Disasturbator
"Just as planned."
It takes a certain type of genre savvy to be in business as long as some have.
Such people do exist, and you don't notice them because they keep a low profile on purpose.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Nope, about the only way you can be Genre Savvy with real life is to simply not be surprised by anything, but even that's a stretch.
Honestly the truth is stranger than fiction, and I wouldn't be surprised if fiction is written just to escape or attempt to comprehend the strangeness of life.
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Blatant Lies, as soon as you think that and get complacent, life can and will throw something at you, good or bad.
No.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Shut up!
No. Real life is not actually a work of fiction.
Fear is a superpower.
Uniocular
Nope.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Hell no.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Staring At My Own Grave
Whenever I take online quizzes about what type of movie my life would be, I always get something like "Dark / Indie / Quirky Dark Humor." That kind of thing. I am not entirely well-versed in such films, so, no I don't think I am particularly genre-savvy for me life, although the results of such quizzes do feel spot-on.
In which I attempt to be a writer.
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"Life as a genre? This story I'm reading contains too much rape and adverbs." Accenuated Aespai.
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I'm sure there was once a Troper Tales for this.
The Great One
In a way, for example you could be savvy to stuff happening around you. Like maybe you have a pretty good idea how a particular situation you or somebody you know are experiencing is going to play out. For example you "just know" if you go to a particular place something bad is going to happen or you can look at somebody and know this person is cool or this person is an asshole. Stuff like that.
"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. Patton
Still just awesome like that
The only people in real life I'd say you could consider "genre savvy" are those who have had a lot of success in life, personally, financially, and emotionally.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
Immanentizing the eschaton
Please don't.
Still just awesome like that
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You are stirring a beehive filled with people on the internet who are not fortunate enough to be genre-savvy.
Still just awesome like that
I don't understand. At all.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
;_;
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
I do not know what genre real life is. I believe real life is not a work of fiction.
When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with the lemons.
I was just about to say the above statement, but he/it/she beat me to that... Oh well...
In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!
I am male.
You can be very Wrong Genre Savvy and insist very hard that it makes you Genre Savvy, though.
Just look at optimists and pessimists.
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Still just awesome like that
I'm not sure most people who are either of those claim to be entirely right on how they view the world.
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Life is pretty mundane and predictable, why do people who are supposedly genre savvy still suck at it. I know people who are extremely genre savvy(when it comes to stories), but irl they are so blind to what's going to happen next.
I mean that if our lives where actaully hard to predict and filled with plot twists, wouldn't all of our lives would make good stories? I think not, it seems to what is a life changing surprise to one person is what another guy expected to happen.
I am the white void, I am et cetera, et cetera... THE END HAS COME!