#for some reason academic writers refuse to engage with positive emotions as a loadstar of the human condition

[hawnks]

One of the most frustrating things about writing about love in a group of peers that exclusively wrote literary fiction about being depressed was that everyone was constantly convinced that the relationships in my pieces were romantic. Absolutely gormless perspectives. You've never been willing to die for another person? Someone who isn't your lover or even your friend? You've never been soulbound by someone who you both admire and resent because whatever rotten mud they sprouted from borne you as well? Your outlook lacks both curiosity and conviction smh