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Posted on Thursday, 8 July 2021 Source prokopetz Via redshiftsinger
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Bad: Fantasy protagonist is able to make contemporary pop culture references because they’re secretly from our world.

Good: Fantasy protagonist appears to be making contemporary pop culture references, but they’re actually references to storytelling tropes from their own world that conveniently have very similar connotations to the real-world tropes they resemble in spite of stemming from totally different contexts. The explanation for this is longer than the works in which they appear.

bigscaryd

Better-than-Best: they’re actually making nearly-incomprehensible references to their own culture, but though Herculean effort Your Humble Translator has found appropriate references that the reader will understand. They will tell you about this, at length, in footnotes and appendices.

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#2 is just discworld #lmao
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