[ SECRET POST #3530 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3530 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Peridot, Jasper,and Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe]


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[Mr Max the Cockatoo (https://www.youtube.com/user/angeleyedboidan)]


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[Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid, Diana Reid]


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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/b9g5c2k.png

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, Peanuts is still awesome, though. I want to be very unambiguous about that.

[(Anonymous)]

Peanuts was great in the early days when Snoopy still acted like a dog. Once he turned into a floppy-eared eccentric person, not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

It definitely declined nut the good parts are fucking amazing is my point.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there is a point where it gets harder to be impressed with things. I don't think there a point where you can't find anything good, it just starts to take a lot more effort to hunt down things that you can enjoy, and they tend to be weirder and not necessarily as well known. Just my experience of course.

[(Anonymous)]

I hit that point, so I started reading fanfiction for all the stuff that was missing from most published work and shows. Then I got saturated on fanfiction, so I started rp'ing for what was missing from fanfiction. Then I got saturated on rp'ing and I don't know where to turn for novelty now.

[(Anonymous)]

This is so me, I go back to the fanfics I love regularly but there's nothing new and I lost the motivation to write much at the RP I'm part of because the replies from other people always are the same nowadays.

[grausam]

probably the latter. once you reach that point imo you need to like the medium itself (in this case, novels) enough to either derive a meta sense of enjoyment from the usual tropes and the way they get rehearsed with subtle variances 2) you go niche and avantgarde, which is a lot less accessible.

at least I found that I drop some media entirely at that point (anime, video games), while I can enjoy some one way or another (novels, fanfic).

[sparrow_lately]

I don't like fiction nearly as much as I used to, either, especially novels, and I don't know why. I still read all the nonfiction I can get my hands on, but I miss being absorbed in novels.

[(Anonymous)]

same here, man. when I was a wee tot, I used to be able to go to the card catalog (yes I'm old) and search up topics and come away with a stack of novels to read, and I devoured and apparently loved them all. but now? I have gotten to the point that I return books to the library after only reading 2 chapters because they're boring, unengaging, and so full of tropey shit you can spot a mile away.

I'm with you, I want to know what changed and how to get it back. If it's because I'm old and jaded instead of young and stupid, well...

[a_potato]

I really wish I had thought of your method when I was younger. Instead of going to the card catalogue, I'd just wander into the stacks and see if something interested me (which, hey, didn't have bad results, but it wasn't anywhere near as targeted).

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's time to vary your reading a bit? You probably haven't read "too much", but you might've oversaturated yourself with your go-to genres or types of story.

Pick up something new. Try some non-fiction. Shake it up a bit, and after a while go back to the old favorites with fresh eyes.

[likeadeuce]

Yes, this.

[(Anonymous)]

This is what I also thought.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

The sheer variety of fiction is staggering. OK yeah, maybe the bestselling and currently most popular books of a genre are similar, but those are just a tiny surface glimpse. Check out books from other genres, other countries, other eras, aimed at other target groups etc. If you don't bother looking, of course, you're not going to find anything.

It's also possible that you don't actually want to read at the moment and are forcing yourself out of some self-imposed obligation, and in this case no book will be up to snuff, because the potential enjoyment is spoiled before you've even read the first page. In that case, just take a break and don't bother with another book until you really want to.

[(Anonymous)]

I get this a lot.

Then I find a book which breaks open my favorite genres and I get giddy again

[(Anonymous)]

Is it that you were of a reader when you were younger, and now you are less of one? Because a lot of adult reads are either tropey as hell or dry as hell. Or both. And that makes it harder to be a good adult reader.

[feotakahari]

If published books bore you, read the stuff major publishers won't touch. Alternatively, I see a lot more variety in books for kids, especially ones published in the 80s and 90s.

[helenadax]

I still get that feeling from time to time, but yes, it isn't as easy as it was when I was a kid.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried reading books from foreign countries? With the Snoopy picture you used I'm assuming you're from a Western country, so try something non-American and non-European. It's not that other cultures don't have their own story tropes, but if they're new to you, they can still feel exciting and fresh.

[a_potato]

I've definitely experienced that sort of burn-out before. Rather recently, actually.

Try getting into new genres, or into non-fiction. Non-fiction has been my jam for a bit now, because there are just so many subjects, and information is constantly being added to most of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I've gotten to that point with fanfics, movies, most tv shows, comics and really just lots of stuff I used to enjoy. I just want something that's original and exciting and looks at things from a different angle. It's just keeps getting harder and harder to find something that hits those marks with me.

[darkmanifest]

Yeah. When I very rarely find an author who consistently gets me to a satisfying ending after a journey I enjoyed, I cling to them like a fucking stalker.

[(Anonymous)]

Pick up books outside your comfort zone.

I read a lot. And true, there's a lot of stuff out there that's mostly horse manure, but once in a while I pick up a true gem. I'm quite certain that there are lots of books worth reading, we just haven't found them all yet.

But I think you already know that. I guess the better question would be, what's really holding you back?

[(Anonymous)]

What are you reading, though? I feel like you about many mainstream novels, thrillers, slice-of-lifes, but I love innovative, diverse, twisty novels -- Ancillary Justice (the Imperial Radch trilogy) is a fantastic -- well, sci-fi -- example; I've generally discovered much better novels by not reading white male authors* any more.

* in b4 "SJW!11!!"