On Fic Furniture
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lady_t_220Read a funny thing in a fic the other day... forgot to mention it at the time but anyway, L/R fic, blah blah blah, Rogue's on the run, everyone's all wound up in self-torture, the usual deal... big angst-fest. then Rogue gets this job in a hotel, cleaning rooms.
*coughs*
"Uh huh," thinks I, "This should be interesting..."
My personal favourite part of that was the description of it being "unpleasant and demeaning work".
Uh... *raises hand* quite like my job thankyouverymuch... OK granted on the not always so totally pleasant but it's not exactly hideously gross. But, heeeee... demeaning. You wanna' try working in a supermarket, mate.
It's a thing I've noticed of late though, the proliferation of shit-hole hotels in fic. I mean, yes granted, there are some real flea-bags but there can't possibly be THAT many, not even in distant Canadian snowy wastelands, just because it makes absolutely no economic sense to be crap. Cause half a mile down the road there's someone who'll pretty soon figure that they can steal all your customers by making their rooms just a liiiiittle bit nicer than yours. And that they can get away with charging more for it too, because in a captive market people will always pay a little bit more to get somewhere that doesn't totally suck.
MovieFicLogan excluded though, cause apparently he's a tightwad. ;)
Or a slob I guess, cause I can't imagine ComicLogan letting his camper get in a state like that. Anyhow, I digress.
Fleabag fic hotels... One of the few areas I can no longer just gloss my way over when it comes to implausability. Suspension of disbelief gets me by usually but every now and then it cuts just too close to the point of being ludicrously wrong. And that makes me laugh. And that ruins whatever atmosphere the author was aiming for.
ie: Poor little Rogue, tortured and tormented, desperate and alone, heavy on the angst, forced to take menial work that is both unpleasant AND demeaning, and I go HAHAHAHAHAHA! You wanna' try pulling the night-shift at Safeways for a couple of months, mate.
Spoils the moment, y'know?
*coughs*
"Uh huh," thinks I, "This should be interesting..."
My personal favourite part of that was the description of it being "unpleasant and demeaning work".
Uh... *raises hand* quite like my job thankyouverymuch... OK granted on the not always so totally pleasant but it's not exactly hideously gross. But, heeeee... demeaning. You wanna' try working in a supermarket, mate.
It's a thing I've noticed of late though, the proliferation of shit-hole hotels in fic. I mean, yes granted, there are some real flea-bags but there can't possibly be THAT many, not even in distant Canadian snowy wastelands, just because it makes absolutely no economic sense to be crap. Cause half a mile down the road there's someone who'll pretty soon figure that they can steal all your customers by making their rooms just a liiiiittle bit nicer than yours. And that they can get away with charging more for it too, because in a captive market people will always pay a little bit more to get somewhere that doesn't totally suck.
MovieFicLogan excluded though, cause apparently he's a tightwad. ;)
Or a slob I guess, cause I can't imagine ComicLogan letting his camper get in a state like that. Anyhow, I digress.
Fleabag fic hotels... One of the few areas I can no longer just gloss my way over when it comes to implausability. Suspension of disbelief gets me by usually but every now and then it cuts just too close to the point of being ludicrously wrong. And that makes me laugh. And that ruins whatever atmosphere the author was aiming for.
ie: Poor little Rogue, tortured and tormented, desperate and alone, heavy on the angst, forced to take menial work that is both unpleasant AND demeaning, and I go HAHAHAHAHAHA! You wanna' try pulling the night-shift at Safeways for a couple of months, mate.
Spoils the moment, y'know?
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Date: 2003-02-11 09:33 am (UTC)I guess Motel 6 and Budget Inn lack the drama the writers are looking for. ;-) Either that or there's a chain of motels up in Canada called "Fleabags-R-Us."
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Date: 2003-02-11 09:46 am (UTC)