I don't want more stories about perfect plaster saints and I don't want stories about unapologetic dark antiheroes The darkest, cruelest kind of story is the story both of those avoid -- someone who desperately wants to be a good person but just fails, because they're weak
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I genuinely don't believe the problem is that people are ignorant about the difference between good and evil, or that they're haunted by psycho demons that make them do awful things I think it's just that doing bad things is *easy*
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Bojack Horseman is the nearest thing I can think of
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It's not as though we don't ever see these characters. They're everywhere in media. But they're always side characters and villains set up to be foils for the Hero, who, in direct contrast, Has The Moral Strength To Do The Right Thing We're never meant to identify with them
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Isn’t that basically Don Draper from Mad Men?
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Tony Soprano really.
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I mean... I have my life for that.
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Like, I am an anti hero in the classic sense. A protagonist who isn't heroic. Some sort of banal side character from Parks and Rec mishmashed with Irvine Welsh's take on what milquetoast is.
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I read stories mostly to see what could be. Reality is depressing enough
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