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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Let's talk about dialogue!

[(Anonymous)]

It really comes down to OOC-ness for me, which is pretty subjective actually. Like sometimes things feel wrong (word choice, displays of emotion, pet names), even though we don't actually know enough about said characters to know for sure it's OOC. One of the weirdest fics I ever read had, like, pitch-perfect characterization in the narrative, but the minute the characters started talking to each other it was like, who are these people?

On the flip side, I'm not a huge fan of people who overuse canon dialogue and call back to it all the time, especially when it doesn't make sense. I get that it's an easy way to establish authenticity in theory, but I am so done with the phrase "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist" and similar. Oh, "Sour Wolf", that can go too.

Another problem I've noticed is when characters who are a little more...reserved? well educated? idk...get written as never using contractions. Jack Donaghy is a big one: I stopped reading 30 Rock altogether because he always sounded like a robot.

I'm also not a huge fan of writing out accents, despite being guilty of it one or two fandoms ago. Even stuff like "gonna" starts to get to me when it's all over the place.

Don't get me started on dialogue in smut, though, oh god; I get so tired of it. Like, the best smut has character notes in the dialogue, so I should pay attention, but dirty talk is just...guaranteed hilarious to me, even if it's IC.

And I don't know, I like writing dialogue a lot, which may be why I notice it, but in well-written canons (ie, not Grey's Anatomy), characters tend to have very specific, individual rhythms to the way they talk. They're harder to get right, though, so I tend not to be too upset when fanfic gets it "wrong".