#tomgregs this is also directed at you. you took a dude that is impotent in his marriage and instead of beating his wife beats his assistant

[nina-vonnegut]

What absolutely unzips and guts me in "fandom" and it's perception and understanding of media is that the loud and obnoxious majority never left first grade. At least not when it comes to critical thinking. And promptly fell into the "Stalin trap" of art = education and morality.

Art isn't Sunday School. Many many times it's not even glorification, it is simply description. It is simply a person saying "hey, look how those freaks are living." And that's it.

Disney/kids media "has" to have a message, a morally and ethically correct ending. Good guys win bad guys lose. It was hard but worth it and we have time to make good memories. Cause kids are supposed to be safe when they watch it and are sponges who would believe anything you tell them.

But outside the Disney bubble art does not have to explain to you that it's about bad shit and that you as a viewer shouldn't be doing bad shit.

There is only the narrative. The narrative is made up. The people beholden to the narrative aka the characters are made up. They don't shit or breathe without a writer.

If you want to make uplifting art with correct messages, please do. There already is art with correct messages, please enjoy.

But no one owes you that. No one owes you Sunday School morality lessons. Not when creating and not when enjoying/consuming. If you are the type of dumbass to watch Hannibal - any media at this point - and go out and eat people cause the dude in the TV did it, that's on you. Like, you are the idiot. Not the (book) writer, show creator and writer and not the actors.

If you are too stupid to understand that Killing Eve has 1) the word KILLING in its title and the characters names follow and 2) is about a murderer and an officer of the law - at the beginning - who then also kills, its not the show burying gays, it's not a wrong message for mentally ill people (who are apparentlyin your head murderers???). It's a realistic depiction of a killers life. Like ???!!!! We can argue it was sloppy writing - cause it was - but never the fact that it was correct and expected to kill one of them, esp. Villanelle who only in death could be free, obviously, as she has killed people for money and cause she wanted to. Again, like ????!!! What is not clicking? Watch ATLA for a kids redemption.

Art is literally just about shining a light on other people's houses and going "look". It's fine if you want to watch morally good freaks but it's so embarrassing when fandom refuses to simply watch shit, let it be what it is, and instead is busy churning out coffeeshop fics and getting mad at the creator that they didn't film a scene from AO3.

Fuck off and watch stuff made for kids, watch stuff that is always correctly labeled (Ted Lasso and those pirate dudes) or create that correct art you want. But don't show your whole uneducated ass by getting mad at a foreshadowed death cause now your coffeshop fic is an AU.

There are shows like pushing daisies, and they are good quality wise and morally wise. Managing your expectations is a thing you need to do when engaging with media. And as shesnake already said multiple times there is fucking gay rep but if you idiots can't watch anything that isn't mainstream you will never find it and never proof demand for it. Shouting at killing eve creators does not proof demand, only media illiteracy.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

So yeah, if you repeatedly watch shows about murder and bad people I guess characters will die, deserving or not. Over and over and multiple times over. And it will make you sad but to escape this you only have to change your program choice. Literally a personal choice. Media enjoyment is in your own hands.