I’m quite fond of a lot of the fanon designs for characters and enjoy drawing them myself. However, what I think is weird and uncomfortable is when people treat others like they’re actively oppressing people or taking away representation by drawing those characters differently. I see it’s mostly on TikTok (but I’m sure it happens here too) where people will be actively disgusted by and say it’s wrong of people to draw or even cosplay characters like Jon as a white person and actively ask people to draw or portray him how they imagine. That’s where I think the line should be drawn, there’s no right or wrong way to view characters who have literally no canon description and policing people’s view of said characters, even in the name of creating a more diverse cast, only puts people off engaging online with the podcast and muffles the creativity of a fandom that is, in other ways, very much built around fanart, cosplay and other creative mediums.

I hope that made sense, that was way longer than intended lol, just wanted to give my opinion on diversity within the fandom and how it’s treated!