ghostsima replied to your post: nutmegbirch replied to...
It IS emotionally manipulative. But that’s kinda the point.
Yes, and feeling a work of art (music, theatre, writing, visual arts) is trying to emotionally manipulate me is the biggest turn off for me.
It's partly why I don't like the angst genre. "Oh wow, your life's really awful and you're going to write paragraph after paragraph about it - go ahead but I'm gonna stop reading right here and find something sharp and funny with a happy ending!"












