I find the idea that a happy ending or satisfying resolution *must be possible*, that it's *morally wrong* to write a story about a monster that cannot be defeated, just as alienating and offensive as people who feel the exact opposite I wish they would leave me alone
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There's a character on Babylon 5 who says he finds the randomness of misfortune to be comforting. He'd be horrified if people actually deserved all the terrible things that happen to them.
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There were millions, billions of people in history who lived utterly awful lives and died horribly with little or no joy or grace or whatever to counterbalance it It is deeply insulting to their memory to say that there was "hope" for them, it is a way of blaming them
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Hopepunk is the just world fallacy rebranded as woke
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those people are also invariably the ones who believe the law of attraction or whatever the fuck it’s called. also, just from an enjoyment pov grimdark aus usually engage with the source material better than happy-happy ones
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