friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You’re correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.
ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.
Daemon Targaryen spent three years slowly losing a war, but the moment he learns his brother is sending help he speedruns the whole thing and wins within an hour of getting the message, just so he can stick it to Viserys.
Accurate representation of sibling rivalry.
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Laenor: We can’t manipulate, manwhore, or mansplain our way out of this one
2) if Cal has been in prison since she was in her early teens, why does she act like she’s had regular sex with individuals in possession of penises for years?
3) I’m assuming the the general population of the show isn’t too keen on brothers and sisters doin’ it, so why do all the Tidelanders fuck each other? I’m fairly certain at least one person has managed to fuck their twin, and way more people have probably fucked their half siblings, and even more than that have probably fucked their cousins. Are they. Are they just all cool with this? I mean, I ship Pinecest, so you know I’m cool with it, but most people are on the “incest isn’t wincest” train, aren’t they?
4) why are they not richer? If I was a Tidelander, I’d be performing underwater shows every weekday night and making billions. I’d have a goddamn mansion by the time I was fifteen. Be smarter about it, you guys. You can totally use your underwater breathing abilities for more than just illegal activities. You can use them to make a fuckton of money legally. Go do shows at the ethical Australian version of Sea World, shit. That blonde bitch couldn’t do anything to me if I got more money than her, and I’d be making hand over fist.
5) why haven’t any of the Tidelanders gone on long expeditions looking for their siren mothers? That’d be, like, the first thing I’d do with my performance cash, is go on a long expedition. You could stay underwater for hours and hours, until one of your body’s physical needs started acting up and you had to resurface, so there’s really nothing stopping you. What gives?
