moderndayoutsider:

allthingshyper:

depizan:

Woah. Timothy Zahn, are you me?

I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more
realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it
is. But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic”
– I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching
engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous
predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad
guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who
will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the
heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or
impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the
deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news.

–Timothy Zahn, interviewed by TheForce.Net, 2008

Tim Zahn just summed up my entire issue with adult movies and fiction

I do not want to get invested in a character just to have them die or be violated or whatever, I don’t care that it’s dramatic. It’s not fun, it just leaves me angry and frustrated that I wasted my time on this media.

honestly 👏🏼👏🏼 and, truth be told, the idea of a character going through various trials and making it through them isn’t entirely unrealistic in itself. No, in real life we may not be battling absolute monstrosities and barely escaping, but how often do we face trials and end up making it out and growing?

i LOVE seeing characters grow because I myself love to watch myself and others grow in general (and it’s a love many of us possess).

so it’s kinda hard to have that appreciation and entertainment in a fictional context when everyone’s dying the hecc off