Why read dark fic if it terrifies you?

[roxy]

Why read dark fic if it terrifies you? is in it's proper place, at spn_darkside. Sorry for the inconvenience, oy!

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[fufaraw]

Hello ladies. Would you think of moving this conversation to the comm? That way other members will see it and chime in.

When I have a couple of good brain cells to rub together, I'll join in myself. This is a tasty topic.

[tabaqui]

Oh, man. I really just...don't. I read a few dark fics waaaaaay back when in the Buffy fandom, and regretted it. I don't mind dark that's like...things are bad, but we're figuring it out, it's going to be fixed kind of dark, but everything sucks, it's all blackness and despair and it never gets better dark? I just cannot. I'm left angry and depressed, which is *not* the reason i read fic!

And too much of it amounts to torture porn, which I can't stomach in fic *or* movies. So - yes, angst, unhappiness, sorrow, but in the end, it's fixed or overcome or over and things are good? I'm there. But endless sadness? (I've skimmed Acoustics 'verse a little, too.) I just cannot. I nope right out. Brainwashed-into-this-is-good 'good' ending doesn't work for me, either.

I like my happy happy joy joy! :)

[sailorhathor.livejournal.com]

This is more horror movie-related than specifically about SPN, but the movies that scare me the worst are the ones I love the most. My favorite movie of all time is the Japanese "Ringu," and its American remake, "The Ring." I thought the concept was going to be stupid - you watch a strange video tape and seven days later, you die. Whatever. But the Japanese know how to take a mundane object like a TV, something we all have, and make it so scary that you dread going to bed with one in your room. I seriously had nightmares for three weeks after viewing "Ringu." That does not happen with me!

Part of the problem was that I had a tv at the end of my bed at the time. You can imagine what I was dreaming when you think of what Sadako does at the end of the film. The fact that this movie could freak me out that bad only made me love it that much more.

Those are some of my favorite episodes of SPN too, the ones that have a really scary and/or inventive monster. "Scarecrow" and "Safe House" first spring to mind. I'm a total glutton for punishment there - the more a tv show/movie can make me look over my shoulder out of fear that I'll see something terrifying standing behind me, the more I worship it.