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"Realism" in stories
How do you guys feel about people defending stories with "well it's realistic"? I've seen this expressed in two different stories this week, and it's only ever used to describe characters being forgiven for bs as soon as the story finishes. I asked this in the homepage comments and got two really interesting responses so i would like to see more opinions.
There's no greater fiction than real life.
When people talk about wanting realism, what they want is mediocrity. Whatever version of mediocrity they expect or think of. A lot of life is filled with absurdity or straight up just coincidences, a lot of people are just absurd or completely and unintentionally hypocritical. That is to say, you don't n...... reply