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It's by Aja Romano

AHAHAHAHA LET'S PUT THAT IN FILE 13

But anyway. These people need to read Rebecca Solnit for one thing. Hope is not squishy. Or wholesome. Or comfy.

The Handmaid's Tale is hopepunk?

MARGARET ATWOOD GAVE IT A DELIBERATELY AMBIGUOUS ENDING WTF (also,in both the movie, which Atwood helped write, and the series, which she influenced considerably, the heroine is a lot more rebellious and active than she is in the book)

"hopepunk" coiner Alexandra Rowland's list of people (men) who embody the concept: “Jesus and Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Robin Hood and John Lennon”

Whaaaaa omg no. (Robin Hood WTF are these people smoking. Also why not people like John Lewis and Sharice Davids and Janelle Monae and Solnit herself. But anyway.)

One of the most actually, no lie, hopeful films I've seen in years and years was Rogue One, in which EVERYONE DIED at the end, but it wasn't gratuitous or hopeless or even that depressing. Those people had weighed the chances, knew the cost might be their lives, and were as okay with it as anyone can be, from the heroine of the movie down to the unnamed characters at the very end struggling to pass on the message.

Anyway, tl;dr, anyone who uses the phrase "weaponized cuteness" unironically is someone I want to stay far the fuck away from. Good Lord.