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How far is going too far in terms of portraying human elements in fanfic?
I get the need to make some things identical to human culture so that they can be intuitively understood without several chapters worth of exposition (ie porting over real-world names, animal-equivalent mannerisms), but shit like real-world flags or explicitly human gestures like kissing on non-human-likes is just incredibly jarring and annoying when I’m otherwise enjoying the read.
Pic very related, pretty much the best example of this stuff I could ask for. The actual comic is kind of interesting and very well-composed but an equivalent to this panel pops up every 5 or 10 pages and it’s getting really distracting. Entirely understand that I’m probably being severely autistic about this, I’m just curious
I get the need to make some things identical to human culture so that they can be intuitively understood without several chapters worth of exposition (ie porting over real-world names, animal-equivalent mannerisms), but shit like real-world flags or explicitly human gestures like kissing on non-human-likes is just incredibly jarring and annoying when I’m otherwise enjoying the read.
Pic very related, pretty much the best example of this stuff I could ask for. The actual comic is kind of interesting and very well-composed but an equivalent to this panel pops up every 5 or 10 pages and it’s getting really distracting. Entirely understand that I’m probably being severely autistic about this, I’m just curious
