[ SECRET POST #6737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6737 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

That's understandable, OP. On the other hand, I've never been able to stomach dystopian fiction. It's too depressing for me even when politics/current events/real life is going well.

How do other genres work out for you? It sounds counter-intuitive, but I like murder mysteries because even though something terrible happened, it makes me feel better to have competent people actively working to address the problem.

[(Anonymous)]

This is funny to me because I've kind of been burnt out on SciFi lately because none of it is optimistic or hopeful anymore. It's all grimdark dystopias ~in space~ and I am not about that.

But I absolutely understand where you're at. I go through phases where I can't engage with optimistic or hopeful anymore because it just seems so sad and unrealistic. I tend to swing back and froth between "no hope" and "defiantly hopeful".

[thewakokid]

You don't gotta live like that, hermano.

If its clinical, there are treatments.

If its environmental, change your habits.

If its social, remember you curate your own experiences.

I'm not saying there are easy fixes for everything, but there are fixes out there. Your continued suffering is not necessary for the world to become a better place, you have the freedom to choose how much of the world you want to care about at any given time.

"Its not my problem" and "Its not something I should be fixing" and "Its not a thing that needs my attention" don't let anyone shame you for telling yourself this.

[philstar22]

I have the opposite problem. So much media has become so dystopian. I don't want realism. I want escapism. I want happy. I want worlds where good things happen and happy endings happen (even if they have to be earned).

[thewakokid]

This tracks with my experience much more closely, tbh. But I offer this advice: People been writing books for literally hundreds of years. There's no reason to buy new shit that we know will be shit, when you can pick up some 1920's scifi.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe try some older works? Andre Norton almost always has happy endings and hope for the future, even if the present in the novel kinda sucks. Her protagonists always end up better off and less lonely than they were before.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of feel like, unless you have a specific sub-genre in mind, that there's a lot of sci-fi out there that isn't optimistic. That, in fact, there are a few that you think are going to end on a hopeful note, but instead end on a gotcha. And there are others where the main protagonist survives, but the entire setting is still pretty messed up.

[(Anonymous)]

History is not a straight line. It has downs, sometimes spectacularly huge ones -- but it has spectacular ups, as well.

It may be dark now, but there will be bright moments, again.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, OP. I can't suspend my disbelief for stuff that's too hopeful, and I can't endure stuff that's too grimdark- I might as well just go watch the news. I wish I had a good answer for you. I'm sorry this is the hand we were dealt.