(for the unpopular opinion asks) fanfics (especially hannibal ones) that attempt to smooth over all the issues presented in the show (e.g. just taking away all the character's trauma, making them Not Murderers) are... usually not at all enjoyable and take away an integral aspect of the characters or their relationships to each other almost always
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i was actually going to make aĀ post abt this earlier today in regards to some tma fics and especially jonelias. but. gah. YEAH. especially with hannigram itās actually really upsetting to me to see them presented as Cute and Healthy while taking away all of the complexity of the source material, because-- theyāre a canonically abusive relationship? there is more hannigram fic taggedĀ āFluffā (2,359) than taggedĀ āPsychiatric Abuseā (2) and imo this is actually really reflective of problems in the hannibal fandom! if yāall want fluff that doesnāt have to address psychiatric abuse, have you considered Literally Any Other Fandom! or, like, sometimes i see tma fics that try to address the problems with Daisy or Daisira by just goingĀ āau where daisyās not a copā when.... that is in a lot of ways the core of her character and her arc and her relationship with Basira, is being the sort of person who sorts people into āgoodā and āmonsterā and thinks that the monsters all deserve to die, and being in a structure that supports her in this, and Basira being part of this structure too and enabling her, and then taking a look at herself and realizing that sheās wrong
anyway iām sure there are people out there who enjoy that stuff and like.... live your bliss, etc etc, but for me it just feels like. ripping out the nuance and the complexity and the interesting bits, and often the entire emotional core of a story, and replacing it with this.... happy thing with only a surface resemblance to whatever i loved about the source material. i really donāt like it.
