#noeul: He (boss) Is Only Daddy When He's Standing Still, But When He Moves He Is A Baby Chicken

#noeul: he (boss) is only daddy when he's standing still, but when he moves he is a baby chicken

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Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters

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.

Everyone queue up this meme I made for next week