honestly? sirius black managed to get himself together enough to escape a hell he’d been living in for years, so he could be with his loved ones, not once but twice in his life and that’s so inspiring for my depressed self
[please dont add any angst to this, it’s a mental health positivity post]
i mean hurt/comfort is by far my favorite genre, but for fuck’s sake i need h/c fics where one’s issues aren’t magically fixed by their significant other. and also where it’s just not “the hurt and then the comfort”. i need the relapses, the mistakes, the set backs, the “why is healing so long”. and also moments where said s.o has their own problem and can’t help as well as before, or just dont know what to do. and also fics where the person who is hurting actively works to feel better and acnowledge that they are the ones who did the hard work. and fics where a friend is more helpful than a lover. and a fic where the comforting character isn’t always available, practically or emotionally, to help.
because i get that sometimes you need a simple fic where someone hurts and is saved, i need it too sometimes, but i also really need the more realistic fics where it isn’t so easy but the character succeeds anyway.
Fuck JKR 