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⌈ Secret Post #6175 ⌋

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What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

I can't stand in haunted house movies/shows where someone is sleeping and a ghost pulls their sheet off. The sleeping person doesn't notice and pulls it back up then it gets jerked off. Why would a ghost even do that? Silly little guys.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Forced conflict through refusing to just come out and say something. Some writers just seem to be unable to write natural sounding conversations, because they need characters to not mention very specific things in order to driver conflict for X amount of episodes. I am so sick of plots that would be wrapped up in minutes if the characters just spoke like normal people, but never are because that is the only way the writer knows how to drag things out.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's the sign of a bad writer.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Romance plots where the "conflict" is some stupid misunderstanding that could be cleared up with a 5 minute conversation.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. I feel like a lot of people (normal or not) in real life are pretty bad at actually saying what's bothering them or pointing out relevant things.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, X-Files deteriorated into this in the late seasons - we had a drinking game for someone saying "I don't know how to tell you this".

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Every villain having a sympathetic backstory. Why can't we just have bad guys being evil for evil's sake? Some people just are.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Smoking, or vaping now, being used as visual shorthand for "cool" "edgy" rebel. It is just dumb. Same with gratuitous swearing, it doesn't sound adult or mature. So often it just sounds stilted and forced.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Relevant sketch:

Ghosts are bad at revenge (Ryan George)
https://youtu.be/msBNXwNlN4g?si=Xud28BpPjpNRfLmL

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

That ghost sounds like a lighthearted troll (or even gadfly) on the quest for lulz.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Any shot in films/TV where they have to make it aggressively obvious that a character is PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, so they have them do these exaggerated motions where they mash every button at the same time and tilt the controller all over the place while hunching forward.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[sparklywalls]

I get that it's to show that we're at our most vulnerable when sleeping and it's one of our worst fears that something might be messing with us as we sleep but it's SO overdone at this point.

Also, I suffer from full blown sleep paralysis hallucinations so a sheet moving is nothing compared to what my own brain (and body) often does to me.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

Enemies to lovers where the change is so fast, it is entirely unbelievable.

"Banter" in romance where the characters are actually being really nasty to each other, especially if one of them is clearly actually being hurt by the comments. That isn't romantic.

Female characters who suddenly lose all their personality and become a cardboard cutout either when in a relationship or when they have a kid.

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[greghousesgf]

violence as foreplay! arrgh!

Re: What silly tropes drive you crazy?

[(Anonymous)]

The good old "I think there's an intruder in my house so I just go in without turning on the light and shout "hello" real loud, that'll teach them!"

Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

What songs do you like to listen to at this time of year that aren't Christmas songs?

(For me, "Molly on the Shore" by Percy Grainger is one such tune.)

Re: Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

Tom Lehrer's I'm Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica

Re: Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

I like Heather Dale's The Holly, Ivy, and Yew. Despite similarity in the title to The Holly and The Ivy, also covered by Dale, THIaY is still wintery but also not Christmas related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu6UK1GvCao

Re: Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

Mid-Season by Super Junior www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtySuqiqRU
Celebrate by Super Junior www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4v1nlBIXuA
Do You Want Some Tea? by Hello Venus (it does sample Canon in C but is not a Christmas song)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ARuz8irqA

Re: Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

Although November just ended, Paula Price's "Dark November" is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIapO7H27p8

Generally I listen to non-holiday songs that I'd be inclined to listen to any time of the year.

Re: Favorite non-Christmas songs of the season

[(Anonymous)]

Famous Blue Raincoat, especially at the actual end of December. Counting Crow's Long December.

Writing Woes

[(Anonymous)]

You ever set out to write a fic and have it just...completely kick your ass?

I've got most of this chapter written, but gods, it's taking everything out of me. I find myself having to rewrite each section multiple times. Can't find the words; can't find the flow. Can't get a handle on the transitions. It's been awhile since I've struggled so hard to make a piece work, and it's dragging me down, man. I think I'd give on it were the story not so personally important to me.

Blah blah everything worth doing takes effort blah blah.

F!S, if you're writing, I hope it's going well for you. I hope that your ideas are effortlessly translating into print and that your scenes are popping off the page.

Re: Writing Woes

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, usually.

Re: Writing Woes

[(Anonymous)]

You are not alone.