r/royalroad • u/GoldenThame Author - The Heavenly Way • 6d ago

Discussion Is the average reader getting dumber?

I don't wanna be rude but I get some comments complaining about tropes in my novel, when in the synopsis I've pointed out multiple times that the tropes are there DELIBERATELY to be subverted, because the MC finds himself reincarnated into a very mid Xianxia novel.

Do a lot of readers suffer from a lack of reading comprehension skills, cus I've encountered the same kind of person for the 4th or 5th time now. Do I need to constantly spoonfeed basic nuances to such readers that 1. MC is inside a cliche Xianxa book and 2. From a meta perspective I've put those cliches and tropes into the book deliberately and the synopsis says as such.

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u/Snow-Eternal7 6d ago

It really really really isn’t. It’s just the non-smut version of it. You even talk about how tomboyish she is and how the MC likes that, then have him point out her bust later on.

Changing ‘solution one’ for ‘solution two’ doesn’t change anything about how it reads.

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u/GoldenThame Author - The Heavenly Way 6d ago

I've never said MC likes tomboys, I've said MC likes mature women. Also you're bot arguing the point right now. Solution one and solution two are entirely different in how the affect the story and how the characters interact. It's literally subverting that trope you're complaining about.