Angst or Fluff?

[Omnifarious]

Angst

Can you give an example?

 

[SakeVision]

Angst, fluff is boring

 

[Cipiteca396]

Can you give an example?

In theory, the word means:

a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.

but even the dictionary definition has this to add:

INFORMAL
a feeling of persistent worry about something trivial.

So, imagine two high schoolers having a 'misunderstanding' and fretting about how much the person they love more than life itself hates them now. And then the third wheel comes in and brings them back together and they cry and shout about how sorry they are for breaking the precious, precious toy they got out of one of those claw vending machine games from the other. Or you know, something like that.

That's angst (in storytelling).

 

[bigbear51]

If I had to pick one, it would be fluff since I mostly just want to lay back. Even if realistically taking both at face value would make for bad stories since one would be edgy and annoyingly dark and the other would be vapid. When doing them in a more nuanced and proper manner, then that would be more interesting. You'd have conflict, but also get moments to take a breather to let the story and characters sink in.

 

[Omnifarious]

In theory, the word means:


but even the dictionary definition has this to add:


So, imagine two high schoolers having a 'misunderstanding' and fretting about how much the person they love more than life itself hates them now. And then the third wheel comes in and brings them back together and they cry and shout about how sorry they are for breaking the precious, precious toy they got out of one of those claw vending machine games from the other. Or you know, something like that.

That's angst (in storytelling).

Oh.
Then... Angst and fluff feed off eachother and amplifying one another like an emotional rollacoster.

Neat.

 

[CubicleHermit]

I tend to prefer to read fluff.

Somehow I end up writing angst. Go figure.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

I like diabetes.