Thanks. I guess it's because I didn't show the scenes in all their gory detail?
I've had this happen before. There was one story that I thought wasn't dark at all, possibly because when I was working on it I'd been going through ending variations and some of them did work out to happy endings. The version I posted (http://dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com/19371.html) did not have a happy ending. I should have realized when velvetwhip commented on how dark it was, but noooo. Then the mod from darker_vault said "come post it here". I still didn't think it was dark. I still didn't think it was dark. When I got the "I really want to hit you now" comment, that's when I figured it really must be dark!
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I've had this happen before. There was one story that I thought wasn't dark at all, possibly because when I was working on it I'd been going through ending variations and some of them did work out to happy endings. The version I posted (http://dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com/19371.html) did not have a happy ending. I should have realized when velvetwhip commented on how dark it was, but noooo. Then the mod from darker_vault said "come post it here". I still didn't think it was dark. I still didn't think it was dark. When I got the "I really want to hit you now" comment, that's when I figured it really must be dark!