#sorry ive been a loud semantic abolitionist for years. i dont think words have meanings.

[bellshazes]

i would pay as many as ten or twelve real life dollars to anyone who can define for me what they think the collective tumblr definition of narrative is, in a way that actually makes sense in any given use case. i think it is a me problem that the word as used has no meaning to me anymore. my new hobby is substituting synonyms for "narrative" in posts. like there is something exceptionally sinister about the idea of a character being doomed by the chronicle in a way that doomed by the narrative is not. characters who transcend their hagiography is either so obvious as to be tautological or is ripe for theological debate. characters who succumb to a tall tale. to be doomed by the recital could be a fun pun about bad dances or a set-up for "if i speak," either way. endless possibilities, all of them terrible.