storytelling media – movies, tv shows – as contained, therefore safe, experience of the full range of emotions. necessary bc we think pathos is tacky.
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ooh yeah tell me more
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fantasy is the genre you create by asking “how can i write dialogue involving the most powerful words in my language spoken by characters who could possibly actually mean them” and working backwards from there
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interesting. yeah fantasy to me feels like when heroics become Complicated in our world, we created one in which it was still Good and True
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yeah Heroism is definitely one of the words i had in mind when i wrote that. also Honor, Courage, Loyalty, Bravery, Fealty, Wisdom, Daring, all that sort of thing
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