The discourse seems to be making it’s rounds again, and for simplicity’s sake I’ll make my own post I stead of tacking my thoughts onto an already long chain.
It’s really easy to have that sort of knee-jerk reaction when somebody criticizes WotC for their half-hearted diversity that they pepper the cast of the story with. We can talk about how Chandra technically is Indian until we’re blue in the face, or how Gideon is Mediterranean, but Chandra didn’t even get that part of her storyline until recently and before then presented as Gaelic, and same goes for Gideon where only in recent history did the art start to reflect his Greek-centric heritage. It feels more like lip service. The only person WITHIN THE GATEWATCH WHO ARE THE MAIN, REOCCURRING CAST who is explicitly Not White™ is Teferi.
Everybody else: a side character who we only get to see for a moment and then they’re gone, like they hardly mattered.
Furthermore, the characters we have seen thus far who have been canonically LGBT are either DEAD, SIDE CHARACTERS (AND IN SOME CASES, DIDN’T GET A CARD AND STILL HAVEN’T) OR A CHARACTER WHO WAS ONLY EVER EXPLICITLY DESCRIBED AS WLW IN HER CHARACTER BIO AND NEVER EXPLICITLY IN THE ACTUAL STORY (Oviya). The subtext under subtext under implications with Chandra and Nissa DOESN’T COUNT UNTIL IT ACTUALLY BECOMES TEXT.
I love magic the gathering. Like, that’s a very obvious fact, but we can’t keep accepting and going out of our way to defend the scraps we’ve gotten. We need to expect better of the media we consume. We need to lift the bar from off the fucking ground.
This is precisely what I’ve been trying and failing to express.
This.
Whether for current characters or new ones incoming, the bottom line:
We need confirmed, main cast, planeswalker lgbt rep.
Repeat: CONFIRMED. MAIN CAST. PLANESWALKER. LGBT REP.
We can all go back and forth on nuance and what we hope, fear, or whatever, but at the end of the day, this is the most important thing that @wizardsmagic needs to keep hearing from us.
CONFIRMED
MAIN CAST
PLANESWALKER
LGBT REPoh yeah, and more then just one character, Wizards. Even if you give us Gruulfriends, we shouldn’t have to wait for that, and it shouldn’t end there.
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