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Grantaire, fanfic, and alcoholism

so in a lot of modern AUs, it seems to be a bit of a common trope in e/R fic that Grantaire stops drinking for Enjolras and even though he goes through withdrawals and becomes snappy or something, he ultimately prevails and Enjolras is happy and their friends are relieved and everything’s great.

and while I understand the appeal of that trope, it’s horribly unrealistic, and it definitely demonstrates to me that a lot of these writers either don’t know alcoholics or just don’t realize exactly what kind of disease alcoholism is.

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“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.” ”

—Charles Bukowski

“Alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having. 'Damn it, Otto, you're an alcoholic.' 'Damn it, Otto, you have lupus.' One of those two doesn't sound right.”

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Mitch Hedberg

gasp, you can be funny and have a decent political point at the same time without hurting anyone else

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