That is super interesting because my brain does exactly the opposite: if it's emotionally charged and I don't know what's going to happen it's like "no sorry we are firmly instating a clinical and analytical distance here you are definitely not allowed to feel anything until we've thought it over you think we're just going to let you wander out there and be emotionally affected by things?"
Because if I'm just blithely going along Feeling Things and then something pings [wrong] (not even....bad? Or upsetting? As such? But just hits a certain gut sense of "dnw" or "this is artificial manipulation by the author" or whatever) it's REALLY UPSETTING whether I want it to be or not.
Only with a very few creators these days do I have sufficient confidence that they're not going to do THAT, enough to be able to both take in a story unspoiled AND with the analysis brain muted. Mostly I get one or the other.
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That is super interesting because my brain does exactly the opposite: if it's emotionally charged and I don't know what's going to happen it's like "no sorry we are firmly instating a clinical and analytical distance here you are definitely not allowed to feel anything until we've thought it over you think we're just going to let you wander out there and be emotionally affected by things?"
Because if I'm just blithely going along Feeling Things and then something pings [wrong] (not even....bad? Or upsetting? As such? But just hits a certain gut sense of "dnw" or "this is artificial manipulation by the author" or whatever) it's REALLY UPSETTING whether I want it to be or not.
Only with a very few creators these days do I have sufficient confidence that they're not going to do THAT, enough to be able to both take in a story unspoiled AND with the analysis brain muted. Mostly I get one or the other.