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honestlyvan · 10 months ago

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I never ever care about how the science fiction premise works; I promise, from the bottom of my heart, to believe in the explanation of absolutely anything you tell me, even if the explanation is "I don't even feel like explaining it." Science fiction or fantasy isn't even a good way to describe Dangan Ronpa; it's just pure Anime, reality cartoonishly distorted in ways that will make feel real. My earnest belief is that science fiction or fantasy should do the same, alter reality only insofar as it brings out the truth reality can't bear. I have no use for explanations that don't offer me that.

Aevee Bee, "In Searing Pink"

#fannish #I'm rewatching NezumiVA's DR videos for funsies #and she links to this article #and ohhhh boy #Taking the hardline perspective of 'it doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense'#'it only starts mattering when not-making-sense starts *interfering with my emotional engagement*'#sounds like a very pressure-relieving sincere way of engaging with fiction #'Scholars may say all my theories are made up but so is the source material'#it's a good article too if you're a Dangan Ronpa fan #(Dangan Ronpa spoilers abound though)#but this part is more broadly applicable #I don't begrudge anyone for having their emotional engagement with something #disrupted by it 'not making sense' or contradicting itself #but if I'm honest with myself I'm *always never* so bothered by the logic of something breaking down #that it would break my engagement with the emotional core #It's always the things that disrupt the emotional engagement that eventually take me out of a story #I don't feel cheated when the worldbuilding breaks down -- that's what headcanons are for #but I have and do feel emotionally cheated by stories having poor emotional continuity

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