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[meme] Canons I can't get into.
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Isekai because they're usually masturbatory power fantasies.
tinybro
extremely true
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If a story can be described with a harem tag, I'm probably not into it because there'll be obnoxious love interests, people who have no right to acting like they have a legit stake, and the MC usually picks the worst of the lot.
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(I have, admittedly, read one or two good isekai stories, but they weren't the exceptions. They were absolutely the rule.)
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I don't know a label for this but any story that goes "This is what would REALLY happen!"
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The Last Jedi trying to do that on typical Star Wars story beats, Goblin Slayer's everything, a lot of the military fiction out there...
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I like knightly chivalry stuff and, let me tell you, there's a lot of stories out there that're like "This is stupid, anyone who believes in it is stupid, and anyone who likes it is stupid, this is how those losers would ACTUALLY end up!"
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Speaking of
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Deconstructions as a whole.
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Sometimes they can be done well.
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Usually they're not.
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Usually they're just a writer getting up on their high horse and 'cleverly subverting' everything they dislike about the genre, only to be hailed as a genius by a fandom and inspire a dozen copycats
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I still want to swat Alan Moore over what he did to the superhero genre.
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Thank God his Twilight of the Superheroes never came out.
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Horror stories because, honestly, a lot of them don't end up having any sense of horror to me? It's jumpscares or gore for a lot of them and, while I'll jump at a jumpscare, it doesn't do anything for me.
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And the few that do work make me feel uncomfortable and I don't like feeling uncomfortable
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So I avoid a lot of horror.
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Even horror games, to me, hit the Dead Space problem.
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Enemies stop being scary and end up either as puzzles or just something to beat on until it falls down, then you stomp the arms and legs off and call it a day.
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oh man i also have no tolerance for the "ok but this is how it would ~really be~" vibe in stories 
deffo was one of the problems i had with tlj. i am at this sci-fi/fantasy movie for escapism, not to be told how i am a dumb little baby for expecting canon-typical story beats. im trying to keep a sharper eye on avoiding those vibes nowadays
deffo was one of the problems i had with tlj. i am at this sci-fi/fantasy movie for escapism, not to be told how i am a dumb little baby for expecting canon-typical story beats. im trying to keep a sharper eye on avoiding those vibes nowadays
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But, yeah, for me, horror and writing horror is more for the impact it has on other people than the impact it has on me.
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I avoid a lot of LGBT fiction because it either waves a magic wand to erase all the problems, focuses uncomfortably on the problems, or someone ends up dead by the end of it.
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Call me a sap, but I'd kinda like more happy endings in general that don't have a bunch of fey LGBT fans praising the main characters for being so cute or handsome or brave for being out?
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I'm not really sure how this ties into my own sexuality, 'cause I feel like, as a bi guy, I should probably enjoy a lot more LGBT stuff, but a lot of it just grates on my nerves.
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Collectathon canons are boring. Like. Yes, we get it, every episode the hero's team gains a new coin/gem shard/whatever that'll make them vaguely stronger or give them a brand new power.
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look, I know that these types of shows exist to sell toys. I get it. I understand. But that doesn't mean that you have to remind me about it so often.
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Game canons. Not, like, games you play but ones like Beyblade, Duel Masters, Yu-gi-oh!, etc. where all of civilization is big into this one single game and your life is over if you lose a single match.
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And if you believe in your friends and your cards, you'll always win because the card you need just happens to be the next one in the deck.
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i honestly get you on the lgbt stories front
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like i'm gay and i love gay shit in stories, but growing up like every lgbt-focused story was always entirely about that aspect of a character's life and it all felt very after school special-ish
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not to mention very mundane compared to all the other fantasy/scifi/whatever stories out there
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it's gotten way better in recent years but i'm still cautious about stories that are outright considered lgbt fiction rather than just stories that happen to include characters that are gay or trans or nonbinary or whatever
Zita
I really relate to that too
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Also I am always so :[ "thanks" about recommendations where most of what someone is saying to me about it is "it's so full of lgbt rep!" because... okay but what's the story actually about that you think i'd like it? because if it's just about those experiences it can actually be really alienating depending on what they are.
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i have my own problems and often the fictional rep trips some feelings about them that i don't like having
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Rep alone doesn't make a thing good
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And some people need to learn that
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I want - and write - adventure shit where characters happen to be gay
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Or trans or whatever
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Like I always wanted stuff where they were still just out there DOING something
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So I do like some gay superhero shit if it's just sort of layered in and otherwise the character is out there doing their normal stuff
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I feel like superheroes they sometimes hit the wrong beats. But sometimes they hit the right beats bc they get the character still needs to be doing their superhero thing
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Like America in Marvel sometimes is just...doing her hero junk
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Or Phyla-Vell and Moonstone
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So ia with this, stuff can't just only be about what they are, it's gotta also be about what they're doing