Subject: At one point, you get the writer's perspective.
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Posted on: 2023-03-28 20:08:16 UTC
At least, I think that's what that was...
-Ls
Subject: At one point, you get the writer's perspective.
Author:
Posted on: 2023-03-28 20:08:16 UTC
At least, I think that's what that was...
-Ls
Hard to believe but it actually exists: a Male!Coraline × reader fic which, judging from a brief inspection, contains:
This article has nice food ideas but it loses credibility in the first sentence for claiming the movie is directed by Tim Burton. It's directed by Henry Selick asdfg#9+;28-6-8268#69--92#-$($;##+(!"+#+#@
And oh dear Glod. Why are those extraneous little dashes there?
Coraline x reader sounds… weird. Nearly as weird as those SCP x reader fics that plague Wattpad. Why would anyone want to romance Coraline or some eldritch horror monster?
(And I never got the appeal of x-readers. They just scream "unadulterated wish fulfillment" to me. Not that wish fulfillment is bad, but I prefer solid characterization over a bland [Y/N] that the readers are supposed to project onto.)
As I remember I used them in my Permission request - Italian is one of those languages, and English lessons at school never delved into writing dialogue. Perhaps this might have to do with the fact quotation marks are also considered correct in Italian, and I think is preferred for published books... but at school I got taught to use dashes instead, so I had defaulted to that.
The one I vaguely remembered (but still had to look up to confirm) was French, but that doesn't rule you out. {= )
Irish novelist James Joyce also did this, though, among other idiosyncrasies that all together make his work extremely difficult to read. Apparently he regarded inverted commas as "perverted commas." Personally, I don't think that's a valid excuse...
~Neshomeh has gone over to smart-quotes in her works and has even memorized the Alt+ keyboard codes for them.
At least, I think that's what that was...
-Ls
But anyway, constant POV-hopping. Not a good sign.