You’re one of these people. You go into an art shop. There are canvases of different grades, easels, charcoals, books on art techniques and history, individual artists, there are brushes and pencils and pens, card and boards. Against the back wall, the whole of the wall is an immense display of every kind of paint imaginable, watercolours, acrylics, oil paints, gesso and bottles of dissolvents. You go up to the paint stands and you select one tube of paint and you take it to the person behind the till of the paint shop, the paint shop owner perhaps, and without further ado you assert your authority that you do not like this colour paint and therefore you will make it your life purpose to shut this art store down and make sure everybody in the world knows exactly how atrocious it is that it exists at all.
Your reaction to a two dimensional cliche character in a book who appears in one scene only, which has taken hold in your imagination, which ordinarily writers would recommended something they want to happen to the readers, it being a sign of a good book with believable strong characters; and you are discriminating against the author because you cannot distinguish between a character in a book which is a fiction, and the real person who wrote it for a purpose. You are emotionally overreactive and you are psychologically malicious. The writer and the character are not the same person. It is very possible that the character is not a hidden aspect of the writers personality in any way at all. It is possible the character required to be invented for the purposes of the story, how they as an energy affected the protagonist the consequence of which emerges later in the story, in a chapter which you have not read to put it into the intended context and to justify why that character existed in that book at all.
It is on this basis that we do not respect you as having an objective opinion worth listening to, not only in regards to your own prejudice opinion of other peoples work, but that being indicative of you as a personality, in anything you have to say at all. Moreover, none of us want you anywhere near us because you’re so nasty.
You are however, a wonderful influence for the antagonists, the bad guy characters, the classic problem which the main characters in any novel face in the adventures which befall upon them. And it is this for which you have a purpose in the world, and how you will be remembered for posterity in literature far after your death.
It is possible that you are on a redemption arc, that you may go away and assimilate what it is you have been showed here, and do something to make amends. Not only to the people directly involved in this scene, but to everybody else who has the misfortune of encountering you upon their way.
Consider this to be that nasty tube of paint splattered directly into your face to ram the message home in such a way as has needed doing for quite some time.
May thee be gone before you say anything else at all which will escalate this situation. You might want to consider that everything I have said here is simply the raising of a boundary to protect my own personal inner peace so that I do not have to deal with the consequences of what will happen if you do not immediately become invisible.
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