𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘?
Unassuming extra
You had maybe 3 lines but you will forever own my heart. You play a very minor role, one often forgotten about (not by me tho bby, i'll love you forever). However, your significance in the story is pretty big. Something about you propels the story forward in a way no one else can do. You tend to blend into the background, and you probably like it that way. You want a simple life, free from the drama of the main characters. Unfortunately, your story is almost always cut short. Your role is usually a death that kickstarts the plot. Going unnoticed did not save you, but it probably did bring you some peace of mind.
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I've been thinking about this because of the shitty ads for contemporary YA romance going around and the way books are marketed using an extreme amount of fanfiction tropes and almost nothing else. Like yes tropes ARE a part of literature and can be used to help catalogue books and movies in archives and such but they aren't supposed to be supplements for summaries and plot.
Like if you tell me something is contemporary YA which follows a businesswoman struggling at her job and trying to figure out why she's unhappy slowly getting closer to the local cafe barista when she stops in over the course of the novel and she goes on a journey of self discovery and etc etc that would at least tell me what the book is about. I probably wouldn't read it or like it if I read it because I don't like contemporary YA romance but I at least know what it's about and would be able to recommend it to someone if they were looking for something similar.
But if you took that same book and ONLY told me it was contemporary YA romance, slowburn, and coffee shop, that doesn't really tell me anything about the characters or why I should care. These are original characters I can't just look at ao3 tags and be like "oh yeah I like these characters already I want to see them in this specific scenario" these are original characters and you have to give me a reason to care. When I'm looking for a book to read I'm looking for a book, not a fanfiction for something I already like. If I wanted to read fanfiction I would read it. Publishing fanfiction doesn't not make it fanfiction and describing books exclusively in fanfiction tropes and nothing else does not a good book advertisement make. They are not a replacement for an actual summary, they are a tool that can help quickly identify books in a catalogue or archive if someone is looking for something to read.
This isn't to dunk on fanfiction! I write and read fanfic but it's more akin to the junk food of the literature world. It's good and yummy and can fill in a specific niche in internet communities, but it shouldn't make up your entire literature consumption, yknow?
Also for fucks sake, stop describing classical literature with fanfiction tropes you are doing a severe disservice to them and completely missing the point of literally all those books. If I have to see one more person describe Pride and Prejudice as "enemies to lovers" I will scream.
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maybe this is...... idk, but i don't understand what's so objectionable about mentioning popular tropes in marketing for a book. seeing a bunch of posts all over the last couple of weeks being like Seeing Someone Describe Their Book As Enemies To Lovers Makes Me Want To Kill Them or whatever - and yes, with that level of direct aggression which, even joking, seems a bit overboard at best - and being like. yeah? and??? who. gives a shit?
someone wrote a book, they're talking about it in a way maybe they grew up talking about narratives, maybe a way that helps people find what they're interested in. sorry fandom and 'cringe' community related verbiage is polluting the prestigious and classy world of Real BooksTM and Real WritersTM and Real Serious Stories Not That Meaningless Garbage You Dummies On The Internet Throw Around Because You Have No Soul Or Appreciation For Art Or Whatever.
i don't know what is so enraging about it. everything has tropes in it that's how they ended up tropes. they're a value-neutral narrative tool or phenomenon. i feel like i'm losing my fucking MIND here sometimes. why is it such a hyperbolic violence worthy offence to use language commonly associated with fandom to discuss your published book if that's what it contains.
and i don't mean like- the people who are like oh you should read this, it has [rattles off list of diverse character identities and says absolutely nothing about what the book is actually like or about]. that's different. that tells me nothing abt what the book is about, though it does give people who are wanting to read about characters that are like them a piece of valuable information. not the only piece but a piece. this is like.
why are you so fucking mad and snotty about someone describing their book as 'enemies to lovers.' legitimately who is that harming. not something i'd ever read but that's because i'm allergic to romance, not because describing books using tropes, even tropes common in fanworks, is a fucking cardinal sin or definite hallmark that something is shallow trash.
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weird thing to notice but i think tomkin and aang are very similar. like the way they both chose kindness and to uphold their beliefs of being good despite everything they've suffered through and had taken from them, especially by the fire nation. sob
literally!!!!! tomkin took everything awful and let it make him kind and soft and weak and that's NOT a bad thing. so tired of weak characters being treated like their weakness is a bad thing when in reality very few of us are warriors, most of us are a bit pathetic and that's okay. the awfulness didn't make him strong but it did make him kind.
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Jigen calls Lupin coniglio which is Italian for “rabbit”
Later ends up finding out that the rabbit/bunny nickname is apparently just something that universally just fits for Lupin cause he later finds out Lupin’s Grandpa call’s/called Lupin Lapin (Male French term for rabbit)
i love this its so cute YES
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There's something quintessentially 2000s about fics where one character is always just irrationally angry at another character, and then that's called romance. Like Character A will say one thing, and then Character B will be like this mf is breathing... honestly, relax and go for a walk.
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also it's so funny when for lack of a better term like Normies get so mad about ppl saying steve can be trans bc it is one of the only hcs i have that i have ACTUAL BASIS for like ur barking up the wrong tree here my friend also remember when i did a like 2k thesis on why hiccup httyd was trans and someone used it in a powerpoint presentation competition
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