[ SECRET POST #4430 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4430 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/CUlhe4q.png

[11thmirror]

Oh, agreed! I was confused as hell the first few times I came across it, like, "WTF is this? Is this from another fandom? Why is this a thing? Where did it come from?"

[(Anonymous)]

I've never come across it in a fic before so when I saw it mentioned on FS I was like, wait, wtf, this is a thing?!

[(Anonymous)]

I had to google this and I feel kind of bad but

The most common version is when the victim's lungs get filled with the flowers and roots grow in their respiratory system. They choke on their own blood and petals, and die.

I loled irl at this wording fsr

[(Anonymous)]

Oh me too. I really don't get it.

But also it's a particular kind of body horror that people don't think to warn for in fics and whatever because they don't find it horrific at all and think it's... idk, sweet? Romantic? I don't even know, but anything to do with lungs not working/having things in them that don't belong in them is a BIG no from me.

[11thmirror]

Oh man, people not warning or tagging or w/e for hanahaki? That's a bit messed up :(
I mean, it's about someone dying slowly and painfully of unrequited love! And even if you're not bothered by that bit, it might just not be a trope you like!

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Being fair: more people warn/tag for it specifically now than when it first cropped up everywhere.

But not always, and it was sometimes just thrown in as a random character death (or near-death) in an otherwise unrelated fic.

I enjoy unrequited pining! I do not enjoy people dying from it.

[(Anonymous)]

god mte like i can understand digging the aesthetic but to honestly use it as a trope in fiction to create drama... it's so *cheesy* (and isn't it also often paired with "dying because can't be fucked to confess"? imagine being so melodramatic you'd rather die than just talk about your feelings!)

[(Anonymous)]

That's so cheesy it's hilarious OMG. How emotionally constipated do you have to be to die rather than just saying "BTW ILU."?

[tabaqui]

WTF. That is utterly bizarre. I am as baffled as you, Anon.

[wannabe_influential]

I decided to do some more digging and apparently, there was a shoujo manga where the main character had the disease, but the trope existed EVEN BEFORE THEN but no one knows where it started

Very mysterious

[(Anonymous)]

I like hanahaki. Having the option to remove the unrequited love is such a copout though.

[(Anonymous)]

As far as I know, I think it came first from K-pop fandom? Although it doesn't explain the Japanese word for the trope, though.

Personally, I really dig hanahaki aesthethics. Combined with having an OTP where 'unrequited love for 30++ years because they're too busy with their works' as the most common interpretation of the relationship? Boom, I love hanahaki disease. It just doesn't work for EVERY ship, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like there should be some historical background to it (like how a mangled wolf documentary got turned into the a/b/o thing) involving old stories of girls waiting under flower trees and dying waiting, but how it started getting traction as a fandom trope is just so weird.

And gross, tbh. It's just emotional kidnapping so much of the time. "I don't MEAN it, it's not on purpose and you don't HAVE to, everything is FINE I'm FINE, but yeah if you don't fall in love with me I'm gonna die hehe see you tomorrow don't worry about it at all."

[dahli]

I had to google this shit because I had no idea what it was. That said AAAAAAAAAYYYY dying from flower-induced asphyxia is weird. Imagine the person being allergic to flowers haaaaa!