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just-jessiejames · 2 years

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( THIS POST CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS FOR FRINGE / STRANGER THINGS )

Still thinking about the fact that there are so many similarities between Stranger Things and Fringe.

I grew up watching Fringe. It's like, maybe one of my favorite sci-fi shows in existence, but it's super under-rated at times. However, as soon as I watched Stranger Things, back when the show first released on Netflix I was immediately struck but thoughts like... "Hmm, this seems very familiar..." and "Oh my god why is this so familiar" then finally upon reflection, "I know why it seems familiar!! Fringe!"

I mean hear me out!! Fringe deals with experiments on kids just like Stranger Things. The Cortexiphan trials result in a slew of paranormal powers for the children it's used on and everyone who had Cortexiphan also end up having different powers from one another?

Where have I heard that before- Stranger Things, perhaps?!

Like in Fringe you've got stuff like, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Super Hearing, Pyrokinesis, Electrokinesis, Healing/Infection Abilities, Regeneration, Mind Reading, Dimensional Manipulation, Nick's Powers (If you know you know but, TW so I'm not mentioning his. But they're oof) which I guess can be summed up to Emotional manipulation.

I don't want to list all the powers in Stranger Things but there are a Lot. So many. The important ones though are Telepathy, Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, Regeneration, Mind Reading, Hallucinations, Dimensional Manipulation, Teleportation. There's other but eh I'm lazy.

But looking at Fringe, Olivia's powers have always reminded me like super strongly of Els, like a whole lot? She literally goes into a sensory deprivation tank and can go into a trance like state, extremely similar to how El can. Now there's major differences to how the trance's work. El goes into the present, but can enter other people's minds and access their memories.

Olivia can also enter other people's minds and access their memories, though to a far lesser extent. Olivia could only do that due to mind links and other background things going on. (Olivia's powers are weaker many regards). However she can go into her trance like state and teleport across universes, so y'know. Tomato Tomahto, different powers but similar vein.

But yeah, El and Olivia's abilities are very different. However they are similar. They can both manipulate dimensions. They have telekinesis, electricity manipulation & possibly enhanced hearing. They can enter a trance like state with sensory deprivation. Their powers are more effective with emotional stimuli; El is much stronger, likely due to the fact that El is still young and just strong in general whereas Olivia only began using her powers extensively once she was in her twenties. In Fringe we do see Olivia showing similar strength as a child, but when the reason behind why she can use her abilities links back to bad stuff ( abuse), the experiments abruptly stop for Olivia and do not restart till MUCH later on.

I'm rambling, I am definitely rambling, but the similarities are there! I've always felt like there was a super strong coloration between the two. Is this rambling based on any wild theories about these two shows being in the same universe. Psh no, but damn could they be at times.

Also let us not forget that the Cortexiphan trials take place during, *drum roll please* 1981! Nearly the same time as the MKUltra trials we see done by Dr. Brenner in Stranger Things. I know Dr. Bishop also worked for the army as well for many years, much like how Dr. Brenner's MKUltra is military backed, but I do not believe Dr. Bishop's trials were actually done with Army knowledge. Else the kids would have likely gone on to become super soldiers, I'm sure, considering in Fringe it is stated that the Army was very interested in that vein of science at the time. But, nevertheless the original Cortexiphan trails weren't done with Army knowledge. They WERE done at a similar time as Dr. Brenner's MKUltra experiments. The Cortexiphan Trials just happened to be run in Ohio & Jacksonville, where in Stranger Things MKUltra is in Indiana.

Anyways, I've wanted to write a fanfiction crossover or SOMETHING for these two universes because Fringe is just *chef's kiss* and has some seriously cool stuff. With the events of season 4 actually going over how the upside down works, I really think there could be a solid basis for a cross over here, that wouldn't break realities (ha-ha).

The upside down isn't an alternate universe, like we see in Fringe. What we see in Fringe are literally universes that mirror our world, but with a severe case of butterfly effect. No no no, The Upside down is more like a pocket dimension, where it lies exclusively within the town of Hawkins and doesn't actually stretch beyond it's borders. We see this, I believe, due to the Russians being unable to open a gate in their country? It's because there is no Upside down in Russia.

Anyways something something, fanfiction crossover, something something, the supernatural/ sci-fi abilities are really quite similar in these two shows, something something, I love these shows to bits even though their vibe is VERY different.

