Is It Just Me, Or Are The Characters Of Vetinari, Vimes And Moist Von Lipwig Supposed To Be Metaphors

Is it just me, or are the characters of Vetinari, Vimes and Moist Von Lipwig supposed to be metaphors for the ideals of how ethical and smart the systems of politics, law enforcement and capitalism respectively could hypothetically be?

Okay but like. I see so many people complaining about people trying to ship aro/ace characters, claiming that "oh you wouldn't ship a gay character with someone of the opposite gender, right?" And, like... Yeah, there's definitely a double standard here, but... I mean, as someone who is on the aro spectrum, the argument that shipping is not done as an act of appreciation to the canon characters and their arcs, but just to scratch the itches in your brain, really isn't wrong. So, em...

Can we stop gatekeeping monosexual gay characters?

Like, people look at me weird wherever I say that Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb have trauma-bonded-lovers energy. I had people calling me a lesbophobic bigot (yes these were the words used) for saying I wish Willow Rosenberg had stayed with Oz. None of it is about interpreting canon in one of the ways the authors allowed, it's about imagining the story I wish I got to hear. Like, if you really think the reason fanfiction exists is to honor the story that the canon work was trying to tell, I'm sorry but it just doesn't look like you understand fanfiction. And no, it's not disrespectful to wish you got to see an allo character's story instead of the story of this aro/ace character. Sometimes, a given story would be served better by being about an experience which you as an individual can never have. Like, I'm someone who never really believed in trusting ultimate authority, or in fighting with all your might for justice, these are not necessarily things I think are BAD to believe in, I'd actually probably be happier if I was able to believe in certain versions of those ideas, but I just can't bring myself to. However, I wouldn't be upset if I saw someone, for example, writing a fic about Sherlock from BBC Sherlock, which canonically basically shares that lack of belief with me, learning and internalizing the fact that humanity is actually worth believing in. Like, is there a scenario that aligns with his canonical characterization in which he'd be able to do that? No, probably not. But do I think there could be a story about that that's worth telling? Absolutely. So yeah, on the same dime, I think if you find a hypothetical, non-canonical story about a character who is canonically aro/ace in which that character experiences romantic/sexual attraction to be a valuable story for you, I don't believe anyone should judge you for writing or enjoying that hypothetical story. So, em, yeah.

Do you guys know it when you're just... Feeling empty-neutral for most of the day, in a way in which you're really not feeling BAD, cuz you're just going through the motions of your usual whatever, so you're not feeling like it makes sense to complain about anything, until the moment when you're faced with a thing someone else wants you to do that you don't want to be doing and your head just spins around and breaks and you suddenly really want to walk into traffic? And then you start doing visibly suicidal shit (doing scary stuff with the knife in the middle of a conversation, sharing your fantasies of self-destruction absent-mindedly, walking into the highway the moment they ask you to get out of the car, stuff like that) in front of someone in the hopes that they'll leave you alone because you just don't have the energy to turn on your brain and figure out how to handle the situation properly, and then they just go "please don't, it really scares me to see you do that" and you kinda get sad in the back of your head, like "oh. Guess I just made it worse. That's sad." And you're just... Left like that? Until your brain starts doing normal emotions and awareness again? Or is it just me?

Edit: okay so a few seconds ago I found myself laughing in pleasure and jumping in the air thinking about SH, and I thought maybe I could try and hold onto this emotion to feel a bit more emotion chemicals and maybe find the way back to them again, but then I couldn't and even if it worked out might have been bad to do anyways so idk

The best way to make a mentally ill person not give up on learning tap is to show them SpongeBob the musical. They'll gather up all their strength in the hopes that one day they'll be able to perform "I'm not a loser" on a stage ironically.