Narrative

If you don't like the narrative, you don't have to listen to, or read it. Just like before 2020, there was a statue for everybody, if you didn't like a statue of a Confederate soldier, you could visit a Martin Luther King statue instead.

People can choose what narrative they listen to, they always could.

by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020

meta-narrative

A set of socially acceptable actions and milestones as deemed by general society to follow through your life that will bring you happiness. In western society this means, being born, going to school then university, meeting someone, marrying them, buying a house together, having kids and then dying.

Mmmm yeah it just seems like John hasn’t really questioned the meta-narrative you know... he’s just kind of doing what is expected of him.

by tegantegantegantegan October 17, 2018

Non-canon Narrative

Synonym of "Fan Fiction", but doesn't sound as dumb.

Person 1: Hey, did you write that Gravity Falls fan fiction?

Person 2: I prefer you call it a "Gravity Falls non-canon narrative" and yes, yes I did.

by Gordon October 2, 2016

meta-narrative

1. A postmodernism bullshit term oftenly used by CNN reporters to sound smart.
2. A favorite term of Mike from Indiana otherwise known as PsychoPere on Trekbbs.

The enlightment theory of rational though is a meta-narrative.

by ethan_ruzzene May 5, 2008

Narrative Photography

This new advertising (mostly..), tricknology that can be seen in any Prada ad : two waifish twentysomething fashion models living together, showed arguing. Hmmmm, cool?

I opened RS to be welcomed by a photo-narrative ad-athon of young-looking, sexy models in ohsogood fold-outs.. and I wondered : why the fuck can't they make ads like this in my country?! bummer!

by hytham_hammer October 29, 2006

The Narrative

If you control the narrative you control the world, maaan 🚬😤

Hym "WRONG! Wrong idiot. You can't JUST control the narrative. You would need to control the narrative AND all propositional counter-narratives. And then you would need a unifying principle. Like some kind of mutual sadomasochistic ethic to tie the whole thing together. Like a binary religious system where one part believes that being the one who makes the rules isn't arbitrary and that they alone deserve it as a sort of birthright and the other would have to believe that suffering is sacrosanct and that endless toil performed unthinkingly is virtuous and that trying to get away with not working hard is sinful. That's how you control the world. Then you can just say words that don't mean anything all day while doing whatever you want in private because you're a god and the law of non-contradiction is something you can exempt yourself from. No one will be able to question you (without paying you) because the system will be predicated on ETHOS. Which means you can always reserve the right to arbitrarily discredit anyone you want and then no one will have have to listen to their LOGOS.... Parish the thought... Good thing that will never happen...."

by Hym Iam July 24, 2022

narrative poem

A poem that tells a story

Narrative poem is basically a story but in the form of a poem.

by My pseudonym is.. May 9, 2018