[ SECRET POST #5298 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5298 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Totally agree OP, it is deeply tedious. Perhaps it's a result of getting older myself, or getting into a fandom where the main characters are older men, but I don't remember finding myself so bothered by bad characterization in the past-- but now, I basically can't read any fic in my fandom because my favorite character is the preferred target of this infantilizing. I think a lot of writers struggle to understand that there is a difference between a character being portrayed as "less intelligent" and a character acting and speaking like a child.

I also get so weary of the "talking about our feelings for 10 pages" trend. I really think this is a response from a newer fandom mindset of "give all the characters therapy/everything would be resolved if they just talked" that might be satisfying for some, but creates the opposite of an engaging story for me. Sure, there are some problems that could be avoided by talking openly, but that doesn't mean all characters would do that in all situations-- just because it "would be best" for them doesn't mean it's believable that they would.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not new. Old school slash was full of that.

[(Anonymous)]

Hence why I said maybe it's a result of my own getting older, or my fandom changing to one with older characters-- not saying it never existed, I was just musing that maybe I wasn't in the right fandoms to see it or I was too young to realize how teenage a lot of melodramatic writing sounds.

[(Anonymous)]

Imo some people just like reading characters having in depth conversations about emotions

And I think that is historically a huge mainstay of fanfiction as a medium

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed with your last paragraph so much. There's this one fic in my fandom where the characters work are working through their issues in a believable, in-character manner while still having an external plot and it's incomplete. Which is really annoying because I feel like I will never see that again.