zennistrad:

What “deconstruction” means: When a work examines genre conventions in greater detail, taking common tropes and themes that are usually taken for granted and following them to their logical conclusions, often in a way that’s still entirely unexpected.

What nerds on the internet think “deconstruction” means: I’m going to make this work gratuitously dark and edgy for no real reason and people are somehow going to think it’s deep.