【 veldyn🦁lombax 】Something that I’ve often wondered about in fandom, after too many years of observing things about Avengers fans (and the larger MCU / Marvel comics fan community) is the 2 YT dix trope and how that plays out in the reverse.
What I mean is when you have ships like Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes (or WinterFalcon, or CaptainWinter). I think about whether or not pairings like this would exist at all if not for Bucky (or really, the insertion of ANY popular white character).
What I mean is the nature of white-adjacency as it relates to interracial ships. I wonder this often because a huge chunk of my OTPs or OT+ pairings from all my various other fandoms are interracial (or interspecies if you count ships like The Arbiter/Master Chief).
And while I understand fully that the term “interracial” doesn’t necessarily have to include a white person (in fiction or IRL), so much of Western society’s understanding of these couplings (romantic or not) usually do because of the burden of white supremacy. And, like many other societal blunders that needs to be erased, this is also reflected in fandom.
Now, I know there is THE truth, truth and “truths”. I am more referring to the kind that is based off constant observations made in both the micro-fandom spaces and mainstream arenas I occupy. I really do wonder how much mainstream fandoms would take to having more interracial pairings that didn’t partially revolve around at least one white character…
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