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[nightvale-thoughts]

thinking about the controversy around mag 185 again because (?) it was so weird. setting aside the fact that mag 185 wasn’t even that revolutionary in its critique against police brutality, it’s still crazy why people who believed it would be got upset.

i know that a lot of people were angry w/ the idea of real world systematic trauma being used as material for the show, but um… uh. that’s the point that’s the point that’s literally the whole point. in s5 everyone’s deepest fears and traumas have been made manifest in the most literal ways and. ? obviously that includes real world fears and not-cartoony, easy to digest ones too,,

it’s also odd to me that this ep was controversial, considering the fact that we’d previously had episodes focusing on topics like eating disorders and addiction before. by that point in the show, it’s assumed that the audience would be comfortable with mag 185 because (imo) we had handled much darker and visceral depictions of real world trauma prior. so ? did ppl online suddenly get scared that jonny wouldn’t handle a topic like that with sensitivity?? after 185 episodes ???

i guess the follow up argument to this would be whether jonny had any right to include these kinds of things in the show which.. um. he did actually sorry :P

colourblind character casting and writing doesn’t do as much to critique the actual systemic issues that kept minorities away from the spotlight for so long. everyone cheers for writers when they do the bare minimum of having good representation in their work, but then get angry when writers use their platform to critique real world systematic issues ☹️

like u know they’re supposed to do that right,, that’s the whole reason why people believe independent media has the potential to be world changing. writers can actually talk about these issues without having to deal with networks censoring them. why wouldn’t he be allowed to do that :/