I figured she was warm because she'd just fed so the human blood had warmed her up.
Oh I hadn't thought of that!
people were reading it as being darker than I thought it was.
What I learned from last year's Absence of light awards, just looking at the Angst category, is that the term (like the word "dark") can cover an extremely wide range of fics, styles, and storylines: Snowpuppies Innocence remix is definitely "angst" but stories like quinara's "abridgement" are the sort I call "watercolor angst" because the angst is subtle. So with this fic too.
I think "dark" in this case isn't about violence - because there's nothing graphic onscreen but the absence of hope, which I think is the essence of "darkfic". There is no light at the end of this tunnel. However I think the concept of "dark fic" or "angst" has been hiijacked by graphic sex, torture, dub-con and non-con, etc. My guess is that this is due in part because those things evoke very strong visceral reactions; and the fact that there is an audience for that kind of thing.
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Date: 2013-11-13 05:04 am (UTC)Oh I hadn't thought of that!
people were reading it as being darker than I thought it was.
What I learned from last year's Absence of light awards, just looking at the Angst category, is that the term (like the word "dark") can cover an extremely wide range of fics, styles, and storylines: Snowpuppies Innocence remix is definitely "angst" but stories like quinara's "abridgement" are the sort I call "watercolor angst" because the angst is subtle. So with this fic too.
I think "dark" in this case isn't about violence - because there's nothing graphic onscreen but the absence of hope, which I think is the essence of "darkfic". There is no light at the end of this tunnel. However I think the concept of "dark fic" or "angst" has been hiijacked by graphic sex, torture, dub-con and non-con, etc. My guess is that this is due in part because those things evoke very strong visceral reactions; and the fact that there is an audience for that kind of thing.