Treating real people like that when you're trying to coax a story from them is damaging and deeply immoral, and just I can't help but transfer most of my reaction to that over to fictional characters.
The story made me uncomfortable, though for slightly different reasons. I do imagine Mulder and Scully as real people, I always imagine my characters as real people, which is why I have such a hard time reading stories that torture or humiliate them. This is apparently an uncommon reaction among readers, and even many writers, since they are writing the stories I have such an aversion to. What I felt after finishing this was a need to look over the stories I had written, and even some I have been planning, for unwarranted character abuse, although considering what happened to the characters in canon in season eight and beyond, there isn't much that's off the table, is there? I wonder if stories got more extreme after that or if it had the opposite effect, with writers wanting to make up to the characters for what had been done to them?
Mulder's really not into guys
Yeah right.
Yeah, nice dig at those of us who read and enjoy slash. Vampire lady and Phoebe aside, for many seasons, there is little evidence that Mulder is into anything except his videos and his 1-900 numbers. There is certainly nothing to contradict Mulder having an interest in men, too.
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Date: 2009-12-21 04:37 pm (UTC)The story made me uncomfortable, though for slightly different reasons. I do imagine Mulder and Scully as real people, I always imagine my characters as real people, which is why I have such a hard time reading stories that torture or humiliate them. This is apparently an uncommon reaction among readers, and even many writers, since they are writing the stories I have such an aversion to. What I felt after finishing this was a need to look over the stories I had written, and even some I have been planning, for unwarranted character abuse, although considering what happened to the characters in canon in season eight and beyond, there isn't much that's off the table, is there? I wonder if stories got more extreme after that or if it had the opposite effect, with writers wanting to make up to the characters for what had been done to them?
Mulder's really not into guys
Yeah right.
Yeah, nice dig at those of us who read and enjoy slash. Vampire lady and Phoebe aside, for many seasons, there is little evidence that Mulder is into anything except his videos and his 1-900 numbers. There is certainly nothing to contradict Mulder having an interest in men, too.