Any fellow Fringe & Stranger Things fans out there? Probably not that many but I can dream, right?

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expertspy · 5 years

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Story: The Rainbow Lost to Time

Ah, hello. Welcome to my slightly humble abode. Please, take a seat.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Who’s this guy?” Well, let me tell you. I am no one of importance. However, I am here to tell a story.

This is a story about a rainbow. This is not just about the rainbow, however. It is also about a man. A man, who, like the rainbow, was forgotten by time.

(Full story under the cut, since this is very, very long.)

You see, the rainbow was...not very well-liked by many people. Many laughed at it for its weird shape. Many studied it, trying to figure out the cause of the odd shape. However, few liked it. Because of this, the rainbow felt...very unhappy. Years went by, and the rainbow would continue to be made fun of. Eventually, it couldn’t take it anymore and suddenly disappeared.

Days, months, years, decades went by, and no one figured out why it disappeared. However, a strange man would suddenly appear out of nowhere. He was...not very impressive-looking. He wasn’t tall, or muscular, or even slightly handsome. However, he had his secrets.

You see, this man was famous in many other universes for his widely acclaimed skill in arms manufacturing. Many were after his head, so he developed a high skill with various firearms, melee and blunt weapons, and even the art of improvisation when the situation called for it. Several hundred people attempted to end him. They all failed.

His biggest secret, however, was one very few would find out. You see, he was from a place where souls existed. Heart-shaped souls, that could hold immense magical power. Coming in all shades of colors, these represented the most deeply held core value of a person...or monster. Blue, purple, green, the list goes on. Some would mutate, and become black...a color representative of hatred. Others turned white, so as to allow for it to store more magical power, in exchange for a flimsy physical body, and susceptibility to emotions. However, there was one type of soul so incredibly rare it is only found in legends.

That soul...was a rainbow color. There were two types of rainbow souls: ones that showed all colors at once, and those that changed colors. The latter type was the most powerful out of all the souls, being able to tap into the full strength of each soul type at any given time.

This type of soul...belonged to the strange man. This bestowed upon him a host of supernatural abilities. Teleportation, time manipulation, telekinesis, heightened senses, the list goes on.

However, due to his status, he had few friends. Most would be caught in the crossfire of assassins looking to bag the head of the famous arms dealer. However, some of them are...notable.

One of his first was a demon. A goat monster who claimed to not be the person he was. His name...was Cain. A master of dark sorcery, his home was a dark, empty universe known only as the void. He had powers and skills rivaling the rainbow souled man in sheer intensity. His greatest skill, however, was his manipulation of souls. Every now and then, he’d tap into the power of various soul types to gain an edge over his enemies.

The man with the rainbow soul, who we’ll now call S, would supply Cain with souls under the cover of anonymity. Eventually, S decided to reveal himself, and Cain, impressed by his ability, made him his second-in-command. Together, they, along with various other allies of Cain, would start a campaign to collect as many souls as they could. This served an ulterior motive of Cain, who was looking to destroy the multiverse.

After months of collecting...and mass death, Cain finally had enough souls to complete his mission. With millions upon millions of souls at his command, he sought to cast the spell known only as “End”, the most dangerous of all the spells, and the only one powerful enough to end multiple universes at once. Just as his goal was within reach...something not even he could predict happened.

His plan failed. The souls rebelled, which led to massive harm, and the loss of most of his power. When it was over...Cain was but a speck of dust of his former self.

With the loss of his superior, S moved on from the soul collecting campaign but still kept in contact with Cain, as they were still close friends. During this time, he met another friend of his.

This friend was a cat-human hybrid known as Maura. Although appearing to be mostly harmless, this...Temmie had a few tricks up her sleeve. You see, she had many friends, each with varying powers, and Maura had control over all of them. Most of the time, they would go about business as usual, in their rather large home, connected to the realm of monsters, housed deep within the depths of Mt. Ebott. However, should any danger come to any of them, they would all band together, and would usually eviscerate the threat.

S would become close friends with Maura, but not any of her friends, so there was some tension between them. Unfortunately, most of their time together was behind closed doors, so any details were lost.

While S made his fair share of friends, he made many, many enemies, most of whom have been lost to time. However, there are a few notable ones.

