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   The Trandalorian 🏳️‍⚧️ (charliejane@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:50:49 JST The Trandalorian 🏳️‍⚧️

   Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

   Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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     OneSadCookie (onesadcookie@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:50:48 JST OneSadCookie

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     @charliejane as a teen watching Captain Planet in the mid 90s, I felt the villains were too simplistic — real life didn’t have “Captain Pollution” who wanted to pollute because he loved pollution; it had Industrial CEO who polluted because he wanted money and didn’t care.

     I’ve really been forced to rethink that, these last few years.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:51:25 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @charliejane I do often wonder how much folks' apparent need to humanize fiction villains serves to make us vulnerable when real-life villains come about. Like, at some level, I really don't care why someone who hates trans folks hates us, so long as they have access to the levers of power with which they can act upon that hate.

     (Also parodied brilliantly in today's Harley Quinn.)

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     David Marshall (davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:51:44 JST David Marshall

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     This.

     I've put so much effort into making my fictional villains people who do their bad things for believable reasons.

     And not one of them was simply I Hurt People Because I Like To Hurt People.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:52:05 JST Mr. Completely

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     @charliejane huge comeback for Tolkien/old school comic book style villains but with added creepy libido issues

     Here's a funny SFF thing, I've read a couple good books recently with techbros in villain roles - makes sense, very of the moment - and the only problem is, accurate depictions of how ridiculous and fucked up these guys are ends up reading cartoonish on the page - even knowing it's accurate satire! A sticky wicket, that

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:54:51 JST Rich Felker

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     @ymasumac @charliejane Well he arguably needed to do this to stay out of jail. All his past (securities & otherwise) fraud was eventually going to catch up with him when the bubbles burst.

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     Auntie Mame (ymasumac@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:54:52 JST Auntie Mame

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     @charliejane Exactly. Elon has more money than god. He doesn’t NEED to do this. He just WANTS to.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:58:12 JST Rich Felker

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     @ymasumac @charliejane Not to mention away from the bone saws.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:22:51 JST Rich Felker

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     @lispi314 @ymasumac @charliejane Well that very well could be what happens when you don't deliver on what Mr Bone Saw paid for...

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:22:52 JST LisPi

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     @dalias @charliejane @ymasumac Are people planning to disassemble him with bonesaws?
     
     Metal. Nice.
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:26:57 JST Rich Felker

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     @lispi314 @ymasumac @charliejane M.B.S.

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:26:58 JST LisPi

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     @dalias @charliejane @ymasumac So, for those who are out of the loop, who would Mr Bone Saw be?