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[sister_coyote]

Note: this is definitely not pointed at anyone in particular, or anything in particular, recent or otherwise. It's just general, something I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time, as a writer, as a reader.You know what

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[anat_astarte]

I agree! Well said :D

[havocmangawip]

Well said and I am all for hope and joy. A story that makes me smile and feel warm (without being to WAFF-y/cliche) is so hard to find!

Hope and joy in the small things is one of the hardest things to write.

[bob_fish]

Yeah, this, absolutely. It's funny, but I was thinking some of this exact stuff today while doing the washing up

[elanor_pam]

Word.

Yeah, not much else to say.

[sarraceniaceae]

Thank you for saying it a lot better than I've ever managed to say it.

Even though I tend to enjoy stuff on the darker side (at least when it's not unrelieved angst, and I prefer at very least a bittersweet ending), the attitude that because it's sad it's inherently more meaningful drives me absolutely nuts. I'm sorry, is Touched by Venom (includes bestiality-involved drug use, genital mutilation, crushing poverty and heroine has never had a happy moment in her life as far as I can remember) somehow more insightful than Terry Pratchett's Small Gods because it's pure, unrelieved angst? I certainly didn't think so