It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
Ah, yes, the Brian Clevinger method. In his words, "The best jokes are the ones played on the reader."
Like a queen dowager stepmother who loves her stepson just as much as her own biological son.