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Someone else made me what I am.

I want them to hate me for it just as much as I hate them for it.

And we will live in this anger and resentment and they will understand the person they have shaped.

They will recognize that they are not god just because they made something out of my sorrow.

It is an ugly kind of love, for the creation to hate the creator.

It is a beautiful kind of hate, for the creator to love the creation.

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Not to be an English major, but my genuine favorite part of Malevolent is how it handles its themes. Overall Malevolent tackles such profound and interesting ideas to chew on, but it's specifically the approach it takes to those ideas that really gets me going.

For example, one of the major themes across several seasons and characters is identity. The podcast asks pretty standard questions like "How do you define yourself?" and "How do others define you?" But it doesn't choose to stop there! It constantly expands on that idea, and it also asks things like "Which of those definitions is the 'real' you?" and "Are any of them right, are any of them wrong?" and "Is there even a singular definitive version of you?"

Malevolent works out from one idea and poses all these rich lines of discussion and questioning, and then just. Doesn't provide an answer! Or, at least, not a single, one-size-fits-all answer. Instead, it gives us multiple possibilities:

John's arc tells us that your identity is what you make— what you say, what you decide— and no one else's definition of you matters. Arthur's arc tells us that you can get stuck in a rigid, self-deprecating personal identity, so you need others' perspectives to help you see and love the real "you." Larson's story tells us that you do not have the right to selectively accept/deny parts of your identity and actions, and that others can see the whole of "you" whether or not you take accountability for it. Noel's story tells us that you can choose what parts of your past define you, and that leaving behind all the other versions of yourself can be beautiful and empowering. Kayne's story tells us that leaving behind other versions of yourself is akin to murder, killing off the pieces that you don't like and pretending like you've evolved past your own self. Yellow's arc tells us that your identity is fluid and can easily be influenced or manipulated by what others tell you, and by that point you've changed your own self-definition to something entirely new that can be just as true or untrue as the old you.

With all of these characters and with every other character throughout the show, we get a unique answer to the question "What is identity?" And if you look further at all the characters, you can break down their different arcs over the seasons and find even more answers just within that one character's development and story. And some of the answers we get correspond, and some of them contradict, and none of them are the right answer, and all of them are the right answer.

Malevolent takes one idea, and then it crafts an incredibly nuanced and humanistic exploration of said idea that adapts with respect to whatever situation or character it is applied to. And it uses this approach with all of its themes: identity, morality, guilt, grief, love, hope, etc.

Malevolent knows that life is messy, that people are complicated and contradictory and diverse and ever-changing, that no part of the universe or humanity can ever be explained or defined in a simple manner. Malevolent knows all that, and it wants to help us understand that too.

Malevolent shows us that nothing can ever be easily understood or answered, and it shows us that that fact is beautiful.

Mr Spock

Twisting in your thrall to Yog-Sothoth all by yourself, handsome?

john didn't know what a wheelchair was bc he was too busy getting his degree in faggot

Attempting to articulate a concern I have in the simplest way possible

did i do it right

Today I mistook Kayne for Will Wood.

That got me thinking about all that killing your alternates mess, he got himself into and I thought that Will Wood is the only alternate Kayne couldn’t kill. Because Will just beat him up in his skibidi sigma rizz rap battle and Kayne got so upset that he ate Will’s mike and ran off to some other alternative universe, wiping the humiliation of the minds.

Basically Kayne is the reason why Will don’t remember 2012, yeah, how could we not see it.

Mike Walters blowing all the other pathetic podcast men out of the water for most torment. And hes doing this while spending half his time just living a normal ass life. Man is putting up some insane numbers.