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half-man-half-lime · 1 year ago

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A take that I'd like to bang like a drum over and over again:

Engaging with stories in a pedantic or analytical way isn't bad, it's just a different way of making, interacting with, and enjoying media that might work for some people but not everyone.

Being prescriptive that everyone should engage with stories the same way is bad. The CinemaSins people or whatever you find most annoying aren't a problem until they start telling people how stories should work.

If you're telling people that they should shut up about consistent worldbuilding or plate tectonics or weird implications of story logic because the story is really about the character dynamics, you're just a different flavor of annoying.

#this is why I get so worked up about the University of What It Is from Night Vale #or The Unpleasantness from Rude Tales #because hearing 'prescriptive people are annoying' over and over again eventually starts to sound like 'pedantic people are annoying'#which eventually starts to sound like 'autistic people are annoying'#even when they don't mean it that way and I'm reading too much into things #although I'm still annoyed by the magician episode of that Night Vale arc #if those scientists weren't harassing the magician they wouldn't be a problem you motherfuckers!#so what if they don't appreciate magic shows properly! for some people the magic IS in learning the secrets behind the trick dumbass!#tbh one reason it feels wrong to frame it as ableism is that a lot of people are being pedantic+analytical about characterization & themes #and the venn diagram of autistic people overlaps a lot with both groups

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