God is a fanfiction author. Why do bad things happen? God's writing angst. Good things happen? Tooth-rotting fluff. Why does God write these things to begin with? Because they love the world and the characters within it. I realize this is basically a repackaging of "God has a plan"/"All part of God's plan", but it still feels better to me. I understand fanfic writers, I understand why they put their favorite characters in the most horrible, traumatic situations they can imagine. Maybe God isn't one fanfic writer, they're ao3 personified, an army of weirdos writing about Blorbo from their shows, but Blorbo is you and me. I'm not even religious, but I grew up in America where people can't shut up about God, so I feel I'm entitled to have my opinions.