#fiction analysis

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

We're going back to anti-theater levels of catastrophizing about fiction. :/

[olgasaysso]

When you're making predictions on a peace of fiction and you want them to be accurate, you need to take into account the worldbuilding and the rules of the story you're consuming, not from our own world.

It's why I cannot agree with peoples massive panic over how Loid will probably leave Anya and Yor or/and fight to the death with Yor. Any ending other than them being a happy family would be very surprising to me and I also believe - very bad case of writing.

I don't care about the real world rules of how a spy and an assasin from opposite sides of the upcoming war are supposed to be enemies.

I don't care about the creator of the story supposedly not considering them a real family.

The literal main theme of the story is about this 3 people forming a family that is more real than most peoples. How despite it starting out as "fake" they care about eachother deeply.

The plot about Martha and Henderson who didn't get a full on happy ending was supposed to add seriousness to the story and introduce higher stakes but it's not a foreshadowing on Forgers not working out. If anything, it's the opposite. It's adding urgency and context for the reader and works as an example fate of previous love story that our main characters are supposed to "overcome".

Other than that she show is mostly fluff with some plot, I don't see how it would suddenly become morbid and unhappy and end like that.

The whole thing makes me think about the recent disaster that is stranger things and how people were beyond shocked that nobody died... why are we so surprised when this show never killed anyone off if they lasted 1 season?

And that is an example of bad writing in this case however it still counts. You need to look at what the show is doing now and think in the context of the already established world and not add things from ours. It won't make sense.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the only example of genderless beings having feminine default forms & going by she/her &c that I can think of is the gems of steven universe

Interesting! Not my thing but I've heard of it. Someone in the notes mentioned CLAMP as well but I don't know anything about that; I've only seen part of xxx_HOLiC

also the sylphs in the Elemental Masters series, kind of? they are all called she/her, but they're sometimes described as having androgynous bodies and sometimes cis female bodies. varies from book to book. plus they're not really characters as such- the elementals in those books are essentially plot devices

interestingly, the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol is a He/Him Pronouns spirit in the book and frequently female in adaptations. so that's an interesting twist

[ultratropicalrainforest]

Your daily remember that it was never stated that dark worlds representing fiction is the only way to interpret Deltarune.

There's a lot of theories based on the idea that dark worlds are just a symbol for fiction. This has never been stated to be the sole reason for dark worlds in the narrative. We don't need to limit ourselves to one interpretation.

[unspeakablearchives]

I find it so sad that the japs are so obsessed with rape and pedophilia yet no one bats an eye around it, or worse prefer to consume said pedo/rape porn and defend under the fake pretext of reduced vilence and rape crimes (which is total BS bc a lot of rape and harrassment goes unreported). All moids wordlwide are, of course, but to have a 1st world OECD nation where the problem is so mass and overlooked and commercialized is just soulcrushingly depressing.

Well, although I don't like the xenophobic elements, I do find your militant femcel rhetoric oddly endearing lol.

Okay so not to be all W O K E here but I have a couple observations: you sort of collapse a massive, internally diverse media ecosystem into "what people are obsessed with." You also treat fictional consumption as a reliable stand-in for real-world behavior, and assume that Japan is uniquely permissive rather than just differently regulated.

So, curiously, in certain ways, Japan could be argued to have some of the strictest obscenity laws on earth, hence the famously absurd censorship workarounds. And even accounting for potential under-reporting of crime, they are generally believed to have low rates of violent sexual crime compared to most OECD countries (Side note to others: OECD refers to a group called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which can conveniently be used as a stand-in for older terms like a "First-World" or "Advanced" country lol). Also, the societal tendency toward under-reporting of crime in Japan that you reference is actually well-documented and long predates anime, manga, or porn in general. None of that means exploitation doesn’t exist, but it does mean "they like X fiction, therefore Y crimes" is a reach.

The uncomfortable truth is more boring and more universal: every industrial society commercializes taboo fantasies, every society under-reports sexual violence to varying degrees, and every moral panic eventually decides that some particular foreign culture is uniquely depraved so we don’t have to look too hard at our own backyard.

[casketvisitor]

This is gonna be a hard pill for marauders fans to swallow, but Severus didin’t ‘bully’ Neville he critisized him, albiet harshly and excessively at times but that’s just the type of character Severus is.

As far as how Severus being Neville’s boggart has to do with anything, you need to realize that Neville is written to be a cowardly character who is easily intimidated. And Neville hasn’t seen many traumatic things like other characters, so an unsettling and kind of mean teacher could easily become his boggart just for that reason alone. Not because Severus has hurt Neville in any way or traumatized him to any degree

[princesssarisa]

Sometimes I feel especially autistic when I discuss works of fiction with other people.

Not just online. This has happened quite a few times in conversations I've had with my mom or with certain friends.

Sometimes it seems to me that everyone is missing the point about a certain plot or character, or perceives them in a completely different way than I do. But when I say so, they say "No, you're missing the point" or "You don't understand"... but then proceed to "explain it" either (a) by stating obvious facts about the plot or character that I already know, or (b) with views that still ring false to me.

It's like we're speaking two different languages. Maybe I am the one who misses the point and doesn't understand , because these works of fiction aren't made for me, they're made for neurotypical people.

[akechi-goro-lover]

going insane bc the very reason akechi can be read as a csa victim (i’m aware he isn’t, at least not canonically, but he can absolutely be read as one/having traits similar to one depending on ur view) is bc he is literally a grooming victim of his own father.