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⌈ Secret Post #2773 ⌋

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[Maplestory]

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(Ted and Ralph, The Fast Show)

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[Big Hero 6]

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]

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[Arashi no Yoru ni]

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[Hannibal, linked for nudity and gore]

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Ultra-rationalist fics where characterization are thrown to the winds in favor of what the author thinks a character ought to logically and objectively do. Oddly enough that tends to involve shooting people or punching people a lot.

Strict parents being called "abusive" through doing things the author thinks kids ought to be able to do, like declaring a parent abusive for setting a curfew, or refusing to loan out the family car to a teenager, or expecting a teenager in a no-healthcare country to look after older family members as a matter of course. Authors, be brattier.

Oh, yes to the first. One of the types of fics I hate the most, and it is really popular in the Potter fandom. There is that one fic that lots of people seem to love where Harry is raised by a rationalist and I don't get why it is so popular. It is awful. And other, similar fics with "independent" Harry. Sometimes it works well, most of the time I don't get the point since if the author hates the world they are writing in so much why are they writing in it at all?

And don't you just love that all that badass behavior is totally negative-consequence free too. Because everyone will bow down and worship the early-teen who breaks all the rules. So Cool. Much Edgy. Rebel Everywhere!

"Rational" behavior, isn't.

Oh, yes. And everyone everyone who doesn't fall over worshipping the characters (most often Weasleys and Dumbledore) are portrayed as evil and worthy of being attacked physically and even often killed.

I think I remember one of those where Draco only showed up to be executed by the Goblins. Because that is how things should go, chance meeting followed by hideous death off-page by unnamed goblin characters. Clearly Harry is just that awesome to make that perfectly fine.

Don't get me wrong Draco is one horrible shit of a human being, I am no Draco fan, but only showing up so that Harry can show how perfect he is and that it is fine to kill someone for not being Harry Potter's perfect follower... Well isn't that more the m.o. of Draco's own pre-HBP idol than the supposed good guys?

I remember one where Ron sexually assaulted Hermione and that made it okay for Harry to duel him and kill him. And yes, it was Harry and not Hermione defending herself because Hermione is totally a damsel who needs a man to save her, right? Even though she knows more spells than Harry.

Okay, setting aside the whole Ron the Death Eater trope there (I'm as much a fan of Ron as I am of Draco personally speaking, but even I would take some considerable selling of Ron as being the type of person who would commit rape) that is a whole barrel of horrible. It makes no sense from start to finish. Not to mention just how insulting that is to rape survivors; to have one's agency stolen from them in seeking justice. Oh god. No. Just, no.

It wasn't even rape. He shoved her against a wall and fondled her. And for that he deserved to die.

Ron isn't my favorite either, but I'm against character bashing on principle.

And yes, it was really insulting to survivors.

It was just bad from start to finish. Everyone applauded when Harry killed Ron too.

Not to lose sight of the fact that it is still sexual assault, and the horror of that, but that makes Hermione's lack of action even worse. At least with rape the author could construct a scenario where Hermione was rendered incapable of response. Groping, horrible though it is, would not even achieve that. Also, killing? No, not even close to Harry or Hermione's style. Beating/hexing seven shades of shite out of the offender perhaps ~~also having centaurs drag him off and rape him~~, but not killing and not a formal duel either. What happened did Harry suddenly get switched with a regency era gentleman? If anything, and sulking and trying to ignore the groping bastard would be equally as valid a character reaction from both Hermione and Harry, the most likely reaction would be "must tell Dumbledore/McGonnagal". It should go without saying they wouldn't be fine with killing either. When exactly did murder become the perfectly sane response to every insult and transgression anyway?

"Rational" behavior, isn't.

Rationalists, I've found, aren't much different from any other people who work double-time to justify their own biases.

Fuck Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Fuck that dude.

Ultra-rationalist fics where characterization are thrown to the winds in favor of what the author thinks a character ought to logically and objectively do.

Tangentially, this is one of the reasons I gave up on all but a few of the boards before TWoP shut down. There was a huge and loud contingent of posters declaring shows "unrealistic" and "badly written" because the characters made bad decisions. Including a lot of people bitching about Once Upon a Time back when it first started because the ten-year-old kid was acting rashly. I'm very curious about what life is like on their planet.

I can only assume they not only had never met any ten year old children, but had also been grown in some sort of laboratory and decanted fully formed. Acting rashly without thinking things through is a solid 90% of all ten year old's thought processes. The remaining 10 being divided up between resisting baths and complaining about sprouts.

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