[ SECRET POST #4253 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4253 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

who cares if it's "literally impossible", it's a magical fanfiction plot device

for me, it's just interesting (and kinda appealing as a fantasy) to think about what that would look like, and how it would shape a person's interactions and feelings and reactions to things, even though it's wildly implausible

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AYRT

I mean, I as the person you are replying to clearly care that it's literally impossible, if that wasn't clear. I would personally be unable to believe the narrative of immediate "true love" happening without Person A knowing anything about Person B TO love. It would make no sense to me, like a story insisting "red is blue"

But uh, go ahead and enjoy your fics?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from, I guess I just feel like soulbonding fics get a bad rap

But what if red was blue

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm fine with Person A BELIEVING it's true love when it's not, though that could go dark quickly, lol

I think part of the reason soulbonding fics get a bad rap is because everyone thinks every soulbonding fic is the B) type above, when lots aren't. I don't have anything against the whole trope itself. Type B) tends to attract a lot of newbie writers though because it's less effort required to build a story if everyone inexplicably loves each other without needing to be developed any further than they are in canon, especially since fanfic already assumes the reader is familiar with the canon and ships X/Y, or why would you be reading an X/Y shipfic that ships X/Y?

It's not every soulbonding fic, and I wouldn't assume the same thing OP does for every one, but oh boy are there a lot like that

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, even type B is not something where I think it's automatically bad - if it's written well, I can definitely get into it. It's definitely more appealing to me than the kind of dark!fic version where having a soulbond is some kind of nightmarish hellscape that people on here seem to be super into.

and that's OK, different things are different peoples' cup of tea