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ploncc · 2 years ago

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I get the layers upon fucking layers of why it's like this but it's still annoying ironic that being intrigued by the Wrong Sort of Monstrousness is so heavily judged

like you're into #darkacademia style intrigue and murder n' shit? enjoy gore? watch scary movies? talk about wanting to go feral and rip politicians to shreds and then eat their entrails?

Cool!

what's that? you're into the bond films and are completely aware that they're light propaganda at best but still find ways to enjoy them and are fascinated by jimmy bond, or even like him as a character?

#i stare at what i hate and i recognize its humanity and all the ways i could have become the same #i cannot breathe without taking in the same air as it #i open my mouth and the same range of human noises come out #i stare at what i hate #will it stare back?#all i'm saying is that being feral over hannibal has a certain acceptance to it that being feral over Military Crime Man doesn't #which isn't a bad thing #but oh boy it sure is a Thing(tm)#''hah hah hah i love the dark things and the scary things and the monsters'' like babe do you actually think they're monstrous #or did you take something with the aesthetics of monstrousness that otherwise isn't that morally intrusive but represents being queer/#disabled/poc/neurodivergent/fat/what have you pretty well as a way to discuss experience in modern life? coz thats not a bad thing either!!#but are you in love with the disgusting and the monstrous or are you just in love with the aesthetics of it/loving what others hate?#those are different. not bad!! just different!#i have a feeling this is going to be comprehensible to like six and a half people #somehow bames jonds has escaped the 'moral crime of watching a thing' discourse #probably because its a dad thing to like #oh god #where's my jo ann gift card i need to buy fabric and sew a skirt quick someone am i looking like a dad ???

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