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Thinking about tropes, and comfort, and self care, and squicks and triggers and blocking this morning, and how different they are for everyone.

What’s comforting to one person, might be a squick or trigger to someone else, and vice versa.

Since we’ve been talking about our feelings on tropes today already, we’re going to share some of our squicks and some of our comfort tropes.

Squicks and triggers (things Sinister system has trouble reading to various degrees)

  • “baby fever”/characters talking about how much they want babies
  • Motherhood
  • Pregnancy (cis fem especially)
  • breeding kink between humans
  • Nuclear family portrayed positively
  • self/reader insert as a parent
  • parents disciplining children in any positive context
  • characters with a strong, positive relationship to the christian god portrayed in an unambiguous context
  • adventurous characters settling down into heterosexual lifescript relationships. (ex. supers who get married, retire and have babies and jobs)
  • vanilla sex between married het couples
  • gender nonconforming female characters getting feminine makeovers
  • gender nonconforming characters changing to preforming their assigned gender at birth being portrayed positively
  • abusive or noncon shipcest

Comfort tropes (things Sinister system finds comforting or relatable to read about to various degrees)

  • villainous or evil characters being portrayed as genuinely capable of loving without being ‘reformed’.
  • characters shown coping poorly with mental illness
  • characters being supportive of other characters coping poorly with mental illness
  • characters who repeatedly hurt one another but forgive each other and love each other
  • characters who are typically ‘unlovable’ being shown love
  • queer families, poly families, nonstandard family relationships
  • adventurous characters maintaining a loving relationship while they still continue their unusual lifestyle
  • characters being allowed to grow from their mistakes
  • characters who are loved despite the hurt they’ve caused in the past
  • characters who continually struggle with unhealthy habits, cycles, and relationships
  • shipcest portrayed in a positive and loving light

Sorry for kinda ranting! /Gen/lhI’m someone who only draws their fuck up ships in a cute way.I’ve dealt with things in my life, Which arguably aren’t that bad, but had lasting effects on me. Just ignoring those moments in my life Have never worked, they come back to me in my weak points. So when I started reading I found the genre a Fic, forbidden love, but at the end it was a happy ending. it was perfect for me as I was already a fan of romantic stuff in general, this allowed me to relate to it but also get the happy ending I don’t feel like I ever got. It gave me something I needed to focus on that didn’t just remind me of how things were, and didn’t make me feel alone.I’ve also seen people that drawing things they relate to  in a cutesy way is the opposite helpful. And that’s completely valid, it’s just best we avoid each other and respect boundaries put in place.My therapist encourages me reading, drawing, and reminds me I’m not a monster for my interest in fiction. Even if my life was completely different, and I was happy from the gecko, maybe I’d still have the same interest, who the hell knowsAnti’s having such a terrible effect on my mental health, ironically for them, has only pushed me to focus more on the coping mechanisms that worked, ie: The ones they hate.Am I aware that what I draw is bad in life? Yes absolutely. Which is why I always tag everything I post appropriately, so it can be avoided by those who might not find help with it or find it gross.  I do my part by putting warnings and making sure it’s in appropriate places. I wish other people could do their part by looking at it critically,  and avoiding what they don’t like.

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Hey anon, it’s Harry. Thanks for sharing this with me.

Honestly I can relate, personally, because I also prefer to write my own fucked up ships as sweet and happy. I enjoy a lot of shipcest, and I am ONLY interested in loving and consensual shipcest relationships.

Other people in the system like much rougher content, dubcon, angst, but personally I really only like fluffy content even when it’s between screwed up people in a screwed up relationship.

Everybody has different preferences, and everybody comes out of their trauma with a different reaponse.

No matter what antis say, please listen to your therapist and keep enjoying the fiction that makes you feel better, anon. You are not doing anything wrong.

–Harry