Literally me writing the colonial history of my conworld
"You know, that plot point feels just absolutely grotesquely evil. Like a cartoon supervillain mixed with an edgy creepypasta or something. I mean, I know colonialism was fucked up IRL, but this is just so shamelessly and gratuitously violent and inhuman and conniving, spreading an absolutely unspeakable misery and despair across an entire nation, that it just feels kind of... silly and over the top, to be honest. Like, who in real life could really just look his wife in the eyes and sincerely smile after [thing that I would five minutes later discover happened an absolutely staggering number of times in IRL colonialism and was much much much worse than I could've ever possibly imagined]?"