Maybe "responsible" was not the right word. It just feels - touching, that you 'd care about that.
I try very hard not to write a character unless I feel emotionally detached enough
Hee, interesting! I'm used to thinking about it the other way around, the need to be emotionally attached enough.
I've run across writers in fandom who use their fic to play out their grudges and aggrandize their favorite character at the expense of any one else's subjectivity
Yeah... I've read those. Where it's not the characters finding somebody evil (or such), but the story promoting that or assuming agreement on that, or just depicts someone - och. All the Sam bashing. Spoiled, selfish child who's just using Dean and never does anything for anyone... ugh. I don't mind it as much when it's characters like the monster of the week, or sometimes John or that hunter to tried to kill Sam being used just as an antagonist to move forward the plot - perhaps just because I'm not that attached to them. But some stories are more about taking the time to revel in somebody's horribleness... Less my cup of tea.
If you ever catch me doing that, slap me (in a respectful, verbal way :) )
LOL
I think part of it, too, is that you have to love the hurt as well as the comfort. I like seeing my favorites hurt mentally and physically, even if I can't totally pin down why. If you only enjoy the 'comfort' half of the equation, the genre's probably not going to do it for you.
Huh, I suspect you put your finger on it, spot on, that's probably exactly why. Might like the comfort-after-hurt, for sure, pining, yeah, and sometimes angst, all sorts of BDSM, sometimes non-con even, but just stark badness of my boys, it's just... ahhhhhh. I NEED them to be OK. Not so much for me. Not sure what the difference is, but I seem to feel it, and other people seem to feel i too...
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Date: 2014-05-21 02:25 pm (UTC)I try very hard not to write a character unless I feel emotionally detached enough
Hee, interesting! I'm used to thinking about it the other way around, the need to be emotionally attached enough.
I've run across writers in fandom who use their fic to play out their grudges and aggrandize their favorite character at the expense of any one else's subjectivity
Yeah... I've read those. Where it's not the characters finding somebody evil (or such), but the story promoting that or assuming agreement on that, or just depicts someone - och. All the Sam bashing. Spoiled, selfish child who's just using Dean and never does anything for anyone... ugh. I don't mind it as much when it's characters like the monster of the week, or sometimes John or that hunter to tried to kill Sam being used just as an antagonist to move forward the plot - perhaps just because I'm not that attached to them. But some stories are more about taking the time to revel in somebody's horribleness... Less my cup of tea.
If you ever catch me doing that, slap me (in a respectful, verbal way :) )
LOL
I think part of it, too, is that you have to love the hurt as well as the comfort. I like seeing my favorites hurt mentally and physically, even if I can't totally pin down why. If you only enjoy the 'comfort' half of the equation, the genre's probably not going to do it for you.
Huh, I suspect you put your finger on it, spot on, that's probably exactly why.
Might like the comfort-after-hurt, for sure, pining, yeah, and sometimes angst, all sorts of BDSM, sometimes non-con even, but just stark badness of my boys, it's just... ahhhhhh. I NEED them to be OK. Not so much for me. Not sure what the difference is, but I seem to feel it, and other people seem to feel i too...