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Danny may easily be my favorite character of the Bravest Warriors group :)
If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you can check it out on their youtube page here. It’s created by Pendleton Ward, the same guy who made Adventure Time so it’s pretty wacky haha
Was watching Bravest Warriors earlier and felt a burst of motivation to draw my favorite character :D This is my first time working with this style and despite a few flaws here and there, I think I did a pretty good job getting the style down :D I’m quite proud of this! I hope you’ll like it to!
if we’re going by the assumption that he was thirteen in 2011, he would’ve been around the same age as me at that point, and I liked Homestuck around then. Movie Miles is obviously gonna be younger than that, but he’s no less of a nerd, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to consider the idea.
black people (and black middle schoolers!) definitely have read Homestuck (we out here) and enjoyed it despite knowing full well it’s got issues with representation in a meaningful way that’s not just “shove Bill Cosby in there” or “they’re all whatever racial identity you want them to be ;)”
having read the comics and knowing enough about Miles’s characterization beyond the film I think it’s fair to say that it would at the very least be something he’d be aware of, if not an outright fan himself.
you cannot tell me that Ganke hasn’t read it and all the other MSPA comics though
white gays in fandom: [try to claim spiderverse as a movie for them almost exclusively, make a bunch of posts abt miles doing a bunch of ooc shit]
me, internally: this is indicative of a larger problem in fandom where white gays and white people in general love a movie but realize they can’t fully put themselves in the shoes of the lead bc hes black, so they remold his character into something more palatable and generic so they can be more comfortable making their jokes and headcanons or what have you
me, externally: miles wouldn’t read homestuck bc its bad
I don’t know if I can get behind this, in large part because I feel like the natural extension of it might be saying that the only valid interpretations of a character would be the ones made by those that fit into their identity (which I’m certain wasn’t the OP’s intent, but it sorta feels like it since the point wasn’t taken any further than the above in the original post).
Miles was created by a white artist and writer (Pichelli and Bendis) but has since been written and drawn by a variety of artists, some of whom are PoC like him and others that aren’t. The number of parties responsible for his creation means that some versions of him are gonna resonate more with a reader than others are, and while there are some big parts that are non-negotiable with his character (things like feeling the weight of succeeding Peter in an established role as Spidey, his relationships with his parents and Uncle Aaron, the camaraderie he shares with Ganke, his Afro-Latino identity, etc.), there are gonna be some little things too, and some of those little things that might be considered OOC by one writer/reader easily could be key identifiers for another.
(Whether or not the intent of the writer ends up being more or less vital to the text than the reader’s own interpretation is another debate entirely, but I find it worth noting that I believe both are valid, and the latter can occasionally depend on the former.)
It’s possible (hell, likely) that there are characters out there who have ended up falling into the generalization problem that the OP describes, and I haven’t seen enough of the fan work in question to say with confidence that it isn’t an issue for Miles, but I don’t necessarily know if I’d make such a big deal out of the idea of him doing something unexpected if it’s ultimately just as minimal as “he likes this webcomic” or “he doesn’t.”
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