#most often a character's angsty backstory or terrible childhood is not real-world trauma but in-text drama fodder
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junemermaid · 4 months ago
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I need a sign I can tap that just says:
while I understand that many people in fandom use fanfic to self-soothe or deal with or figure out their own baggage, I personally dislike using characters' (whether textual or inferred) trauma as the primary or indeed only lens for character analysis, and thus I will not be doing that
it is kind of wordy but, yeah
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