pervocracy
@pervocracy

You know what, I think Ender's Game should be taught in school. (if it could be done without being a payday for the author...)

Because it's a great lesson in "the author chooses the scenario, not just the character choices," and I think a lot of readers forget to consider that.


akhra
@akhra

This is something I run into again and again when pointing out media transphobia, because so often the characters it's channeled through are explicitly not trans in the text, which fans will instantly seize on and reject the premise that transphobia is a relevant topic.

But of course a transphobic author's characters are not trans! Probably the single most common vector of transphobia is believing transness doesn't really exist at all! So this one is a victim of childhood trauma dealing with it by concealing their gender, and that one's just a psychopath so who even knows what's going on in their head, and oh yes the idle rich always have their eccentricities because they can afford to be detached from reality, and and and


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You can spoil so many movie scenes by yourself just by remembering that it's very rare for something shown onscreen to go to plan. If a character is shown brushing his teeth for more than 5 seconds, there almost has to be a jumpscare in the mirror or blood in his mouth or someone walking in--the one thing that won't happen is he brushes his teeth, rinses his mouth, and walks out.

(This is not a 100% foolproof rule, because sometimes this kind of thing is just Setting A Mood, but you get the idea. It serves some purpose. The one thing that can't be true of the scene is that he brushed his teeth because that's what people do to keep their teeth clean.)