#characters fighting – @izzyizumi on Tumblr

i’m constantly baffled by how averse tumblr is to conflict as a means to drive narrative. like. people in fandom seem to legitimately wants stories to adhere to 90s-sitcom-levels of “nothing significantly affects the initial status quo” regardless of whether this fits the narrative or not, and then get PERSONALLY offended when this (inevitably) ends up never happening.

like characters fighting and disagreeing and even straight up disliking each other is not bad writing. messy personal conflicts where no part is really 100% right are not bad writing. like… yeah in the realm of fanfiction there’s nothing cooler than reading 4773736478382 stories about the characters watching movies or playing board games and being nice and sweet with each other, but in actual media stuff neeeds to switch it up every now and then. stories aren’t meant to be static.

also: just because the way a narrative develops is upsetting/frustrating to YOU, doesn’t means it’s bad writing. sometimes being upsetting/frustrating is precisely the point.

#elcorhamletlive #fandom issues #fandom negativity #fandom #DIGIMON FANDOM RELEVANT #DIGIADVS FANDOM RELEVANT #*OP was not about Digimon #*Please don't bother OP #*Please don't derail post!#bad writing #unpleasable fanbases #disliking change #disliking narratives #conflict #plot #characters fighting #plot conflict vs slice of life #(BASICALLY)#(like. it's a shounen series. a shounen series that was meant to appeal to an older audience. a shounen MONSTER FIGHTING series)#(this fandom raves on the CONSTANT about how Tamers Is The Best Series and Tamers ABSOLUTELY uses Plot Conflict)#(yet Advs fandom would rather everything be Hunters level Slice of Life at this rate)#(speaking of which I enjoyed both Tamers and Hunters but yEAH)#(and I kinda DISLIKED exactly how wild Tamers choice of '''' conflict '''' was i.e. breaking Juri near completely)#(Adventures and EVEN TRI is TAME in comparison)#(TRI KAISER IS TAME IN COMPARISON TO TAMERS)#(TRI ENDING IS TAME IN COMPARISON TO TAMERS)#(And Yet Here We Are)#(i genuinely Do Not Understand this fandom . a lot of the time . anymore)#(TAG EDITS these were older tags and yet again a draft from MONTHS ago and. Unfortunately. Still Relevant. Does Not Comment Further)