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cruelsister-moved2 · 9 months

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usually i kind of hate when a piece of art feels indulgent sorry #earthmoon BUT i hate how often i hear the take that all description in writing needs to serve the Grand Unified Purpose of the work and you can tell its dumb because imagine watching an animated film and saying they shouldnt bother to put any detail in the backgrounds because its not important to the plot or theme 🤔 like it can be one stylistic approach especially in short fiction & can description and details feel pointless and unearned sure but the idea it should only rain if ur character is sad is goofy af and the idea that every element of the world should revolve around ur character and their narrative its giving western individualism

#also using narrative voice means u can MAKE any detail thematic based on how it's observed. skill issue #in fantasy especially idgaf about like. Hard worldbuilding #but I DO gaf about the vibe. and i want to feel like the world exists outside of the character #also think it's another case like the show don't tell of emotion where the issue is probably on a deeper level than prose #like say Piranesi the story is constructed such that all the description is part of the storytelling and feels meaningful bc the story feel #meaningful. in the same way that no matter how u describe the physical sensation of sadness #it will be meaningless unless the character has a good reason to be sad #anyway I read this interesting take a while ago about the very idea of story structure being like #an individual person is changed (which fixes things) is a very western (capitalist) way of defining a story #and honestly even in folklore as much as the players are individuals they're almost always archetypical and representative of a relationshi #on a mass scale e.g class/gender/parent to child #and the turning point represents - for example - disruption of & then reassertion of a social norm #rather than like. this is a Person and they become a better or worse version of themselves which transforms the entire Story World because #orbits them and stems from them in its entirety #anyway whatever. hi

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