Ex: anime often has "filler arcs," meaning it's based on a manga, but the anime got up to the latest manga chapter, so it has to create filler to kill time until the manga updates. Everything that happens in a filler arc is by default meaningless, because the manga ignores it...
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Here's one possible ending: the process of meaning-making does not actually end at the ending, of course. After a story ends it gets digested by its audience and the audience is an active participant in meaning-making. It may e.g. come up with meanings unintended by the author.
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Audiences construct fan theories to guess at the meanings of events, and sometimes the ending is so unsatisfying audiences prefer their fan theories to the "official" meanings.
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Audiences also write fanfiction that offers better or at least differently exciting meanings. On that note
@AliceShipwise is almost done writing a totally original S8 script and it's fantastic: https://www.aliceshipwise.com/gameofthrones/scripts/S08E01_fealty_part1.html …Show this thread -
There is a beautiful kind of freedom that opens up in this environment. It becomes reductive to talk about "the" meaning of anything that happens in the story. There is a multiverse of meaning, represented in fan theories, fanfiction, headcanons, etc.
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IOW this whole thread was about
@Meaningness all along! "Meaningness is an interactional dynamic that arises between oneself and one's situation. ... The only kind that exists is nebulous: ambiguous, fluctuating, uncertain; like a dance, not like a statue."Show this thread -
"That might seem unsatisfactory at first. However, once you accept that meaning is like that, you can see that it's actually much better than the hypothetical solid kind of meaning. It provides freedom and creativity and exploration and lightness, where the given-by-God...
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... kind of meaning would be restrictive, dull, heavy, boring, and inescapable. If the universe had inherent meaning we would all be living in a totalitarian prison." From:https://meaningness.com/neither-objective-nor-subjective …
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