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Hoaquin Arie: An Appropriately Unhinged Essay

Hoaquin was introduced as a character in season 2 of Tower of God: Hell Train arc. A short little white boy (4'11 to be exact) with big dreams and billions of people's blood on his hands, he's unabashedly cruel and seems to completely lack the ability to empathize with others. He's narcissistic, only really ever thinking of himself and how to further his own goals- as shown by his ever changing 'loyalties' throughout the comic. He truly stands with no one and only really seems to be in FUG for his own benefit rather than anything the organization believes in.

Unpopular Opinion: Characters aren’t supposed to be relatable and shouldn’t have to be. Relatability is subjective, not universal.

What they should be is understandable to the audience in the context of their stories!.

"Torture porn" has become a meaningless buzzword people use whenever they want not to critically engage with a film or a TV show.

This usually happens with:

  • horror,
  • gory thrillers,
  • other genre films/shows that may have shocking deaths, e.g., "Game of Thrones,"
  • films like Pasolini's "Salò."

It doesn't matter whether said movies and series people have social commentary, allegories and metaphorical meaning. If people don't like them, then they'll dismiss them as "torture porn" and easily shut down any earnest conversation around them.

There's nothing wrong with people who don't want to see graphic depictions of stuff that happens in real life and thus makes them uncomfortable. There are movies and series out there for everyone.

That being said, calling any show or film pornography—something that is completely devoid of any meaning and is only there to deliver sex scenes—is a myopic insult to storytelling.

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Sure you're "child free" now. But in 20 years when your riches are vast and you rule with an iron fist you're gonna feel real fucking embarrassed when you're ready to be usurped and the only guy scheming enough to poison your wine Is a weird cousin with vague familial connections instead of your flesh and blood idiot son that wants the throne a few years sooner

i’m always like “i can’t wait to feel good and confident and grow into the best, healthiest version of me!!!!!” while doing horrible acts of self sabotage like girl it doesn’t work like that u are pressing the gas and break at the same time stop it