Bite Me, Deconstructionists
Oct. 28th, 2010 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Wanna tear apart a genre or even just a franchise? Want to expose a paternalistic and imperialist undercurrent to the superhero genre? Want to blast Star Wars for being a thinly-veiled divine-right monarchy? Want to deride Tolkien for being twee and reactionary? Want to stick it to the steampunkers for not wringing their hands enough about whatever injustice of the period comes between the axe and your particular grindstone?
Consider the possibility that you might be an insufferably self-important tosspot and HAVE A NICE HOT CUP OF STFU INSTEAD.
-The Gneech
Consider the possibility that you might be an insufferably self-important tosspot and HAVE A NICE HOT CUP OF STFU INSTEAD.
-The Gneech
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Date: 2010-10-28 08:10 pm (UTC)It has its place in a balanced study of storytelling and art. When it gets insufferably self-righteous as you say is when asshats making blanket judgments based on one incredibly subjective aspect.
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Date: 2010-10-28 08:15 pm (UTC)Deconstruction can be a great thing, actually. See The Incredibles for instance. But it can also be really, really annoying. (See Alan Moore.)
-The Gneech
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Date: 2010-10-28 08:28 pm (UTC)So, basically any webcomic forum.
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Date: 2010-10-28 11:00 pm (UTC)-The Gneech
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Date: 2010-10-29 11:45 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2010-10-28 09:31 pm (UTC)... but wait, no words for the people who blast Sparkly Vampire Romances as glorifying creepy stalkers and empty-headed protagonists?
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Date: 2010-10-28 09:47 pm (UTC)I did cover that in my initial draft of this post, actually, but it got edited out; it boiled down to, "Yes, this applies to genres I don't care for myself, too."
-TG
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Date: 2010-10-28 10:31 pm (UTC)You know, real dog/human hybrids would be vile, disgusting abominations to be pitied!
I see what the Gneech means now... "I hate your genre, so look at my perceived reality of it!"
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Date: 2010-10-28 11:01 pm (UTC)Or better yet, don't. It'd be like the good ol' days of alt.fan.furry. :P
-The Gneech
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