"Grim dark" isn't pointless...

The "grimdark and tragedies are pointless" crowd are a bit annoying. I understand where they’re coming from, what with smug voices with the personalities of a discarded nest constantly deriding softer, happier stories and praising hopelessness and nihilism as the only “real” themes. But the opposite extremity of that is just as nonsensical.

Grimdark tragedies have the potential to create really poignant, moving stories. In a world of violence and despair, love and tenderness still exist. And it is not made lesser by the tragedy that awaits and surrounds it. So what if the only ending that awaits this is tragedy? That all their attempts to save themselves were in vain? Their struggle was not meaningless. Their story has moved someone. Tt has moved you. Is that not enough? That for all their failures and flaws and mistakes, someone still wept for them? And that for all your flaws and mistakes, someone out there will still wish you a better future?