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aeide-thea · 4 years ago

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read some non-fanfic short stories tonight for the first time in... a while and like. felt good! getting my fiber in.

but also i feel like, fanfic is often doing specific things (about relationships, usually) and origfic is usually *not* doing those specific things, and like. super valid not to be interested in doing the fanfic things, i personally do in fact have interests beyond those things, but... then you gotta do some *other* things?

which is a stilted way of saying that i kind of felt as though the stories i read tonight were like, i don't know, eating celery, in the sense that they felt fibrous as i was chewing on them but afterwards i was like, i think most of that was just water? slash if they had a point it was about, like, the cyclic inescapability of systemic inequality which like. true and terrible but i don't know, i sort of expect a short story to bring me some kind of conceptual or emotional or spiritual revelation and i can't really say that an idea this well-established really qualifies?

anyway apologies for this 100% incoherent blog post i just feel like. wanted Reengaging with Original Art to be more rewarding than this!

#i mean i think the real lesson here is unfortunately 'you gotta Keep doing things until the cumulative effect is what you want'#like. one bodyweight rep is not going to be Satisfying but sometimes bodyweight reps are what you have the equipment to do #so you gotta just: keep at it until you feel it #anyway sorry 2 be dauphin of wild analogies tonight #i think the OTHER takeaway here is that it's been too long since i moved my body and it's coming out in my metaphors #uh.#bookblogging #(loosely)#journaling #i feel like actually my frustration with the two eps of sh*d*w and b*ne that i watched is kind of related #in that in both cases my issue was that the creators seemed to be attempting to substitute Flavor for substance #and like. i LOVE flavor? flavor is a huge part of the draw‚ i love being asked to enter into a different world! but you can't then have #empty characters and empty conclusions and be like‚ but... i gave you flavor!! flavor does not in itself constitute food #okay sorry now we're back in weird metaphorland again #and either you've taken my very vague point or you aren't going to‚ so‚ enough probably

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