[ SECRET POST #3172 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3172 ⌋

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(Ollie Locke)


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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I hate cancer plotlines, and I do not understand why other people don't.

Seriously, every time a character gets sick, they have cancer. They die? Cancer. They died before the story began? CANCER.

I feel like it's because people think oh, well, cancer's relevant! But maybe some of us don't want to think about it 24/7. Maybe we want to think about other things. Maybe I want to read a book where, for once, the main character dies because a train hit her car.

I know cancer's a thing. Can I get a break from it already?

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

It might also be due to the rather sad fact that a lot of people have some form of direct experience with cancer. And since people tend to write what they know...

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I should probably have been more clear. I have known several people with it, and know several people who do have it. So for me, it's a HUGE "DNW" area, and I don't know why more people aren't the same. Like, I'd think more people would be like me, and just not want to think about it when it's already affected their lives so much.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I can agree with this sentiment overall. I don't hate cancer plotlines, per se-I can understand where some people might find some comfort or catharsis in them, depending on the situation/story.

But I won't argue that they're always the immediate go-to dramatic setup/sad story for characters to deal with, and turn pretty cliché pretty quickly. Like you said, there's other ways to injure/kill a character, other illnesses they could have.

Plus, there's also the fact that cancer as portrayed on TV tends to ignore some of the less "glamorous", for lack of a better word, symptoms and situations that people who have it have to deal with. If a character is going to have a serious illness, be it cancer or something else, in a story, you may not be able to portray EVERY symptom of it, but it just makes sense to have at least some realism in it somewhere.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[dahli]

PLUS FUCKING ONE.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who will probably be dealing with arranging hospice care for a parent pretty soon, yeah, cancer sucks, and a lot of cancer plotlines are like, I dunno, fridging. Shorthand for "awful illness where I don't have to go into detail because I can expect most people know what cancer is and that it's not good to have." It's not rare, so they can skip exposition. Now me, I hate the "ill person teaches lessons to other people who mourn when poor suffering saint dies but are better off having known them" plotline, which is not specific to cancer but is still fucking awful. Terminal illness is not inspirational. It is exhausting.