I'd joke, but the years have shown that a stunning amount of people involved in Warcraft really don't understand Arthas at all.

See also: Everything they did with Arthas in Shadowlands.

This is a tweet like 3 people following me will understand. If you do, you're a real one.

I dunno. I feel like I'm going crazy, being bpacc437 and complaining about other people's fanfic creeping me out. It's not a major problem or anything, the world will survive Lacenet being characterized wrong. Something about it just significantly rubs me the wrong way.

There's a popular story where Hornet just straight-up rapes Lace, and it's never acknowledged or seen as such. It was so rapey even I was put off by it, and I wrote Plushnet!

Again, I wouldn't have cared if it had been tagged and the author had an understanding they'd written SA - but they didn't.

Then though, I see *certain stories* that are trying to be in-canon, or at least being in line with the narrative and themes of Silksong, and failing horribly. They really don't seem to understand the themes of abuse and dominance in the game, when understanding them is vital to Lace and Hornet.

I suppose the difference is that I'm keenly aware I'm writing stuff outside the canon of the game when I make much of my NSFW, effectively using the broad strokes of HK and the characters to explore ideas I find hot, even though the stories are well outside the bounds of the actual game.

It's genuinely so smart to have the entire thing (and the ARG which surrounds it) be so distant from the rest of the game, only to swing around with all the emotional force it can muster at the end of the DLC. It's such a fantastic clicking moment of "Oh, that's what this was all for."

I was happy to see it was very much an adaptation of Vineland. It's not a 1:1, but the themes, characters and emotions of the two resonate so much it may as well be one.

Are people really getting filtered so hard that their only recourse is to assume the game wants you to hate it? Because this isn't Kane and Lynch 2 making you listen to audio of torture on load screens, or Spec Ops the Line tricking you into bombing civilians. Silksong still wants you to have fun!

There's an observation Patricia Lockwood makes in No One Is Talking About This that your average online discourse sounds like word salad to anyone not also plugged in. It distances you from others. It's been like four years since that book has dropped and the problem has only gotten much more dire.