characters and suffering.
...look upon my works ye mighty and despair... or something I've thought about this a lot recently, but why do I have an innate urge to make my characters suffer? And on a larger level--though I cannot speak for everyone--why do (a few/ some?/ most??/ maybe all???) writers have an innate urge to make their characters suffer? The great example here is Peter Parker/ Spiderman, there is a genuine excess of suffering dumped upon this character for some reason, and not just the usury of Ben dying or Gwen dying, but like even in ongoing series there is just suffering for him on a level that is noticeable enough that people have... Well, they have noted it. In fact, suffering and tragedy are words that kind of pop in when you think of the guy... Which is sad. Today's post is just kind of an exploration of my own thoughts on this weird thing, and look, I could very well be in the minority of having a weird urge to make characters suffer, which is on one hand extremely s