creating more representation!
The thing that I think gets under my skin the most is the fact that most of the stories are FULL of stereotypes about African Americans! The tags almost always have the Daddy kink, choking kink, spit kink, Drug use, toxic relationships, abuse of some sort! Or there are like 40 tags of black Y/n getting SPECIFICALLY violentlyfucked!
OR the story points out how y/n “picked out her huge afro and put on her large hoop earrings” or “y/n put on their Air Jordans and went to see their baby daddy for the child support that he owes” (I’M SERIOUS)!
I just wish that there was more appropriate representation in the x reader community rather than the few good stories that we are given. BECAUSE TRUST ME there are some really good cute ones that have fluff or romantic smut or getting railed BUT that’s not the WHOLE DAMN STORY (and even if it is it’s done in a respectful manner!)but there are so few.
And I can already here the argument “WELL, WHY DON’T YOU CREATE SOME REPRESENTATION YoURSeLf!” I will. Not much will change if I only complain about it and I am aware of that BUT it is not my responsibility to create every peice of representation that appropriately represents my community.
One peice of positive representation versus 100 peices of “representation” can only change but so much.
But then again that’s why I’m writing this post if I want to see change the first thing I have to do is at least bring attention to what I see as the issue.
I think I’m just fully realizing, as I’m half-rewatching the show via YouTube reaction videos…we really weren’t supposed to love Dean. And we really were not the target audience, and by we I mean a much larger segment of folks than you may think. Eric Kripke (and also Robert Singer) didn’t want a bunch of queer OR mentally ill folks OR women OR people of color OR abuse survivors. Hell, he didn’t even really want an audience of macho manly men!
Eric Kripke was aiming for an audience of Eric Kripkes–the kind of whiny pseudo-intellectual nerdbro who finds men like s1 Dean threatening in real life, thinks being rejected romantically by a woman is comparable to real hardship, views any unfamiliar form of intimacy with some base level of suspicion, and expresses disgust at other men’s promiscuity not because he has more “respect” for women (and don’t get me started on the puritanism of equating sex with disrespect automatically), but because he resents that he can’t do the same.
Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.
I wish we had gotten more of Martok and Julian’s friendship. Both bc I like their dynamic and also bc I’m losing it at the idea of someone asking this little twink ass nerd who still has his childhood teddy bear how he knows the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and him saying “Oh, we were in prison together :)”
“we broke out of the a POW camp where I was regularly put in solitary for starting shit”
Some Klingon at a feast or whatever: Chancellor Martok, tell us the story of your escape from the Dominion prison camp again
Martok: Oh, the Dominion tried to break me. They took my freedom and confined me in a small place. They forced me to fight their strongest warriors. They locked me in with an annoying twink to break my spirit,
