Blue Sophie

Listed this out for a server I'm in so I might as well put it here too. I've also linked where to get these fonts as the image sources.

I'm leaving out Dipper's handwriting/GF credits font "Joe Font" which according to a reddit post seemed to be custom made for the show from Joe Pitt's handwriting? I'm inclined to believe it since it's not available commercially, is used nowhere else but in Gravity Falls media, and at the very least looks like his handwriting:

Anyway...

Ford uses 3 (!) fonts. His main handwriting font is Norwich, but he uses Cool Crayon as his print font for emphasis and description for his drawings. He also has a "spooky emphasis" font in Smudger Std usually for quoting Cryptids and mysterious writing. Or just when something particularly creepy is going on.

Cool Crayon also does double duty as Ford-Quoting-Bill, and Soos and Stan's personal handwriting.

But Bill's real handwriting font is NOT Cool Crayon and is actually Kidwriting Pro instead:

Mabel's handwriting used to be DK Crayonista, it's now Leftover Crayon. She's been working on her penmanship during the summer on top of all those sweaters, I guess!

Fiddleford's handwriting when he was young was Itchy Handwriting but since his handwriting isn't very legible anymore he now uses Dictation-bot, which prints out on the world's last Dot Matrix printer in Pixter Granular:

Pacifica's font, with her silly little hearts dotting her lowercase i's is KG Ray of Sunshine:

And Wendy's handwriting is Fonteys Pro, nothing of interest to say here except that her handwriting is skewed at an angle, so annoying! I say as I write at an angle...

far be it from me to decide which character is "morally bad" or merely grey so for the purposes of this rec list i focus on characters who do bad things for selfish reasons. however, ianthe, beyond just being a villain-esque character, has that iconic persona(lity) which alas only few of the characters mentioned here share. so keep that in mind in case you wanted a list of ianthes😅

okay so when i think ianthe i think unhinged girl books, specifically boy parts by eliza clark. ik ik i keep mentioning it in every rec list but truly there's no other character who reminds me of ianthe more than irina sturges, minus the sword. boy parts is sometimes described as american psycho for girls and while i haven't read that book yet i can confirm that characters in bret easton ellis' other works (less than zero and the rules of attraction) are quite morally bankrupt and entirely unlikable, especially compared to the cast in the secret history by his fellow bennington graduate donna tartt who are themselves toeing the line between grey and irredeemable. that is, if such finer distinctions matter to you🤷‍♀️

dark academia typically features protagonists who are more or less evil which is true for joanne harris' gentlemen and players as well as its sequel different class. cracks by sheila kohler is another example - it's a short and weird book about girls in a boarding school commiting shocking atrocities. aside from we have always lived in this castle by shirley jackson, which i have already mentioned, books like tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica and we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver are bridging the gap between litfic and horror and focus on people who range from morally ambiguous to utterly despicable and frightening (yet fascinating). if you want to go all in with this latter vibe you could try killing stalking which is an extreme horror/dark romance bl manhwa. needless to say: always check the trigger warnings.

if hannibal lecter is someone who fits your understanding of "morally bad" you should try the og book series by thomas harris. fair warning tho: they are not queercoded like the show😅 two more series following the crimes of a nasty but compelling guy are the joe goldberg books by caroline kepnes and the tom ripley books by patricia highsmith. in the latter series i will admit i only like book one which stands on its own pretty well and after it i'd rec trying highsmith's other books instead - for example, strangers on a train. another thriller author to check out is christopher rice whose melodramatic and somewhat depraved early works feature deliciously problematic side characters. start with the snow garden and see if you like his style. my last thriller rec is for your own good by samantha downing which is about a bad teacher abusing his power to punish students he doesn't like.

switching the gears to historical fiction and classics. perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind is the life story of a man who by all accounts is bad but if so why does his perfume smell so good? what does he put in there?? another perfect example of a character blurring the line between morally grey and black is the protagonist of thomas savage's the power of the dog. both books have very good film adaptations which i recommend as well.

if you want to try and tackle a dusty tome foregrounding wicked antiheroes consider reading vanity fair by william thackeray or dangerous liaisons by pierre choderlos de laclos. if you'd rather start with something shorter look no further than the picture of dorian gray, who i personally think is "darker" than just grey (ha), but if you already read it consider revisiting the classic via the uncensored edition. still shorter? then you might like another work by oscar wilde - lord arthur savile's crime. it's much more humorous and satirical, as is lieutenant gustl by arthur schnitzler - a hilarious stream of consciousness novella following an odious imperial army officer as he contemplates how to restore his damaged manly honor in the wake of another man touching his sword - not a euphemism but definitely a metaphor😅

Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne

Twin Peaks (1990)

MM telling his daughter about his struggles and trauma and showing that you don't have to be perfect but you should still try to do good, as a person and a parent, and that the cycle of trauma should end with you.

Versus

all his life, he has been the chosen one by god- he is a god himself. he is the god amongst gods. his powers are the driving force of this complex, his powerset makes him the most powerful out of any supe, traditional superman shit.

his entire being and identity revolves around his powers, his godhood stems from his powers, and so does narcissism, self-centeredism, and eugenics. what makes homelander homelander is his powers.

so i think, the greatest form of torture and punishment for his crimes is not to end his life, but it is to strip him of his powers.

for a man who has spent all of life as a god, watch him suffer as he falls back down to earth and have to live with the impact of his fall. he will wish he died on the way down, living life as a normal human being with the consequences of that will be the greatest torture.

when homelander has no powers, who is he? who is he if he is normal? all of his identity, which is attached to his powers, is stripped away.

strip him of his godhood and let the armor that has surrounded him for all his life disappear. watch him realize that his actions have consequences.

put him in front of the people who's families he's slaughtered and killed, let those people kick and punch him, and let him feel the impact of the punch. let his supporters turn on him, throw him into a crowd of people who once revered him as a god and watch their faith disappear. let him watch the public reception of him drop to 0, not even in the 90s anymore, watch them fall and watch them plummet compared to the people he deemed below him.

subject him to hate edits, victims, beatings, but do not let him die, make sure he lives every second of it.

that is the true torture.