In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

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donamoeba notbecauseofvictories

Anonymous asked:

How come fanfic loves to "torture the cinnamon roll"?

notbecauseofvictories answered:

I mean, I’m sure we could poll people and come up with a hundred different answers, ranging from “I just like to think about attractive people covered in blood” to “suffering is fun to write about” to “I’m working out my issues through fic, leave me alone.” 

………..but also today I watched a comedy special (Nanette, on Neflix, it’s amazing) and the comedian talked about how all jokes are, really, just a matter of setting up tension, and then releasing it. You tell a story in a specific way, winding your audience up like a spring, and then release the tension with a surprise ending. That’s when people laugh, it’s the release of the tension.

Now, obviously not all stories are written to make people laugh, but I do think it’s useful to think about all writing in that way. Some stories build dramatic tension (watch these two characters pine after one another) and then release it through a triumphant act like a kiss, or a confession of love. Other stories build dramatic tension (you care about the characters, you love them) and then release it through a great tragic act, like their deaths. 

For the release to work, you need the tension—imagine a joke that’s just a punchline, it’s not funny. Additionally, the way you build the tension has to lead up to the release—think of Game of Thrones, which trapped itself in a narrative hole killing off so many characters. Because the release (the death of that character) is expected, the tension is gone. The story can keep pushing that button and trying for that release, but there’s no tension to propel your audience into feeling any emotion.

The lack of tension is why some people not me of course complain about fic where characters just….have a nice day, or fall in love peaceably, or calmly and openly discuss their issues. There’s no tension there, and so no release.

Torturing an innocent character—you can’t make me call them a cinnamon roll, sorry—is an easy way to create that tension. In fact, it can be either a way to build tension or to create release. If a character suffers prettily, and is then comforted and cared for by another character, you’ve built the tension (suffering) and then released it with something different (comfort and care). If you have an innocent character moving through an uncaring and terrible world, and then have them—I don’t know, beaten up in an alley somewhere, then you have a release (the situational irony is resolved.)

There’s more to work with, from a narrative perspective. There’s no tension in an innocent character having a lovely day. 

So you gotta make ‘em suffer.

reference writing reference yes I do like watching characters suffer or make bad decisions
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alright, so, mic and aizawa are sitting on the same couch together, but i cant quite tell if they’re directly next to each other or if there is a space between them. which brings me to either one of two conclusions conclusion 1: they are sitting...

alright, so, mic and aizawa are sitting on the same couch together, but i cant quite tell if they’re directly next to each other or if there is a space between them.

which brings me to either one of two conclusions

conclusion 1: they are sitting directly mext to each other despite there being other seats in the staff(?) room. no homo bro

conclusion 2: they are not sitting directly next to each other but the space between them is for eri and theyre her dads thanks for coming to my t-

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