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Subtext
idk if it's just me but does anyone else kinda feel like bl readers (honestly people who read primarily romance in general but I've mostly been reading bl lately) can sometimes be really bad at picking up subtexts stuff character motivation or emotion it seems like a lot of people on this website are really bad at picking up in like anything that's not explicitly stated by the writer
Idk how else to explain it but I'll see an incredibly basic plot about insecurity or internalized homophobia and how a character struggles with it and comments will be filled with people calling them everything but a child of god and it's weird
Idk sometimes creators are bad writers but a lot of time people are just not noticing what to me at least seems like obvious subtext and I was wondering if anyone else noticed or had theories about why
I also noticed that but it's not just bl readers, nowadays I see so many people having problems with subtext and they need to have everything spelled out for them, I dunno why so many seem to see things so superficial
And I love my Media with well done subtext they just hit so much deeper and harder, but with the way its going they are going to b...... reply
I agree with you. Many people who come to this site for bl, come here seeking a straightforward experience, which sometimes leads them to miss the author's intended message. What I've noticed is that stories with meaningful character personality designs that align with the story and aren't glorified are often few in number or only popular within sp...... reply
It just comes with media literacy honestly. They refuse to acknowledge subtexts that goes against their view and/or blatantly ignoring them. One primary example I can think of is queer subtexts/implications between two characters but because it's a subtext, not directly or stating it on a media, they might come to the conclusion that they are just ...... reply
i feel like rather than trying to understand a character and plot, a lot of people these days rush to judge their behaviour as wrong or right.
i think it's partly as a result of how political social media has become (namely twitter) and i see it leaking onto discourse on this site as well. this might be off topic but just a tangential point that i...... reply
Can you make a specific example?
Bc i feel like most of the time it really just is bad writing. Not only for BL or even webcomics, also for books. 1 reply
