You know what drives me insane about fandoms nowadays??? That I can give any critiques on characters or even make simple fucking observations without it being taken like I’m staking all of my morality on my opinions of them.
Right now I’m talking about The Magnus Archives specifically. I LIKE that the characters are a bunch of traumatized fucked up hypocrites that can’t communicate for shit because that’s literally what make this story a horror story and not just sci-fi fantasy or action. What made this horror was the characters each being isolated in their own little trauma bubbles when an easy solution to the entire thing would have been teamwork, patience, understanding, and explosives.
I LIKE Daisy and Basira BECAUSE OF THEIR CHARACTER FLAWS. Daisy is an actual crooked cop that kills when she sees fit and gets away with it like actual cops do and Basira covers for her and makes excuses just like “good cops” actually do. Both of them are hypocrites and part of the fear/suspense in the story was not knowing if Basira really would try to kill Jon or “put him down” like an animal which is so fucking ironic considering what Daisy is.
I LIKE that Melanie was an insulting ass to him right off the bat and that she blamed Jon for her being there when it literally wasn’t his fault at all. I finally get to see a female character with actual anger issues just like we see men with anger issues in media constantly and it added to the story brilliantly
And I LIKE that Martin has huge manipulation and trust issues that bleed into his relationship with Jon in season 4 and 5 and he says things that are downright hurtful to Jon to get him to do what he wants even though he thinks it’s what’s best for Jon. It’s one of the only examples I’ve seen in media where someone who suffered abuse as a child wasn’t made into a “sympathetic villain” or a can-do-no-wrong character.
And don’t even get me started on Jon’s flaws, others go into that area much better than I could. But I LIKE that he went off the walls crazy in season 2 because if Jane’s worms hadn’t made him toxic to be around and paranoid he would have come to the conclusion that he needed to trust and work with other people much sooner and the whole story would probably have been a lot less of a horror story and more of a found family sci-fi.
I’m really tired of people acting like all queer characters have to be perfect role models that spew therapy talk and shit rainbows and anybody that doesn’t make post condemning their “toxic” behavior must also be a bad person, or the other way around where you can’t criticize any characters actions without other people in the fandom taking it like a personal attack. If you want to be spoon fed wholesome media that isn’t problematic or whatever go watch cat videos or something but I’m not going to justify my appreciation for characters every time I post about them. I’ve literally stopped myself from posting any fanfics I’ve wanted to because I didn’t want to deal with all the crap and I’ve decided that I don’t care anymore.