how quadrants truly work VS how karkat believes they work
Yes! Because even aside from the romcoms/novels, people are biased by their friend-groups, and the way Person X and his friends understand/do relationships may be very unlike the way that, say, Person X's grandfather, or someone a continent away from Person X, understands/does relationships.
never seen it formulated like that and so my headcanon was way muddier
I am actually willing to entertain a variety of options regarding how they're slanted! Are they straightforwardly meant for entertainment, with all the unreality that implies? Are they actually intended/designed to teach young trolls about How Quadrants Work, and are therefore very carefully made to be examples of troll ideals? Are they intended to teach young trolls, and it's known that movies are a [low/high]blood fashion and so they're made to codify correct behaviour for that class? That's all up on the air and I love to see what authors do with it; I just know that movies always have some kind of slant, because a movie must have a story, and a story must have a conclusion. If troll movies are comparable to human movies, which it's implied frequently that they are, then they're not factual recordings of troll society. (And anyway there is no highly segregated, widespread society that is really "a society" rather than an aggregate of many sub-societies.)
I usually operate under the assumption that this headcanon from someone is true; or, at minimum, that there's a strong governmental censor that reviews media before it can be released, similar to certain Earth countries; we already know that the Empire is fine with banning things it perceives as a threat to itself (the Sufferer's existence was erased!), so it makes sense -- especially once adults are segregated and children must heavily rely on media for understanding of adult interaction -- that the Empire also watches for subversion in that direction.
so cryptic and defeatist some days
I KNOW! On the other hand, it does lead to strong desires to cuddle him and give him chocolate. :D
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Yes! Because even aside from the romcoms/novels, people are biased by their friend-groups, and the way Person X and his friends understand/do relationships may be very unlike the way that, say, Person X's grandfather, or someone a continent away from Person X, understands/does relationships.
never seen it formulated like that and so my headcanon was way muddier
I am actually willing to entertain a variety of options regarding how they're slanted! Are they straightforwardly meant for entertainment, with all the unreality that implies? Are they actually intended/designed to teach young trolls about How Quadrants Work, and are therefore very carefully made to be examples of troll ideals? Are they intended to teach young trolls, and it's known that movies are a [low/high]blood fashion and so they're made to codify correct behaviour for that class? That's all up on the air and I love to see what authors do with it; I just know that movies always have some kind of slant, because a movie must have a story, and a story must have a conclusion. If troll movies are comparable to human movies, which it's implied frequently that they are, then they're not factual recordings of troll society. (And anyway there is no highly segregated, widespread society that is really "a society" rather than an aggregate of many sub-societies.)
I usually operate under the assumption that this headcanon from someone is true; or, at minimum, that there's a strong governmental censor that reviews media before it can be released, similar to certain Earth countries; we already know that the Empire is fine with banning things it perceives as a threat to itself (the Sufferer's existence was erased!), so it makes sense -- especially once adults are segregated and children must heavily rely on media for understanding of adult interaction -- that the Empire also watches for subversion in that direction.
so cryptic and defeatist some days
I KNOW! On the other hand, it does lead to strong desires to cuddle him and give him chocolate. :D