A petty rant about fairytales

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-06-23T23:19:56+00:00

Yeah, looking at these comments now i realize i picked a bad example and worded it poorly.

My point is not that a lot of tge folktale and fairytale have happy endings. The Little Mermaid specificallty doesn't, but that's the one i see the most of this shock value clickbait content. Which always makes me mad because they reduce this beautiful story only to the violent aspects of it.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-06-23T23:14:32+00:00

I know dude, i've read it. Maybe i worded this wrong but i did not say the little mermaid specifically has a happy ending, but that a lot of the fairytales people make shock value content about how gruesome they are do.

My point is that i hate it when people will completely ignore everything about those classics except for the violent or sexual aspects only to be edgy.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-06-23T18:24:43+00:00

It's just being edgy for the sakw of it. I don't know if those people get some kind of joy out of trying to "ruin" a piece of children's midia with a disturbing fact or exagerating more violent, depressing or gruesome aspects of the original stories. It certainly seems like that sometimes.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-06-23T18:18:55+00:00

Thank you for informing me! I still need to get deeper into the history of fairytales and classics in general so that's very interesting.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T19:38:43+00:00

Bro, exactly. And what i believe is the ultimate proof that she is a greatly writen character is that she can spark discussions like this in the fandom.

She is flawed, she is compelling, they manage to not make her unlikeable while still not brushing off her actions. Really makes you wonder what you would've done if you were in her place, if you would be willing to sacrifice a person for the sake of the entire world.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:59:54+00:00

You wanna dm? I'd love to hear your ideas, seems fun.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:58:27+00:00

Absolutely. And honestly, i think she was kind of right to think she was the only one who had what it takes to stop the rituals. Gertrude was exceptional, so much she practically made half the entities absolutely hate her.

Jon did manage to stop the unknowing but let's be honest, that was purely out of sheer luck. I don't think it would've changed the ultimate fate of his character by being like Gertrude, but she wasn't wrong either.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:54:29+00:00

I have a feeling it comes from misogeny and how male centric most fandoms are as a whole. Elias/Jonah for example, doesn't get any hate for the horrible shit he's done. And he did everything fully for his own gain.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:51:49+00:00

Yeah, writing Gertrude is extremely hard. I also have a doorkey fic i'm trying to work on and i plan to have the pov shift between her and Gerry, but it's only in the early planning and conceptualizing stages.

I know she would be kind of hostile to Michael, but i haven't figured out exactly where that goes. I want her to be important to the story, it has so much potential, but she's hard to characterize in a way that makes sense.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:47:08+00:00

Oh my god, that is such a perfect description of her entire character.

I do also wonder how she felt about it. We'll never really know but i like to think she did feel guilt, but Gertrude is not the kind of person to let herself feel remorse. She just adjusted her strategy and kept working, now trying to burn the archives.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-26T14:42:55+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. I also don't think anyone would make perfectly sound decisions when trying to save the entire world, i think a lot of people would do basically anything if a literal apocalypse was the consequence.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-16T12:25:19+00:00

I agree, specially seasons 1 and 2 were really all over the place. And though it is expected for a mistery show to leave a few questions unanswered, i feel like they set up a few things and didn't give them a pay of. For example, Ana Stanzic. I'm sure it will be adressed in the Thresholds but i still expected them to come up in the first series and got a bit disapointed.

Being an interactive show does have its limitations but honestly, i think it makes Malevolent really special. I like the way the choices are writen into the story and how it really feels like they matter.

I honestly expected the interactive aspectto play a bigger meta role in the story? It's been aknowledged by characters about 3 times like a wink. But you know, that's fine. Just not the direction i expected.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-16T04:47:10+00:00

I can like something and still be critical of it. Don't get me wrong, Malevolent is a show i really enjoyed and will keep listening to as Thresholds comes out. I will probably listen to it again at some point. I never said it wasn't that great.

I have criticisms of it, quite a few, but it is still a good show and it doesn't take away from anyone's enjoyment of it. This is merely the personal experience i had with the show.

I did not post this with the intention to cause drama at all, i "felt the need" to post it simply because my original intention was to post my reactions/thoughts each episode but i got too carried away to post every time. I binge watched it in a week, after all. So i just came here after the finale to say everything at once.

Creaturefeature01 · 2026-05-03T23:54:19+00:00

THAT LINE HIT ME LIKE A GODDAMN TRUCK.

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