“Discrimination against people for how they worshipped, how they loved, their gender, color of their skin… All legal at one time or another. A law does not make something just.” —STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS // “The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged.” —STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Matt: “The thread that connected them was severed in that little pact that was made, and that’s the first real instance that she realizes that an irrevocable change has occured.”
“But I carried on, try to um, try to keep going, try to keep being the uh that friendly neighborhood spider-man because I know that’s what she would’ve wanted, but at some point I just- I stopped pulling my punches. I got rageful. I got bitter. I just don’t want you to end up like- like me.”
Some people on this website learnt the word “trope” and let it settle comfortably into the vocabulary space that should have been occupied by the word “cliché”.
“Trope” is a neutral word. If a particular trope is overused ad nauseam, it becomes a cliché. Saying you hate tropes does not make any sense.
“I hate recurring themes and motifs”
Well, good luck finding fictional content you can safely consume
