[ SECRET POST #6797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6797 ⌋

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


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05. [WARNING for discussion of IRL rape/assault/pedophilia]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of eating disorders]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia/related topics]























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #972.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why the everloving fuck would you want to read 'good eating disorder fics'. JFC, what's wrong with you? And no, I don't fucking agree with all that 'your kink is not my kink and that's okay' fucking bullshit. As someone who's been dealing with a 'good eating disorder' for over two decades, I simply don't understand what the kink or awesomeness is in an all but deadly disorder that comes with shame, guilt, massive stress, trauma and despair. And you want to read 'good' fic about it? You know what? Develop an eating disorder yourself and then write about it. Then you'll have something to read, from personal experience!

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP but I like to read ED fic because I have an ED. Kindly fuck off with your senseless rage and judgment.

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you're getting help, because I think it might make you more able to empathise with why someone would want to read about the actual experience, instead of the smoothed-over soft one people without ED tend to depict it as

[iff_and_xor]

Hey, I get it’s a delicate subject, but I think you charged into this with some serious assumptions.

Plenty of people with real-life issues are looking for “good” representation of those issues in fiction. And “good” can mean... accurate, comforting, empowering, etc. Or even sexy. Sometimes people want their real-life issues safely objectified or romanticized.

There’s a whole other discussion you can have about “perverse” fiction and what harm it does, but I think you skipped over a whole lot of nuance to jump right there.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder what AYRT thinks OP meant by "good fic"? It didn't seem like a trigger descriptor to me but it clearly hit them differently so I'm curious.

I assume "good fic" meant just well written and not out of character. I guess accurate too, now that you mentioned it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I assumed.

I was disabled in an accident and I like reading about characters in those circumstances and how they deal with it. It's cathartic and interesting to me.

In fanfic, I expect general medical accuracy and the characters to be in character. Everybody deals with things differently, so I don't have a monolithic view of that, but I think it's very cool to see how x character copes and adjusts.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe stop being a dick and assuming things?

[(Anonymous)]

The word you're looking for is catharsis.

[(Anonymous)]

If you take this stance for every other type of real world trauma as well, and refuse to read any of it in your fics... then you're not a hypocrite at least. I would bet money that is not true for you, though.

Besides, people looking for, for example, "good PTSD fics" are like 99% of the time not kinking on PTSD, they just want to see it depicted well and realistically. I bet it's the same for the OP of this secret about EDs.

[(Anonymous)]

People love to read dramatic stories about other peoples trauma but get real touchy when it is something that hits them personally.

[(Anonymous)]

It kinda sounds a bit like 'people like to read things with trigger warnings and get triggered' on top. Unfortunate for that anon.

[(Anonymous)]

There are two kinds of people: the kind who don't want to read about trauma that mirrors theirs because it triggers them, and the kind who love to read about trauma that mirrors theirs because it's cathartic.

The second type are, for some reason, much more aware that there are two types of people and understanding of the people who don't want to read about their trauma. The first type think everyone else is like them so if you like reading about trauma, it has to be for entertainment, or worse (gasp!), kink. And will react like this thread's OP.

(Type 2's also tend to acknowledge it is also okay to like reading about trauma for entertainment or kink.)

[(Anonymous)]

IAWTC. I read PTSD fics, and write them, to deal with my traumas and reactions to them and explore how someone else might react differently and what that means. It’s similar to journaling, but I get to play what-ifs and change things from how it happened to me.

I think the overreacting anon hasn’t faced their ED trauma very well and is using avoidance, which is not a great coping mechanism, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry you are struggling with an ED, as someone who has one too I understand how hellish it is. However, I felt the same as OP, because I like to read stories about difficult topics and bad things I myself have gone through, that are well written and realistic. I find that type of story compelling and cathartic, I feel less alone when I come across fic like that. I don't like cheap angst ED stories or stories where it's treated as something glamorous. Seems the secret hit a nerve for you, but I don't think OP said anything offensive personally. I also think it's an unfair assumption to say that OP doesn't have an ED themself, that may very well be why they enjoy fic about the topic.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, I say this with sincerity: FS has warnings on sensitive secrets for exactly this reason. I think it would be healthier for you to heed TWs for eating disorders in the future.

[himejoshiheart]

have you considered secret op has an eating disorder or a relative with an eating disorder or maybe has internalized thoughts and feelings that could lead to an eating disorder or maybe just wants to read realistic fic about eating disorders?