Since it’s becoming more and more frequent that people here are surprised, or even nervous, whenever I do something that doesn’t involve the complete physical and psychological destruction of a Fluffy and its family, I’ve decided to do a little bit of self-reflection.
So here are all the Hugbox stories in the BFM-Verse, ranked by how Hugboxy they are. Hopefully this will prove to people that I’m not all blood and guts.
Even more physical trauma, even more emotional damage. Herman once again saving the lost and the broken. Story not finished yet, no guarantee of a 100% happy ending. Expect bittersweet once I’ve finally got it finished up.
I mean, all but the first one include a caveat of either “Includes abuse or it’s tied to an abuse piece”. But you have indeed done happy endings.
It’s more likely the violence and bad endings/happiness and good endings ratio in your stories that makes people go: “HWAAAAAT? BFM’S FLUFFIES BEING (moderately) HAPPY? AND NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE RAPING AN ORPHANED FOAL? HERESY!”
But that’s up to an author’s preferences, nothing bad about that.
Worst case scenario someone could tell you “dude sprinkle some optimism that doesn’t get eventually crushed in there”, but most of your stories are really good in and of themselves.