deborah_judge ([personal profile] deborah_judge) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2018-11-05 02:38 pm (UTC)

This seems oddly lacking in imagination. Or maybe typical-mind fallacy - she reads stories a certain way and so assumes other people do as well. I mean, people write and read stories to explore things other than what relationships should be like. And that includes stories about relationships. I feel like personally the gap between what a story describes and what it means to me can be *huge*, so much so that often I can't imagine how someone could figure out one from the other and if they tried to guess it would almost certainly be wrong.

Like, no I do not actually have any real-life desires to be married to someone who has harmed me badly, and yet I keep writing and reading stories about relationships like this. For reasons that make sense to me but wouldn't be obvious to someone else.

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