#vainilla

Personally, I really like vanilla and hurt-comfort. I want, I NEED someone to be taken care of, loved, or healed—to be helped. On the internet, many 'kinks' are only viewed through a lustful lens, but some are actually meant to somatize pain and helplessness in a healthy way, right? In art in general, as a broader umbrella? EXAMPLE: the 'praise kink' is often used superficially for a highly egocentric and selfish character. BUT, I notice this TAG is used a lot in Starscream x Knock Out, as if Knock Out only wanted to boost his 'ego' because in the series they don't show you the tumor, you only see a 'healthy' body. Starscream has been humiliated and verbally abused for eons; a praise kink for him is like receiving the validation he hasn't gotten for millions of years :): a way of trying to soothe the pain of the wound with ointment. Uh, once I saw an NSFW comic about this and I was sad that day? And Knock Out stops saying sweet things and literally tells him 'I love you' and I started crying??? skfkdk ANOTHER EXAMPLE BUT /NOT/ AS WELL-KNOWN: the vulnerability fetish! People often think it's something sadistic to want to see a character badly injured or with a fever? The famous type of fanfic, sickfic! Anyone who has read that kind of fanfic knows it's not a 'superficial kink' or anything like that; the reader is usually looking through a fictional entity for the care, attention, and love that they were deprived of as a child or during a prolonged instance. They want to see the care that was denied to them. I think I'm very sentimental haha, I just want certain people or concepts to be able to heal because I feel like it gives me hope