->Arrow

Obviously, I can't tell you what other authors do, but I would literally cry right through the writing of something like this. I touch-type, which would be good, because I would not be able to see through the tears.

Now, I can write sad stuff in other fandoms, or sad original stuff. I usually feel sad while doing it, but it doesn't destroy me the way a tragedy involving Ray and Fraser will do.

So I don't usually read them. I sometimes make exceptions for death stories that have "happy" endings, like this one. Where they get to be together in the afterlife. But that doesn't mean I find the stories easy to read, and I don't often reread them because they still hurt. I looked at this one because of my great respect for Arrow as an author. I don't ignore anything she writes, not even for a good reason. So I looked. Carefully. Looked at the end first. Because, and this is the other thing, the better a writer is, the more she can hurt you with a tragic story.

DS is an exception for me in my fannish reading. There's something about it that just makes me need it to not be tragic. It's also the only fandom in which I care for kidfic and AUs and other crack. So...I got nothin'. I can write sad stuff, I just choose not to. And if I were to write it in DS, it would have negative effects on my psyche, I think. *sighs*

P.S. Thank you for gluing me. I needed it. Ray is necessary like air! Preach it, sister! :)