One of them was Daf, a normal human, with skills and powers rivaling those of S. No matter what happened, no one would gain a clear advantage over the other, as they always had counters to the other’s tricks. Eventually, they just left each other’s lives, never to cross again.

Another, although not really due to conflict, was Balance. They were a shapeshifting giant of a mummy, older than the pyramids of Egypt. At over 8-10 feet tall, they towered over S, but they never really met much. However, there are rumors of some behind-the-scenes drama that unfolded with their few encounters, and the events that happened.

There was plenty more to be said, but those tales have been lost to time. In any case, S was a polarizing man.

However, after a year of near-constant interaction with the world of souls, S suddenly vanished. The last known location of him was a military base housed in Great Britain, in a world of heroes and robots. After this...nothing.

Days went by, which turned into weeks, months, and eventually, a year went by with no sign of S. A select few who remembered the twisted rainbow drew comparisons between it and S. Perhaps S was the rainbow, who took a human form to exact revenge on its bullies. These are nothing more than rumors, however, and nothing has been confirmed.

More days, and weeks, and months went by, and there was still no sign of S. Rumors popped up that he had chosen to move to a different world to interact with, or that he had finally succumbed to the constant stream of assassins. None were confirmed, however.

Two years went by since S’ disappearance, and still, he was nowhere to be found. At this point, the hunt for him had lost traction, as after a full year, and then some, of looking, searching, questioning, interrogating, and torturing, no one got closer to solving the mystery. Mostly everyone assumed he had perished, having finally bitten the bullet after constant close calls. There were very few who believed he would return.

However, a few months went by, and the world finally knew. S...had indeed perished, found in his home with a bullet through his head. Many contemplated how he died. Perhaps it was suicide, or maybe an assassination. No one knew, as his circumstances meant that finding the culprit would be extremely difficult, as no bullet was found, neither in the body nor embedded near the crime scene, and the time of death was heavily obscured, as his powerful soul managed to completely halt the decomposition process, even after death.

While no one would ever figure out what happened to S, one thing was certain: he was dead. Worse yet, no one remembered him. Not Cain, not Daf, not Maura, not even his family. Before long, the legend of S had faded away, having been lost to time.

Perhaps it had not fully died yet, however, as I have just told the story to you. Cherish this moment, for I only tell this story once. My age is catching up to me, and soon, I will not be able to tell this story anymore. Once I perish, it is up to you to keep the tale alive. For to be truly dead is to be forgotten.

I’m afraid I can’t let you stay any longer, however. Please, go. Keep the legend of S alive. It’s not just for him, however. It is for me, and for the many people who S has met. Perhaps, he can be brought back...

Now, go and spread this message, the one I have given you. It is the best you can do for me.

#ooc: the wall shudders #unranked play: anon #holy shit this is probably my longest ever post here #i hope you enjoy this story #let's just say it's inspired by something...#and leave it at that

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dcarevu · 5 years

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DCAU #11: Two-Face (Part 1)

“All men have something to hide. The brighter the picture, the darker the negative.”

We’ve made it, guys! We’ve made it past the developmental/establishment stage of Batman the Animated Series for the most part, and from here on out, the show elevates to a whole other level. Like virtually all tv shows, there will still be ups and downs, and a few bumps on the road, but it is pretty well known that not only does Two-Face mark the true start of the masterpiece that is this series, but is also one of the absolute greatest episodes.

Villain: Rupert Thorne Robin: No Writers: Randy Rogel (teleplay), Alan Burnett (story) Director: Kevin Altieri Animator: TMS Airdate: September 25, 1992 Episode Grade: A

Oh man, so what do I say about this one that hasn’t been said already? Probably not a whole lot. While not a lot of people set themselves up to look at, analyze, and write about every episode of the DCAU, doing just Batman is more common. And granted, I don’t allow myself to read any reviews of any episodes until after my posts on them are written, I am still for the most part aware of what people’s opinions are with some of these high-profile episodes. So I think the best thing to do is continue just like I intended. Not caring about necessarily writing something that people haven’t heard before, but instead just writing whatever is on my mind for reactions, and also expressing Char’s thoughts as someone who has never seen the series before. After all, most reviews of this show come from people who have seen it prior!

