im jus sitting

2023-09-15

shanacave

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

Opeyemi Olukotun.

Newfoundland, 1971 - Jamie Wyeth

*sees henis gay*

Welsh B Stallion Thistledown Americano

Australian-dave: crikey i think I'm turning into a sheila! rippah!

Ashley Graham in Resident Evil 4 (2005)

presented without context from the Cooldown

Can’t wait to see Azune’s daddy issues materialize into a deeply complex crush on the rebellious older king of the neighboring country.