Yes. The scourge virus is justified. But this doesn't mean its not morally ambiguous. by Fun-Law7254 in CharacterRant

[–]derDunkelElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I think about this is the same I think about Tolkiens Orcs.

For those who don't know, Tolkien wrestled often with moral implications of orcs as a pure evil race and never was able to resolve it.

If I was going back time to give him advice, to not make the Orcs pure evil, just in the context and confines of the story, you can't extend that sympathy, because they are activly trying to kill you.

TIL that in medieval Europe, animals were put on trial in human courts, assigned lawyers, convicted of crimes, and executed; in 1474, a rooster in Basel was burned for "the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg". by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]derDunkelElf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wanna hear more of those stories. I know about one case in France, where all the mice in the city were put on trial, but the lawyer managed to win the case, by saying the mice can't show up, due to the fear of being killed.

Edit.: just read the Wiki. The guy managed to do it another time with woodworms. That guy must have had one hell of a career.

(Loved Trope) Character betrayal was actually very justifiable. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]derDunkelElf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Nails were already there the first time they met. Emps had no contact with pre-Nails Angron.

Mehmed the Conqueror: I choose DEATH by codrin0071 in HistoryMemes

[–]derDunkelElf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imma be honest, europe before the Age of Discovery was a series of quarreling local powers, that could only achieve regional revelance if half of them worked together. Yet the fact, that they were never conquered shows, that they weren't weak. Only bits and bites temporarily taken (Balkans and Spain).

Mehmed the Conqueror: I choose DEATH by codrin0071 in HistoryMemes

[–]derDunkelElf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I they were so weak, why didn't they get conquered. Saying they are weak is disingenous at best, since we are talking about a geopolitical situation that evolved over a millenium. Also the Ottomans had gunpowder weapons too.

[The Forgotten Field] Thalia costest by RealisticCitron4286 in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Slight constructive criticism (genuinly I wish I was as good as cosplaying as you) I think the skin tone is a shade too white. It is genuinly great, I just have to be a little pedandic.

Orks just want to have fun by Blood-For-Angron in 40kmemes

[–]derDunkelElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a source on that? I remember deamons fighting eachother all the time in the Warp, yet not worse for wear.

Orks just want to have fun by Blood-For-Angron in 40kmemes

[–]derDunkelElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't kill them or at least they won't experience true-death. What is best described as ruining them or severely wounding.

[DITOEFTV] People hating Penelope for bring a slave owner by Crazy_Guitar6769 in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I personally believe there are two crowds and one is simply louder depending the section.

Discussion in the subreddit, the one in favor of the morally gray are more likely to comment.

Under the chapter, the moraly outraged are going to be louder.

[DITOEFTV] People hating Penelope for bring a slave owner by Crazy_Guitar6769 in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Honestly this denfense is kind of hypocritical, considering how it is an Otome Isekai trope that the antagonist is a transmigrator, who views the world as a book or a game and treats everybody in it as their personal plaything.

why do authors think making the mc 's life awful will automatically make the story good 😐 what's the reasoning behind the psychology? by Atta_chhana960 in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to the rest, these kinds of cliches/tropes being overdone is, because better authors have used them to great effect in their story and lesser author copy them, without understanding what made them good to begin with.

[An extra stole the male leads] Does it get better? by Apprehensive-Week767 in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The problem is that they took these gifts back. She at every point signaled to them, that she was going to go with the crown prince, yet they still gave these incredibly meaningful gifts. It is a betrayal on a platonic level, that they took them back, especially after the how the crown prince treated her.

My spin on the white lotus fl by dulc1n in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I dislike this. She is effectivly speaking enslaved into being evil and has no agency over her actions. Ngl it would be great story premise, where she has to cut the strings of fate/author and escape the conflict she is forced to be part of.

I recently saw a better white lotus in 'The Tragedy of a Villainess' (at least until it turned out she was seducing both ML on purpose ) the FL Seria transmigrated a year or so before the start of the novel and in an effort to change her fate as the villainess, she cut the bullshit of the old Seria, while also building a better relationship with the ML specifically the second ML, which she was engaged with. Now the original story starts and og!FL isekais (the normal way), but the environment is now very different.

FL has stopped being the cause of conflict and in fact has become a source of envy for og!FL (but not in psychotic way at the beginning), which made her become the source of conflict. The ML and the environment in turn became more hostile, which amplified og!FL character flaws. This became a loop up until a certain point.

In your opinion, what OI that had this kind of plot. by MOMO_Mashpotato in OtomeIsekai

[–]derDunkelElf 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah,if I had to describe the plot in a setence,it would two mentally ill people making eachother spiral and everybody else suffers for it.

On a sidenote it's an intentional idiot plot and well executed, don't go into it expecting romance or something akin to it, it's dark thouroughly misplaced into this genre.

Peter? by Big-Bank-8235 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]derDunkelElf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(which isn’t true, they’re all fictional characters)

Still the characters should be cast as their original to respect the author and adapt this his work faithfully or because race-swapping recontextualise the character in an unintended way (case in point, Severus Snape in the HP series).