#reading for the plot

[florizels]

The desire of the text is ultimately the desire for the end, for that moment of recognition which is the moment of the death of the reader in the text. Yet recognition cannot abolish textuality, does not annul that middle which is the place of repetitions, oscillating between blindness and recognition, between origin and ending. Repetition towards recognition constitutes the truth of the narrative text.

Peter Brooks, from Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Our lives are ceaselessly intertwined with narrative, with the stories that we tell, all of which are reworked in that story of our own lives that we narrate to ourselves in an episodic, sometimes semi-conscious, but virtually uninterrupted monologue. We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.

Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot

[florizels]

Our lives are ceaselessly intertwined with narrative, with the stories that we tell, all of which are reworked in that story of our own lives that we narrate to ourselves in an episodic, sometimes semi-conscious, but virtually uninterrupted monologue. We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.

Peter Brooks, from Reading for the Plot 

[adanmeiconfessionblog]

#109

I am pretty sure that most of us are here for the plot. Otherwise we would be reading oneshot single-volume yaoi smut.

Also most danmei doesn't even have smut in them, nor do many of them really concentrate on the main couple as a couple first and foremost.

Not saying anon can't enjoy the plot or isn't allowed to not care about the couples. But reading danmei for the plot is by far not unique at all. Also, I'm not sure if it was the intention, but the submission really sounds as if anon thinks that everyone else reading danmei are porn obsessed perverts who only care about reading smut and nothing else.

Response to previous post

[friendlystarfruit]

pingas

Lol Ive been reading a manga about talking penises , I'm not even lying when I say I'm reading it for the plot , I actually came across it when looking for a penis emoji and then I found these really funny penis drawings and this whole wacky story about talking penises. It's literally like Parasyte with penises but..................

I'm not sure I'll finish it , the main character looks too young , I tried brushed it off as him just being a cute anime character but it made me feel uncomfy esp with how he is sexualized.

The talking penises are interesting but like wtf this this???Like this seems really sus .......