Dear god, thanks for reminding me why I hate fandomsecrets.

[shamanicshaymin]

Somehow, I had a feeling that checking the comments for an actual secret rather than just the "Adoptables" thread would be an enormous mistake. Nice to know I'm right. (TW: ABLEISM UP THE FUCKING WAZOO)

How nice that while people think I'm a stupid whackjob IRL, I can't tell about my experiences online 'cause I'll just be lumped with SJWs who fake and/or use their disability as an excuse to be assholes while referring to neurotypical people with condescending terms such as "allistics."

Meanwhile, I should stop visiting the "Audience Alienating Premise" because it makes me feel depressed. It feels like the things I want to see more of and/or want to write land smack-dab on that page, which gives me the impression that while I might like them, the majority of humankind doesn't. Making me feel even more weird and isolated. Ugh. Though really, I question some of the things listed, like Madoka. It's hardly "alienated" its audience when it's currently one of the most hyped and enormously popular series right now. :/

Comments

[spectrier]

I like that the Audience Alienation trope is about a 50/50 split between stuff that genuinely have horrible sounding premises and stuff that's just horrible is general. Wandering Son and Kodomo no Jikan being lumped together, what.

Seriously though write what you wanna write! I don't think the trope is necessarily a bad one, it's just (mostly) stuff that's a hard sell based on summaries.

[shamanicshaymin]

*huggles* Seriously, I like to think that Princess Tutu has a larger following than that. It would be one thing if it was about works that seem to have Audience Alienating Premises at first glance, but turn out to be huge hits. But it feels weird to have the popular stuff mixed in with genuinely horrible (as in subject matter, not necessarily quality) and ignored material.

I'd say that stuff like the Transformers movies are Puri Alienating Premises, haha. XD