Re: asking the cast about ships…
Yeah asking questions like that and getting definitive answers can be super disappointing and Id rather let the story play out naturally BUT… shipping has always been in SPITE of canon so just bc so-and-so said No doesnt mean yall have to stop😂
@ayogiovanna Neurodivergent but look at it from the other direction. "cool reason - not an excuse" character did terrible thing cuz tragic backstory TM* is their reason - it doesnt excuse them from consequence. Excuse is something that pardons an action, a reason is just the 'why'.
growing up in a house where speaking up always became an argument really does something to u.. eventually u just say “okay” even when ur angry or hurt. then u grow up & people think ur calm, when really u just don’t know how to ask to be heard without feeling like ur in trouble.
@Brien_Jackson One of my issues is I'll hear and then ignore the alarm because I go 'oh lemme finish what im in the middle of then get it.' Difference being if theres consequences to my inaction i understand thats my own doing and I dont try to blame the world for not changing for me.
writers: the first draft is just you telling yourself the story
also writers: if this paragraph doesn't read like Shakespeare on the first try i am throwing my computer into the sea
there's a therapeutic technique called behavioral activation which can be a little confusing in therapy speak, but i found these memes that explain it in examples very well ^_^
I just walked out of a session with an ADHD teen and I'm honestly speechless. They explained executive dysfunction in a single sentence. It's better than any textbook definition I've ever read.
Okay but this is dumb. No shade at all to people who want to read books with happy endings, absolutely no problem with that at all, but you can’t name your genre with a word that, to most people, means “a love story” and then insist that like half the love stories don’t count
'it's escapism' 'social contract between author and reader'
the audience first / centered approach that's been guiding romance these days is why the genre has degraded in quality compared to the past. authors are preoccupied with not offending the readers on the road to the HEA
And for my next act: this HEA discourse has me increasingly disturbed by how people talk about books as consumer products, not art. “Write it properly if you want our money.” “We won’t buy it otherwise.” Preferences can shape a market. They shouldn’t dictate the boundaries of art
If these “marketing conventions” are so important why does it suddenly not matter when your books show up in other genres? You reading a romance book with a tragic ending is upsetting but another person upset at reading a fantasy with a romance focus is unreasonable?