do you feel like in the past six months all contemporary fiction became period fiction
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here's a TV show about a dude who goes to work in a busy workplace full of fun characters, then in the evening he has a date, in a crowded restaurant escapist fiction
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here's a movie where the United States is under threat from aliens and there's a functioning government doing something about it
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forced to assume the Christmas movie is set in Alaska, because where else does it snow anymore?
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"two people meet and fall in love" meet where? how? "a bunch of kids are friends and hang out together and go on adventures" hang out where? online? "a college student--" okay step back, you need to establish that in your fictional universe there's still higher education
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this is worse for fiction than when mobile phones were invented
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SCP stories already involve a shadowy organisation which is rigorously structured and intentionally hidden from the public at large. These stories can continue without change
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Science fiction generally fares a little better in these circumstances, the more fantastical the better, but it can't survive everything
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