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I am conceptually quite into hanahaki but I think there’s been like three actual hanahaki fics ever that I liked.
#it’s the whole ‘you can’t force yourself to feel a certain way about a person no not even if it WERE their literal life in the balance’#alongside a certain ‘yes it really can hurt that much’#that second one is why I tend to dislike ones where it’s about confessing rather than having it requited - not in principle but because#in practice they tend to eschew that straight glamorization* of the pain#and at some point if not all the way through go ‘wasn’t that silly of you?’#when to me the POINT of Hanahaki (and you could do this with the confessing version but people usually don’t)#is the opposite#it’s to validate how difficult it is#hm okay I just realized what was different about one of the ones I liked!#yes the love was secretly requited and they were both coughing up flowers#but at no point was there a hint that it could have been avoided#it was Downton Abbey Thomas/Edward and like#they were Kept from being together by circumstance#and the flowers enabled people who cared about them to realize what might be happening and move the earth to change the circumstances#there was no ‘you sillies it was requited all along!’ feeling#wow ratio of tag content to post content really goofy here
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