Give thanks

[snarp]

Homestuck fandom is racefailing like it's an Olympic event and I was nauseous and lying down during Thanksgiving dinner

(Fear not, there will be a LOT of leftover pie for me to eat when I feel better.

Homestuck fandom will still be racefailing though)

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[infiniteandsmall]

I want to know.
And yet I don't want to know.
Was it the aracial characters thing again?

[snarp]

Naturally! Those infamously aracial characters were all drawn as white on the latest batch of merchandise. Reactions were copied directly from the Racefail textbook:

"quotas are reverse racism!"

"tokenism is worse than racism or reverse racism (and reverse racism is pretty bad)!" (I like the tokenism argument particularly, as it is an implicit acknowledgment of racism)

"well realistically these characters would all be white because [reasons]" (Homestuck is an extremely realistic narrative)

"Homestuck is really gay, it's silly to say anything to do with it could be racist" (pro-LGBT is a level-up skill you get after you get anti-racism - it's like how a Pikachu can't learn Quick Attack at level 10 without having first learned Tail Whip at level 5)

"Homestuck fandom is mostly white and so the artists draw characters that the majority can empathize with" (white people can't empathize with PoC, of course)

"next you'll be demanding representation for [transgender people/undocumented immigrants/other marginalized group the poster believes to be terrible]!" (sure, why not? In real-world-type AUs, Karkat's been written as both.)

"it's just a fantasy story, get over it!" (fantasizing about a universe with no PoC is normal and healthy)

[infiniteandsmall]

*headdesk* I.
Homestuck fandom.
Stop.
I mean as much as I like the idea of aracial characters and have to give Hussie props for telling people who are being assholes to PoC who cosplay as his characters/people who headcanon his characters as PoC.
Dude. Get some representations of your characters as PoC in official art now please.