Also Romeo and Juliet are a couple that killed themselves.
Don’t aim for fictional relationships
Aim for a real one.
Harley’s love for the Joker and her willingness to tolerate his abuse was always very deliberately presented to be deeply unhealthy and tragic:
The Joker is not her love interest - he is her origin story. He is what formed her and made her the person she is today - but he is NOT her love interest, he is her abuser.
And in later arcs, she has left him behind for good:
She is now in a happy polyamorous relationship with Poison Ivy and a new character, Mason.
Harley Quinn has grown so much over the years, and I am really proud of her as a character and think she showed so much strength to grow past her obsession with the Joker and become her own woman, totally true to herself and refusing to have her narrative revolve around someone else’s life.
So if you look up to Harley Quinn and see yourself in her, I think that’s great, but Harley Quinn isn’t amazing because she’s obsessed with the Joker, Harley Quinn is amazing because Harleen Quinzel is amazing.
it’s literally so crazy how y’all will start media ‘revolutions’ and cause corporations to stop some of their advertisements for white lesbians but a black woman can die on screen for her soul to ‘live on in someone else’, talk about dehumanization’ and only a few of us (black) fans will discuss the issue and then it gets brushed under the rug because it’s another norm that we should just accept :)
and it’s not solely y’all fault, (@people who don’t watch sleepy hollow) because if you don’t watch the show why should you care but it will speak volumes if somehow something starts trending about abbie’s death and it’ll be discussed only on twitter and no one pill pay any attention after 5 minutes because black women are disposable :)))))
and i’m not saying y'all can’t be pissed off about lexa like that was never the case but it’s frustrating when you can blatantly see how little people care for black characters, both people who watched the 100 and those who didn’t rallied together for one white lesbian character yet built her revolution on the dead bodies of black and non black characters murdered and mistreated on her same show and let those incidents pass on silently, so yes be angry, but know we are watching which battles you choose and just how loud you let yourself be heard depending on the race of the character, Lincoln a black male character was just murdered on the 100 and yet he get less than 5% of the same outrage and we all know abbie mills’ death will probably be met with even half of the anger so it’s appropriate to be heated about lexa’s gross death and addition to the Box of Dead Gays but it’s inappropriate to ignore everything else when they’re no less important
