#and realkaidertrash21 thank you for talking to me

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an update

Actually I am still upset a majority of the people in the fandom just ignored my pinned post. Like me posting again isn't me suddenly forgetting or anything, I'm just genuinely trying to carve out a space for myself again in this fandom again but I'm genuinely struggling to do that knowing that a majority (overwhelming amount actually) of people in this fandom continue to stan her and are okay with alienating me and other black and fans of color as a result. Which is ironic given the fact that this series is hailed as extremely diverse in its setting and characters and yet the fandom is still so racist and overwhelming white (or subscribed to white supremacy) that their go-to artist for their playlists for characters is a woman who dated a neo-nazi because "she's an amazing songwriter." I promise you Iko and Cinder would not be streaming (or even give a fuck about) Evermore.

A similar thing happened in the fandom in 2015 when Taylor Swift started feuding with Nicki Minaj because she mistook Nicki's critique on the music industry marginalizing Black female artists as an attack on her. Swifties (and lunartics) reblogged on my dash calling Nicki Minaj a g*r*lla and other antiblack slurs I'm not going to list and that caused me to distance myself from the fandom.

So seeing 7 years later this fandom, with brand new people, who are still Swifties, ignore and pretend Taylor never dated who she did, and then continue to openly stan and love characters who are of said race that were harmed by her, displayed extreme cognitive dissonance and made me lose my fucking mind respectively.

I just don't want anyone in the fandom to look at themselves and have the audacity to call themselves an ally to ANY minority if they GENUINELY continue to stan Taylor Swift at this point. You had an opportunity to openly support a black woman who was hurt by your actions in this fandom and not only did you ignore me, you kept stanning this woman who has, to this day, never addressed or taken accountability for who she dated.

And if you run to that blogger asking her opinion on this, I don't care. At the end of the day, other women of color who continued to ignore TS actions implicitly side with her racism and her racist fans and continue to harm and marginalize black women.

And if you see this post as me "complaining," fuck you.

Thank you to the 2 people of color who reached out to me and talked to me about this. It means so much more than I could put into words and thank you for holding space for me.

Ultimately, I've chosen to stay and continue being active because I refuse to let a fandom overlap ruin my experience while I'm here, and know I can still find and build community here that doesn't interact with TS.

Gaia

edited: 17/09/23 all edits are bolded

EDIT: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LMK IF YOU SEE A SWIFTIE BLOG INTERACT WITH MY POSTS. I HAVE ALL OF THEM BLOCKED BUT AFTER THE IS SITUATION I WON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES HAVING THEM ENGAGE WITH MY POSTS. JUST SEND ME AN ASK/MESSAGE WITH THE POST LINK LETTING ME KNOW. THANK YOU!!

#mine #also PLEASE reblog this I want as many people as possible to see this and seriously think about their actions #the lunar chronicles #YES IM TAGGING IT SO EVERYONE IN THE FANDOM CAN SEE IT. IF I AM TERRORIZED BY TS YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS TOO #thank you ellie you were probably my realest friend in this fandom #and realkaidertrash21 thank you for talking to me #very very very disappointed. but this is easy for people to ignore #since they don't have to take any accountability if they don't want to #but I promise you I am not the only person who feels hurt #I am just the most vocal #text #had to edit this because this is misleading