Tag: fuck this

transvivienne:

rincewitch:

i still think d.va is cool but what i liked about her was “d.va, beloved esports professional and charismatic entertainer” and that seems to have been displaced by “d.va, dorito gremlin” and then “d.va, the literal infant daughter of the other characters” so there’s not much quality d.va content of the sort i’m interested in floating across my dashboard these days

like d.va’s in-game characterization seems haughty, immature, and incredibly cocky, but sometimes she seems like the FUCKASS KARKAT™ of the overwatch fandom. d.va is a national celebrity, streams herself fighting giant robots, apparently built a starcraft career on playing random (!!!!!!!!), has appeared in bad movies, and says dumb memes as she jumps out of her exploding MEKA and runs away before it kills her, too (well, before the patch).

she’s….. i think shes cool ok.

this is a really good post n like i dont wanna add unwarranted fake meta or w/e but its especially jarring to me as a korean girl seeing this mountain dew gremlin content and im absolutely sure that its almost entirely racialized

like..the treatment of her sport is super humiliating and like ofc gaming culture is absolutely fuckin ridiculous but theres a huge difference between the reception it receives in western n korean cultures wrt those competitions and this is coming frm someone w family members who were like..legit starcraft competitors like dva

n ive seen a lot of white/non e asian fans claiming that this characterization of her is somehow progressive bc they dont want to see her fetishized, so clearly the answer to this is to..entirely infantilize and humiliate a canon woc? man i jus want cool dva stuff like shes really dorky but i dont wanna choke on dorito dust every time i look at fanart of her 😦