I do sometimes like bleak, hopeless stuff, because I feel like most fiction isn't, and occasionally I feel like I'm being confined too much by happy endings. So reading something really bleak feels a little like stretching, and then I can go back to sitting comfortably with the happier stuff. Also if I'm in a really bad place sometimes the thing I think want most is to read/watch something bleak. Although there are certain kinds of bleak that I have zero interest in, and plenty of moods where I'm not that interested either.
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Date: 2017-01-15 05:27 am (UTC)I do sometimes like bleak, hopeless stuff, because I feel like most fiction isn't, and occasionally I feel like I'm being confined too much by happy endings. So reading something really bleak feels a little like stretching, and then I can go back to sitting comfortably with the happier stuff. Also if I'm in a really bad place sometimes the thing I think want most is to read/watch something bleak. Although there are certain kinds of bleak that I have zero interest in, and plenty of moods where I'm not that interested either.