[ SECRET POST #5515 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5515 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You write about things that appeal to you. Even if they only appeal to you in fiction and not real life, that's still an aspect of you. It's absurd to suggest otherwise, as though you're not writing your own work.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't about people going "wow, this writer sure likes that cliche it must mean they like that cliche" it's explicitly about people making judgements on you as a person and what your beliefs about IRL relationships are based on nothing but what ship dynamic you like. Whoever said anything about not recognizing I write what I write and am compelled to do so. As if I thought every piece of writing or story I read is the result of something possessing me and I just wake up buried in piles of enemies to lovers with extra whump.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

But I’m laughing at that last part, because I’m just imagining someone waking up from being possessed and being like “I’m surrounded in Drarry coffee shop AUs again?! Why does this keep happening?!”.

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody is suggesting otherwise? Yes, the point is that it appeals to you. In fiction. Which could be totally different than what appeals to you in real life.

[(Anonymous)]

Thing is, what "appeals" to a writer can fall into a pretty broad category by the virtue of the fact that people who like to write are usually imaginative types who get carried away by cool ideas. There's a world of difference between something a writer wants to explore in fiction just to see where that concept might take them, and how that person might want to live their life.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS

A small portion of what I write is kind of vaguely related to wish fulfillment. A far bigger portion is "this is something really cool and fascinating to imagine, it could never happen in real life or shouldn't but let's follow the path and see how it plays out in the story."

My shipping fic never has anything to do with who I would want to date in real life. It's all about how these specific characters, neither of whom are me, relate to each other. I personally would not want to be in a relationship with any of my favorite characters because they're all trainwrecks in different fascinating ways, and besides, the person I pair them with is always much better suited to them because I'm the writer and I say so.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I love writing cute domestic fic with my favorite ships settling down together and raising a family because I enjoy seeing them get a happy ending after all of the crazy stuff they've gone through in their canons, but I have absolutely zero desire to ever have any children of my own. That's a scenario I like for my favorite characters, not for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I like a lot of things because they feel cathartic.

That doesn't mean I'd want John Smith to be beaten and like. Parasitized by a sexy plant monster in real life. That would be horrible! In fiction, though? Go for it. Because no one is actually getting hurt.