JT, a swamp witch
stories-and-dice.bsky.social
JT, a swamp witch
@stories-and-dice.bsky.social
Backup account | elder millennial crocheter & writer | Autistic + ADHD | enby | thinks about games, books, and moral panics a lot

Hyperfixating on FE3H (Dimilix) & VLD (Sheith). Fond of BG3 & Bloodweave. Still wanders Skyrim.

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March 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I will definitely put out the bat-signal, so to speak, if I find out that everything was actually legit.

It's been very stressful indeed. Sheesh.
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It's 100% true, though.
March 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I am tired, I have a headache, I had other things I wanted to do today.
March 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A plot hole is an INTERNAL inconsistency or contradiction in a narrative. It is the narrative making a hole IN ITSELF. That's all.

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March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
for a "plot hole" because it contradicts nothing but good sense. It is a narrative contrivance, nothing more, nothing less.

Something unexplained, something being not sensible, something contradicting real life, does not a plot hole make, no matter how much online critics scream about plot holes. +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
at Dragonstone and squatting there. But we are shown that Stannis emptied the place, and NOT shown that anyone in King's Landing saying "hey, guys, we oughta garrison Dragonstone so we can't have enemies on our doorstep." Just because it's silly and convenient that didn't happen, it doesn't make +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
and is shown to work at like, Wal-mart, being able to afford a parent's cancer treatments is not a plot hole just because it contradicts real life. It's unrealistic, but unrealism does not a plot hole make.

Something that I saw frequently cited as a Game of Thrones plot hole is Dany showing up +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
time.

But that doesn't make it, y'know, good? Because it muddies the water.

Ariel, shown to at the very least be literate enough to sign her name, not writing a note to Eric is not a plot hole. It's just a thing she doesn't do so that the narrative can continue.

A character who is American +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Creators can, of course, handwave all of this away by coming up with explanations outside of the text, but that doesn't truly put a bridge over the plot hole.

I know that modern media discourse has widened what the definition is, as often definitions of perfectly good terms do get stretched with +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Leia, do you remember your mother? Your real mother?
"Yes." etc
Leia's mom, in the prequel: [dies moments after Luke & Leia are born]

That is a plot hole.

Another example: in Cheers, Frasier Crane comments that his father is dead. In the spinoff, Frasier, Martin Crane is shown to be alive. +
March 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM