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grayestofghostsI think what people don't get about fic genres that torture characters intentionally like h/c is how much of these genres are about the writer and reader wanting to be treated in a certain, possibly more correct way, rather than how we normally treat people who have something awful happen to them. And it's so stunningly obvious why people write it and read it when it's framed this way, yet I'm old enough to see two different generations go through a hate of it -- the first when I was younger and any kind of dwelling in this space was considered 'whining' and needing to get over oneself (checkmark for one form of this mistreatment) and now that I'm older of pretending that this stuff is too horrible to even discuss in fiction and needs to be hidden and you're a bad person for talking about it (checkmark for second form of this mistreatment).
There's a lot of focus when writing about people who are marginalized in some way -- and when you're wanting to write about yourself as one of these people you end up having to -- and that your writing is supposed to somehow propose solutions to your suffering, when me doing that is actually making me have to contemplate what sort of problems people who have had all of the problems I have had solved for them. And maybe I'm bitter, but I don't actually find that particularly comforting to think about.
There's a lot of focus when writing about people who are marginalized in some way -- and when you're wanting to write about yourself as one of these people you end up having to -- and that your writing is supposed to somehow propose solutions to your suffering, when me doing that is actually making me have to contemplate what sort of problems people who have had all of the problems I have had solved for them. And maybe I'm bitter, but I don't actually find that particularly comforting to think about.
