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    On Writing Anti-Heroes Readers Love (and Hate)

    I don’t know about you, but I do love myself a nicely written anti-hero. Seriously. I spent my teens fangirling over Loki and Sherlock. Yes, I am that person. No, I didn’t end up developing  a weirdly parasocial relationship with Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch.  I kind of grew out of it. But it did help me when I started dating in college. Of course, don’t tell that to my mother. As far as she’s concerned, I spent every waking hour pouring over my mechanical engineering coursework, and the only reason I didn’t pick up the phone that one week in May in 2019 is because I was studying for…