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[shadowkat]

1. People who hate Bridgerton are watching S3 (they've seen S1-2 and more than once) and are tweeting about how much they hate it. Why? Why do this to themselves? And why subject the rest of us to it? If you hate it? Don't watch it. (I don't like Ripley, Baby Reindeer, or half a dozen sitcoms and reality shows - so I do not watch them. And I gave up on YellowFace because I didn't like it.)

I've never understood this. People used to do it with Buffy and Angel too, also with soaps, American Idol, and various reality shows. They'd hate watch and post about it. Why?

I don't hate watch or hate read. If I "hate" something (or don't enjoy it) - I don't watch it. Or read it. I stop. If there's nothing interesting or intriguing - it's done. There's enough stories out there - that I do not need to waste my time hate-watching or hate-reading things.

Why do people do this to themselves? Worse? Post on it and subject everyone else to it? Is it boredom?

I've decided boredom is toxic to the human condition. It brings out the worst in everyone. And it's made worse by no one willing to admit they are bored. It's as if there is a stigma against admitting it. Instead everyone goes on social media and whines about other things.

2. I was discussing with mother my difficulty in focusing in regards to a story or artwork. My plots tend to have errant subplots, and multiple side characters that go off and do their things. Also I can see everyone's point of view and want to write it.

Mother: you've always had an over-active or highly active mind. It has a lot going on.

Might be why I struggle with sleeping. I've tried meditation but too much of it - seems to result in brain fog.

We're currently trying to figure out why I keep falling asleep at roughly 10 am each day. I nod off and struggle to keep my eyes open for about two hours. (And I've had a caffeniated beverage, eaten nuts, a poached egg and greens...). Mother thinks it might be my medication. I don't know. Doesn't appear to be - it's more than four hours after I took it.

3. Came up with an idea - to write mini-synopsis or explanatory blurbs of each of the stories I'm working on. That way I'll know which one to focus on - the one with the clearest synopsis, summary statement.

I'm also, as an exercise of sorts, seeing if I can cut a novel that is 890 pages down to 490. I got it to 690 so far. And if I can ruthlessly revise it, but keep the principle story intact.

At any rate - to date: I've written four mini-synopses. Went back to the first one - which is the story I'm revising. This idea was pitched by Book Twitter - where they suggested that you might want to work on writing brief synopsis or summary statements of your work while you were revising or writing it, because it might help you better understand what it is about, what you are going for, and focus it better or make it gel better. Can't quite remember how they worded it, sorry.

I have about two more to go, no wait, three more. Sigh. I don't lack in ideas. Just time and mental space to write them all down.

Anyhow I've started doing this - as a way to break myself out of my creative block/depression. I got shut down and I'm trying to free myself.
Last year I had all this creative momentum, then somewhere around July or August, I shut down.

I keep discarding ideas as impossible or I'm not good enough. Bad mojo.
So, I am hunting ways to kick that habit. To date - I discarded a web series about my nutty workplace (generalized of course), and a web comic fantasy (because I didn't think I could draw it). Also an embroidery of a sunflower against the sky on a pillow.

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[conuly]

Have you always had caffeine in the morning?

[shadowkat]

No. It's been sporadic? Lately I've been doing black tea. But for a bit I didn't do it at all. And I can't drink coffee. But I've been drinking the tea for over a year now? Could that be it?

[conuly]

It's unlikely, but some of us have weird reactions to stimulants, including caffeine. Which, yes, can include "it makes us sleepy". My mother used to take coffee at bedtime! My older nibling, the one time they took a caffeine pill, slept through three periods of school and was groggy the rest of the day.

[shadowkat]

Oh, I've had that weird response to things. Alcohol tends to calm me down, but keep me awake. It never puts me to sleep. And caffeine was putting me to sleep for a bit in school - I was addicted to it, and probably built up a tolerance. (I went off of it - because it made me jittery. Now, over thirty years later, I usually get wired from it.)

I tried to have herbal tea after the caffeine tea - still nodded off between 10-12:30. Told co-worker, she said to remind her - and we'd check it out on Monday.
It happens on weekends too - it's not isolated to weekdays. Very odd.

[mefisto]

I'm mystified by hate-watching too, but I also don't understand why some people feel the need to go to fan sites and tell everyone how bad their show was. I mean if you didn't like it, fine. But I don't see the point of going out of the way to yuck everyone else's yum.

[shadowkat]

I never understood that either. Do people just like to pick fights on the internet? Why?

I get it - if the person goes from loving something to despising, or is really disappointed that it didn't go the way it did in their heads - been there, done that, have the battle scars. But, to hate it from the get go? Or to relentlessly continue to thrash it - for years? Or days even? Let it go already. Life is to short to expend all that energy on something you hate. Let people like it. It's subjective anyhow.

[svgurl]

As someone who barely makes the time to watch things they like, I don't get the hate watching either. You're right about people being bored - or they want to be intentionally inflammatory or get attention. Then again, I think people intentionally find ways to upset themselves in general. I know I've had to work on it myself, and I'm still need to learn to ignore comment sections when I know someone in there is going to annoy me.

[shadowkat]

Then again, I think people intentionally find ways to upset themselves in general. I know I've had to work on it myself, and I'm still need to learn to ignore comment sections when I know someone in there is going to annoy me.

Have similar issues. There's this need to take my frustration out on - something? And there are various social media platforms that are tailor made for that sort of thing? Twitter in particular is. (Excuse me, X.) It's set up for people to voice negative opinions and fight.

And let's face it? People can be annoying at times. And there's way too many bored people on social media.