Villainous Fiction Dependency

[tealin]

This is the exact moment I knew I was in big trouble:






On one hand, I don't know how I'd've gotten through last week without this show ... on the other I can literally (literally!) feel the dopamine coursing through my veins when I'm watching it, which ... is a little alarming?

Back on the first hand, it's good to have something to take the stress off and bring on the happy, even if it's a neurochemical kind of happy (though, what isn't?). But on the other hand again, maybe actual coping strategies are of more long-term value than hitting the escapism again? But then, on a foot, this is, in a bizarre way, helping me process things? (More on that later.)

Other foot as yet unclaimed by a rhetorical standpoint. Stay tuned.

Comments

[la_rainette]

What happened last week? (Unless you mean the news on this side of the Atlantic, in which case I understand). Also, WHAT IS THIS SHOW? :D

(Says she who never has the time to watch anything but still hopes that someday... somewhere... she will get to sit down and WATCH SOMETHING NEW QUIETLY, DAMMIT.)

[tealin]

Gosh what didn't happen last week? It was mostly US news, yes, but we're in our own mudhole here, so there's no getting away from it really. Plus trying to rush out a piece for an art show and get all my ducks in a line for the trip and doing taxes and just thinking about travel and argh.

The show is A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix! Aaaaaaah!! I highly recommend it if you can find the time ... Froglet might like it too, it's based on a series of *technically* kids' books – kind of like Roald Dahl as done by Edgar Allan Poe – but there's so much more going on. If I can find any time between now and next Wednesday I need to write a big thinky post on it, but for now it's all flailing and dopamine hits.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I hope you *do* write a thinky piece on it! I've been really enjoying watching you geek out over Snicket again :D

-K

[tealin]

I'm glad someone is enjoying it ... the critical self-aware side of my brain is looking at me going 'Really? This? Now?' But ohhhh it's just like the old times and that's nice. Happy you're on board the Nostalgia Express – now we just need M!

[(Anonymous)]

Heck yes I'm on the Nostalgia Express! Please tell that critical self-aware side of your brain to SHUSH. I think a little escapism is okay, and doesn't have to stop you from finding other long-term coping strategies.
-K