What is with this fetish people have for suffering, anyway? Pain does not make one great!
I, uh...
Well. This is kind of awkward.
I suppose the best way I can explain it is that it's how I sort of process and accept some issues I'm sorting through. Issues like PTSD and characters who suffer, I fully admit, do appeal to me because I have anxiety issues I'm still sorting through, and it's very easy for me to relate and empathize with those issues.. Unfortunately for me, anxiety and fear tend to be tied up with pleasure impulses...hence why my personal kinks involve people being broken five ways to Monday.
With that said, you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT on suffering not "making one great." It is not the suffering itself, but how you endure and work through it to at least manage, if not conquer, the painful stimulus. It is something I have always tried (though not always succeeded) to reflect in my own work.
....Also, this is an awesome spork and you should feel awesome.
With that said, you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT on suffering not "making one great." It is not the suffering itself, but how you endure and work through it to at least manage, if not conquer, the painful stimulus. It is something I have always tried (though not always succeeded) to reflect in my own work. And you do succeed, no worries about that! I was just ranting about Cori Falls' apparent opinion that Jessie and James have such a great relationship SOLELY because they've gone through so much **** together... with a notable absence of competently managing and conquering it, to tell from her stories.
(And heck, I write the Dumbledores and Grindelwald. I understand writing about angst, empathizing with angst, and all that, and liking writing about characters who have been through hell. Heck, I have a horrendous AU fic in which the Dursleys' abuse succeeded in breaking Harry - but that's another story. For one, I have to put down several thousand more words on it before I'm even through the first chapter.)
Here they admit they made bad choices. That that had choices, and they were bad. We will never see this again. No, they'll admit it. ...Just so that they can immediately be reassured that they had no choice at all and that they only did what they had to, the poor persecuted little woobies. (Cori's fics are RIDICULOUSLY repetitive. I had no idea how redundant they were until I sporked a few. They literally go through the SAME epiphanies every fic. It makes their ~perfect romance~ seem ludicrously unstable...)
(and Yes, I plan to add new comments to each spork post.) :D Thank you!
"What is with this fetish people have for suffering, anyway? Pain does not make one great!"
*nervous laugh*
I'll admit to using my characters to explore certain issues, though suffering certainly doesn't make one great. I have two characters (they're twin sisters) who have an abusive dad, but neither one spends all their time angsting about it, though their abusive background is still important. Despite some other complications, the sisters support each other and care about each other, though not because they've both suffered so much (sorry, you probably don't care about this). What's Cori's obsession with trying to use suffering as a way to strengthen her version of Jessie and James's relationship, anyway? Especially since in Cori's fics, there's a noticeable lack of them actually managing and working through their angst/issues.
"What is with this fetish people have for suffering, anyway? Pain does not make one great!"
*nervous laugh*
I'll admit to using my characters to explore certain issues, though suffering certainly doesn't make one great. I have two characters (they're twin sisters) who have an abusive dad, but neither one spends all their time angsting about it, though their abusive background is still important. Despite some other complications, the sisters support each other and care about each other, though not because they've both suffered so much (sorry, you probably don't care about this). What's Cori's obsession with trying to use suffering as a way to strengthen her version of Jessie and James's relationship, anyway? Especially since in Cori's fics, there's a noticeable lack of them actually managing and working through their angst/issues.
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I, uh...
Well. This is kind of awkward.
I suppose the best way I can explain it is that it's how I sort of process and accept some issues I'm sorting through. Issues like PTSD and characters who suffer, I fully admit, do appeal to me because I have anxiety issues I'm still sorting through, and it's very easy for me to relate and empathize with those issues.. Unfortunately for me, anxiety and fear tend to be tied up with pleasure impulses...hence why my personal kinks involve people being broken five ways to Monday.
With that said, you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT on suffering not "making one great." It is not the suffering itself, but how you endure and work through it to at least manage, if not conquer, the painful stimulus. It is something I have always tried (though not always succeeded) to reflect in my own work.
....Also, this is an awesome spork and you should feel awesome.
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And you do succeed, no worries about that! I was just ranting about Cori Falls' apparent opinion that Jessie and James have such a great relationship SOLELY because they've gone through so much **** together... with a notable absence of competently managing and conquering it, to tell from her stories.
(And heck, I write the Dumbledores and Grindelwald. I understand writing about angst, empathizing with angst, and all that, and liking writing about characters who have been through hell. Heck, I have a horrendous AU fic in which the Dursleys' abuse succeeded in breaking Harry - but that's another story. For one, I have to put down several thousand more words on it before I'm even through the first chapter.)
....Also, this is an awesome ( ... )
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You're a good person who's
had to make some bad choices.
Here they admit they made bad choices. That that had choices, and they were bad. We will never see this again.
(and Yes, I plan to add new comments to each spork post.)
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No, they'll admit it. ...Just so that they can immediately be reassured that they had no choice at all and that they only did what they had to, the poor persecuted little woobies. (Cori's fics are RIDICULOUSLY repetitive. I had no idea how redundant they were until I sporked a few. They literally go through the SAME epiphanies every fic. It makes their ~perfect romance~ seem ludicrously unstable...)
(and Yes, I plan to add new comments to each spork post.)
:D Thank you!
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*nervous laugh*
I'll admit to using my characters to explore certain issues, though suffering certainly doesn't make one great. I have two characters (they're twin sisters) who have an abusive dad, but neither one spends all their time angsting about it, though their abusive background is still important. Despite some other complications, the sisters support each other and care about each other, though not because they've both suffered so much (sorry, you probably don't care about this). What's Cori's obsession with trying to use suffering as a way to strengthen her version of Jessie and James's relationship, anyway? Especially since in Cori's fics, there's a noticeable lack of them actually managing and working through their angst/issues.
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*nervous laugh*
I'll admit to using my characters to explore certain issues, though suffering certainly doesn't make one great. I have two characters (they're twin sisters) who have an abusive dad, but neither one spends all their time angsting about it, though their abusive background is still important. Despite some other complications, the sisters support each other and care about each other, though not because they've both suffered so much (sorry, you probably don't care about this). What's Cori's obsession with trying to use suffering as a way to strengthen her version of Jessie and James's relationship, anyway? Especially since in Cori's fics, there's a noticeable lack of them actually managing and working through their angst/issues.
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