I highly appreciate the “happy ending” tag on angst fics, dark fics, etc. Its existence increases the probability of me reading by a significant amount
but some people are like “why even read those fics if you already know how they’re gonna end?”
Well, it’s kinda like going on a roller-coaster. I wanna experience the ride. The ups and the downs, the twists and turns. But I also wanna know that at the end, it’ll come to a safe stop and I’ll be able to get off of it completely unharmed
It’s exactly like that, anon. It’s like when you make your Sims addicted to heroin even though you know in the real world, heroin is bad and you wouldn’t forcibly addict someone to heroin.
It’s imaginary. It’s pretend. It’s playing with dolls.
For a lot of people, the reason they like to play with these imaginary concepts is because of trauma, yes. But it’s not the only reason. some people just think it’s fun in fiction. Like getting your Sims addicted to heroin.
Fiction is great because it allows us a space to play pretend and do the bad things we would never do in real life. No one is harmed, and there is always a reset button.
(as an aside “proship” itself doesn’t specifically mean shipping minors, or shipping anything problematic, it just means that you believe people have a right to ship whatever they want because it’s all imaginary.)