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✏️ There is no reason to assume that an author’s intention with dark elements and evil characters is to sway their audience into believing that those things are good.
✏️ There is no reason to assume that every dark element included in a piece of fiction was done from a place of desire even if the characters in the story make it seem desirable.
✏️ Sometimes stories are meant to make you uncomfortable.
✏️ You are not always going to be able to tell if a protagonist is an unreliable narrator.
✏️ You are not always going to be able to tell if the protagonist is meant to be a villain protagonist.
✏️ You are not always going to be able to tell the difference between a story that an author writes from a place of desire, versus a story an author writes from a place of pain.
✏️ You are not always going to know the author’s intention for dark elements they included in their fiction, romantic, horrific, or otherwise.
✏️ You are not always going to be able to tell the difference between a story someone writes because they think it’s fun and cute, and a story someone writes because they find it upsetting and uncomfortable.
✏️ The author does not owe the audience an explanation of why they included dark elements or a detailed moral breakdown of how they feel about the actions of the characters in their story.
✏️ The author does not owe the audience a disclaimer or assurance that they know all the bad stuff that happens in their story is bad.
✏️ Authors are perfectly capable of writing in fiction about events they would never want to happen in real life.
✏️ The author’s job is not to teach their audience morality.
✏️ It is not the author’s job to defend the moral intention of their fiction to their audience.
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