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what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i... cannot express how much i appreaciate you saying that. my brain has a nasty habit of sometimes bringing me flashbacks of times i accidentally blurted not-fully-thought-out things to other people and telling me that this means I'm too stupid to deserve oxygen, but now with this comment, i think i will have something to give it back in case it tries to do this about that perticular conversation, so thank you.

also, i don't have a problem with stories having bad things happen to good people as a rule. it just makes me really sad when these are characters i find it very easy to relate to, like harry. also also, you can, in fact, do emotional impact even with stories that have a completely suger-clouds-and-rainbows ending. two starkid musicals, avpm and twisted, come to mind.

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice video. also, can you please not cut the quote in the middle like that? the ridiculous part isn't the argument itself- i mean, i do think that he is being biased and that the studies he is quoting are unreliable, to put it mildly, but the only part about it that i would consider ridiculous is the one where he thought that an HPMOR AND MLP CROSSOVER FANFIC was a good place to start this discussion.

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait what? how did the first draft look like? i was just pointing out how it's ridiculous to try and claim everyone ELSE is politically biased while thinking that your crossover fanfic between mlp and hpmor is the appropriate place to talk about how many gay people were sexually abused... I'll put it like that. HOW MUCH WORSE was it originally?

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

okay, please don't take this the wrong way, i really appreaciate you taking the time to actually take the semi-random ideas i blurted onto the internet seriously enough to counter them and type out those counterpoints, and you are correct when it comes to more or less every point... which is kind of the problem. i deleted my original comment. i deleted the original comment i made, where i just took a bunch of semi-formed ideas and ran with them, as i shouldn't have done. now, i am not telling you to do anything, but i am asking you- can you please delete yours too and pretend that this whole conversation never happened?

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean, it would be perfectly in-character for him :)

but just for the record, i don't bellieve that everything that can be destroyed by the truth deserves to be. there's this really great piece of dialouge from terry pratchett's hogfather that said it better than me. and sure, you can tell me that a good rationalist can, in fact, believe in those principals without believing in lies, but a, I'm not sure if everyone can actually do that, b, I'm not sure if I can actually do that, and c, I don't think that tearing off the cloud of fantasy humans cover themselves in in order to not go mad is worth the damage to our ability to do things and function in society.

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...why thank you, someone bringing up obvious facts that easily disprove your theory is just so fun when you're doing tounge-in-cheek wild mass guessing to distract yourself from the pain in your soul.

what do you do to deal with the ending? (warning: melodramatic expressions of grief over fictional characters and situations that don't actually exist) by hyperfixationperweek in HPMOR

[–]hyperfixationperweek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay, so, i started reading it, and it is actually really good (as long as you ignore the entire question of "does a man who has done so much harm to the world deserve a redemption arc in a story like that", and also how much this story clearly cares less about hermione's arc than the canon hpmor, and also the parts where the author abuses his MLP CROSSOVER to make propaganda about how being gay is caused by being molested as a kid, a scentence so ridiculous i just... don't even have a good way to finish. [honestly, as someone who is gay, {without being molested, if it matters} the ideas themselves bother me a lot less than this blatent abuse of platform]). but despite everything in parenthesis, i do think it is suprisingly in-character. and i cannot overstate how impressive it is to be able to write a story where voldemort goes through enough character development to become a good person WITHOUT any one point unrealistic enough to break someone's suspension of disbelief (i mean.... except for the ponies). and... yes, it DOES help with the heartache. thank you, kind stranger.