telltaletypist:

telltaletypist:

i think eventually we’re all just gonna have to come to terms with the fact that it’s impossible to tell a story with any degree of subtlety or nuance without risking a portion of the audience taking the “wrong message”, and that’s ok. art isn’t meant to be strictly a teaching tool, and if you’re goal is just to convince people or critique an idea, just write an essay or a polemic

people taking the “wrong message” from a story isn’t a failure of that story, it’s a function of art itself