jumping off @/vikarmic's cilantro griping plurk but way more about me realising why I gravitate towards some specific things in fiction

This, err, got away from me a little, so let's see if plurk paste still works...

now maybe with reasonable formatting

that was an interesting read, thanks for sharing it!

I think it'd be an interesting examination to do myself, honestly, but if I do commit that to digital ink I'll take it back into my own space so as not to crowd out yours

(also I think the reason you never ran into it is that the acute version isn't actually that common, I just tripped over it a bunch of times in my formative years and got sensitized to the less-acute versions that are more common)

(like allergies, in a way)

I'm glad you found it interesting! And I'd love to read your version of it, too.

(relatedly, a lot of that 90s sff wave that I mentioned in my plurk was, on reflection, kind of bad, but I was desperate for anything that looked escapist and didn't live near many bookstores, so....)

I didn't start learning English until I was ten or so, and then it took a while until I got to the point where I read novels in English, so my formative years were also spent with like five German (or translated-into-German, often not even from English) sff works so my chances of running into the trope early on were a bit... limited.

yeah, I honestly have no idea what the german sff scene looks like, other than some of the tabletop games that eventually got translated

(so, you know, if you have any translated recs I'm always listening....)

(I'll see what I can find, but I think I'd have a hard time coming up with recs that aren't children's books. I read some young adult/adult German sff as a teenager and then promptly jumped ship for the English market because the ones I read were... not great. And then I just never went back because it is much, much easier to find recs for English sff.)

(that's fair! don't put too much effort in, I was mostly just curious if there was anything you'd recommend off the top of your head to someone who's not familiar)

(I've got a few books that sound very promising but they're all from smaller publishers and unlikely to ever get translations. Also not helpful for this context.)

(alas.)

this is fascinating