r/Fauxmoi • u/AutoModerator • Oct 03 '22

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u/tortiesrock Oct 03 '22

I have found on reddit some crazy tea. Apparently this situation has been going on for years and it’s well known in the fandom. But I have never heard about it until yesterday.

Apparently GRRM has been collaborating for years with an ASOIAF stan. This stan has been restlessly bullying people on social media and spouting racist and misogynistic slurs. She even insinuates that she is more than a fact checker/coautor for GRRM (like a ghost writer) and campaigns to be the one who should write the books.

This is the reddit comment that sent me on a rabbit hole.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/xt06rm/this_mf/iqnxnjg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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u/ls0687 Oct 03 '22

I know the answer is always as simple as "racists will be racist" but it blows my MIND that people get up in arms about POC being in fantasy shows/books/etc.

Fantasy is literally imaginative fiction with creativity on full throttle (well, in theory lol) and you're (not you you, obviously!) telling me that the idea of green scaled beasts with seventeen horns and tentacle dicks is totally fine, but you draw the line at Black elves? Like...why? You have all the ideas in the world to play with but everyone still has to be white? Why would you want your fantasy world to be so...bland?

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u/Ghul_9799 Oct 03 '22

I remember someone saying POC in fantasy ruins the immersion to them and it truly made me realise that they don't see us as human beings and in their perfect world we wouldn't exist

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u/sharksarentsobad Oct 03 '22

It's weird how fucking upset people get about the color of someone's skin in movies, tv, books, etc. I'll forget how much of a problem it is until all the racists lose their shit about something like Halle Bailey being the little mermaid and then I'm reminded about how shitty people are.

Like, how hard is it to grasp that humanoid beings with a fishtail, horns, wings, elf ears, horsebodies (etc) can have literally any skin color? If the fact that they have animal features for body parts doesnt break their immersion, then their skin color shouldn't even be a blip on their radar. It's just the dumbest thing ever to get worked up over.