#flip rant

dsmp fandom lowkey pmo for a LOT of reasons but the biggest reason is because c!wilbur is a really well fucking written character and illustrates mental health, trauma, and implied personality disorders in ways that everyone else is too scared to talk about, and ever since that bs with cc!wilbur everyone has been discrediting and downplaying everything about his character. i hate getting into discourse but as an artistic creator and someone who wholds dsmp incredibly close to his heart, and someone who has had a lot of similar experiences and behavhiours as c!wilbur, it just pisses me off so much. i remember seeing people cite c!wilbur as "evidence" or "warning signs" for that cc drama and it blew my fucking MIND how people were able to get to that conclusion. and worse, it completely fucking downplays cwilbur's entire character. cwilbur illustrates mental health spirals in ways that get grossly mischaracterized and his character was home to me for such a long time, and quite frankly, still is. cwilbur is a complex illustration of mental health, circumstance, self enablement and external enablement, denial, justification, anti-heroics, and LOVE. cwilbur is a product of his mind and his environment and the result of what happens when you reject help for so long that nobody wants to give it to you anymore. he shows how devastating loss is, he shows misplaced priorities, he shows how suicide haunts everyone else in your life, he shows how grief and loss haunt others. ghostbur is symbolic of mourning and grief and the refusal to let go, both through himself not letting go and through others not letting go. he was a loving father who kept getting knocked down by others and the world until he decided to stop trying to get up and to instead bring others down with him and that is REAL. that is GRIEF that is LOSS that is PAIN and that is a COMMON negative coping mechanism. he doesn't hurt people for the thrill, he behaves the way he does because of how back to back negative events influenced him and made him think that was the only way he could feasibly act. "but other characters went through the same things he did and didn't end up that way" that's the POINT! that's the POINT! trauma effects brains and personalities differently and two people who go through the same thing are going to come out differently. he had a different personality, a different age, a different perspective that all led him to become the person he became. and even despite that all, a lot of his actions are founded in some form of love. he is FAR from irredeemable. but ever since the shit with ccwilbur, the mischaracterization crisis of cwilbur had reached an all time high. people stopped seeing cwilbur as a complex FICTIONAL character. who cares if ccwilbur projected some feelings and experiences onto cwilbur? EVERY artist does that. it's the most natural thing in art to draw from yourself. it just pisses me off so badly because of the internet's need for moral supremacy and purity culture. the fact that i saw so many people who previously held cwilbur as important to them just suddenly flip the switch and hate him just because of ccwilbur stuff is ASTOUNDING and appalling