Hyperion
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The fact that she then had to go dig through her pictures and edit them to compare the cosplays really speaks to how "unbothered" she is.
Agreed. There's a growing number of people I've seen that seem to think empathy is weakness. It's super corny. We're better as a society when we're able to lift those up that struggle to pick themselves up. Sure, there's a point to be made about having to be more resilient to life's challenges as you get older, especially when you're black and you enter certain spaces that are known to be a certain way. But still, that doesn't mean we just let fukkery unfold and not address it accordingly. Leaving stuff like that alone is exactly how you get bum ass adults being a scourge to everything they touch and people end up getting hurt.
And plenty of people are doing the absolute most for no reason. Even if someone is "weird", so? Does that mean they should be ostracized and bullied because they aren't engaging in the "correct" hobbies? There are so many black folks that are into anime and gaming, but because it's "nerd shyt", apparently civility goes out the window.
But this is why it's important to have black spaces, and why events Dream Con and Blerd Con are vital to have. People need to see things like this exist, because it's super easy to feel alone. Especially as a kid, although anime is way more mainstream now compared to when I was growing up. I've seen a ton of black cosplayers speaking out about this, which is a great thing to see.
