nunobiki:

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.

How about we all have our own headcanons for Cecil and nobody shames anybody for it??? You’re just adding to the problem by shaming people for having white headcanons for the guy, when in all honesty he could be a fucking corgi. Nobody knows what he looks like, and that’s what’s great about him, we can interpret him as we please. Calling someone uncreative for having a white headcanon is also rude as fuck.

Just because a headcanon is popular and happens to interpret him as white gives you no right at all to shame it.