[ SECRET POST #6136 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6136 ⌋

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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/ye8f5IK.png

[(Anonymous)]

Even a rough sketch is nice, it doesn't need to be LotR level cartography. I liked the ones in old Juliet McKenna books, before she shifted to urban fantasy novels. They were great.

[ariakas]

Same. Geography influences so much about a setting, I find myself world-blind without one and it makes it much harder to get invested. Especially if it's a travelogue!

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I bet a lot of authors just don't want to have to deal with anything that doesn't match canon.

[meadowphoenix]

honestly i agree even for non-fantasy. is there geographic movement? a little direction please.

[(Anonymous)]

Diana Wynne Jones made fun of the "there must be a map in every fantasy novel" trope in her "Tough Guide to Fantasyland". It's really funny. But I agree with you, OP. The only time I enjoyed a fantasy novel without a map is Stephen Donaldson's "Mordant's Need", which referenced a map but didn't provide one. What it did provide was sufficiently detailed information about the world that you could draw your own, which is what I did, and had fun doing it.

/ex-geographer

[(Anonymous)]

I don't hate it when it isn't given, but I do get ridiculously happy when I do get a fictional map.

[(Anonymous)]

If the author is going to have people running around fantasy land and/or having plot related politics between countries, give me the fucking map!

[(Anonymous)]

i'm weirdly the opposite. i don't give them much thought and don't know why they're so common. are you guys like, going back and referencing it a lot as you read the book? does it really help with the storytelling?

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02. https://i.imgur.com/lQJag3p.png
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03. https://i.imgur.com/Xzong7C.png

[(Anonymous)]

How victim-blaming of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't think Shaw's issue was with Picard and his borgification but rather that he had a lot of unprocessed survivor's guilt that he was taking out unfairly on Seven and Picard. Still, I sure do hate later Star Treks having characters just... not go to therapy so that they can have precious interpersonal drama. It's not interesting, and it's especially annoying in a world where the worldbuilding has established that therapy is super effective and super plentiful. It just makes characters look like unsympathetic idiots for not making use of that resource...

[(Anonymous)]

Funny as I'm rewatching Next Gen right now. They dedicated an entire episode to Picard's trauma. It also annoys me, OP, that modern writers/showrunners don't recognise the original series did deal with Picard's trauma. Just because it didn't outwardly show him suffering every week doesn't mean the implication was he wasn't dealing with it. The show did, after all, have a counsellor on the ship.

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[meadowphoenix]

i feel like this is dependent on fandom and fic genre. a poetic summary can often tell me what type of fic I'm getting, which is the point i suppose.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/7mJJjTh.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Get a new writer, okay, but stop renumbering the titles every six issues. Or at least change the title slightly so it's easy to know which is which.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/z5uvtqr.png

[kaijinscendre]

Lol. Seeing this while I watch the LegalEagle video on the incident. https://youtu.be/87SJb4oD5iA?si=8K0R8yiUd_wyfnla

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[(Anonymous)]

Still, Sanji must be the #1 best choice you could have made here. With the sheer volume of fic for zosan alone, there have to be dozens that fit your criteria.

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I'm losing interest in shows I'm trying to watch

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I hate when that happens. I just gotta stick to completed limited series.

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