not-a-artist:

For all the talk of tolerance, equality, and treating people like… well, people… Tumblr sure loves to treat characters, with set identities and back stories, like their own personal masturbation aides or tools to push their own personal agendas.



A perfect example of this would be the Nightvale fandom where they continually try to force their delusional head-canon descriptions and images onto characters with set backgrounds, stories, race, sexuality and what not.



Granted that the Nightvale characters have quite barren descriptions and back stories, it isn’t that hard to learn that Cecil is a white, cis, homosexual man who dates Carlos, a Latino male whom is also homosexual.



But what are they to Tumblr…?



They’re an ever shifting mass of clay, similar to the being known as Clayface, that they continually fight, bicker, and dox each other over. One minute Cecil is a white twink, the next he’s a genderqueer disabled PoC, and no matter what you say or do, the Fandom tears itself apart and ruins the show by treating these characters as mere things.



You can actually see a good example of this here: http://pan-ismyhomeboy.tumblr.com/post/71129065816/pocecil-trans-cecil-cecil-chub-love-club



They don’t treat it as a fictional person—a character made by another, but an ever morphing creature that they can use to force their own perceived idea of diversity down others’ throats.



Don’t get me wrong, I won’t deny that certain items need more diversity in order to appease certain groups, but to use someone else’s creation for your own needs is quite sickening and even a tad creepy. But, then again, this is also why people who do this should be viewed as a cancerous, vile tumor that spreads throughout a fandom and forces others away from it.



But it isn’t just Nightvale, you also had SJWs do this with the MLP fandom and the African zebra pony, or people in the Mario fandom with various non-human characters. They just can’t accept the fact that characters, like people, are more than their base points, like, race, sex, gender, religion, skin color, and what not… there’s so much more to them, but just like the SJWs, they continually boil these characters, like people, down to their core points of race, sex, gender, and skin color.



It’s a sickness for them, really.



Instead of making their own works, where they can make the characters exactly how they want them to be, they rather usurp someone else’s creations, or actual people, and morph them into mere token characters based around their melanin levels, sexual preferences, and gender. And if you question this, especially if you’re in the fandom, you are committing some fandom faux paux that’s worse than any actual crime.



It’s, in all honesty, a fetishization of the same exact minorities and PoCs they want to help, but instead of helping they make copyrighted characters, and celebrities, into their own personal fap folder.



A disable this, a black that… ooh, maybe a gay him and a demisexual her!

It’s to the point, though, for some, where it’s as if they’re trying to justify their false identities and labels in hopes that others believe them when they’re spouted. But, ultimately, it’s plain racism and sexism. That’s all anyone, who isn’t obsessed with a person based on their disabilities or sexuality, can say about how these fandoms act.



So, in the end, all I can say is that this is yet another sick and twisted degenerate fetish that, like any social contagion, is taking hold of Tumblr, as they trivialize PoCs and minorities, so that they can cling to some perceived victim complex and superiority complex while stroking or flicking themselves into an social justice fueled orgasm of how progressive and super unique they are.



And, sadly, all they do is reduce people to the core basics, like previously stated, and make these characters into a petting zoo of masturbation material.