I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.
"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.
Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.
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it’s so funny that certain people are taking “taylor says she sees everything!!!” to mean that she’s watched every interview anyone she’s ever associated with her has done, and not like. a cutesy way of her saying that she looks at what her fans post about her online sometimes
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Went for a drive and ate one of the best meals of my life at my favorite restaurant, and then a beautiful song came on in the car as I was heading home and the trees are all red and orange and I just. I feel hopeful? For once?
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Also intentional or not, I was doing some rereading and remembered that one of the things I like about early homestuck specifically is the way the introduction of more and more video game mechanics mimics the idea of growing up and feeling like you have more freedom/direct influence on the world around you
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