[ SECRET POST #3819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3819 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

All the sympathy. I had something similar where someone suddenly stopped talking to me after about a year of online friendship and the only thing I can possibly figure is I'd gone on a rant about how "Cool motive, still murder" is stupid because we recognize that, say, if someone charges you with a knife yelling that they're going to kill you and you shoot them first, it's an entirely different situation than walking up to a stranger in the park and shooting them and killing them because you're in a bad mood.

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That sucks. Guess it's nice to know I'm not alone in this though. The weird thing is we've disagreed on bigger issues. This case had the added problem where I didn't know I was talking about her or her opinion, so I was maybe less tactful than I would have been if I'd known, but I wasn't outright mean. I don't think I said anything I hadn't already. I was just more blunt about it.

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

Rants in general don't win you a lot of friends.

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

..but that is a dumb rant. "Cool motive, still murder" is for, like, 'yes I killed him but he was a jerk to me in high school' or whatever. Not for things that aren't actually murder.

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

Except that's how it's used all the dang time in fandom. How dare you like Character, they're a Bad Person who did Bad Things.

Which is still not real murder because it's fictional so people can feel whatever they want about it.

The full rant was basically that it's a bad phrase to overuse because in fiction, motive is everything. Peter Quill murdered his own father, does that make you a bad person for liking him? I'd say no, because it's fictional and we're allowed to like characters who aren't pure. People are also allowed to dislike them, but when someone posts about Peter Quill being awesome and someone comes in all "Ummm, but he literally murders people. How can you support that?"
"Because Ego and Thanos were going to destroy entire planets?"
*Cool Motive, Still Murder gif*

And how because it's all fictional you can play with tropes like that. Like the original ending of I Am Legend dealt with the fact the guy saw himself as a lone hero fighting against the evil undead, but the infected saw him as a monster stalking them and killing them for no reason.

So dismissing the fact that most fiction is wish fulfilment and has characters doing 'problematic' things all the time is really kind of ridiculous.

Re: Drama with a fandom friend

[(Anonymous)]

Edit - Ronan, not Thanos.