- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
Deliberately using "bad" tropes / bad fanon. Sure, it's theoretically possible that a writer would deliberately use a bad trope/bad fanon to make a point, but honestly? More often than not, it's just end up being a bad story full of bad tropes/fanon with the author saying in the author notes that it was deliberate. Which leads me to the question of: if you know it's bad, why not write something good instead?
For example, in at best 99/100 cases, bashing a character just makes the story worse. Saying afterwards that you know that the characterization is bad fanon doesn't really change the fact that by bashing a character you made the story worse than it could be. So why do it?
For example, in at best 99/100 cases, bashing a character just makes the story worse. Saying afterwards that you know that the characterization is bad fanon doesn't really change the fact that by bashing a character you made the story worse than it could be. So why do it?