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⌈ Secret Post #2760 ⌋

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[The Penny Dreadfuls]

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[True Blood, Game of Thrones]

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[Tamora Pierce]

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[Free!]

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[Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift]

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[Masterchef]

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[Game of Thrones]

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Everyone has flaws, but how these get treated in fiction sometimes differs greatly from how we treat the same flaws in reality. Sometimes a minor annoyance gets treated like the worst thing ever for comedic/dramatic effect and sometimes what would be a deal breaker in RL is just a lovable quirk in fiction. Let's talk about some of that. What flaws get treated differently in fiction and why?
Example: If you knew someone in RL who was known to get provoked easily and sometimes talk with their fists, you'd probably try to avoid this person. In fiction hotheadedness is a flaw but that character can still be the beloved hero. After all their outburst are always directed at acceptable targets, used as a means to prevent harm to innocents and just a result of the stress of being the hero.

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Same. But I keep running into people on tumblr who somehow have the idea that's like condoning it in real life. :/

Yeah, I love people who fly into a temper and punch/shove people around (especially due to righteous noble indignation!) in fiction, but I'd probably be terrified around those kind of people IRL. I wouldn't necessarily think they were a horrible person, but I wouldn't be comfortable around them.

Same with devastatingly cleverly sarcastic people -- love them in fiction, but wouldn't much enjoy being around them IRL unless I know them really, really well because I'd be afraid I wouldn't handle being mocked by them as well as their fictional associates usually do.

Mental illness in fiction: You are uber smart and hiding a deep dark secret. Mental illness in real life: I'm pretty dumb sometimes and journal publicly on the internet. I have no secrets.

I'm not sure if that's what's being asked here, but that's what my brain kicked out.

I'm often amused by the "I wish I had a Sheldon Cooper of my own" brigade.

It's clear they don't know anyone even remotely like him.

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