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does anyone else kind of.. enjoy spoilers ?? like they’re sort of a relief
because then I know whether or not something is worth investing in watching
or reading or not
I’m not gonna be disappointed if it doesn’t turn out how I want plus I’m
not going to fast forward and skip through large parts of it to find out
what happens, which I’m embarrassed that I do I just don’t have the patience
Is that just a me thing or do other people do that too? Is that an adhd
thing?
I just do way better watching things if I already know the entire synopsis
and can predict kinda when things will happen like landmarks in a movie
that help me through
Please tell me this is an actual thing and not just me
ok so recently i wanted to read a book to my niece, who just turned 7, that
I thought she’d like. but it had some scary parts in it, that might be too
much for her. she’s tough, but she’s sensitive too, like any kid her age.
so what did i do? I spoilered it. I said “hey this kid runs into some
monsters that are gonna try to eat him, and then they chase him and it’s
very suspenseful. You think that would be too scary?”
She considered it. “Do they eat him in the end?” she asked.
“No,” I said.
“Then no,” she said. And then, when we were about to hit the Big Reveal
that this person who had helped him was secretly actually a man-eating
monster, she lit up and was like “IS THIS WHEN IT HAPPENS” and I was like
“SHH yes!” and she was like “AHH YEAH” and loved it.
I don’t think spoilers are just for kids, though. I’m now so Tired of
conventional media’s endless race for The More Shocking Ending that I
refuse to watch shit when I don’t know how it’s going to end. It’s not that
I don’t have the emotional resilience to handle unexpected things (well,
sometimes I don’t, honestly, and have no shame about that), it’s that if
the unexpected thing is the “fuck you if you liked these characters ha ha
ha!” plot twist, I just don’t have the time to invest in your fictional
world. If you can’t respect me as an audience then I have other shit to do
with my time.
Even my own writing– I dithered a bit in my latest series, which was going
to hinge on a dead character being revealed to really be alive. I did my
best to avoid spoilers as I was writing the thing, but now I’ve posted it
and I figured, the thing to do is just to– tag it for the reveal. It’s not
worth trying to be coy or people won’t know whether they want to read your
shit.
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