#normally i actually am glad he decided to lean into something more morally complex and nuanced but idk | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marshmellowtea · 2 years ago

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i could be misremembering this so forgive me if i am but i feel like i vaguely remember a period of time where mark was desperately trying to stop people from viewing dark as a sad boy romantic figure and see him for the manipulator he is or whatever and the thing is, respectfully, if that really was the plan, he went about it in the absolute dumbest way possible that only made it easier for people to sand down his more manipulative edges and view him as a misunderstood hero. what he really should've done was have dark do something so genuinely vile and universally heinous that only the most strong stomached, "i love fucked up bastards who do horrible shit" crowds would be able to still love him but he didn't and now look where we are

#i'm pretty sure i remember him complaining about this in the era of adwm or something #so maybe he decided to lean into the sympathetic angle with damien and the tragic backstory by wkm #but still. c'mon man #normally i actually am glad he decided to lean into something more morally complex and nuanced but idk #honestly tonight i'm feeling a little bitter so ghlksdjgk #as much as i can respect the fandom-wide trend that is people's tendencies to woobify villains they like #and as much as i've done it myself in the past #i'm also a damn hypocrite who finds dark at his most interesting when people are leaning into his fucked up traits #and finds it fkn annoying sometimes how much that's just straight up ignored in this fandom in favor of something so bland and vanilla #pardon the unintentional pun. i guess. glkasdjg #this wouldn't have happened if mark had him straight up kill a puppy or something but noooo #whatever man it's dumb to be this annoyed by it but hglkdsjfkl #i'm having a bad night tonight so i'm going to complain #markiplier #darkiplier #marshy speaks

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