[ SECRET POST #2906 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2906 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/wkHfBmk.png

[comradesmiler]

OP, where did you get that source image?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but it's the first result for "dog licks cat."

[comradesmiler]

Aw, cheers!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think I googled for "dog & cat kissing" or something. I'm pretty sure o can reverse search with Firefox.

[a_potato]

...your icon change has completely thrown me off.

[comradesmiler]

Eh, couldn't find anything christmassy so went for Nemmy.

[diet_poison]

I didn't realize it was you, at first. (a did realize a couple of days ago)

[a_potato]

I can understand why it bothers you, but I don't think this is really a bad thing, especially if your writing is still IC (because that means you aren't projecting as much as you think you are. You're actually just identifying). One of the great things about fiction is that it can give us the opportunity to consider and process things in a safe, controlled environment.

I get the preference for escapism. But sometimes a piece of fiction just connects with you in the right way, and you can't help but draw real-life parallels. And that's okay.

[diet_poison]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I understand this.

For a couple of years, my fics got darker and darker as I used them to work out my own RL issues. Not to say the fics were necessarily bad--I think fics can benefit from having that touch of realism. It's just not what I wanted from my fics. Like the OP, I wanted escapism.

In the end, I took a break from writing entirely, because every single fic I wrote started to go down a similar path and it depressed me. When I started up again, my fics were much lighter and I've more variety in the subject matter. I still add things in them from my real life, because I think that makes for good fics. I changed fandom as well--I think that can help.

So OP, I know how worrying these things can be, even though it feels like fic writing should be fun and trivial and nothing to get in a twist about, psychologically. It's all got to come from somewhere, though. Putting it all on display can feel rather vulnerable.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry, OP. I had a similar moment. Nothing says "eek" like having written two characters (and oddly enough not OOC in the slightest) who married each other, and later realizing that I'd based them and their relationship on an ex of mine and his mother.

OOPS!

The mind does weird things sometimes. Just laugh and keep on rolling. :)

[nayance]

Writing like this gives you a way to look at your situation while still remaining detached, and at least a little objective. It lets you have an outside view of the internalized part of the situation, without having to reveal it to anyone else.

I don't think it's uncommon to do this. I know that I definitely have, even if it's not intentional - when I look back to some of the things I wrote years and years ago, I can definitely see what issues I was struggling with and what I was trying to figure out for myself. It's very telling, and in a lot of ways it can be very therapeutic.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

If I writer said they never put anything of themselves into their stories, that's when I'd start to worry. That would be some serious self-denial.

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww it's okay, OP, before we were dating my girlfriend and I sort of accidentally started cowriting shippy fic where the pairing's dynamic happened to match up with our own spookily well. And then we started dating and just kept going, because it works!