[ SECRET POST #3058 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3058 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get that. I mean when I'm angry or depressed, I tend not to want happy happy. I tend to want to read death and destruction and the occassional "Rocks fall/Everybody dies" fic.

[intrigueing]

Weird, I'm exactly the opposite. When I feel happy and calm, I love reading dark or sad fic and I enjoy it a lot, I feel like I have a really strong interest and empathy with it. When I'm depressed or angry, I can't bear to read dark fic at all, and reading sad fic actively pisses me off, and I have to read sweet/fluffy/funny fic instead.

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I guess in a weird way it helps me to see my favorite characters going through worse shit that I am at that moment.

[intrigueing]

That makes a perfect sense, but I guess my brain just never does this. Instead of telling me "look, this is worse than what you're going through!" it tells me "EVERYTHING SUCKS FOR EVERYONE, THESE CHARACTERS INCLUDED, MWA HA HA."

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but I do the same thing as other anon. It's kinda cathartic when I'm down for me to vicariously experience awful things in a safe way.

It can be bad sometimes though and send me into a angst!fic spiral where I read angst because I'm depressed which makes me more depressed which makes me want to do nothing but read angst.

[sarillia]

I'm sometimes like this and sometimes like ayrt. Sometimes I'm just being mean to myself and going "here, these are people with real problems, try being sad for them for a while instead". If I'm being nice to myself then I prefer happy stuff when I'm in a bad mood.

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"here, these are people with real problems, try being sad for them for a while instead"

For some reason this never works on me with fictional characters, but it does with real life stuff. It sounds shitty, but I once got myself out of really deep in the dumps while reading this giant harrowing longread article on the drug violence in Juarez back in 2011 or something. Not in a "whew, I'm glad someone's suffering more than me!" way, but in a "wait, remind me, what was I whining about again?" way.

[sarillia]

I can see how it would work better with real tragedy. I think the fictional character route only works for me because I do it with my own stories I make up in my head and I get really into imagining myself into their place.