In this new age of fandom where healthy relationships, over communication and out of place therapy talks are the norm THANK YOU FOR BRINGING TOXIC YAOI BACK
Please never change 🙏😔❤️❤️
Loved the new update soooo much!!
*cynthia erivo voice* i didn't know that was happening
...i mean, since i mostly check out the toxic tags i rarely see that stuff you mentioned lol, but i can totally see it with the way people everywhere and in every single context use therapy speak nowadays. it really got to a point huh... that's just not how we really talk or think. it's always so unnatural to me.
but, i firmly believe there are more freaks than normies on ao3, so i disagree and think the toxic stuff is still the norm 😬 but yea, i'm doing my part 🫡
and i know this was a sort of joke-y ask so i'm sorry for taking it seriously, but yea, fuck it, i also think cancel culture has a lot to do with this therapy speak era, like there's this NEED to be always politically correct. it sucks because it's very insincere and everything is always black OR white, like MYGODDD what about the nuance! nobody wants to think about nuance! i also don't fuck with the self-censorship on social media. they call it 'algospeak' (like, saying grape or using the 🍇 emoji instead of the word rape. it drives me nuts because rape is something that we should take seriously all the times and name it as it is, because there's a reason for the existence of this word. like, we're not saying rape for shits and giggles, we use it as something different from sex, we use it to name an actual crime.) and maybe this is totally unrelated to what you're saying but i thought about it because i feel like people are afraid to say the 'wrong' thing, even when those are not wrong things at all, or they're afraid to upset someone or not being inclusive enough, so i feel that this need to overexplain the actions of characters comes from this whole thing, idk. like trying to prove there's a reason for this and that, so if the character were to be real then they wouldn't cancel them lol idk, it feels like that.
anyway, i totally understand trying to figure out stuff through writing, nothing wrong with that, i do it too, in my own way. and to be clear i'm talking shit exclusively about the therapy speak situation here, this is not about healthy relationships or fics that are fluffy and angst-free. but yea, when it come to my toxic characters i always say that you'd have to be some sort of dumbass to think depiction means endorsement when it comes to fiction lol
btw, i always get comments saying H&D yg needs therapy or that the 3 of them should have a long talk and figure things out hehe i dont mind those comments at all, it's a positive sentiment and i know those readers also enjoy the toxic stuff<3 i'm just saying 👀 i personally think therapy is only good in story telling when they pull a Tony Soprano and they use the therapist advice to get WORSE lol otherwise it's kinda boring. but anywayyy, my fic is properly tagged so i am not responsible for readers' disappointment 😬.
sorry this reply got too long, i was gonna reply with the cynthia meme only, but i can't never shut up 🫡 and the reply was actually way longer, and in that original reply i went on about the algospeak thing, and then about feminism at some point lol, and then i went on about lack of nuance and i gave a very dark example about a celeb who died recently,,, but i deleted all those parts because i started to sound really crazy lol
anyway, i get what you mean! thanks for reading my fic, and i'm very glad you enjoyed the chapter 💌
