#in general the lengths ppl will go to excuse Maven and rid him of any responsibility over his own actions is baffling

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Can’t stand when ppl take Elara and make her cartoonishly evil. To take a character that already falls victim to the misogynistic “evil stepmother” trope and strip away all the things that give her any type of depth whatsoever in an effort to further excuse her son is… questionable to say the least.

#Elara is responsible for what happened but so is Maven! #and she’s already awful so i don’t understand what’s gained by ripping away the little things #especially when those little things is what her relationship with her son #what it is #in general the lengths ppl will go to excuse Maven and rid him of any responsibility over his own actions is baffling #part of his tragedy is that he’s responsible for his own actions #and that’s kinda spelled out in the text #sorry for ranting about this again i saw something on twt that reminded me of this issue