Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34068755-20180115050558/@comment-36855838-20190815231543

MockingJester wrote:

Yep. You need to be pointlessly edgy to the point of comical to be ‘grimdark’.

Often though, that comes with the cost of good storytelling

since

at this point, you’re more dedicated to show an edge lord’s fan fiction just to be chalked up as serious.

I added that thing about grimdark after I had written and re-read most of mine, because I realized it had just gone off the deep end really fast.

I mean, little bits seemed defensible in isolation, right?

Like the Kikimora slowly going crazy because she couldn't do service right?

But then when you put it all together, it just sort of becomes this collage of misery and angst that's kind of hard to read.

I haven't read anybody else's, so I'm going to do that now, maybe then I can rework mine into something halfway decent.