I began reading Tooth and Claw, a book that's basically meant to be like Pride and Prejudice but everyone is a dragon
I was really itching to try to read some fiction again; I feel my well of writing has gotten a bit too incestuous, especially when it comes to fiction
so far I've enjoyed it. I'm reading it aloud to myself and it's pretty fun :3
But my choice here has to do with other writerly issues...
A good example of me thinking like this is Homestuck. I was ride or die on it for the first few years. But I feel like at some point I hit a new plot element that was introduced and I just went "ok, this is just going to spiral out of control like Problem Sleuth" (it was the squid friends being implied to be evil iirc)
But as is obvious, that part where I feel like they lost me could have been the very point where others were hooked and I kinda find that there's this whole maximalist aspect to various universes, where people feel compelled to create new fan works and new lore and new theories that is super cool... But just not how I like things.
I'm very regretfully a bit of a hipster like that. I feel there tends to be little enjoyment for me in "geek" media and it's why I've always distinguished myself as a nerd, not a geek.
It's honestly my loss.