I’m gonna write a book that has none of that cliche bullshit.
…And done. Check it out:
hands you a blank piece of paper
How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Batman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Paper? How original…
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Does one piece of paper constitute a book, though?
- Philosoraptor
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Fold it in half. It’s at least a booklet.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Lowers glasses to look at blank paper
- Genius!!!
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
This is why tha part of Watchmen where that blue guy just sort of sits there rules so hard. Goes to a setting and does nothing
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Watch the fuckin spoilers, dude.
Zensate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Deriviative
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Zensate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Perfection
0ops@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
WHERE
Oh sorry dude I just have ptsd from calc 1
borosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
[deleted]Zensate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aww, I liked mine better. Didn’t know it was pronounced like that
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While enjoy the occasional anime, I don’t get how some people can watch so many of it. It’s literally the same characters and tropes over and over again.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s a process of finding diamonds in the shit, to be sure. The genre is so saturated too. The heavy watchers I know are just at a point where they enjoy the garbage because watching garbage can be funny. I hate feeling like my time is being stolen though
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can you imagine? Fucking Shakespeare I mean. I wonder if his dirty talk was in iambic pentameter too…
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
About as original as this meme format
LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Authors trying not to write a child to be a moron, getting the adults and themselves in danger and inevitably resulting into on of their deaths [challenge impossible]
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Children are morons, though.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Insofar as everyone is morons, yes.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Not as much as depicted in films tbh, maybe it’s different in the USA eh, different cultures and allat but in films they exagerate it a lot
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why the only book I own is windows 95 for dummies
atro_city@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Everything's a plot now!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It could also be “individuals” or “groups” doing stuff in a “universe”?
story@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
hello lemmy, please watch care of kancharapalem.
the less i tell you about it, the better. it is a very, very good movie experience because of the story, a story built on a house of cards that i don’t want anyone knocking over before you see it, trigger warning there is 1 suicide
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 week ago
I've watched Goncharov, is it something like that?
story@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
hey I’m going to be real with you right now. If you take the time to watch this film you will be deeply rewarded. i literally can’t tell you why without fucking it up
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the other side of this, the cliche of “Simple misunderstanding we could have resolved if one party hadn’t said “I don’t NEED to hear your explanation!” before storming off” can fuck right off and die.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gotta love the “this season wouldn’t have even happened if everyone had been upfront and honest with each other.”
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
No, wait, it’s the other thing.
Gotta hate with the burning rage of a thousand suns…
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ahhh yes, the old idiot plot. Where would we even be as a culture without it
mika_mika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All scripts of Shakespeare’s comedy category that I’ve read are idiot plots. The characters constantly explain to the audience, but never to each other. It enables all the hijinks to unfold. So, it’s been around at least that long.
For example, twins separated at birth. If the twins in the Comedy of Errors explained who they were, or if the cast once questioned either of them on their strangeness, everything could be clarified.
It extends to outside comedies, even the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet could have been avoided if Romeo had confirmed Juliet and Friar’s plan, or had checked to see if she was still alive before offing himself.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
We would probably have a much higher (and more incorrect) opinion of ourselves. We’re all fools, and recognizing our own foolishness reflected in art doesn’t make it not so. Just makes it easier to think about.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
People do that all the time though, often to disastrous effect. Once it stops happening IRL we’ll stop making art about it*.
* while it does happen all the time IRL, I think some writers use it as a shortcut to get to the plot they want to pursue without going through the character development that establishes why a character might act this way. That is lazy and annoying writing, but it doesn’t invalidate the whole trope. People really are like that. Clear communication is hard work and a lot of people just don’t do it a lot of the time.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure, sometimes people are like that, but even if it meets the absolute minimum standards of plausibility, why on earth would I waste my time watching/reading it? It’s just bad writing either way.
Relatedly: everything is art, but not everything is good.
joshcodes@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
There’s a somewhat horrific show on Netflix called Bloodlines which I thought made a point of not using this trope. There’s a character who for half a season listens to everyone, does what they tell them to, tries to make things work in a dysfunctional environment, and falls back into old habits because no one trusts him when anything goes wrong. Its a show filled with very human interactions, almost like the writers asked “what would actual people do” in every scenario, but also push the plot along.
Highly recommend it because this shit annoys me.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_plot