[ SECRET POST #6951 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6951 ⌋

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


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08. [SPOILERS for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]




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09. [WARNING for discussion of domestic violence/abuse]




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10. [WARNING for discussion of IRL death, murder, mental illness, addiction]




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Comments

Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

The cause of her trauma? Another author's stories were more popular than hers. Yes, really.

Re: Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

She sounds very young and very self-absorbed, tbh. Life has a way of correcting that for most people. I also predict that she'll be back soon.

Re: Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

1) She's in her early 30's.

2) She's pulled that "I'm never posting again!" stunt many times over the years, so she'll definitely be back.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

She sounds mentally ill. And I don't mean that as a pejorative. She sounds like she genuinely has something going on and is perceiving the world differently than us.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

She sounds mentally ill.

Sadly, that's an understatement.

Re: Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

oh good lord, that is insufferable... like, I could summon up some sympathy for someone who was digging into a kink they'd never written before and found themselves in a bad place over it, I've been there and I wouldn't say it 'traumatized' me but I get how someone without serious trauma might mistake that kind of discomfort for it. But for it to be because someone else was popular??

Re: Explanation from OP

[paperghost]

I am so tired of how people online frame discomfort or having their feelings hurt as traumatic. I don't want to sound like a boomer but some people really need perspective or real problems.

Re: Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. While I definitely agree with you there is something wrong with this person, I think there is at least a hyperbolic/jokey sense of "traumatic" where it refers to like "harrowing experience I would not like to go through again and which I still have nightmares/random distressing recollections of" and doing a Kinktober alongside another author in the fandom and getting concrete evidence they're more popular but having to keep pushing through because you already committed to finishing/already wrote the stories does seem kinda "traumatic" in that exaggerated/jokey sense. (I know people don't like people using "traumatic" in that colloquial, non-medical sense but I also think the horse has already long left that stable.)

But yeah, if this person is complaining about this in public where the other author could see (which I assume they are?), that is INCREDIBLY gauche and lacking in self-consciousness. And the threatening to quit posting stories is just a juvenile temper tantrum. Definitely a terrible look.

Re: Explanation from OP

[(Anonymous)]

In other words, not even remotely related to war vets or SA survivors. Don't drag them into this situation.

It's possible the author is being irrational and/or exaggerating, but as others have pointed out, everyone's trauma is different. Also, the suffering olympics are a stupid game where nobody wins.