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This is a fantastic example of how statistical data can be manipulated via presentation without technically lying.

It’s so hard loving a complex fictional woman because assholes will try to turn you against her by listing off all her flaws and it’s like yeah no shit, that’s the whole point. What aren’t you getting about this?

deadbeat dad who’s an academic: i’m just going to the stor

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

ah man, fare thee well bonnie 💚💛🧡❤️💜

i just don’t think we need a helena backstory episode. i feel like if you watched the scene of her swimming and her father watching her eat a single egg sliced into tiny pieces for breakfast, juxtaposed with miss huang being forced to destroy a toy she loved (that happened to be a swimmer) and you didn’t see helena’s entire childhood flash before your eyes, that’s kinda on you.

I love characters who are extremely hypercompetent and simultaneously massive losers

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

hey. who gave you permission to bring up nachos death.

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

I've noticed in recent years that, at least within mainstream usamerican culture, the sympathetic petty criminal archetype has largely fallen out of favor. you still have plenty of stories of noble nights, benevolent aristocrats, sympathetic mercenaries, but the idea of a thief with a heart of gold is increasingly rare. often petty criminals are just used as uncomplicated cannon fodder, so the protagonist has something human-shaped that they can kill or mutilate without remorse. you see this with dnd players often. the wicked king or the cruel dragon can be reasoned with, but a highway bandit robbing caravans to eat is perfectly fine to torture to death with sorcery

this is no less common outside of fantasy, either. god knows how many books, films, games, about sympathetic soldiers, police, even mercenaries. sometimes they try to reckon with the inherent violence and cruelty of these careers, but they rarely have the fangs for a message sharper than "sometimes good people have to do bad things." but a thief? a mugger? god forbid, a drug dealer? uncomplicatedly evil vermin, all. again, just used as cannon fodder, purely to provide something human-shaped to hate and brutalize without conscience

there is an obvious racial angle to this, as people grow more leery towards "those people are evil and inhuman because they look different," the message shifts to "those people are evil and inhuman because they are criminals," paired with heavily biased (and significantly more publicized) criminalization of racial minorities to achieve the same goal of publicly condoned repression and violence