It’s true.
I know plenty about minor characters on ‘Star Trek’ but can’t name any of my neighbors.
Sometimes when I’m with my mum I realise she’s talking about the characters in Line Of Duty for the last ten minutes and not her friends from tennis.
Kinda true, though.
As an author, I’ve gotten reams of hate mail about what I’ve done to my characters.
On one hand, sure, that’s kind of a good thing. It means readers are connecting with them. But some readers connect with them too much, and seem to have a dubious grip on reality vs. fiction. For example, I’ve been told I should be in prison for not preventing one of my characters from being raped, since it’s just as bad as doing the act myself. None of these are real people. Nobody was actually raped. They’re only letters arranged on a page, okay? Calm the fuck down. No letters were harmed in the writing of this post.
A fascinating rebuttal birthed from a complex analysis of the phenomenon and its interactions with the modern-day social zeitgeist. Truly an exhilarating read.
Holy shit I haven’t laughed that hard in a week, thank you for that
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