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playingonedchess · 7 days ago

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oh another reason why i find so many fanfictions so banal and uncompelling is that although i do find romance enjoyable to read sometimes i have much less of an interest in reading about plain dating culture. i have feelings for this person lets get dinner lets kiss yadayada. its really very boring when so many fanfictions are written along these lines refardless of the specifics of the story romance is meant to have something actually going for it character wise and youre meant to be invested in their relationship even if its a fanfiction it still has to have something compelling there itself

#not that dating culture stuff cant be interesting as a novelty #only its not a novelty if youve already read 20 million identical fanfictions even if it doesnt exist in your own life #plus if your including the plain ordinary dating stuff i think it has to be funny or domething to be engaging #dunno how much sense this post makes but i only really realised recently that romance and what im calling dating culture here #ie two people who like each other go out to dinner and kiss and so on #arent actually the same thing #which is quite obvious really #only i never really thought about it #bit embarrassing maybe but happened with these sort of things a lot as a kid #like it was the one area i knew absolutely nothing about cause i never paid attention actually barely registered it existed half the time #odd cause i think about lots of not real hypothetical things did more so then #but i was a bit embarrassed cause i thought romance books were for girls which like they usually were i just got them from the library #anyway cause i thought theyd still be interesting or they were marketed as fantasy or whatever #but even if i enjoyed some romance then it was never that sort anyway cause of the way demographic targeting works #actually probably why i dont enjoy most fanfiction as well as everything else #but anyway dont really know how youd decine romance outside two people getting together in the dullest way possible but thats what i mean #even if the writings got a stupid annoying style and its stupid about emotions they still keep coming off as incident reports #instead of storys about characters and emotions with conflicts and tensions and themes

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