#suspend disbelief or whatever

[halobolts]

i write a whole line in quality time calling out how you can't get clubbed over the head without brain damage, and a year later i'm writing a fic where luce gets clubbed over the head and is fine. i may be a hypocrite

[ardentpoop]

no wait one more thought.

you guys are too charitable/soft in your interpretations of how dean would’ve treated sam just before he left for stanford. it is clearly established in canon that dean usually took John’s Side when he and sam clashed bc dean was the “good son.” yes dean tried to mediate but he also always justified john’s behavior to sam (like sam later justifies dean’s behavior to jack)

why do you think dean’s resentment wouldn’t have been surging out at sam daring to Leave Him Behind when that is time and time again how dean speaks to sam abt stanford to his face. dean is incapable of prioritizing sam’s perspective over his own pain lol it was never sam making a desperate bid for autonomy or wanting a better life for himself it was always sam selfishly Running Away and Abandoning his family. john and dean were of one mind on that one. samndean’s arguments just before sam left would’ve been RANCID - equally if not more so than sam and john’s.

[novelconcepts]

For the record, this show can keep throwing random girls in the teen timeline all it wants in my book. We know there were more. We saw them all over season one. This is a bonkers show with possible Wilderness gods, I can suspend my disbelief re: them not being able to show an entire soccer team at once, it is fine. Look, hey, my faves have to eat SOMEBODY.

[shanastoryteller]

I'm curious since you've been reblogging Suits stuff -- did you watch/get into any other USA network shows?

oh god i watched basically anything usa network put out for a while

white collar

cover affairs

fairly legal

psych

in plain sight

common law (rip it could have been so good)

burn notice

i didn't watch royal pains or mr. robot consistently but they were still on the radar

i think the only big one from that time that i didn't get into was monk

[miabrown007]

sometimes twists in stories get you by being smarter than what you expect from their genre.

[pondslime]

reworking the porn ooga booga hehehehehehe-fic concept into something that could exist slightly out of the realm of purely porn logic

[vigilantejustice]

took myself out to see gladiator two a couple weeks back and (despite being being someone who routinely watches twilight) think my brain just leans a little too logic–driven for movies because tell me why i could physically not move past the sharks in the colosseum. the water had me thinking but the SHARKS? spent the entire rest of the movie wondering about the logistics of it all. how did they capture them? how did they transport them?

[fideidefenswhore]

hmmm.

[caterpillarinacave]

I’m not even kidding when I say the biggest roadblock to posting any NATM fics right now is the fact that I do not know ancient Egyptian

[softmeetssofter]

all the murders in this building and we still don’t have cameras in the hallways or by the elevators???

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Jason, especially in that one Teen Titans comic, often complains about the lack of pants he has. And I'm haunted thinking about that at all times

[leafatlaw]

Going through the parkour civ tag is making me realize some people have never allowed themselves to earnestly enjoy mcyt content and it shows

[ayaitch]

I kind of want Horizon 3 to be Captain Planet-ish in the way that each member of Aloy's group can line up with one of the GAIA functions. Think about it...

GAIA -> Aloy (obviously the Captain Planet main powerful one)

Apollo -> Beta (the super smart one)

Demeter -> Zo (obvious plant life association)

Aether -> Kotallo (obvious sky association)

Hephaestus -> Erend (you know, because of the giant hammer and building stuff)

Artemis -> Talanah (goddess of the hunt)

Poseidon -> Aratak (not necessarily about water (but ice?) and more of his warrior-like nature and I also just needed to shoehorn a Banuk in Aloy's group somewhere)

Minerva -> Dekka or Sona? (for the goddess of wisdom and war association)

Eleuthia -> IDK here. Teb?

Hades -> RIP, N/A

Edit: I didn't include Sylens because I had made the assumption that Guerilla will write him out of the plot for the next game. If they don't and just recast him, then Sylens will be Minerva.

It just feels like a fun idea.

[labyrynth]

honestly the thing that baffles me the most about all the disney “live action” remakes is that they won’t touch the live action adaptations that not only existed long before their remake plans, but have been WILDLY successful!!!

the theater/broadway adaptations of beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, and the fucking LION KING??

disney, you already own all of this material. why are you dumping money into mediocre remakes when you already have the exact thing you’re looking for, but better??

[undead-moth]

Suspension of Disbelief

I didn't want to derail someone's post because of a pet peeve but re: suspension of disbelief:

Suspension of disbelief refers to a contract between you and the writer. At the beginning of a story, the writer establishes 1) The rules of the fictional universe, and 2) The parameters of the fictional universe.

The writer must agree to follow these rules and to stay within these parameters throughout the story. In return, the viewer or reader must agree to believe that anything that happens within the story is possible as long as it follows the rules and stays within the parameters, even if it is impossible, or unrealistic in real life.

By choosing to believe something that you ordinarily wouldn't believe, as in something you would normally disbelieve, you have suspended your disbelief.

When a writer breaks your suspension of disbelief, it means the writer has broken the rules or strayed outside the parameters that they established at the beginning of the story. In other words, something has happened in the story that you never agreed to believe in, and therefore still consider "impossible" or "unrealistic" even within a fictional universe.

When a writer asks you to suspend your disbelief too high, it means that the writer has created rules or parameters for the fictional universe that are simply too far beyond the rules and parameters of real life for you to be interested in the story.

Every story has rules and parameters, and every story requires suspension of disbelief. Even stories that take place in the real world will require some suspension of disbelief, just a significantly lower suspension of disbelief than fantasy or sci-fi. How high is "too high" is a matter of personal preference, but if a story outright breaks suspension of disbelief then it is poorly written.

[smile-files]

(insane person voice) this teardrop gjinka. THIS teardrop gjinka. yes this one will be the good one