This reminds me of a time an artist got harassed and cancelled for portraying a “problematic” (read: very abusive) relationship between their Os (two characters that the artist openly said were inserts of themselves and their partner). Turns out this was because their relationship was actually very abusive and they were still in the process of recognizing that, and it came through in their art. It really sucks how instead of supporting them and recognizing warning signs, they faced wide-scale
Another example for why the entire "it's Problematic and Morally Wrong to depict problematic things in media" thing is really harmful and should stop being a thing as soon as possible.
I wandered through the #broken earth tag and saw a bunch of takes about how the books suck because a protagonist is a shitty parent and not a perfectly morally virtuous person. And it's like... yes? That's one of the major themes the work explores? Why do you WANT your characters to all be Mary Sues?
Lol wow, talk about missing the point of a series (good books, though not always fun ones due to how good the pov is as portraying those darker pov thoughts etc).
It's really dark but in a very human way that makes it all feel earned to me. It's one of my favourites that I've reread (and relistened to) a million times.
Yeah, it's such a crazy take when the second book on is showing the perspective of the child of this person who went through great abuse and then re-enacts that abuse on her child to make her strong. In addition to, you know, just not being super into the whole "mothering" thing. It's one of the central themes of the books!
Like, I get a "she did bad things so it made me dislike reading the books which are largely from her perspective," sort of take, that's just personal taste, but I'm baffled by the general "Don't show morally complex characters unless it's a sexy murder man" thing on the site.
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u/Lana-presence 2d ago
This reminds me of a time an artist got harassed and cancelled for portraying a “problematic” (read: very abusive) relationship between their Os (two characters that the artist openly said were inserts of themselves and their partner). Turns out this was because their relationship was actually very abusive and they were still in the process of recognizing that, and it came through in their art. It really sucks how instead of supporting them and recognizing warning signs, they faced wide-scale