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met this guy at work today

why exactly does jjk feel unsatisfying?

i've slowly been noticing that a pitfall a lot of jjk defenders are neglecting is the inherently cathartic experience storytelling is a vehicle for: a successful narrative synthesizes audience investment and authorial intent without one undermining the other. stories are not purely mechanistic, they are evocative experiences, and crafting a narrative is predicated on the journey between set up and pay off.

and if your payoff is not satisfying, you've failed to create something that resonates with the extrapolations viewers have crafted in your story. this sentimental aspect to viewership is arguably its most important tenet, as opposed to purely answering questions, as an author can definitely fulfill the technical aspect of defining a character, setting, theme etc, while failing at crafting smth holistic and meaningful regardless. fulfilling criteria or making smth coherent in the denotative sense does not mean you have adequately addressed the connotative and emotional layers in a narrative.

demonstrating that gojo was strength encapsulated or that jujutsu society was cruel does not address the human aspect underpinning the narrative, it does not tie up the relational and emotional threads that endeared viewers to gojo or any of the other characters, it does not flesh them out. it makes glaringly obvious the prowess needed to obfuscate the systemic nature of these constructive elements, when reducing them to components instead of intertwined reflections that embody their own respective complexities.

honoring the minutiae and nuance in your story is just as if not more important than creating smth technically functional, bc consumers cant truly digest and incorporate one's intent if its incongruent to the preestablished core of a story, beyond meeting baseline prerequisites. its tactless and detached and viewers can tell.

storytelling is meant to be relational, its meant to be a transaction of ideas and emotion, its meant to honor the soul of a piece of art.

Her biggest fan!

Inspirations under the cut.

Y'know, thanks to the Project Shadow fan film, I now fully believe in latino Shadow.

Special thanks to @hard-times-paramore for playing around with me for the past two years. We’re at the point in our friendship where almost every idea we have is interconnected. This drawing is part of the Disabled Arno AU we have.

Just a little moment between Arno and his daughter, who I have chosen to call Charlotte Jolie.