bloodthreadsaltglassandtears:

limitingwhimsy:

joons:

“i like this villain!”

oh no, you don’t! you haven’t filled out the appropriate forms! you need better credentials. first fill out the following*:

do you admit–publicly, loudly, and continually–that you do not: 

✔ condone 

✔  accept   ✔  understand

any of the villain’s immoral behavior, and that you do not:

✔  enjoy 

✔  tolerate 

✔  see any value whatsoever in 

reading about actions that deviate from Current Puritan Norms, regardless of their merits as devices of narrative tension, character believability, and explorations of morality and empathy in a literary work?

X __________________

*you may waive signing this form if you can answer yes to the following question:

do you like the villain because you’re coping with a traumatic experience? if so, please describe your experience in as much detail as possible and publish the form for public viewing.

now you can say you like a villain on your blog! 

do you hereby pledge to:

✔ like the villain as villain and only as villain  ?

a departure from this clause is very exceptionally tolerable, if you submit an Alternate Character Interpretation essay that explains at length why, exactly, you’d rather not

like the villain as villain and only as villain. it MUST include:

✔ above mentioned detailed account of your trauma history and how it relates to that character
✔ at least one disclaimer per villain-related post that other fans are still free to like the villain as villain and only as villain 

✔ the promise to be available for further interrogation of your motives at any point by whoever might be concerned 

good luck !

By signing this and all associated forms, you hereby agree to the following:

-to not participate in general tags for the media franchise in question, ships involving your preferred character (both villain/villain and villain/protag ships are forbidden), or conversations about the franchise unless your opinions are specifically and explicitly solicited.

-to give platform to anyone who dislikes your preferred character

-to acknowledge that, while liking a villain may be morally permissible in certain instances (as outlined in the foregoing paperwork), it is never morally defensible and at best constitutes allowances made for people who can certify their damage and perform it satisfactorily for public consumption.

-to entirely avoid saying anything that could be construed as positive, admiring, appreciative, sympathetic, or expressing over identification with regard to your villain and any actions such as they might be depicted undertaking.

-to remember at all times that the protagonists and background characters a villain opposes, harms or otherwise interacts with are morally equivalent to real people with real feelings, and that all villains are morally equivalent to living human beings charged with behaving towards other living human beings in an abusive manner.

-where a villain is unambiguously characterized as abusive, to withdraw all your rights as laid out in the foregoing paperwork and perform public self-abasement  in full view of other