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gen-is-gone · 2 years

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*deep breath*

JUST LET SANDMAN BE A TRAGEDY IT'S NOT EDGELORD BULLSHIT TO NEED DARK STORIES WHY ARE YOU ALL SO AFRAID OF FEELING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THAT YOU DEMAND THE TEETH BE TAKEN OUT OF EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE A CHARACTER YOU LIKE DYING MAYBE DON'T FUCKING WATCH A SHOW YOU KNOW WILL END THAT WAY BUT SOME OF US FUCKING NEED THE FUCKING TRAGEDY YOU HAVE SO MUCH HAPPY ENDING BULLSHIT JUST LET THOSE OF US WHO NEED IT KEEP OUR TRAGEDIES GO WATCH FUCKING CARTOONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK

ok I think I'm better

wait

ALSO DREAMLING ISNT CANON AND ISN'T GOING TO BE SO NO ITS NOT ~BURY YOUR GAYS~ THAT DREAM DIES THE FACT THAT YOU KIN HIM DOES NOT MEAN IT'S ~PROBLEMATIC~ THAT HE KILLS HIMSELF I PROMISE YOU THERE ARE STORIES WHERE THE GAYS GET HAPPY ENDINGS BUT DREAM OF THE ENDLESS DOES NOT AND SOME OF US NEED THAT CATHARSIS MORE THAN WE NEED FALSE REASSURANCE OF THE SUPPOSED RIGHTNESS OF A MEANINGLESS WORLD

ok *now* I'm done

#megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace #but seriously the plot of sandman is a known entity #[redacted] was first published almost 30 years ago #you have more than enough opportunity to find out how it ends #and if you refuse to either read the comics or spoil yourself you don't get to complain about feeling led on #but also #some people in the modern media milieu are so allergic to tragedy and bad feelings #that they take it out on people who like and create tragedy #*real fucking life* does not guarantee a happy ending #and for every person who wants softness in their escapism #there is someone else who needs honesty and not fake unearned HEA #and people on tumblr who hate tragedy are frequently really shitty and entitled about it?#like they act like no story should be tragic or that tragedy could never be truly intellectual #which is absolutely backlash against shitty takes about how tragedy is the only form of intellectual storytelling #but both views are reductive as shit #but seriously there are fucking tons of stories to suit basically any genre that have happy endings #stop trying to take this tragedy away from people who fucking need the catharsis #if you don't like the way sandman ends maybe it wasn't the story for you and that's fine #but stop campaigning for a different ending as though the way it ends is bad writing #just because it makes you sad #that's what it's supposed to do #sorry I dunno why sandman is the place where like all of the different things I never used to care about #are running into a brick wall of seething annoyance I never used to have #but it came roaring back into this moment in my life where I kinda fucking need the unadulterated tragedy

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