[ SECRET POST #2894 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2894 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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06. [ SPOILERS for Over the Garden Wall ]



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07. [ WARNING for rape ]



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09. [ WARNING for eating disorders ]



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10. [ WARNING for non-con/rape ]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've written non-con/rape fics because it was easier to write about it happening to a character was easier (read: actually not impossible) than writing about it happening to ME.

I know that I'm not the only survivor who writes non-con. Sometimes because it's a way of displacing what happened onto someone "stronger," sometimes because rewriting it allows for some degree of control, sometimes we don't know why, because the human brain is a weird place, and we're not always aware of everything that goes on in there.

[(Anonymous)]

I just write dubcon because I'm a still a virgin in my 30s and I want someone to want me.

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DA

Completely seconding the concept of displacing trauma onto someone 'stronger'. Or in my case, someone I liked and deemed a worthy human being, because I certainly couldn't apply those things to myself. By exploring these things happening to a character I actually loved and respected it took away some of the self-loathing and self-judgment involved.

Also seconding the control part, now I think about it. I've had some complaints that my noncon fic should have been marked as outright rape but for me the distinction was important in the sense that it gave the character involved some modicum of control over what happened to them. Or at least they had a power to exert in the situation.

[dysmaid]

Thanks for your insight. It's probably a common way for survivors who write fiction to work out their trauma this way. I think I worded my comment weirdly at the end and made it sound like OP has to understand everything about their mental process to justify writing noncon. Like you said, it's hard to always know what's going up there and why - the important thing is whether writing about themes like this helps in terms of coping and recovering.