What's Wrong With the World? (A Book of Angry Rants)

The Self-Harm Cliché

You know how cute it is when you mutilate your own body and then have someone tell you your scars are beautiful? :)

Read that statement and tell me that isn't fucked up. Go ahead, try, I'll give you a minute to gather your bearings.

If you think that statement is fine, go ahead and leave because I am no mood for hate comments. But if you agree with me and believe that it's fucked up, stay and chat for a bit, fellow angry soul.

Self-harm is a bad thing, that should not be made fun of at all. Cutters should be accepted for who they are rather than what they choose to do with their pain. How would you feel if someone made fun of you for screaming or getting emotional?

But aside from that, self-harm is addictive and dangerous, it should not be disgustingly glorified in such a messed up way like it is in so many stories that people write these days.

I see this a lot in fanfiction. In my time, I've read a lot of it from a lot of different fandoms. But finding good, (not smutty) fanfiction can sometimes be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Not only can it have plot holes or non-stylistic technique, but a lot of fanfiction seems to glorify self-harm.

Our main protagonist has been through some bad stuff in her dark past. We probably know what it is and why she cuts from the huge info dump that the author just dropped on our heads.

After it's signified that the main character self harms, she meets a boy but feels insecure. Who is that boy? I don't know, maybe it's Kellin Quinn or Vic Fuentes or some other hot lead singer .

But no matter who the love interest is, he never tries to get the girl help. He just strokes her scars and makes her "feel beautiful".

Like okay, take a perfectly good fandom and just vomit all over it. I'd honestly people rather wrote pornographic content rather than whatever the hell they're doing now.

Maybe I'll write a fanfiction one day... maybe I won't, but all I know is that if my protagonist self harms, the love interest WILL GET HER HELP SO THE WOMAN HE LOVES DOESN'T DIE!!!