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apprenticenanoswarm:
symbisexual-disaster:
*glances wearily at my 5,000 bookmarked fics in which everything is awesome and everyone is happy*
XD XD XD
i mean…yes! surprisingly enough! i would indeed! like to read a story! in which characters i like are happy and everything is awesome! that would be great! i like it when characters i like are happy! it makes me happy! fancy that!
in all seriousness, most superhero stories require a central conflict. sure. but ‘characters dealing with a problem’ ≠ ‘characters being constantly miserable or angry’.
like. you can have conflict AND protagonists enjoying themselves, enjoying what they do, savoring small victories even while the larger problem is ongoing, exchanging a smile with a friend, taking a break from the fight to eat a piece of buttered toast, etc.
because moments of light relief are 1. enjoyable for the reader, who presumably does not want to see their fave suffering endlessly 2. important narrative tools for throwing the moments of drama into sharper relief and 3. give you as a writer a chance to flesh out the character, because when people are constantly, constantly unhappy it is actually a bit boring and does not reveal anything about their personality that we did not already know.
Jesus fuck be he is legitimately thick as pigshit, isn’t he?
apprenticenanoswarm:
symbisexual-disaster:
*glances wearily at my 5,000 bookmarked fics in which everything is awesome and everyone is happy*
XD XD XD
i mean…yes! surprisingly enough! i would indeed! like to read a story! in which characters i like are happy and everything is awesome! that would be great! i like it when characters i like are happy! it makes me happy! fancy that!
in all seriousness, most superhero stories require a central conflict. sure. but ‘characters dealing with a problem’ ≠ ‘characters being constantly miserable or angry’.
like. you can have conflict AND protagonists enjoying themselves, enjoying what they do, savoring small victories even while the larger problem is ongoing, exchanging a smile with a friend, taking a break from the fight to eat a piece of buttered toast, etc.
because moments of light relief are 1. enjoyable for the reader, who presumably does not want to see their fave suffering endlessly 2. important narrative tools for throwing the moments of drama into sharper relief and 3. give you as a writer a chance to flesh out the character, because when people are constantly, constantly unhappy it is actually a bit boring and does not reveal anything about their personality that we did not already know.
Jesus fuck be he is legitimately thick as pigshit, isn’t he?