Yeah, no kidding. Haven't seen you in ages, except for an appearance you made in my dream last week. We should get together and do something sometime soon.
How do you feel about the subversion of this trope wherein the author demonstrates it as false (or attempts to), but the character believes it to be true?
I've been trying to do this in one of my fanfics, and I'm curious how you would react to that. I find it irritating as well, but I'm hoping it's less so when it's the other direction between author/character.
That would really depend on how it's done for me. Honestly, I have to admit that unless someone's browbeating me over the head with it, I tend to miss things like that. I was pretty much the only person NOT to guess the ending to the Sixth Sense.
My own incompetence at reading between the lines aside, I would love a story like that. I love trope subversons, when I catch them, even if it takes me a few days. Is there a specific fandom you were planning on? How were you planning to make the difference between what the characters say and feel from the message the story is trying to send?
Out of curiousity, why do you find it irritating? I always hated it because as a socially awkward person it took me a long time to get over the internalization that the problem was always ME, never anyone else. The idea that, because your brain doesn't pick up on other people's cues, it's defective. I felt stories like that were a continuation of the blame placed on me for the ptsd I suffered after the years from hell during my adolescense.
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I've been trying to do this in one of my fanfics, and I'm curious how you would react to that. I find it irritating as well, but I'm hoping it's less so when it's the other direction between author/character.
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My own incompetence at reading between the lines aside, I would love a story like that. I love trope subversons, when I catch them, even if it takes me a few days. Is there a specific fandom you were planning on? How were you planning to make the difference between what the characters say and feel from the message the story is trying to send?
Out of curiousity, why do you find it irritating? I always hated it because as a socially awkward person it took me a long time to get over the internalization that the problem was always ME, never anyone else. The idea that, because your brain doesn't pick up on other people's cues, it's defective. I felt stories like that were a continuation of the blame placed on me for the ptsd I suffered after the years from hell during my adolescense.
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