Ray

Excuse me guys but I couldn’t resist to do something like this !

i'm not.

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

Less so in a supposed adult character that isn’t written as an adult because of the authors culturally objectionable tastes with nothing deeper, more on what it generally means to be not an adult or a young adult with less experience in a story.

I’d say for monogatari it’s especially interesting as nisio very much believes the age of adult is 20 (as in accordance with Tokyo law) with true adults being around 24+ (in the sense they have their shit together but as nisio’s aged the age he considers mature adults to be increases as well.) Characters in monogatari don’t only have literal and narrative matching ages. Characters like Koyomi, Tsubasa, Hitagi, and Sodachi who are 18 for a portion of the series aren’t narratively considered adults for their stories, and thus make more sense considering their ages.

FUCKING BRING BACK FORUMS. THEY RUN ON BASIC WEB SERVERS. IT JUST NEEDS PHP/MYSQL. THEY STILL EXIST. THEY DEPLOY OUT OF THE BOX. STOP ALLOWING THE MODERN WEB TO MAKE MONOLITHS.

TECH PEOPLE ESPECIALLY. FUCKING RUN YOUR OWN SHIT.

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.