Everyone’s always complaining about the white, blond Cecil headcanon but I think it’s beautiful we have one of those. Like, a “standard” Cecil. A guy with almost white hair and purple glasses or something you can see in a drawing on your dashboard and automatically say “hey, that’s Cecil”. Because we created it. We have almost any description of what he looks like and still the fandom has managed to gather the most popular headcanons and put them together in that guy. We could have been discussing the thing for years but this Cecil just showed up and many people felt comfortable with it. He’s not someting Joseph and Jeffrey created. He belongs to the fans, I don’t even know. Of course he could be black and of course he could be asian and you can imagine him however you want but I still think there’s something really great about it.
yeah it’s fantastic that people outside the fandom will look in and think that White Blond Cecil is the canon Cecil despite the fact that this podcast has incredible potential for diversity and decent representation
it’s great that these dorks actually dye their hair/buy wigs for cosplays that are blond and people who don’t conform to that are shat on or get less attention
it’s great that the default-to-white has created a “standard” that excludes and alienates a shit ton of people of color and disabled folk within the fandom
I don’t care how much you jack your meat to white Cecil, how great you think he is - you need to be able to recognize when things are hurtful and harm non-white people.
pull your head out of your ass, and shut up about “standard” Cecil because I’m getting real fuckin tired of “standard” meaning “white”
WTNV has been a fascinating study in what happens when a standard-strength (dare I say mainstream-strength?) fandom sprouts up around a truly grassroots independent product.
And then throw in the fact that the product has very few actual visual cues.
And then throw in the fact that the creators are actively trying to create a story with a diverse cast.
…and then the fans reject it.
This is entitled fanbrattery on the level of Save Ianto. Only it’s directed mostly at other fans—mostly FOC/queer fans who are justifiably thrilled to get some representation for a change.
And it persists, time and time again, despite the creators and the actors repeatedly expressing how important diversity and representation is in media.
So really, I don’t know what show these folks are listening to. I don’t. Because I don’t think it’s the show that is being produced.
