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⌈ Secret Post #2315 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I have found myself annoyed at happy endings before but that isn't because they were happy, rather they just weren't written well. I seem to have come across more happy endings that are written badly in comparison to sad or more ambiguous endings, but that may be confirmation bias speaking or the media/fanfiction that I like to read.

I don't think happy endings have to be earned, as such, but when there's been a long journey, fraught with perils, death, and moral dilemmas and it's all been building up to this long climax where no one will ever be the same... and poof! the day is saved, everyone is happily married off and that's it ... I just feel mood whiplash. I might not be articulating it well, but I have ready many long, well-written stories (both published books and fanfiction) that have a very rushed finale that seems to shoe-horn in a happy ending. A story that examines dark or angsty themes doesn't have to have a tragic ending, but it does have to have an ending that makes sense within the context of the story because otherwise it starts feeling false and hollow. It shouldn't just happen magically. I don't dislike happy endings. In fact, when I've come to love characters I want them to have a happy ending but it's not always written well.

I think endings, as a whole, are hard to write. And I don't think that happy endings are a cop-out, only badly written ones are. I have come across stories that seem to end in tragedy just to be 'deep' but they seem rarer, though I admit this is only anecdata.

However I have to disagree about sad endings - you may not like them (and it is your prerogative) but I do, although only when they are also written well. I am quite partial to bittersweet endings, but again it has to make sense within the context and themes of the story. 'Dark and gritty' by no means makes something actually good, however, and I fully understand you being annoyed by people that claim that is the case.

[(Anonymous)]

Sad endings can be just as poorly written or not really earned or simply written not because they make that much sense, but because writers get that dark endings tend to generate more automatic kudos for being edgy or daring especially these days when its so trendy to do it.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this entire comment so much. It's more the mood whiplash that is the problem with SOME happy endings - drama, peril, despair, and magical happy ending. And many times I've heard the same complaint with SOME dark endings - fluffy story, where the author tacks on a 'surprise! they die!', because they think this will make it gritty and deep.

I think it's the endings that feel misplaced, or that they don't suit the story, that people are complaining about. Unless you just don't like sad stories in general, in which case, don't read those stories that are tagged Drama/Angst/Tragedy, etc.

Also, for me, writing endings is very hard either way.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's that some people think that if they're going to go with a happy ending it has to be a perfectly happy ending - instead of an 'overall things are good and the characters you care about a generally happy, but there is still some shitty/sad stuff that the characters are dealing with' ending.