Honestly, I feel like setting two characters against each other is dumb, anyway. As if one is the "correct" choice and the other isn't.
Especially since I love both of them, and am fascinated in them as a /set/ - and they serve distinct emotional purposes. (I talk about this in one of the other rants I've posted in the last couple of months - Finn is the days where I am strong enough to overpower my illnesses and Kylo is when I am not. Finn reminds me that it is possible for me to win against my own mind; Kylo reminds me that I still deserve to exist even when I lose.) Trying to slot out one for the other is like. Being on a diet that requires a certain amount of fat and someone telling you that you should eat more low fat foods. It's like, yes, I get the point you're trying to make, but I am /doing this for a reason/.
I mean, villain apologists can be terrible and tiresome and minimize the harm the characters have done. "Cool motive, still murder" as the gif goes. But it is possible to swing things too far the other way. It is possible to have too little sympathy for a villain, as much as it is to have too much.
Fandom sometimes does great things! and sometimes it is terrible. (the terrible sticks out more)
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Date: 2016-07-01 04:03 am (UTC)Honestly, I feel like setting two characters against each other is dumb, anyway. As if one is the "correct" choice and the other isn't.
Especially since I love both of them, and am fascinated in them as a /set/ - and they serve distinct emotional purposes. (I talk about this in one of the other rants I've posted in the last couple of months - Finn is the days where I am strong enough to overpower my illnesses and Kylo is when I am not. Finn reminds me that it is possible for me to win against my own mind; Kylo reminds me that I still deserve to exist even when I lose.) Trying to slot out one for the other is like. Being on a diet that requires a certain amount of fat and someone telling you that you should eat more low fat foods. It's like, yes, I get the point you're trying to make, but I am /doing this for a reason/.
I mean, villain apologists can be terrible and tiresome and minimize the harm the characters have done. "Cool motive, still murder" as the gif goes. But it is possible to swing things too far the other way. It is possible to have too little sympathy for a villain, as much as it is to have too much.
Fandom sometimes does great things! and sometimes it is terrible. (the terrible sticks out more)