I am not a teen.

  • @zoostation
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    -153 hours ago

    Writing a story and having to make my characters not want to have sex because of the existence of an unrelated industry outside the context of their universe.

    Striking out any gambling references in my stories because of the rise of online gambling.

    Then I realize I’ve stupidly written scenes where my characters eat, having forgotten like a stupid hack how many restaurants there are in the real world.

    • @SkybreakerEngineer
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      233 hours ago

      Dude, there’s a difference between romance and full-on extended sex scenes. Fade to black and get on with the plot.

      • @zoostation
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        62 hours ago

        The sex scenes that most mainstream dramas have traditionally had are brief and not explicit.

    • shoulderoforion
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      203 hours ago

      If that’s an example of your writing, you’ve got much larger problems, my friend

    • @almar_quigley
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      43 hours ago

      Do you characters take big stinky poops? Because that’s a real thing too. Do they pop pimples on their body or on their partners? The list goes on. There’s an audience for everything, but it’s pretty obvious sex isn’t as much of a driver for movies anymore.

      • @zoostation
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        -13 hours ago

        Sex is an important part of one’s life, bowel movements aren’t. (Hopefully)

        • @almar_quigley
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          62 hours ago

          In what respect? I feel confident in saying many if not most people take some pleasure in a good poop. Perhaps not as much as having sex but the point remains in a critical part of life.

          • @zoostation
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            52 hours ago

            Drama is largely about character relationships and sex is a part of that. There’s rarely any drama to our necessary biological functions. Pooping can be part of a story’s plot like sex, just much less often.

          • @zoostation
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            42 hours ago

            They’re more biologically necessary. They are less important to storytelling.