This is a great story...in theory. I really enjoy parts of this story, but deep down, I know the only reason I finished is cause of sunk cost fallacy. I usually drop a story if I've just gotten too far in and not enough is engaging me, but this one, I really just wanted to see the happy ending. But honestly, the story really shouldn't have been as long as it was. I reread this story a few times, but at some point, whenever I'd come back, I got lost, I felt tired that I was yet again watching SA, or I was just exasperated. It's very needed to see rep for victims, but there's a point where explicitness is overdone, and it's being done just to show it.
I think I'm a lil bit of a hypocrite, maybe. I can read these kinds of things because I'm comfortable enough to know I specifically can handle it. I've read things like Stigma, which explores themes like this, albeit on a lesser scale. But at some point, I think I gotta ask myself, is this serving to respect victims, or just show it off like trauma porn and shock value. Again, I love parts of this story, glad I saw it to the end, but I felt gross sometimes by how often I'd read a chapter and it was just...more SA. Just cause.
This is a great story...in theory. I really enjoy parts of this story, but deep down, I know the only reason I finished is cause of sunk cost fallacy. I usually drop a story if I've just gotten too far in and not enough is engaging me, but this one, I really just wanted to see the happy ending. But honestly, the story really shouldn't have been as long as it was. I reread this story a few times, but at some point, whenever I'd come back, I got lost, I felt tired that I was yet again watching SA, or I was just exasperated. It's very needed to see rep for victims, but there's a point where explicitness is overdone, and it's being done just to show it.
I think I'm a lil bit of a hypocrite, maybe. I can read these kinds of things because I'm comfortable enough to know I specifically can handle it. I've read things like Stigma, which explores themes like this, albeit on a lesser scale. But at some point, I think I gotta ask myself, is this serving to respect victims, or just show it off like trauma porn and shock value. Again, I love parts of this story, glad I saw it to the end, but I felt gross sometimes by how often I'd read a chapter and it was just...more SA. Just cause.