jetstream-senpai replied to your post: If I read another âMaxieâs father was an abusive...
jesus christ thatâs awful.. but people think terrible things have to happen to a character in order for them to develop but tbh thatâs absolute bullshit
Yes, exactly. I mean, I understand wanting characters to earn a happy-ending. I like that myself. I like torturing them, as well, physically and mentally. When it fits the plot. When it has consequences. When itâs not always the same characters with the same clichĂŠd homophobic parents/abusive dads/abusive rapist boyfriends.
But most of the stuff I read these days contain things I want nothing to do with. Itâs like the Avengers fandom all over (and wow, that one could be awful), where it felt Asgard had its own torture chambers and shit to lock poor, little Loki up and stuff things up every hole he has (artificially created or not, shh).
Yâknow, I often feel like people use rape and abuse in backstories or in frustratingly graphic fanworks as a cheap way of creating a situation where the author insert (in this exact case. Archie) can safe the character the author is in love with the most in order to get them to âovercomeâ their traumatic backstories.
Or, and that often happens as well, itâs an excuse for the villain to become the way they are. Oh, if only someone loved them, oh, if only they hadnât been abused as a child, they would never have become evil! (which is a) disgusting apologism and b) in Maxieâs case dumb, because he doesnât see himself as a villain, and if he HAD been raped and abused and his mother had not helped him and blablabla, I donât believe he would ever have had the mindset of âI want to help people (and pokemon) create a better worldâ)
Itâs why I donât think highly of certain parts of the hardenshipping fanbase (which might derive from them being fans of âthat one fic that must not be namedâ). Iâve seen people getting told that âhardenshipping is hardcore and if you like fluf youâre an ooc-creating piece of shit and everything thatâs WRONGWRONGWRONG with the fandomâ and Iâm sitting here, feeling too old for any of this bullshit.
(Itâs funny that the Hans fandom creates 99% of pure fluff, because Hans has been abused and neglected and thatâs canon, and people are all like âI want my baby to be happy ;w;â)
inb4 âyouâve written non-con before, you hypocriteâ, shh.
This is so long, I am so sorry, I am just annoyed. ;w;
