Wow, how profound is the reversal here. Instead of portraying hate as powerful through fear, you portrayed it as exhausted through overconsumption. The idea that humanity didn’t just inherit hate but industrialized it into something even emptier felt genuinely unsettling. Beautifully depicted Dae!
This is such a fascinating and unsettling personification of Hate the way you portray it as something once feared but now diluted, commercialized, and normalized by society makes the entire piece feel disturbingly relevant, especially the contrast between Hate and Love both being warped into performances.
One question I kept thinking about while reading: do you believe the narrator truly misses being feared, or are they mourning the loss of meaning and identity that came from becoming so ordinary?
First of all thank you I'm glad you found it fascinating! and to answer your questions both things are true at the same time, the narrator misses being feared while also mourning the new state he found himself in, because that loss of power that made him once feared reshaped his identity to now an ordinary one.
This piece is deeply thought-provoking, using the voice of a “monster” to explore how society normalizes, commercializes, and ultimately empties powerful emotions and ideas of their meaning.
Yeah exactly! the idea came to me when I was watching the most heartwarming video and the amount of hate comments under the video were just shocking, that's when I really thought about it and how normalized hate has become. you can literally watch a video and not feel anything bad in particular about it but then you open the comments and all of them are hating on something and suddenly you feel like you hate that too. the feeling stops being authentic and just a copy of what others are feeling, and what you think you should feel
Wow, how profound is the reversal here. Instead of portraying hate as powerful through fear, you portrayed it as exhausted through overconsumption. The idea that humanity didn’t just inherit hate but industrialized it into something even emptier felt genuinely unsettling. Beautifully depicted Dae!
thank you so much!<3 you got everything I was trying to say!!
This article was moving in a deep way 🤍✨
Thank you Samira!! ❤️
This is such a fascinating and unsettling personification of Hate the way you portray it as something once feared but now diluted, commercialized, and normalized by society makes the entire piece feel disturbingly relevant, especially the contrast between Hate and Love both being warped into performances.
One question I kept thinking about while reading: do you believe the narrator truly misses being feared, or are they mourning the loss of meaning and identity that came from becoming so ordinary?
First of all thank you I'm glad you found it fascinating! and to answer your questions both things are true at the same time, the narrator misses being feared while also mourning the new state he found himself in, because that loss of power that made him once feared reshaped his identity to now an ordinary one.
This piece is deeply thought-provoking, using the voice of a “monster” to explore how society normalizes, commercializes, and ultimately empties powerful emotions and ideas of their meaning.
Yeah exactly! the idea came to me when I was watching the most heartwarming video and the amount of hate comments under the video were just shocking, that's when I really thought about it and how normalized hate has become. you can literally watch a video and not feel anything bad in particular about it but then you open the comments and all of them are hating on something and suddenly you feel like you hate that too. the feeling stops being authentic and just a copy of what others are feeling, and what you think you should feel
I think you’re right, I can understand you. And I have an idea if you want, can we talk in DMs?
The way you personify this "monster" and explore its transformation from feared to overconsumed is brilliant.
Yess thank you Laura ❤️❤️
Beautifully written
thank you sm Hina 💞