[ SECRET POST #2879 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2879 ⌋

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Comments

[kaijinscendre]

Have you ever had to stop watching/playing/reading something because of how emotional you were getting? If so, what?

I have been listening to the audiobook Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. It is about Louis Zamperini an Olympic runner and eventual WWII POW. It is such a stressful book (Zamperini goes through hell that is just getting worse and worse), that I often have to pause so I won't start sobbing at work.

I also stop listening to stuff because I get too excited for it! I stopped listening to the World War Z audiobook because it got to my favorite part and I didn't want to listen to it and it be over!

[philstar22]

Depends on what you mean by emotional. I have to be in the right mood to be able to watch Dark Knight. The first time I watched it, I was in a bad period with my depression, and I had to walk out because it was too overwhelming for me.

[kaijinscendre]

Ah yeah. I get that. There are some songs I associate with certain emotions.

[feotakahari]

I can generally handle the fictional stuff, at least in terms of sadness, but I had to walk out of a Holocaust documentary once. They were interviewing a hairdresser who cut people's hair before they proceeded into the gas chamber, and he started talking about the time folks came in who he recognized from his hometown. I think I've blotted the rest of it out of my mind.

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah. I had to pause watching Schindler's List when they were taking the kids away.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like Shoah.

I saw that 20 years ago and it still is haunting.

[kallanda_lee]

I do. Also sometimes I get over-excited with energy from it, so I have to put it down or so. It's hard to say what. I get it with a lot of stuff, even fanfic.

[kaijinscendre]

Oh yeah! I get that way about really fluffy fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Schindler's List.

Good God. I just. I couldn't.

[kaijinscendre]

Me too! Holy shit that movie was amazing. When they took the kids away on the trucks? I had to pause the movie because I was crying so badly.

[(Anonymous)]

it was the kid hiding in the latrine that broke me. I was pretty much the only person in the theatre watching a matinee, and I just couldnt'; stop sobbing.

[nayance]

Not sure if it counts, but I haven't watched past the S2E1 of American Horror Story. I have medical-related trauma and I wasn't really in the mood to watch something that explicit, and haven't got back into it yet.

There's this scene in Warchild where the main character realizes that he's probably never going to see his best friend again - he's in this position that's the stereotypical torn-between-two-worlds situation where he was raised (by a human) on an alien planet and was currently infiltrating humans as a spy. When he's to be taken back, his best friend offers to go along, and he says no, you don't belong here, just go.

And it's in this moment that he realizes that he's never going to get everything he wants: All of his relationships he made while infiltrating were under false pretenses, even with people he genuinely cared for, and the sense of belonging he momentarily felt wasn't his for those reasons. And it hurt so bad to watch him realize just how much he lost, and how stuck he was and would always be. I had to put the book down and finish the next day.

[kaijinscendre]

Is that Warchild by Karin Lowachee? It sounds interesting!

[nayance]

Indeed it is. I haven't read it in almost four years now, but it was brilliant. I completely and absolutely recommend it, even if it just seems the slightest bit interesting.

(And even if you're not a fan of sci-fi, it's primarily character focused. This, I sometimes feel, is a bit of a flaw, because while the worldbuilding is good, I think it could be better tapped into. But that's neither here nor there, I still recommend it.)

[cloud_riven]

When I got to the Red Wedding in the ASOIAF books, I was pretty mad and sad. I put the book down, went to go sit on my bed, and seethed for awhile. I was like, "man I do not want to flip open that next chapter unless someone is going to be sad about Catelyn with me all projecty style. why would i want to read this i'm so done." But because I actually really like when I'm affected, however positively or not, I settled and picked it back up after a solid hour of sour.

Timothy Findley's books do this to me as well. The Wars can be pretty unsettling, although Not Wanted on the Voyage is a roller coaster of it too.

While watching Gurren Lagann, I had to pause at a bunch of parts just to flap my hands around and get the oversquee out of my system.

I don't do this as often as when I was a kid, but beating bosses requires me to stop and perform the victory couch/chair dance party. Many roofs are raised when I try to be good at video games.

[kaijinscendre]

Man. I really hope my sister doesn't sadness!quit GoT when that happens. She almost stopped watching when Ned Stark died.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a book called The Girls Who Went Away about unmarried girls and young women in the mid-20th century US who got pregnant and were forced to give up their children for adoption. I was reading it at the library and had to put it in the return cart and leave without checking it out because I was crying and so enraged, I coukdn't stand to read any more.

[kaijinscendre]

I'm sorry. I think non-fiction books about the reality of the world (like the biography I am listening to) can be some of the worst. I remember reading a book when I was younger about the "missing" girls of China. It was heartbreaking.

[(Anonymous)]

Made a secret about this some time ago: Persona 3. Got spoiled about the ending, and it really kicked me in the guts. There were some other shitty things going on in my life at the time as well, and this was kind of the last straw that sent me right into a full blown depression. Couldn't finish playing it, haven't touched it since.

[kaijinscendre]

I am sorry you got spoiled, but do you think it was good that it did? Because experiencing it might have been worse?

[(Anonymous)]

In the end, I think it was a good thing, yes. It probably would have been pretty damn devastating to play it without knowing it.