This is Alan Burnett’s first episode of the series, and once he and Dini were both activated, oh man. It is clear that they saw eye-to-eye with Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, and it was a collection of the right people joining forces at just the right time. Both Dini and Burnett had worked on some pretty basic Saturday Morning Cartoons prior (along with some higher quality stuff), and writing for those types of shows must have felt like interning and doing nothing but pouring coffee for those that hold the job you truly want. They could use their creativity, sure, but knowing their visions for this show, it is apparent how stifled they must have been. Which is fine, they were still doing what they loved for a living, and getting very necessary experience. Maybe without these formative years and working on these cheesy cartoons from the 80’s, they wouldn’t have had the jobs to come up with the beautiful stories that they did. Creativity and writing is something that can get worse without practice and training, and sometimes that training truly does need to work much like it did in The Karate Kid, not being apparent until after it is completed. But while I’m not a fan of everything that Alan Burnett contributed to the DCAU, there is no denying what a valuable member to the team he was. Welcome aboard, Alan. But now let’s talk about the episode itself.

Two of the things mentioned in the series bible are as follows: the villains were to much of the time be human and have motivations, and the show was to be a noir crime drama, sometimes focusing more on everyday mobsters than colorful super villains, and not necessarily being a “monster of the week” type of show. And while Harvey Dent/Two-Face is very much a monster when it comes to appearance, this episode falls right in line with these rules. I had to think a little bit when I wrote who the villain would be for this episode, because yeah, Two-Face is a well known member of Batman’s rogues gallery, but Rupert Thorne is the real monster here. And goodness, what a cool villain he is. His voice actor, his lines, even his motivation, while not as sympathetic as Harvey’s, makes a lot of sense! He’s a mobster trying to do mobster things, and Harvey Dent is a real problem for him. But you also totally wanna see the creep get creamed by Harvey, because damn, you feel Harvey Dent’s pain tenfold. Leave the guy alone, he’s going through enough!

And throughout the episode, things just go further and further downhill for Harvey Dent, exponentially. He lashes out in public. Okay, that’s bad and gets a lot of press. But it’s nothing he can’t recover from. Then we find out it’s a recurring thing that he’s seeking professional help for, and just now getting worse. Then Rupert Thorne gets involved and severely threatens Harvey’s career as a politician. Then we have that god damn explosion, and at that point, you just know that there is no recovery, particularly as he flees the hospital, abandoning any hope for treatment. You feel the pain at the pit of your stomach as you watch, and let me tell you, even though I have seen this episode before (albeit only once), my heart was beating during certain scenes, particularly when he is talking with his psychiatrist and when he is at the “meeting” with Rupert Thorne and his goons. A couple times I heard Char gasp, and when that explosion happened, she had her mouth covered for a good while, hardly able to believe that Harvey Dent, one of Bruce Wayne’s best friends, a surprisingly clean-cut, honest politician, and someone we have seen a couple times now, is the villainous Two-Face that she has heard about before.

It’s not even just his character. It’s the fact that the episodes of this show so far have been good, but not this level. This is a serious, adult episode that I think would actually be pretty intense for children. I made a joke to Char when we were discussing the episode, and I said, “But it’s just a little kid’s cartoon!” and she responded with, “No it is not.” We deal with politics in a way that’s actually engaging. We deal with the struggle of a severe mental disorder and childhood trauma. Gosh jesus, the way this episode handles the mental disorder! Char and I both applauded it. Bruce Wayne telling Harvey how proud he is that he’s seeking mental help just warms your heart, and looking back after watching the episode (along with part 2, which has been watched, but we’ll discuss that next time), it almost brings a tear to your eye. Especially since all that could have been done was done. Harvey was getting help. His finance, who is a great character by the way, gave him all the love and support she could have. Bruce Wayne encouraged him to get better and even stepped in as Batman to try to save his friend. But sometimes with life, you can do everything right and it’s never enough. That is what makes this story a genius tragedy. Much better than what they were originally planning with the character, where they would have had him get acid thrown in his face like his traditional origin, and then develop the episodes. Him struggling with these mental problems for longer than his scars have existed feels so much more real, and adds to what makes this character so complex.

