Answer for question 4434.
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ladybug_archive[Error: unknown template qotd]I generally consider myself to be a pessimist. I fully believe in Murphy's Law and am rather cynical about mushy things like romance. And while I used to consider myself an optimist, I usually have always been cynical about such things. In spite of that, I used to be pretty perky and cheery as a teenager, and definitely optimistic. But that was a very long time ago. In many ways, I'm not the same person I was then.
That said, even I have a romantic side, if I like the pairing enough. It has to be pretty unique. And I adore friendship squee. But I generally consider that I write fairy tales, just about friendship rather than romance. That is not to say that I don't believe in lasting friendships (or lasting romance, for that matter), just that I don't believe very much in the type of friendships I usually write about, where the characters can feel fulfilled indefinitely by friendship and not always feel the need to actively seek romance. And where life's circumstances don't separate them. (And I balance all this while certainly trying to not make the characters codependent. I used to write codependency, but I'm really trying not to anymore.)
Reality is so depressing in so many ways that I prefer to write happy things. I don't even write too much angst anymore, although I do still like writing fics where someone is thought dead and then they aren't, because it's hard to imagine something more joyous than that. Mostly I write slice-of-life these days, or mysteries that aren't terribly dark and depressing. I burned out on the majority of dark fics. I can still occasionally write one, if I'm in the mood, but usually I'm imagining happier things ahead after the point that I'm writing about.
To summarize, I am a pessimist, but because I'm a pessimist, I'd rather think about happy places where depressing, pessimistic things don't happen or last. And I'm pretty okay with that.
That said, even I have a romantic side, if I like the pairing enough. It has to be pretty unique. And I adore friendship squee. But I generally consider that I write fairy tales, just about friendship rather than romance. That is not to say that I don't believe in lasting friendships (or lasting romance, for that matter), just that I don't believe very much in the type of friendships I usually write about, where the characters can feel fulfilled indefinitely by friendship and not always feel the need to actively seek romance. And where life's circumstances don't separate them. (And I balance all this while certainly trying to not make the characters codependent. I used to write codependency, but I'm really trying not to anymore.)
Reality is so depressing in so many ways that I prefer to write happy things. I don't even write too much angst anymore, although I do still like writing fics where someone is thought dead and then they aren't, because it's hard to imagine something more joyous than that. Mostly I write slice-of-life these days, or mysteries that aren't terribly dark and depressing. I burned out on the majority of dark fics. I can still occasionally write one, if I'm in the mood, but usually I'm imagining happier things ahead after the point that I'm writing about.
To summarize, I am a pessimist, but because I'm a pessimist, I'd rather think about happy places where depressing, pessimistic things don't happen or last. And I'm pretty okay with that.
