MAKKARI & DRUIG

not to post even more Villains Discourse on main but it really bugs me how people read giving villains tragic backstories as inherently excusing their actions and/or demonizing trauma survivors.

the actual message of Tragic Villains is (almost) always “people who are never taught or given any healthy, constructive outlets for their emotions will often find unhealthy, destructive outlets.” it’s that people who are traumatized and never learn how to cope with that trauma can become a danger to themselves and others. the message isn’t “trauma makes you evil!!!!” or “genocide is okay if you’ve been sad before!!!!” it’s “people need compassion and help to recover from trauma instead of becoming increasingly angry and harming themselves and others in the process.”

this site takes an alarmingly behaviorist and punitive approach to everything and it’s literally the most annoying thing. y’all have this concept that “if we just punish people hard enough, if we just scare them enough, if we just make them feel guilty enough.” that people just Do Bad Things Because They Do Bad Things, I Guess, and Because We Didn’t Threaten Them And Shame Them Enough. but humans are an innately social species. at our very core, we need compassion and kindness. we need healthy relationships with other humans.

you can keep looking at traumatized villains and being like “haha this dumb pathetic sadboi thinks murder is okay because his parents died” but as a survivor myself, unaddressed/untreated trauma absolutely can make you ragey and destructive. i was lucky enough to have support and eventually get the treatment i needed. but it’s not hard at all for me to imagine how, if that hadn’t been the case, that could’ve been me. obviously not on a movie-villain scale like murder or war crimes, but it’s so irritating as someone whose trauma has always manifested as anger to watch people on this site be like “this is just bad writing!!! real survivors/good survivors don’t end up like that the writers just hate survivors and want the audience to condone murder!”

No offense but the quote “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.” from the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard is one of the strongest, most impactful, mind-blowing phrases I have ever heard and it’s become one my absolute favourite quotes of all time that is all thanks for your time

 by ~YoRuMi-Chii

Something I don't get about this hellsite:

When an actually well written piece of media has a main romance that has... conflict, the fandoms just decides to ignore them for those two that had like... two scenes (but zero conflict) and claim that that relationship should have been the focus or go all quirky 'uwu the writers want me so much to focus on Y but look how I'm liking X despite Y being the entire point of the story.'

But when it's actually a bad piece of media with a badly written boring relationship... The fandom goes on of how we have to Respect the Author and how the main relationship that is so Pure and Good™ is of course the focus of the story.

It's almost as if they just like boring, baseless relationships in which they can... Project.

We don't see it. But.... She went to his office to cut her hair. She moved everything and then laid there. The braids he did for her. She was leaving them for him.

Omg. She loved and missed that old man so damn much.😭😭😭💣🦈💣🦈

If you’re a writer of any kind and you don’t plan to make the protagonist end up with the villain then please stop giving them sexual tension and better chemistry than the people they end up with. Please I’m begging you- I don’t know how much longer I can stand seeing a protagonist end up with a dry ass good guy when a sexy brooding man was waiting there this whole time. Please my weak heart cannot handle another disappointment.

this.

I like to think they were friends once upon a time

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Ruse of Skywalker

by JJ Abrams

Han Solo: Hey kid... I miss you son

Kylo Ren/ Ben Solo: Your son is dead

Han Solo: No... Kylo Ren is dead, my son is alive

Kylo Ren/ Ben Solo: You’re just a memory

Han Solo: Your memory… come home

Kylo Ren/ Ben Solo: It’s too late, she’s gone

Han Solo: Your mother’s gone but what she stood for what she fought for, that’s not gone

Han Solo: Ben…

Kylo Ren/ Ben Solo: I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it

Han Solo: You do.

Ben Solo: Dad…

Han Solo: I know…