[ SECRET POST #4719 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4719 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OP - You make a good point here, and I see what you’re saying. I think for me it’s just...sometimes canon makes a character have a baby when they never seemed like they wanted one before. And I always long for a bunch of fanfic where the character feels trapped and regretful and ends up letting someone else in their life adopt the baby or something. (Obviously this is often not an option in real life, but in fiction you can make it work.)

For me, gratifying escapism isn’t having the character suddenly experience all consuming love and eternal devotion the instant they lay eyes on their child.

For me, gratifying escapism is the character having an extremely kind, financially stable cousin and cousin-in-law who’ve been looking to adopt for a while now, who the character can give their baby up to without feeling like a terrible person.

Yet even in fanfic, hardly anyone ever writes this. Even when most of fandom is unhappy with the baby storyline, hardly anyone writes fics where the character gives their baby up. Probably because there’s such a strong cultural narrative of, “If you don’t want your baby you’re a horrible person.”

And yes, I can write it myself. But I’m not going to write it three dozen times myself, and anyway, writing something yourself just isn’t quite the same.