saw an opinion on tumblr that runs, more or less, 'the locked tomb's writing is bad because-' and then went on to describe the way that a character's close narrative voice includes a lot of silly words and obscure words.
I found this frustrating and I feel a need to reiterate on it just because it's so obviously silly to me but I don't want to get into a confrontation with a stranger about something that it really, really feels like they don't understand. Thing is, they might! They might understand and not find the idea or the execution interesting!
And the main thought that flows from that is: This person is either stupid or unconvinced and in neither case can anything I say change them.
on the other hand, the actual thing they're talking about - the way that people in isolated, cult-like environments patch together a voice from what they experience in this completely shattered way and the setting is an english-language post-colonial collapsed empire - is something that rings very true to me, and is very interesting to me, and very true to my experience of piecing together a voice from what I experience in a completely shattered way that means I spoke with incredibly weird words and incredibly old words equally because I never got to learn how to speak normally.
It's basically, someone pointing at something that seems to me to be of such transcendent execellence it's hard to convey to an outsider and hearing them go 'look at that stupid shit.'
Then they blamed it on Homestuck.
