[ SECRET POST #5828 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5828 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/fRxfn77.png

[greghousesgf]

There is enough depressing shit in real life without sticking as much of it as possible into fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

YES

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea whether gritty realism is still a dominant mode in sci-fi. Like, genuinely, there is so much media these days that I couldn't even guess what the dominant mode is. It's entirely possible that there's a ton of sci-fi out there that is joyous and follows genre conventions - how would one even know?

[(Anonymous)]

Screams to the skies over how much anon fucking hates the word """realism""" when used for storytelling, and how vague and meaningless it has turned, to the point of only meaning grimderp.

Blame fucking executives who cannot tell good stories from their asses. It was Dumb and Dumber who insisted on a lot of nonsensical elements of the adaptations, which ended with the garbage fire that was the last season.

For a great example on a good series that is smart, but also idealistic, funny, bright, and has all of the reasons to be it, is The Good Place. Between all the Game of Thrones, the Expanses, and the Last Duels, and yadda yadda, I still praise Chidi's pocket-sized arc in the Bad Place Museum, in how he (didn't exactly lie) in order to prevent a soul from getting tortures and keep his principles. Character development that involves someone being smart without being cruel.

[(Anonymous)]

There's room for both.

[tabaqui]

Fucking this. I get so TIRED of grim-dark-gritty 'real' shite. I want some glorious planet-discovery with smart people and amazing epic space journeys and like..space fucking pirates and aliens and shite!!
NO ANGST! NO TORTURE! NO DYSTOPIAN SLAVE SYSTEM!!

:D

[feotakahari]

I feel like I’m in an awkward spot, because I like people bravely fighting against near-impossible odds. It often collapses into either “the odds were impossible after all” or “the threat is dealt with way too easily.”

[(Anonymous)]

Both? Both.

[(Anonymous)]

On one hand I don't like depressing cynical stories and a lot of "realistic" media goes for cynicism. On the other hand I just don't like happy media too. Even The Good Place that has been mentioned was a bit too comedy for my taste. Even though it's absolutely lovely and I cried through some parts.

[(Anonymous)]

I really like "X of the week" in sf/f canons (monster of the week, bounty of the week, case of the week) and it bums me out when they end up developing this depressing dark overarching plot and aren't fun anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe my life is too good and I have enough fun elsewhere. If a story doesn't tear me inside out, I can't feel invested.

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[(Anonymous)]

I haven't gone through the Culture books in a little bit, but I feel like this is probably a misreading? There is tension between the existence of Special Circumstances and the broader values of the Culture, from what I remember - I would say that's often one of the themes of the books. And I definitely don't think that this kind of badassery is really Banks' attitude in writing the books. I mean, the Culture definitely *is* badass, but it's not really the main thing they're about.

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[arcanetrivia]

Back in the 1990s, I enjoyed reading the sourcebooks long before I ever actually played a game of D&D.

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[(Anonymous)]

Sigh.

Yes, it's cutesy. Yes, sometimes the kissing is awkward - because for much of the story bodyswapping happens when they kiss, so the kissing is not happening for romantic reasons. That includes the scene you screen-capped here.

A considerable amount of the fun is seeing the fairy's cutesy mannerisms translated into a very large, regally dressed man, and vice-versa with a pint-sized demon lord. The body-swapping scenes are HELLA fun.

Yes, the romance in aggregate is extremely tropey. A lot of things that people enjoy are extremely tropey, and that's okay. It also has a few non-standard relationship beats going on between other couples - someone gets exiled for loving the wrong person and has the nerve to be pretty happy in exile, the universe-dooming love story is entirely platonic, a very nice man gets told 'I'd rather we be friends' by *two* very nice women... Enough to keep things interesting.

It also has completely glorious visuals, and an absolute banger of a soundtrack.

Have I missed anything?

(It's okay to not like something other people enjoy. Just find something you do like and be happy, yeah?)

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[(Anonymous)]

I don’t really care about this or them that much. I’m just glad they make dusty old white people mad lol

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[(Anonymous)]

k

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Popular fics you just can't stand

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Got a fic your fandom loves but that drives you up the wall? Tell me about it!

Puttin' mine in the replies, too.

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Fuck this whole continent. Too many long thin countries that WT compass does not parse correctly.