I think that the argument of “it’s not your character to decide” is a poor argument because people do a similar thing with ignoring the script changes to Ricky’s disability. Not the same thing but still fits the “changing an aspect of canon because canon did a shit job at representation”. The whole thing of “Misha not Mischa” comes from the fact that Mischa Bachinski is a romanized version of Міша Бачинські, but when using Ukrainian romanization rules, it becomes Misha Bachynskyi. Mischa Bachinski is a name using Russian romanization rules. Real actual Ukrainians have their names russified for so long, and it is a real world issue involving the oppression of Ukrainian people. We are not demanding to Jacob Richmond that he change the name in the script, it is simply something we add to fanworks and tumblr posts to be respectful to Ukrainian people. It is not meant to deliberately disrespect Richmond, but when some part of canon does a poor job at representation, doesn’t it make sense to modify it in fanworks?

I hope this makes sense and I hope you understand why people spell it like Misha Bachynskyi. Please correct me if I’m wrong on any of the facts :)

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people trying to argue space age bachelor man’s deep meaning will forever be so funny to me. “you can’t call ricky a freak he created zolar to cope with his solitude because of his disability!!!” okay and his dream world so happens to be one where he gets to have sex with cat girls. he’s a little odd (affectionate). god forbid anyone have fun in this fandom

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people who complain about how 'empty the rtc fandom is now' are the REASONS why the fandom is empty. you aren't allowed to like the boys, you aren't allowed to like jane, nope, nooo, you have to like the most obscure and 'underrated' character out of the cast of barely even ten. oh but don't forget the cut characters, you have to know them. you can't ship nischa either, Nuh uh, no way nope! Because then you're just one of 'those' fans for liking a POPULAR ship. then there's the fact that you get a sly post on your tumblr recommend with 'not targeted' ,even though it's clearly targeted, for 'exclusively liking/drawing/obsessing over the most popular fucking cast and the most easily accessible slime tutorials.'

genuinely, as someone who was in this fandom when it was at a high popularity, it's so inaccessible to new fans. the way people act in here are so contradictory to the actual message of the show of being kind and loving because we only have one life and we have to be loving to everyone.

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