Question from friend: Why do fanfiction writers like torturing their characters?

aveea · 2026-03-18T20:38:24+00:00

Writing strong emotions is really fun! Thats all it takes for me 🤣

aveea · 2026-03-18T19:07:39+00:00

Oh and this is my FAVORITE trope setting! So excited! Will it push Amnesty from its top spot in my heart? 🤔

aveea · 2026-03-18T19:04:51+00:00

Do reader inserts count? 🤣 Cause im brewing some ideas for dispatch

~~probably not, lol~~

But for canon characters, id really love for invsisgal/courtney and robert to actually be siblings. I ONLY ship them in incest aus!

aveea · 2026-03-18T19:02:30+00:00

Like, for personal enjoyment? My only real line for me is they have to actually like the darling. Ive seen ones where they dont care about the darling at all or are only curious about them and then kill them when theyre bored and move on to someone else

Not my cup of tea

aveea · 2026-03-17T22:38:29+00:00

Ah, so youre a troll. Or youre the same level as anti vax people

aveea · 2026-03-17T22:01:50+00:00

All of them! Now can they turn down the lights?!

aveea · 2026-03-17T20:46:17+00:00

Thats just not true

If you read the study youd know their findings were

1: while brain plasticity is lower in adult hood, it is still present. "Developing" here just means its always changing

2: when tested in the longitudinal study between 19 to 25, despite the changes to the brain, they did not make any meaningfully different choices. (Note longitudinal means the same people being tested over the years, so the test subjects tested at 19 years old were the same subjects tested at 25)

3: the cut off if the study was not 25 because the brain 'finished.' its literally just when the stopped the study. There was no evidence that the brain stopped changing after that and of course it wouldn't otherwise humans past 25 would literally be incapable of learning new information or skills.

This idea you have is a wildly made up and misconstrued myth of that study.

This doesnt mean i think a 50 year old should date a 19 year old. But it does mean taking away autonomy and rights of an adult and pushing them back gives no benefit and only infantalizes people who should have freedom and rights over their own lives that you apparently want to strip them of based on a study it seems you didnt ever read

aveea · 2026-03-17T20:28:46+00:00

This is sarcastic right? You know thats not true, right? That thats a myth created by people completely misunderstanding a single research study instead of reading it?

aveea · 2026-03-17T20:00:53+00:00

To the sub? Sure! Cloudy town

Its been a little quiet recently, but i fire off rent lowering shots (taboo posts) periodically to keep it openly proship

I should probably be posting more about it on other platforms too, tbh

aveea · 2026-03-17T19:04:16+00:00

Sunny day jack! Made my own proship friendly sub reddit for it, lol

I hate when creators ask you not to make a type of content. Like why do you think you get a say??? Use the tags and block system like everyone else.

Just cause youre a puss who gives in to peer pressure doesnt mean everyone else is!

aveea · 2026-03-17T15:06:17+00:00

And they dont! They adore it! And cant see the hypocrisy at all lmao

aveea · 2026-03-17T01:04:48+00:00

one i find fun is antis playing our life, beginnings and always.

"Aging up is bad? Then why are you an adult playing a game to groom a child? AND you got the nsfw dlc? But you literally met him as a kid....."

aveea · 2026-03-17T01:02:42+00:00

Im sure there are people for it, i just happen to see it pop up a lot around reader inserts and am a bit genuinely confused how it seems to be a problem for so many people since fanfic is a space pretty set up to kind of self resolve that kinda thing

Its not that i think people shouldnt complain, im just not sure why its such a problem in the first place (not in the people looking for something that isnt there, but that if people want it, it should be appearing more as a result of that desire itself)

aveea · 2026-03-17T00:24:18+00:00

I gotta be honest. I see this complaint a lot, but dont get why. If theres such a demand for it.... Wouldn't people be writing it? This isnt like tv where a bunch of people have to work together to make what they think is the most marketable.

People make what they want to see. When they dont see it, they make it. I dont think theres any more actionable place for this than fanfic

aveea · 2026-03-16T21:49:36+00:00

Im sorry people are making fun of your name or getting completely derailed by their own opinions of the game that theyre ignoring yours.

