Yeah, I can understand that that would hit too close to home, in that case. Whoah.
(Sorry, kind of speechless here. There are situations or revelations for which there just doesn't *exist* an appropriate response...)
I do realise that the bunny is possibly in Very Poor Taste. Then again, most angst bunnies are based on something that is somebody else's very real trauma... this one is just a bit more uncommon, and therefore feels like more of a taboo. (I have an essay brewing about that - about whether, and how, to write fic about truly sensitive topics - because obviously it's something I'm also confronted with in writing The Man Who Fell to Earth...)
Oh. Wow.
Date: 2008-11-19 10:11 pm (UTC)(Sorry, kind of speechless here. There are situations or revelations for which there just doesn't *exist* an appropriate response...)
I do realise that the bunny is possibly in Very Poor Taste. Then again, most angst bunnies are based on something that is somebody else's very real trauma... this one is just a bit more uncommon, and therefore feels like more of a taboo. (I have an essay brewing about that - about whether, and how, to write fic about truly sensitive topics - because obviously it's something I'm also confronted with in writing The Man Who Fell to Earth...)