Morganni Wrote:Some of the people on that form seem to not understand the idea of "pages for more popular works will have more stuff on them".
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the person who *does* obsess over other people's taste in fiction.
From what I can tell, they (or at least a sizable portion of them) seem to be rather elitist about fiction, apparently thinking that only truly important/influential.innovative works (e.g. the literary cannon and certain films like Citizen Kane) deserve to be viewed and talked about. To them, the fact that pop-cultural works on troping sites get larger lists than works of the type that I mentioned apparently pisses them off greatly. Now, normally I would say that they could simply add on to those lists themselves, but considering that that idea seems to be anathema to them I've come to figure that they'd rather pretend that pop culture not exist at all.
To them I would recommend that they try their own hand at making and running a troping/analysis site, and see how that goes.
Now, I have had a hypothesis formulate for a while. Based on some observations I've come to wonder if they ate also nerds themselves, who want to be seen as being "better" than the (stereo)typical nerd types. Thus they start championing those literary works that most people have to read in K-12 and college, and belittling other nerds as being [insert negative nerd stereotypes here(1)] in order to "show" that they are superior to "those damn crazy nerds". Of course, this probably doesn't describe all of them, but probably does describe at least some of them.
(1) Apparently, the stuff they accuse us of being include being perverted, pedophilic, dumber/not as well-rounded as we should be (in their eyes, anyway), prone to making things up in order to make us sound more awesome than the "losers" that we "actually" are, and stuff like that. Now, yes, there likely are some truths to those, but not anywhere near as much overall as they like to claim.
Sorry for the relative wall of text, but this was something that I needed to get off of my chest for a while. It wasn't so much what they say about us so much as it's why they would say such things that's been bugging me for some time.
Morganni Wrote:Kodomo no Lotte no Omocha no Jikan?
...That is so much a Crossover That Should Not Be that it makes me want to hide in a bunker and wait for the danger to pass.