#fiction is fiction
I will say, the trend to shame people for just liking a simple, trope-heavy story (written for free and for fun) as an escape is shitty as hell.
Why do we have to be shamed for this? Like damn y'all, I’m sorry we’re not making the homemade media we use to decompress from the ridiculous grind of whatever we’re all going through realistic enough or accurate enough??
Sometimes, it’s about the hurt/comfort. And fucking hell, sometimes the person hurting that needs comfortisme.
Yes. I need all the tropes to get me through sometimes. And sometimes I need the toxic, problematic tropes because life sucks, and I really want to read about characters I love hurting and then getting better. I want the hurt to be extreme and the comfort to be extreme. Because I need to be comforted.
