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Gio🇧🇬🇪🇺 @gioshin.bsky.social

Which literary trope do you guys dislike the most? The closest to that for me would be fridging, which is the idea that you can kill off a character for the sole reason of motivating the protagonist, thus disregarding their own goals, ambitions and potential development.

aug 27, 2025, 5:15 pm • 7 0

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social

Young women falling for old men

aug 27, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social

Or women myseriously falling for men for no reason other than author fantasy/plot advancement. I need authors to understand women feel desire too

aug 27, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gio🇧🇬🇪🇺 @gioshin.bsky.social

Agreed. Relationships in writing should be handled with as much diligence as any other aspect of the character dynamics. If you want to make a relationship work, you at least need to establish a reason why these two are into each other and make it believable enough for the audience to like it.

aug 27, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view