[ SECRET POST #2576 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

1. "OH NOES I AM A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN LOVE WITH MY 30-YEAR-OLD TEACHER" (A.K.A. that one cliché that shows up a lot in shojo manga and is really fucking creepy.)

2. "OH NOES I'M IN LOVE WITH MY BROTHER" (A.K.A. the other super-creepy manga cliché.)

3. "OH NOES I'M IN LOVE WITH MY BEST FRIEND'S SISTER I MUST KEEP THIS A SECRET OR OUR FRIENDSHIP WILL BE COMPROMISED" (A.K.A. fucking contrived melodrama.)

4. "IT'S SO HAAAAAARD TO BE A MIDDLE-AGED, UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS WHITE AMERICAN! MY LIFE IS SO TRAGIC, AND DEVOID OF MEANING. NOW I WILL SPEND THE NEXT TWO-HUNDRED PAGES ALTERNATING BETWEEN COMMITTING ADULTERY AND HAVING PRETENTIOUS INNER MONOLOGUES, BECAUSE YOU SEE, THIS IS ALL DEEP, INTELLIGENT SOCIAL COMMENTARY." (A.K.A. the reason why I gave up on literary fiction.)

5. "I AM A TEENAGE GIRL WHO IS DEEP AND INTELLECTUAL AND SPECIAL, AND I'M SO NOT LIKE THOSE OTHER GIRLS WITH THEIR MAKEUPS AND THEIR FASHIONS AND THEIR SHALLOWNESS- OH HEY LOOK, HERE'S A HOT GUY WHO WILL CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER, HE MIGHT BE A VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/FAIRY/ANGEL/ETC., OR HE MIGHT JUST BE AN ORDINARY ASSHOLE TEENAGER, BUT EITHER WAY HE IS JUST AS DEVOID OF PERSONALITY AS I AM AND OUR TWU LUV IS BEAUTIFUL AND ETERNAL" (A.K.A. You've Got to Be Fucking Kidding Me, Why Am I Even Reading This Shit?)

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I like you.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[tabaqui]

4 in particular if it's a woman who runs off to Bangladesh or whatever to 'find herself' and gets taught all sorts of deep, pure insights by super-special-magical 'native' people.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you mean Eat Pray Love?

_{Disclaimer: I haven't actually read the book, but I've read enough reviews of it to get the general idea.}

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[tabaqui]

And i got all that *just* from the trailer!

Plus - any book written by Alice Hoffman.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[badass_tiger]

I so so feel you on all of these, but particularly the shoujo manga. I read those for the art, but it gets so repetitive, so fast. I swear every other oneshot I read goes like one of the aforementioned tropes.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

4

4 so, so hard

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[cbrachyrhynchos]

4. "IT'S SO HAAAAAARD TO BE A MIDDLE-AGED, UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS WHITE AMERICAN! MY LIFE IS SO TRAGIC, AND DEVOID OF MEANING. NOW I WILL SPEND THE NEXT TWO-HUNDRED PAGES ALTERNATING BETWEEN COMMITTING ADULTERY AND HAVING PRETENTIOUS INNER MONOLOGUES, BECAUSE YOU SEE, THIS IS ALL DEEP, INTELLIGENT SOCIAL COMMENTARY." (A.K.A. the reason why I gave up on literary fiction.)

Or this guy.

(Remember it's all fun and games until you discover the mummified remains or your husband lovingly preserved by his sister in a bed.)

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I agree about all of these. Right now, especially #1 (because I'm watching an anime series).

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[blunderbuss]

The only way I've seen 2 work is when step-kids or adoption is involved, but 99% of the time it's pure incest GAAAAAH.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[ibbity]

Oh geez, there was this manga called "Me and my Brothers" (I think?) that I was reading for a while. It started out really interesting, with this 14 year old girl's parents (one bio, one step) dying and her 4 step-brothers (children of her stepdad) coming to live with her because a) she needed a guardian (2 of them being adults) and b) they wanted to make a family now since all of them were orphaned. It was adorable and funny for the first few volumes but then lil miss now-16-year-old-stepsister suddenly falls in wuv with her oldest stepbro who is I think supposed to be like 28 and who is the closest thing to a parental figure she has. It abruptly became incredibly creepy for me because I KNEW they were going to end it with them together, so I stopped reading. I WAS SO ANGRY because the siblingly hijinks that had been going on were awesome but then the author had to RUIN it with the pseudo-incesty crap. The worst part was that she had played up the "these are my bros now and we are family and the oldest one is totes my father figure now" thing to the hilt before suddenly going all romancey out of nowhere, so it felt even MORE squicky.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[blunderbuss]

Uuuuuggghhh, yeah, that is super-gross.

Now, if the kid realised that it was wrong and had issues about what to do (and can't reach out for help) that could be a sad and tragic story. But acting as if there could be a happy ending? Noooooooope.

Especially since the guy was way older and a father figure. If the older brother was around the same age and was just a brother, that'd make a lot more sense.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[ibbity]

Oh, it was absolutely blatantly obvious that endgame was the two of them getting married. It was one of the ragiest ragequits I have ever ragequit. Especially since they had a Romantic False Lead of a guy in her class who was perfectly nice and sweet and respectful and they actually hit it off and seemed to be developing feelings UNTIL SUDDENLY SURPRISE!PSEUDOINCEST.

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

1.This
2.This
3.This
4.This
5.This.

Oh, don't forget the "sexual harassment = love" that is almost always present in these type of stories.