Then we have the style and animation, and it does nothing but enhance everything. Director Kevin Altieri outdid himself here. Some of the shots, including one of the most iconic images ever of his other face being revealed for a second when the lightning strikes, are simply beautiful. There were a lot of other little things like the rain on the window at night, which Char specifically noted. There was a specific close-up shot as well when Harvey was bandaged in the hospital that was extra stylized, but it standing out and being different than the other animation worked in its favor. It fit the mood so well. A different animation studio would do Part 2, which is a bit of a shame, as it didn’t end up looking nearly as good as this one, but I’m glad they blew their load on this one at the same time and made the visuals match the episode concept so well. Animation similar to some of the first episodes of the series would have killed the vibes which they were going for. It was a mini horror movie, lacking any amount of camp (something that Nothing to Fear didn’t do nearly as well). Also, TMS is very well known for being a studio of amazing quality and detail.

Something cool that Char noticed was that Grace, Dent’s fiancé, didn't touch him when it came to calming him down and forcing “Big Bad Harv” away, and it’s evident at another section of the episode that touching him in this state tends to set him off a lot more. This is a cool subtlety, and it shows that Grace is very in tune and familia with Harvey, and is definitely the closest thing to a safe-haven that he has. When he is with Grace, it gives you hope, when he is with almost anyone else, well, Char put it best, you could cut the tension with a knife. I think this is what leaves your heart beating throughout the episode, and what makes it so suspenseful. That tension. But while watching, you hope that the pressure is relieved. Instead, it ends with quite literally an explosion. We’ll see how things resolve next time.

Char’s grade: A Major firsts: Rupert Thorne, Two-Face, a two-part episode

Next time: Two-Face (Part 2)

Full episode list here!

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nonbinarypastels · 7 years

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about your post on how liking certain fiction doesnt make you a bad person i really don't get it. if you're not a bad person why like bad things in fiction? how does what you read not show what kind of person you are?

Because life and humanity are not just not that simple. It seems easy to believe something like "person likes horror = person is obviously a horrific human being" until you actually take a closer look at people, until you actually think about the complexity and depth of human thoughts, feelings, and desires, and you realize that to boil all of human personality down to what someone has read in a book or watched in a movie is reductive black and white thinking at it's worst.

Let's talk about popular media for a minute:

The book 'The Silence of the Lambs' and the rest of the Hannibal Lecter book series which feature a cannibal as a main character and shows other such delightful past-times such as loving moths and making trench coats out of people has won multiple awards and sold millions of copies. The show 'Hannibal' that was adapted from the book series (and, it should be noted, was 1000x more gorey than the books) had millions of viewers and continues to have an active fandom who have created thousands of pieces of fanworks based on the show that are just as bloody (if not more) than what is seen on screen. The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' books which are 90% murder and 10% incest have also sold millions of copies, saying nothing of Game of Thrones which everyone should know is also widely popular. On a similar note, the book 'Flowers in the Attic'---everybody and their mother's original problematic fave---has sold over forty million copies worldwide and has been adapted onto screen several times.

These are only a few examples of books---there are millions more. Crime thrillers routinely top best seller lists, as does dark fiction in general, where the more horrifying and devastating the plot twist the more people tend to love the book. This is to say nothing of fanfiction (of which there are millions upon millions out there) which have as much, if not more, variety as published work.

Moving on to shows and movies: new horror movies are released every year because people can't get enough of them. The 'Scream' movie franchise, for example, is one of the most profitable ones out there and has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States alone. A new version of the movie 'It', based on Stephen King's highly popular horror book, will be coming out later this year along with over a dozen other horror flicks. Horror shows aren't quite as common but crime dramas are a dime a dozen. See: Criminal Minds which depicts horrible things being done to people in as much detail as you can get on network tv, a show that is going into its 13th season in September and continues to be popular.

Horror is also a rather popular game genre. See: the Silent Hill franchise, Resident Evil, Until Dawn, and many others. It's also a popular genre in comics, such as The Walking Dead which turned into a highly popular tv adaptation. This is all not even getting into music or art, both of which are mediums that can contain content that is just as 'problematic' as anything you'd find in books or on screen, because if I keep going on about this I'll be typing all day.

Take allll of that in. Take in all the examples I haven't mentioned, all of the millions of shows and movies and books and songs and comics and whatever else. Take that in and think of how many people those examples translate into. Millions of books sold = millions of people reading them. Millions of viewers = millions of people sitting down to watch these shows every week. Millions of dollars at the box office = millions of people giving their money in order to sit down and watch these movies.

That's millions and millions and millions of people who are consuming content which contains "bad" or "problematic" material. I feel it's completely accurate to state that these people are your family, your friends, your neighbors, probably even yourself because the probability that you've never consumed any of this content or don't know anyone who has is astronomical.

