#honestly i intended this as mindless entertainment when i had covid but i did find the initial drizzt books to kind of be this?

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I myself just been wondering if it was like the world is shit I just want a happy ending. I can get behind I won't like it but hey I'll keep watching. I am enjoying the way you are explaining the way you seeing the outcome, your feeling on and the critical thinking applied. I have thoughts that I can't really properly put into words so your anons and replies have been most helpful thanks everyone.

Hi anon, thank you!

See, here is my problem: I have never understood the concept of fluff as comfort, at least for like, worry and sadness. Fluff is like, for if I am tired or not feeling well (and even then I tend to go for not that intellectually demanding but not Pure Sugar), but when I think back to my comfort rewatches when I have genuinely been going through it and sad (normal) or Sad (Actual Depression) they've often been like, bittersweet. I find Overwhelmingly Happy Everything's Ok to ring false, no matter my mood, and even if I'm watching something about gods and dragons and wizards, as I often am, I need that groundedness in reality, of things being kind of bad but ending up with something meaningful and hopeful. Honestly, a lot of my comfort watches or reads are about a death, literal or figurative, and people picking up after that (with the loss still standing). "Everything will be okay and none of the bad things will have mattered" does not comfort me in the slightest; "things have been terrible and gotten better and the way this pain will change you will not destroy you" does.