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#no piece of media is technically perfect or some kind of manifestation of its ideal form like cmon
decepti-geek
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I’m sure people have lots of fun with the doomed by the narrative thing but whenever I see it I turn into the project runway guy
“doomed by the narrative” shut up it’s the fucking creator making creative decisions
#i wasn't as annoyed by this until i just now found out that it's like... a wholesale made up trope?
#just from tumblr?
#and i am a firm believer in descriptivisim and not just going by the tools/words that have already been created
#but at the same tim i genuinely do not understand the... purpose of this one?
#The Narrative is not like. an independently-acting force
#i absolutely won't deny that it's its own THING but i think a thing can be a Thing
#without posessing its own agency and ability to affect stuff
#and i don't see how something that is entirely constructed by a person gains its own agency when ultimately
#that still just comes from the person?
#it feels a bit wizard of oz pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
#the narrative didnt doom that character the author decided that they were gonna die
#and yeah that's in service to the narrative but i dont like the... implication i see there
#that the version of the narrative we get is somehow The narrative
#and not just. one option
#informed by the author's choices
#no piece of media is technically perfect or some kind of manifestation of its ideal form like cmon
#writing
#i also want it noted that i looked the thing up at all because i was puzzling over it
#and wanted to know what the original idea was behind it in case it turned out id been getting the grapevine version and missed something
#i can't find where it started?
#like i genuinely would like to know what the original intent was of the person who came up with it
#but i can't find it
#so im now just. skeptical of any use of it ngl because whilst it's still new i guess people can be meaning a whole lot of things by it
#until some popular idea of what it means coalesces or whatever
#but even then im still like
#it feels like this weird abdication of agency for characters/author and attributing all the agency to something that ultimately HAS none?
#so just kinda banishing it into the aether i guess
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