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What are some themes you wish were explored more in stories???
*NOT TROPES* I wish motherhood and specifically imperfect motherhood was explored more from the point of view of the mother, one of my favorite and flawed characters is Cat from A song of ice and fire and she messes up and is flawed but she's is such a good character and such a great representation of motherhood
i wish we had more stories that actually realistically depicted the amount of trauma a rape victim goes through. for the amount of rape that we have in stories on here, i've seen it only happen a handful of times maybe. i wanna see the consequences, i wanna see the healing process, i wanna see the abuser actually getting punished according to the l...... 5 reply
Mental health disorders or disabilities, in general. often times it's brushed over in the context of the story if the focus is for example romance. Physical disabilities in stories mainly focus on deaf or blind characters which is fine but I'd be interesting to see stories with disabilities like sleep disorders or ones that deal with chronic pain. ...... 1 reply
Therapy.
Whether one of the characters experienced something traumatic and has to go through therapy or the couple or even a family was going to therapy to work on their communications and feelings
But I also understand why it isn't? As someone who writes I don't like writing about certain topics I've never experienced for myself nor have done th...... 2 reply
Not sure if it counts, but villains being villains simply for the love of the game, or villains having actual fleshed out backstory’s and not stuff the creator put little thought into for pity points. 1 reply
Mental illness, i wish they had this more like realistic mental illness story, i wish they don't brush it off by mc making out to someone and suddenly they r good, like i wish they deepened it like its the main story 1 reply
Guilt. Guilt in general. Especially guilt being the focus of the story, or even just a well-fleshed out villain who struggles with guilt. I don’t mean “ooo I miss my wife and kids :/“ I want “I’m gonna tear my hair out and throw up, I hate myself”
Maybe I’m projecting teehee 1 reply
