Pickles is right.
Things You Want LESS Of In Books
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Betrayal.
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I love a good betrayal, but a good one. I've seen a lot of real bad ones, and I'm not a huge fan of it being immediately excused as like, an act to get something (although sometimes it's just the way things absolutely have to happen. I guess)
Yeah, I agree. A good betrayal is one where you go "I should've seen that coming!", not one where you go "oh, I guess that's okay" or one where you see it coming from a mile away.
Good example: Kylo briefly betraying Snoke after we see him start to question his beliefs in The Last Jedi
Bad example: Tris's brother betraying her because Reasons in Divergent, then making up, then betraying her again, rinse and repeat
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IT OPENED UP SO MANY PLOTHOLES WITH THE WORLDBUILDING! Like, I can suspend my disbelief enough to say "yeah I guess Chicago is doing it's own thing" but the whole "oooooh it was a social experiment all along!" thing was a cop-out. It's like Roth saw people criticizing her worldbuilding and was like "I'll show them!" And then she made it worse..
I’d like to talk shit about my own writing it’s trash.
Hmm. Does it have relevance to this actual discussion?
Anyone feeling like Oracle figures always talk in this mistic and old language?
With the vocabulary nowadays, id be intrigued to see an Oracle talking in slang
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No one:
The Oracle: HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS?
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Dom and Eris struggling on a daily basis.
Yall are ROODE
I fully support this headcannon.
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(Bump)
(Boiiii dis place be deaddd)
(I like that my last comment is what stuck.)
(agreed man, that comment's beautiful)
But fr now
I feel like the "strong girl is automatically tomboyish or mean or smth" trope is a little bit overused. I too have a setup that includes a single girl, but i dont really know how to make her strong without her being mean or too tomboyish
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Also the "tomboy is automatically a lesbian" trope.
And the “slightly more feminine guy is automatically gay” thing
Me.
But fr now
I feel like the "strong girl is automatically tomboyish or mean or smth" trope is a little bit overused. I too have a setup that includes a single girl, but i dont really know how to make her strong without her being mean or too tomboyish
It really depends on what the strength is supposed to be. There are different strengths. Some are found more often in males and vice versa.
Also the "tomboy is automatically a lesbian" trope.
That's a thing? Wow.
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Also the "tomboy is automatically a lesbian" trope.
That's a thing? Wow.
I see it a lot more in fan communities, but a lot of times a woman who has more stereotypically masculine traits or hobbies is assumed to be a lesbian.
Weird.
But fr now
I feel like the "strong girl is automatically tomboyish or mean or smth" trope is a little bit overused. I too have a setup that includes a single girl, but i dont really know how to make her strong without her being mean or too tomboyish
Maybe just make sure she isn't too dependent on other characters. Put her in tight situations that she can get out of either by herself or with little help from your other characters. Let her save the day a couple times (not all the time though, you don't want her to be a Mary Sue, especially if she's the only girl).
But also @Althalosian-isTerrifyingWalnutDeathDemon is right about there being different types of strengths. Figure out what she's good at and use those skills to have her help the other characters. Like for instance, I know it's kind of cool to hate on JKR but I feel like she wrote a lot of really good strong female characters. Hermione is a good example- she's super smart, and there's a lot of scenarios where Harry and Ron make it out alive because of that.