[ SECRET POST #1834 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1834 ⌋


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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 89 secrets from Secret Submission Post #262.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

01. http://i39.tinypic.com/20pzgr8.gif

[violence4.livejournal.com]

... I really like that kind of fic too. No idea why D:
When I can't find anything good I just write my own.

[lolofielding.livejournal.com]

I can take really dark, horrible, bordering on OOC fic...as long as there's a happy ending or at least some hurt/comfort resulting from it.

This is what happens when Don Bluth movies are your childhood. ^_^

[capeofstorm.livejournal.com]

With that background for the secret, yeah, you are a sadist.

My eyes.

[robintheshrew.livejournal.com]

Certainly sounds like it

[(Anonymous)]

I'm exactly the same - so much so that this actually is a secret of mine - but I don't think I'm a sadist in the slightest.

What I enjoy is the new depth a character often gains through negative treatment - they have to work hard to overcome such an experience as, say, torture or abuse, and I enjoy reading about/seeing their psychological and emotional development as they deal with what's happened to them. I find it intriguing how different authors have different characters deal with their situation (either woobie-fying the character or making them steely/determined not to show suffering etc) and how it affects them and their actions thereafter.

Then again, I do have a rather unhealthy obsession with behavioural psychology, as well as criminal psychology, so the affects of negative experiences on a person's psyche is unsettlingly interesting to me. ;)

[streetcake.livejournal.com]

I consider it masochism. You love those characters, and seeing them suffer makes you sad(I assume), which ends up making you feel good, therefore you get pleasure from the pain.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear ya, anon because I'm like this as well.

Though I will have to tell you that this is an abhorrent color scheme for a secret or, well, anything for that matter.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, me too. I can't help it. >___> It's an interesting challenge for a writer, sometimes!

[(Anonymous)]

I like it too, but I don't think I'm a sadist. I find it strangely cathartic.

[(Anonymous)]

Jade/Tavros secret? That's the only thing I can come up with going by those colors....

[delfeus.livejournal.com]

I used to read quite a lot of angst and darkfic in the past. I think that in part it was because it made me feel strongly (I felt somewhat numb/unfeeling then) and because it helped me purge some negative feelings I had trouble dealing with in real life. Especially because after heavy fictional angst RL problems seem smaller.

It had to be believable angst, though; I tried reading a couple of fics that were just too unbelievable because there was nothing to balance the angst (and then his puppy was killed and he slipped in the blood and hit his head and then the nurse tried to kill him and), just an endless layering of angst without any kind of dealing or closure with the previous stuff. Well-written angst is good, though I haven't managed to reread most angsty fics, no matter how much I liked them the first time. I also still have very clear mental images of some of them, even stuff I read a very long time ago.

For darkfic I have read badfic, too, as it was more about the shock and horror aspect than the angst, really. Well, unless it had a (sort of) happy ending, in which case it was about survival in difficult situations etc. To be honest, I see darkfic as kind of similar to e.g. Battle Royale; there is some unbearable situation that needs to be dealt with and some survive (alive, but mentally and possibly physically scarred), some are stabbed in the back by friends or strangers, whereas some choose to jump from a cliff. Kind of a how would you or that character deal in this situation sort of thing.

[kryptoncat.livejournal.com]

I do like a good bit of angst and h/c, but fic authors getting the characters wrong wouldn't cut it for me. It has to be them going through stuff and getting stronger; I want to analyze their state of mind in certain situations.

[(Anonymous)]

IA with this.

Anyway, OP, I think this is fairly normal. I don't think you need to feel bad about it, and I wouldn't say it makes you a sadist unless you enjoy watching others go through the same things in real life. Even if the fic is objectively bad and other angst-lovers laugh about it, there's no need to berate yourself for enjoying it. Everyone has some kind of guilty pleasure. Mine is kidfic - I will read that stuff no matter HOW bad it is, though most of it in my fandom is so crappy I'd never admit it. So I know how you feel.

...Now that I think about it, I tend to be the kind of person to make fun of too much angst. Sorry if I've ever made you feel self-conscious about it. >.>'

[(Anonymous)]

I like it too, but there always have to be comfort and happy ending.

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

I'm the same but with fluff instead. I want fic to make me happy.