cosmic-kleptomaniac:

wolfwum:

ivynajspyder:

fantasticallyperfectass:

wolfwum:

Hello, Night Vale Fandom. I’ve noticed a lot of people directing harassment towards POC fans over their dislike of white Cecil headcanons. I’ve also noticed a lot of people expressing their adoration of how “different” the headcanons for Cecil are.

Well, here’s a breakdown of all the Cecils I’ve seen today in the tag (excluding cosplay, including fancasts). White fans, I want you to take a look at this and really understand that you’re not being left out. POC fans are irritated that, once again, the fandom has defaulted to white—defaulted to white on a character who had absolutely no description of him, and all of the “different” versions of white Cecil honestly portray the same guy just in different art styles. And this is only over the span of twelve hours.

Just because a headcanon is popular doesn’t mean it isn’t problematic. Be more mindful and creative.

You know what is just the best? This probably won’t get a lot of notes outside of Night Vale fans of color. White fans will see this, feel victimized, and ignore it in order to go fanwank over more blond Cecil, because it is more probable to them that a man in a desert town has tentacles and three eyes and is white, than it is for him to be Native, or Black, or anything but a jar of fuckin’ Mayo.

There’s your fuckin’ unpopular opinion.

Oooh nice someone else did this too :O  I had debated posting mine but now is as good as ever, I hope that is okay? I had a pretty big sample size I took over several days last week or so.

Actual number breakdown:

White: 560
Brown/Tan:  52
Black: 11
Asian: 13
Native American: 8

Other/nonhuman skin color (blue/green/gray/etc): 44

I’m not sure, is this a better or worse ratio of white to POC than you see with casting in Hollywood…?

Aaaaaand, if you’d like a bigger sample size :)

Well it makes sense to me for most Cecil headcanons to be white considering that most of the population is white. The of POC headcanons make sense in relation to the numbers of POCs in North America.

But harassing people for their own personal headcanons isn’t cool, no matter it be white or POC, don’t make people feel bad because they happen to have a headcanon that doesn’t fit your definition of “inclusive”.

I don’t know, this is just my two cents.

‘I’ve noticed a lot of people directing harassment towards POC fans over their dislike of white Cecil headcanons.’

While harassment isn’t cool, do you know what else isn’t cool?

Openly disliking and making people feel bad for their own headcanons.

You’re allowed to not agree with the idea of Cecil being white- headcanons are personal, and individual! Everyone can have their own headcanon- it’s whatever you imagine him as being!

But don’t knock other people’s headcanons.