I had to wait for years to realise that I would never find something that would truly, 100% comfort me. I was a girly girl when I was younger, and when I had my “edgy phase” when I was 10-14 years old, I still had comfort on kids shows like My Little Pony and Steven Universe, althought I was also a big fan of creepypasta. I was 13, bullied, had 2 friends that I didn’t feel connected to at all (althought they were good people and I appreciated them!), and found comfort in cartoons and creepy things.
Seeing old kid shows and related media being turned into gritty, edgier shows makes me sad in many ways. I might not have been #1 fan of Winx Club or Powerpuff Girls, but I vividly remember loving these things and feeling empowered myself when I was younger, even thought there weren’t much body diversity in these shows.
Anyways I decided to take horror monsters and build a monster hospital for them because fuck the gritty and grimdark stuff that is coming from things that comforted me. I’ll make something that absolutely terrified and horrorized me as a kid and I will turn it into the most wholesome cute thing you will ever see. I made a secret organization that takes care of the supernatural world because they want to do it. They are organized in 13 departments and one of them is goblincore/naturecore/solarpunk/steampunk themed because I want to see monsters working on a big ass green factory and making food for everyone.
There isn’t a dark secret. The organization is just a bunch of people with psychology degrees giving free therapy to monsters because God they need so much help. The security department is a bunch of people dressed in black wearing cool masks whose solo work is smacking people trying to summon demons for the 814810th time. There’s an entire department dedicated to understanding culture so they can help out the various ghosts and demons. There’s a spirituality department because it’s important. Heck, there is even people dedicated to teaching supernatural kids how to read and write, for free, because it’s a secret organization and they are self-sustainable and I will post more about them.
TLDL: I got so done with gritty live-action remakes I made an entire organization dedicated to taking care of the supernatural world out of spite for not having anything to comfort me. Also I will post more about it as soon as I have time.