Oh absolutely. for me, for instance, I can't read spanking fics. I have bad memories from childhood. for other people I'm sure it's a a way to get a handle on those memories, and take back control for themselves. Sort of like my brother realized he was having nightmares about spiders and set about learning all he could about them.
I think some of my darkest non-con torture stories were largely a scream of anguish.
And probably a healthier way to express it than a good many other methods I can think of! I've never gone that direction although my mother considered the poetry I wrote in high school very dark and troubling. "Do I need to be worried about you?" she'd ask, so I stopped showing them to her. To me it was all about word-play (c'mon what high school student doesn't go through a "dark phase"?) but in hindsight perhaps she was onto something.
It can be an expression of intense internal pain but it can also be something that I just enjoy reading.
I guess I can understand that; angst probably works that way for me. (Buffy waking up in her own coffin is one of the most horrifying images of the series. Do I hate it? Yes. Have I watched that episode repeatedly? Yes.)
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Date: 2013-11-14 04:41 am (UTC)Oh absolutely. for me, for instance, I can't read spanking fics. I have bad memories from childhood. for other people I'm sure it's a a way to get a handle on those memories, and take back control for themselves. Sort of like my brother realized he was having nightmares about spiders and set about learning all he could about them.
I think some of my darkest non-con torture stories were largely a scream of anguish.
And probably a healthier way to express it than a good many other methods I can think of! I've never gone that direction although my mother considered the poetry I wrote in high school very dark and troubling. "Do I need to be worried about you?" she'd ask, so I stopped showing them to her. To me it was all about word-play (c'mon what high school student doesn't go through a "dark phase"?) but in hindsight perhaps she was onto something.
It can be an expression of intense internal pain but it can also be something that I just enjoy reading.
I guess I can understand that; angst probably works that way for me. (Buffy waking up in her own coffin is one of the most horrifying images of the series. Do I hate it? Yes. Have I watched that episode repeatedly? Yes.)