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“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” (Oscar Wilde)
The war crimes are fictional but my annoyance is real.
“Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!”
— Terry Pratchett, Discworld (via onceuponamusing)
*lets out an evil laugh despite having just done something objectively nice*
it’s always “your redemption is something you have to work towards for the rest of your life” and never “how was the unhinged spiral into evil? the unhinged spiral into evil looked fun”
Posting here my ‘taste in characters that tumblr would cancel me for’ bingo:
good morning God has let me live another day and I’m about to make it everybody’s problem
i like villains who are just evil for like. the attention
not evil anymore i want to be loved now
evil again
Jamaica Kincaid, from The Autobiography of My Mother (via lifeinpoetry)
i’m literally about to become evil okay so watch out
sick of people who want to kill me just because I’m evil
anime protag: hey can you tell me all of your childhood trauma real quick?
antagonist they just met: of course what kind of villain do you take me for
Isn’t it funny how everyone is like background characters in other people’s stories. Except me of course because I’m sexy and important. But like, all of you guys
why do bad things happen to chaotic neutral people
