What are some themes you wish were explored more in stories???

i wish we had more stories that actually realistically depicted the amount of trauma a rape victim goes through. for the amount of rape that we have in stories on here, i've seen it only happen a handful of times maybe. i wanna see the consequences, i wanna see the healing process, i wanna see the abuser actually getting punished according to the l......   5 reply

Mental health disorders or disabilities, in general. often times it's brushed over in the context of the story if the focus is for example romance. Physical disabilities in stories mainly focus on deaf or blind characters which is fine but I'd be interesting to see stories with disabilities like sleep disorders or ones that deal with chronic pain. ......   1 reply

Therapy. Whether one of the characters experienced something traumatic and has to go through therapy or the couple or even a family was going to therapy to work on their communications and feelings But I also understand why it isn't? As someone who writes I don't like writing about certain topics I've never experienced for myself nor have done th......   2 reply

Not sure if it counts, but villains being villains simply for the love of the game, or villains having actual fleshed out backstory’s and not stuff the creator put little thought into for pity points.   1 reply

Mental illness, i wish they had this more like realistic mental illness story, i wish they don't brush it off by mc making out to someone and suddenly they r good, like i wish they deepened it like its the main story   1 reply

Victims not ending up with their rapists and the rapists meeting the end they deserve but I know that's not happening even in a million years.   1 reply

trauma and ptsd. I have read so many stories where the main character goes through the most fucking TRAUMATIZING thing and then once it's over it's like it never happened. I want to see the nightmares the fear the memory loss. At least a reaction. it doesn't have to be a tragedy but at least make them slightly human. What did your character LEARN t......   1 reply

Guilt. Guilt in general. Especially guilt being the focus of the story, or even just a well-fleshed out villain who struggles with guilt. I don’t mean “ooo I miss my wife and kids :/“ I want “I’m gonna tear my hair out and throw up, I hate myself” Maybe I’m projecting teehee   1 reply