#not blame anyone assaulting a certain beneficiary of british imperialism for his behaviour lmao

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i cannot claim i have any moral highground when my favourite gimmick is portrayed by mister thin blue line (gag.) but at least i don't absolve the real world human being of his bigotry just because i think the way he does a little jump is fun. the death of kayfabe has left too many people incapable of identifying the fictional character they like in relation to the real individual person portraying said character, leading to trends like fans en masse defending the most vile shit you've ever witnessed because they can't conceptualise their horny x reader fanfics depicting a literal fictional character and not a real world white man who would, in a crowd of thousands, in a city made and defined and revitalised BY Black people, feel comfortable calling a Black man's grills dirty. instead they are so desperate for that mediocre white ass they will simply pretend it didn't happen or THAT is the only instance of fiction their special person has ever engaged in (aside from any other instances of bigotry or general fucked behaviours, which are ALSO simply the fictional character but not the real man portraying it.)

do you want to have mid sex with the actor (absolved of all potential guilt) or the character (the vessel unto which all unsavoury qualities MUST be relegated)? what are you defending? these people are celebrities acting in live theatre. don't bother trying to rehab their images, genuinely. you can take the fictional character/gimmick they portray and play with it, sure - but you have to put in the work necessary to reinvent your own interpretation of that gimmick if you're going to try and pinkwash it or remove all instances of ignorance/racial violence/fatphobia/ableism/et cetera. just think with your brain man. do the work. i WILL assume you are a nasty person if you fetishise certain individuals with track records' gimmicks and make no attempt to a) re-imagine the character as something better than what their actor has portrayed them as, or b) use this as an opportunity to explore and depict the harm these characters' mentalities/actions cause