WHYYYY must the trope of "someone overhears a conversation, assumes it's about them, catastrophises without double checking any of the details, then once there's been enough drama and angst milked out of the situation, it turns out it wasn't about them after all" be so popular
@soph_sol it's easier to resolve your story's big problem if it was a fake problem in the first place. actual problems are harder.
@soph_sol @Betty the bit that always gets me is like—there is an actual real problem? if a character assumes random shit is about them and then freaks out rather than just talking to anyone involved then like…they are terrible at the kind of communication necessary for relationships. But the resolution is never ‘character x goes to therapy and learns to talk about their insecurities in an open and honest way with their loved ones’
@soph_sol @Betty yeah i always sit there during the HEA’s of those fics like, this is all going to happen the exact same way two months later, isn’t it. Which doesn’t feel v satisfying to me!
Agree that the underlying issues are much harder to solve but i wish they just wouldn’t write them if they didn’t want to address it, personally
@Satsuma @soph_sol I am persuaded those who write this sort of thing have never noticed that it is a problem