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“But why would you want to imagine, read or write about a relationship that wasn’t healthy, good or desirable to you personally?”
I genuinely don’t know how to explain the concept of fiction to you.
It’s fun. That’s why I want to imagine, read, write about relationships that aren’t healthy, good, or desirable to me. Because I know they aren’t real but I can still explore the idea of it and what it means. It’s hard to learn only one side of things without having anything to compare it to. What makes a good relationship compared to a bad relationship? Where’s the turning point? Sometimes you have to create the bad to find the good.
This is why tone of abuse victims are like “seeing abusive relationships in fiction is what lead me to realize I was being abused” you now have something outside yourself to look at and relate to and see where things might be genuinely very fucked up that you once thought it was normal and just how things are.
Fiction helps people explore, learn, and often are the best tools to save yourself and grow. From working through what you’ve been to, figuring out the bad state you’re currently in, relating to people who went through it and see examples of the experience, to just.. being a way to explore how the darkest parts of humanity just exists at all.
From fun exploration, learning, reprieve, recontextualizing, there’s just so many reasons for anyone of any background or experience to touch, write, or enjoy dark fiction.
I’d honestly say it’s the backbone of life and community.
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