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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.
idk.. to be honest i see this argument the most when stories has consistently bad things happening, or depicting bad things really graphically. at least when it comes to those sorts of things i really have to ask,,, is it that much more realistic for everything to be terrible all the time?? no breaks or reprieve?? it really frustrates me seeing any...... 1 reply
