JT, a swamp witch

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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.

It's 100% true, though.

And why this is here:
bsky.app/profile/yarn...

I am tired, I have a headache, I had other things I wanted to do today.

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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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. +

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 +

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 +

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 +

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 +

"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. +

I'm sitting here wondering how I can prove this is really me, and I know precisely what @paigetrnr.bsky.social would prompt me with:

When discussing narratives, a PLOT HOLE is an inconsistency or outright contradiction in the internal logic of the plot as it has been presented.

For example: +

1) My clicky finger is getting very tired from trying to follow the literal hundreds of accounts on my main account
2) god I'm dumb, maybe
3) be careful out there, y'all

anyhow, I have maybe been a bit scammed, no idea if my old account is still gonna be mine, etc etc

FUCK

I'm gettin' old, folks.

I'm so tired.