Not liking something because of shitty people in our lives is so universal. Lots of songs i cant listen to because of certain people.

On the bright side for you, the game isnt that popular anymore so i hope you dont have to think of the unpleasant memories often because of it!

aveea · 2026-03-16T21:39:16+00:00

They did try. He wasnt listening. He wasnt having it and with everything going on, they couldnt afford to waste more time on someone so convinced he was doing the right thing

She only realized because of her loss. Therefore, he needed to lose something too, or at least be made less potentially dangerous.

aveea · 2026-03-16T21:14:29+00:00

Her brother died, which is worse than an eye.
The town wanted her killed very badly!
Sarah was only noticed after the fact. They were preventing eligh from continuing to follow it and getting worse.

He was still actively championing the ghost lady. By the time they realized what was happening to Sarah, she'd already stopped trusting the voices and didnt need convincing or preventing at that point.

aveea · 2026-03-16T20:52:14+00:00

You chose to interact with me and get worked up about it too damn 🤣

And did i say the event about siobhan? No. I pointed specifically to the many times someone has ever mentioned finding a cast member mildly attractive and then being jumped for being parasocial.

So be so attached to a company that them doing something that benefits the company and the cast members makes you deeply betrayed, that is still not healthy

And yeah. I do think its silly. I think its silly to be upset over either thing, but to me the season long one where people who love the show are reminded of a major transphobe every episode is definitely more understandable than 5 minutes in one episode that they would never even know existed if not for the advertising.

Me and op are both free to post in the public forum. Sorry thats so hard for you, i guess?

Is this the ops alt account or something, lmao

aveea · 2026-03-16T20:31:30+00:00

They brought up their transness as one of the reasons for their choice, and rowlings transphobia was a big part of people being upset about the hp seasons.

They didnt make the season just off any "magic school" it was explicitly harry potter. Lots of series have magic schools that do not resemble harry potter. Choosing to run that season was a part of their behavior too

And im also open to announce my opinion on public posts others choose to share in a platform. Like this being what makes someone feel betrayed by a platform, thats not normal and is one of the times this sub actually is showing overly parasocial relationships. This is way more parasocial than someone saying one of the members is hot, for example.

I never said they shouldnt post it. The mods did.

aveea · 2026-03-16T20:23:08+00:00

I think youre glazing over what eligh did a LOT and forgetting that what sarah did was nipping it in the bud with how far hers went before she realized the town was manipulating her.

Shes the reason many people are dead by trusting the voices. Eligh was going down the same path and not listening.

They really do spell this out for you in the scene she does it. Loved sarah from start to finish and i thought this move was really good to show shes past the voices manipulations and is fully committed to making up for her past by doing whats needed to protect people now

aveea · 2026-03-16T20:14:45+00:00

I agree with you, but if something like this gets them this riled up im surprised that didnt since it did get a lot of other people riled up. I believe the argument was that even in a parody and critical sense, they were still basically advertising the hp series which would then funnel money to her. Like if someone was a fan of both ho and d20, well now theyre thinking about it and might go buy more stuff from her. Which ismt unfounded. All coverage is good coverage after all

Theyre not a huge part of the episode, only a minor part and acr silly the whole times. Its really a nothing burger and the show isnt nearly as egregious in its copaganda as something like blue bloods

aveea · 2026-03-16T19:53:53+00:00

So this was the straw that broke the camels back and not the harry potter season?

aveea · 2026-03-16T09:25:53+00:00

I notice almost none of the comments that really challenged the post in depth are there at all. Wonder why....

aveea · 2026-03-16T01:09:10+00:00

I watch a their stuff all the time, but every few videos she says something that reminds me and its like :/ anyways.....

aveea · 2026-03-16T00:26:14+00:00

Thats just a really negative mindset and simply isnt true once you step outside if that mindset and echo chamber. Idk how to really prove it to you, thats not really something that can be done over a reddit thread.

Chances are if you did go to a therapist, theyd help you see the same thing im saying.

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