asukaskerian:

ceescedasticity:

Apropos of nothing

At least in the genres I read, one of the more common appearances of buckets is in places characters are being held prisoner – e.g. ‘the cell contained only a pile of straw and a bucket’, that sort of thing. The purpose of this bucket is a toilet stand-in, but often the narrative does not come out and SAY that, the reader is assumed to understand.

Imagine the hapless troll reader.

#every dungeon is a sex dungeon#then the bucket is never mentioned again#and they’re like#I’m not saying I was looking forward to it but they didn’t do anything#that violates Troll Chekhov’s… Bucket#or WORSE#a casual mention that the character ‘made use of the bucket’