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cuddyclothes ([personal profile] cuddyclothes) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans2020-05-20 10:16 am
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What Would We Do Without Our Fictional Characters?

I just said that to a fellow fan. And then I thought, what would we do without our fictional characters?

Which also made me think, what sort of comfort or coping mechanism do you get from your characters/pairings?

For myself I find writing fanfic (lately only in my head) helps me escape from the hellscape that is America these days. And reading fanfic about my favorite pairing is soothing in a way TV and other forms of reading aren't. It's like getting my emotions massaged.

How do other people feel?
sathari: Tony Stark from IM1, caption "beautiful fucked-up man" from "Building a Mystery" (Tony Stark is a beautiful fucked-up man)

[personal profile] sathari 2020-05-21 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Cosigning so much of this!

(And especially the part about the super self-indulgent AU--- mine is for the MCU/Devil Survivor 2 crossover I mentioned on this comm before, and I'm a consultant to both SHIELD and JP's and friends with an assortment of the characters from both, lol.)