Hey There! I Remember Watching A Vid Of Yours About The Torture Of Characters (especially WOC) And First

Hey there! I remember watching a vid of yours about the torture of characters (especially WOC) and first of all, thanks for the video honestly! It really got me out of a funk and I managed to recover and mental heal! My mental health couldn’t be better!

Second, why is it the people constantly write/draw characters just getting torture over and over again? I want to have at least an answer, because this isn’t something I find on fanfic/fan art in particular, but in any media in general that seems to favor that king of character work! Why is that?

The logic train is this

Suffering builds character

Therefore I must make my characters suffer for their story to have meaning

This of course ignores that suffering doesn't build character and the character building comes from the recovery and change in perspective afterward.

But "suffering builds character, but only in the sense that it changes the way you view the world and the things you learn in recovering" doesn't make as catchy a platitude, so idiots take the platitude and make bad stories with it.

[video by crowbabies. original caption: My stinky baby]

loveeee echoes of wisdom so far 😭

me teaching my pet vampire how to adapt to human society

i rly don't care about what people do with fanfics and stuff but the people in the fields of mistria subreddit going "well even if olric turns out to be aromantic he could still be in a qpr with you!!!" make my blood boil. if you're an aro person saying that whatever. if you aren't, you are required to give an aro person 10 dollars per offense.

like this is not an "aro people can still date!!!" moment this is a "I know he's aro but I still want to date him and won't accept a no!" moment