The most valid "anti-grimdark" argument -- that grimdark is *reassuring*, that it tells you things are inevitably awful and there's nothing you could've done to stop it, and that's morally offensive because it lets you off the hook -- is the one that offends me the most
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That's literally my escapism, that's what I want to hear It's as valid a form of escapism and catharsis as the coffeeshop AUs where evil never existed and the whole world is effortlessly decent you all feel like you're entitled to
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Maybe it is morally offensive, and maybe as a result I'm a useless piece of shit Maybe being into melancholy depressive shit has sapped my power and if I weren't into it I would have had the strength to stop Trump and save us all Maybe you're right But you know what, fuck you
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"No matter how hard you try, everything goes to shit anyway, so you might as well give up" IS how I see the world It IS my "lived experience"
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And all the time I get smacked in the face with people saying "No, the shit you went through is your fault for not trying hard enough" and acting like they're helping me
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Arthur, I'm sure that you are familiar with the Just World Hypothesis. It's my belief that while happy endings are emotionally satisfying, they have the unintended effect of perpetuating the Just World Hypothesis, which is responsible for so much human suffering.
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If true, writing about undefeatable villains reminds people that such obstacles are a reality and that life is not fundamentally fair.
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Oh god is this why I’ve been getting really into WH40K for the last few months?
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I used to be more willing to parlay with those people and then it became clear that they interpret “a monster that could have been defeated, but ultimately was not” as “a monster that couldn’t be defeated”, they just can’t or won’t own up to what they’re even actually demanding.
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It's so hard to walk the razor's edge when you're doing contempory fantasy and want to have a satisfying ending without magicking away all the shittyness in the world. I actually WANT to write a happy ending, but can't just be like "and then nobody was bigoted ever again"
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I want to write this into a demon character whose origin is all the hate online coagulated into one being. He WANTS to die, but he can't, because as long as darkness exists in men's hearts, he can't be killed. The thoughts & ideologies that make up his DNA sicken him to his core.
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