[ SECRET POST #3215 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3215 ⌋

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[Disney's Descendants]


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04. [SPOILERS for Undertale]



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05. [SPOILERS for Ancillary Mercy]



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06. [SPOILERS for Great British Bake Off, series 6]



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07. [SPOILERS for Defiance]



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Comments

[skeletal_history]

I confess, I love fucked up relationships in fiction (Hannibal and Will's relationship is right up my alley, for example), and I genuinely never put two and two together before reading your comment, but it might be because I also grew up in an unlovng family and fucked up and twisted "I love you but I hate you and loving you makes me sick but I don't want to leave you" relationships feel normal. And being fiction, those stories give me the opportunity to really explore and empathise with those relationships from all sides so as to understand them better, while feeling good knowing that this isn't real and no one real is suffering.

At the same time, I can't stomach fluff. It just seems so irredeemably fake.

PS. Why yes, I am in therapy! :). I might bring this up at my next session.

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I don't know if if it's related, but when I was younger and didn't have as much perspective on my family, dysfunctional family portrayals weren't as bad for me and I could even happily relate to them. But now I'm older I've become completely sure of what is and isn't okay to inflict upon your loved ones, and completely sure of the things my family did that I don't want to repeat, screwed up family dynamics are stressful to watch. Manipulative relationships of all kinds most of all.

Fluff I find I want when I'm sad. I like the fantasy that there are good people who are nice to each other and who have no serious problems out there, what can I say.

I hope watching fucked up relationships is cathartic for you though. Have you found that fiction has given you a better perspective of your family in particular?

Hugs and good luck with your therapy :)

[skeletal_history]

Anon, you sound like a good person who has found a lot of healing, rock on. :)

I just wrote out a way-TMI account of my own family and what fiction does to help me cope, but suffice it to say, my folks were the "no love, no expression of emotion, just numb" kind of dysfunctional, and I guess I'm drawn to fictional relationships that are more, well, emotionally expressive (even when the emotions hurt) because they give my own emotions a workout as I follow their story.

I guess I'm drawn to messed up relationships in fiction because I get some kind of perverse itch scratched when immersing myself in the fantasy couple's emotional rollercoaster world, while rightfully avoiding that kind of traumatizing shit in real life.