#i love to see how their mind works no different to mine
“fandom & stan culture have ruined critical thinking, obviously you’re not supposed to connect with [morally abhorrent literary protagonist]” i love connecting with heinous characters i love having empathy for characters that have committed legitimately terrible unforgivable acts i love understanding why they did the evil things they did and i love that it’s always some basic human feeling or instinct that i feel like every other thursday. i love when circumstances and choices push characters to inconceivable extremes i love when fictional people never had the choice to be good and i love when they do and then actively choose the moral lowground and indulge the darkest most corrupt corners of the human psyche i love the visceral uncomfortable unsolvable knowledge that they could be me and i could be them and i love sitting with that knowledge and not deciding if this makes me bad or good and then moving through the world with that stone in my shoe. rip to this website but im built different