These are millions and millions and millions of people who, according to you, would be bad people simply because they consumed this content. And if you have consumed any of this content---which, again, you probably have at some point---that would make you a bad person too.

Does that honestly make sense to you? Do you honestly think that there are THAT many terrible people in the world? That the millions of people who, for example, sat down and watched Hannibal every week condone cannibalism in real life? That the people who have read the Game of Thrones books and loved them are all on the same level as someone who would screw his sister and push a kid out of a window? That the people who have watched every Scream movie are all a step away from putting on a mask and going on a stabbing spree?

If people were defined by the media they consumed and only the media they consumed with no other factors (such as what they actually believe is moral and ethical IRL, such as how they actually treat other people) then god help us all because the world would be a fucking utterly horrid place to be.

But, people aren't defined only by the media they consume because---again---people are much more complex than that and are so much more than only the kind of books they read or shows they watch.

This then begs the question: why do people consume this content? Why, if you're not condoning something, would you want to read about it or watch a movie about it? What do people get out of consuming fucked up media?

This isn't a new question. It's one that's been asked hundreds upon hundreds of time. If you only google "why do people like horror" you'll get page after page of results of laypeople and psychologists alike trying to explain it. The simple answer is basically that human beings as a whole like to feel intense emotions in a controlled, safe setting and as complex as we are we're also interested in the complexity of other people, even when they're fictional.

Most of us would not want to actually live in a horror movie, we wouldn't want to actually be locked in a closet with a guy on the other side breaking in with an ax and we wouldn't want to live in a haunted house surrounded by ghosts hellbent on murder and property damage. But in the safety of our own homes, a library, a movie theatre? We can sit down and read our books and watch our movies and feel terrified to our heart's blood-pumping content without ever having to actually put ourselves in harm's way. The same situation applies to other emotions: love, sadness, heartbreak, humor. Fiction gives people a chance to feel things as intensely as possible in a way that is, ultimately, safe. It gives people a way to escape and cope and be entertained and in a way live a life and experience things that it wouldn't be safe or practical or even desirable for them to experience in the real world.

And then there are plenty of people who like to consume this kind of media because they're simply fascinated by the psychology of the fictional characters involved. Like you want to know why people would want to consume this 'bad' content, the people who consume this content usually do so because they want to know what motivates these characters---what makes a person into a monster? What makes a monster into a person? And what does it say about us as people that we emphasize so strongly with monsters? There are entire swaths of people who find something almost addictive, almost holy about looking at the absolute darkest aspects of life and humanity and things beyond humanity and finding something in there that they can relate to and understand.

Human beings are, generally, an emotional species. We want to feel things. We want to feel things about people. We want to feel love and pain and fear and every single emotion there is to feel but we don't want to put ourselves in an unsafe position in order to do that. Fiction gives us a happy medium. The kind of fiction we consume doesn't make us bad people, it just makes us people, period, because people are complicated and flawed and messy and to try and apply black and white thinking to people as a whole is an exercise in futility. People aren't either good or evil, moral or immoral, "pure" or impure. It's more complicated than that, people are more complicated than that.

I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand more times: there are better ways to judge a person than by what fiction they like, by what movies or shows or books they prefer. The way people treat others matters. The way people talk about others matters. The way people believe things should be in real life matters. All a person's taste in fiction shows about them is their taste in fiction. You can't make any other assumptions about them based only on that because to do so is to try and apply an overly simple concept (liking fiction that contains bad things = you are a bad person) to something that isn't simple at all. Now, you don't have to like what another person likes or even understand it and you are 100% allowed to be critical of the media itself but if you go throughout life under the idea that people are defined by the media they consume then the world you believe you are in is going to look like a godawful place and every single person you ever meet is going to disappoint you because I think it's safe to say that there's not a single person on this earth who has only ever consumed 'morally pure' media. Everyone has watched a crime show, everyone has watched a horror movie, everyone has read a book or a fanfic with some fucked up things happening in it and anyone who says they haven't is lying their ass off.

The only way to not consume 'problematic' media is to never consume any media at all and if we are all defined by the media we consume, if we are all guilty of everything we have read about or watched on screen, then by that logic we are all bad people - we are all monsters - and that's just...not something that I believe in whatsoever, at all, because I think people are more complex than that and I have more faith in humanity than that.

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