#Betan Therapy: simultaneously sorting out relationship quirks while convinced Cordelia’s marriage is an act of war and kidnapping

[zahri-melitor]

Reading again and exhausted by how many stories want to preach at me about how X is bad and actually the characters should get therapy.

Maybe I enjoy these characters because they are deranged (affectionate) and make choices that are bad for them, and I’d prefer you show me that something is wrong VIA THE NARRATIVE and its fallout rather than detailing a character to tell me this and then putting judgy end notes in about how People Shouldn’t Do X.

(Also I do not want my characters getting therapy thanks, this is boring, they should work out their issues over time by yelling a lot, or bottling them up until they explode from repression. Far more entertaining)

#one of the enjoyable things about being a Vorkosigan saga fan is I got over the excitement of Therapy Planet long ago #Beta is in many ways a terrible place and uses its socially engineered therapy in terrifying ways for social cohesion #Betan Therapy: simultaneously sorting out relationship quirks while convinced Cordelia’s marriage is an act of war and kidnapping