• norbert
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        4210 months ago

        Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, “Lampshading”) is the writers’ trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.

        https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

      • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        710 months ago

        I also never heard it before, probably should have, here’s the first part of the definition from TV tropes:

        “Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, “Lampshading”) is the writers’ trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.”