Oooh, Lynn Ward illustrations would be a definite draw!
and why. Why. Why are they doing this to themselves! You just imagine them in a rare moment of sobriety puzzling over the fact that, even they do whatever they want whenever they want to, somehow they are miserable? --I wonder what it was? Was it that sexual liberation promised them that sexual encounters would be just soooo fulfilling, and then they weren't, but they just kept trying?
There's a thing in litfic (and genre fic too, I guess, esp. lit-leaning genre fic), the disaffected character, disaffected from everything... I don't really like these. I read them when I was compelled to for school (high school, college), but without being compelled to read them, I tend to avoid them. What is the author trying to do?? I guess--it's a thing that a lot of people feel now and then and some people (I guess) feel a lot, so maybe it's validating to have it portrayed? And maybe that's enough? ... but not for me.
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Date: 2025-05-15 05:56 pm (UTC)and why. Why. Why are they doing this to themselves! You just imagine them in a rare moment of sobriety puzzling over the fact that, even they do whatever they want whenever they want to, somehow they are miserable? --I wonder what it was? Was it that sexual liberation promised them that sexual encounters would be just soooo fulfilling, and then they weren't, but they just kept trying?
There's a thing in litfic (and genre fic too, I guess, esp. lit-leaning genre fic), the disaffected character, disaffected from everything... I don't really like these. I read them when I was compelled to for school (high school, college), but without being compelled to read them, I tend to avoid them. What is the author trying to do?? I guess--it's a thing that a lot of people feel now and then and some people (I guess) feel a lot, so maybe it's validating to have it portrayed? And maybe that's enough? ... but not for me.