#without posessing its own agency and ability to affect stuff

[decepti-geek]

I’m sure people have lots of fun with the doomed by the narrative thing but whenever I see it I turn into the project runway guy

“doomed by the narrative” shut up it’s the fucking creator making creative decisions

#i wasn't as annoyed by this until i just now found out that it's like... a wholesale made up trope? #just from tumblr? #and i am a firm believer in descriptivisim and not just going by the tools/words that have already been created #but at the same tim i genuinely do not understand the... purpose of this one? #The Narrative is not like. an independently-acting force #i absolutely won't deny that it's its own THING but i think a thing can be a Thing #without posessing its own agency and ability to affect stuff #and i don't see how something that is entirely constructed by a person gains its own agency when ultimately #that still just comes from the person? #it feels a bit wizard of oz pay no attention to the man behind the curtain #the narrative didnt doom that character the author decided that they were gonna die #and yeah that's in service to the narrative but i dont like the... implication i see there #that the version of the narrative we get is somehow The narrative #and not just. one option #informed by the author's choices #no piece of media is technically perfect or some kind of manifestation of its ideal form like cmon #writing #i also want it noted that i looked the thing up at all because i was puzzling over it #and wanted to know what the original idea was behind it in case it turned out id been getting the grapevine version and missed something #i can't find where it started? #like i genuinely would like to know what the original intent was of the person who came up with it #but i can't find it #so im now just. skeptical of any use of it ngl because whilst it's still new i guess people can be meaning a whole lot of things by it #until some popular idea of what it means coalesces or whatever #but even then im still like #it feels like this weird abdication of agency for characters/author and attributing all the agency to something that ultimately HAS none? #so just kinda banishing it into the aether i guess