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when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

I hate Michael Bay so much for what he did to the Transformers Franchise. He took a story that covers so many themes like war, grief, body autonomy, love, morality and ethics (and so much more, you can explore so many themes and ideas when the characters are robots that can live almost forever if not killed, that destroyed their own planet and almost brought their species to extinction) and turned it into "Robots punch robots, hahaha, sexual and sexist jokes, avarege male MC gets the cool sexy girl (that doesn't have a real personality, she is her just to be sexualised🥰), *explosion*, let them have sex on AN ALIEN, hahaha, here, take this other vulgar joke, obviously the alien robot is the one that makes it, *toxic masculinity*, what? plot? well written plot? *BOOM ANOTHER EXPLOSION*, the characters don't have a real personality, *humans*, *SUPER MEGA EXPLOSION*, the US military is cool, *alpha male energy*

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

I don't think the current "depiction = endorsement" crowd will ever be able to understand this.

i was born to be a sweet girl if i turn out evil that’s on you