thanks for the ask! Should have trusted you to go angst hehe *hugs*
13. Has a fic ever made you cry?
Oh yeah, several, though usually it’s just blinking back tears. The only fic I can think of which actually made me sob, like full on uncontrollable crying, was a Harry Potter fanfic called Family Night. I have never forgotten it and I have actually read it more than once. If I ever need to cry, it does the job every single time. I’m not sure what gets me about it but I just bawl.
Wait a minute! I forgot @worryinglyinnocent‘s Value for a second. Ok I take it back – that one! Bloody that one! I was probably trying to block it from my mind because that hurt, that really hurt.
14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?
Get me? What like make me cry? Or upset me? I don’t know. I have trouble with angst in general to be honest because I think I over-empathise and I get really bad anxiety. I’ve had to stop reading more than one fic because it was making me feel really sick.
This is really making me think. I suppose it’s when the character can’t see a way out, so it’s like there’s no light. I need to know it’s going to be ok. I need to be able to see how it can be fixed, or at least feel reassured that it will be fixed. I don’t mean fixed fixed necessarily, but just that even if they are still having to deal with stuff that they CAN deal with it. I’m not sure that makes sense.
I’m a bit of a wimp to be honest. It’s like with sci-fi, I like mine a bit cheesy, saving the world and cracking jokes at the same time. Sure it can get a bit dark but it’s not doom and gloom.
15. Do you mind when characters cry?
I want to hug them – metaphorically at least. I don’t do hugging in real life, I’m very much don’t touch me, but I’m forever going “somebody give them a hug” when characters cry. I like to make it better I guess. I suppose whether I mind them crying depends on the circumstances. If it’s fake-crying to manipulate someone then I hate that! Otherwise sometimes people just need to cry, it’s a release and hopefully the character feels better for it.
16. How do you feel about character death in fic?
Hate it. Won’t read it.
Well you know what I mean. I won’t ever read the characters I love dying, but side characters? one’s I don’t like to fill the plot? Sure. I don’t think of that as character death though.
17. Any characters who you can’t stand to see in pain?
Anyone I like? No seriously I have a very low threshold for angst. I like to fix things and make characters happy. Temporary pain is ok I guess? But I’ve never been down with the whole ‘hurts so good’ thing.
Also by temporary and happy, I don’t mean some kind of fake unicorn world. Some hurts don’t go away but it’s about being able to cope I guess. So even if life is still a struggle sometimes for the character, they are in a good place and have people that care about them. There are no such thing as happy endings but I like characters to have a good life.
18. Favorite angst fic?
None of the above.
I know, I’m sorry, but favourite and angst really don’t go together. Plus I’m not 100% sure what constitutes an angst fic. I tend to think of it as ‘break them and then fix them’ but I have trouble reading that kind of sustained misery even if the ending is happy.
I’m going to say All of Me I think by @mariequitecontrarie because that has some very angsty moments but it’s mixed in with a lot of love and support. It’s like up and down, rather than just down down down. It’s a journey, with bright spots and dark spots, it’s not unrelenting but it’s real. It’s very good.
#in which sam is a major wimp