Originally Posted by Sandy (Post 496247)

There's a vast world of psychology behind this, but human beings crave darkness and darker themes as much as they need happiness and nice themes. For some the need for darkness is more intense, but everyone needs a balance. Usually, whether aware of it or not, one may need darkness or unhappy themes in their life to feel real--I know that I myself, along with many other people, may feel kind of surreal if there isn't something negative nagging away in the background, from the scale of a minor worry to a serious traumatic event. (I'm actually at my calmest when something Really Bad is happening, because I can focus fully on getting through it and recovering rather than worrying blindly about the future.) Other people use negative things to help them deal with negative things in their own life. Maybe they feel consoled by the pain of the characters, or they feel strongest when they're overcoming something negative, whether it is a real-life problem or the deaths/suffering of several characters. Most importantly (for me, at least), is that Scary Things happening in books break the illusion of false perfection that I absolutely loath modern literature for. The characters are fake. They're like dolls, perfectly living in a perfect world, and overcoming their problems perfectly without showing any human weakness, and leaving me, the reader searching for a character to relate to, out in the cold and oftentimes very, very ticked off. There are so many good books I've read that have been ruined by a lack of flaws and Bad Things happening to the characters. I remember actually getting so angry at this one book, where every character was attractive, had a love interest, and was 100% physically strong and confident with no real world problems... Idk. That's my slice of pizza on the matter.

TL;DR: Depending on the person, everyone needs a certain amount of pain in their life to feel real, therefore they are able to turn to dark or dystopian literature as a release.

As for fantasy literature, though, I gave up on that genre after like two books. To be completely honest, I'm really done with elves and dragons and wizards and magic/magyk/magik/mageic and the entire fantasy genre, which carries the same air of heavy Germanic and Nordic mythology-influence. So done with magic especially, though. Oh, not to mention vampires and demons. I haven't read a book in like three years because of how done I am with the idiotic writers these days. Also, can we please stop the random genetic mutation stuff? Please? I just.. . I ... *breathes* *leaves to go to the cliche-rant thread*


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That completely depends on which story you intend on writing, friend! uvu If you're referring to AG, just keep in mind the agreement we made several months ago. :> I'm sure your new story will be wonderful!




Happy 1st birthday! 8D

Originally Posted by EmmaR (Post 496411)

My dearest darlingest mother,

When I explicitly ask you not to tell my father something, for whatever reason (be it a reason that you know or something that you do not know), I expect you not to tell my father. When my father comes into the room wanting to talk to me about the thing that I EXPLICITLY told you not to talk to him about, it is a violation of my trust that I will remember when telling you things in the future. If I can't tell you things knowing that you will not share them, I won't tell you things at all.

Love,

Your most fabulous and insecure daughter

Originally Posted by Aynonomus_Angel (Post 496681)

Am I the only one who has worked on a math (Algebra to be exact) problem for an hour and sobbed uncontrollably about it?

Yeah?

Yeah, I probably am.

Originally Posted by Aynonomus_Angel (Post 496681)

Am I the only one who has worked on a math (Algebra to be exact) problem for an hour and sobbed uncontrollably about it?

Yeah?

Yeah, I probably am.

Originally Posted by AlgebraAddict (Post 496688)

I HAVE SO DONE THAT


don't look at me like that people my addiction takes a huge amount of effort sometimes

Originally Posted by Aynonomus_Angel (Post 496699)

That's okay. This happened to me today while working on my study guide and trying to figure out this problem:

The length of a rectangle is 5 centimeters less than twice its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 26 centimeters. What are the dimensions of the rectangle.

IT WASN'T EVEN THAT HARD!!!

Originally Posted by Aynonomus_Angel (Post 496681)

Am I the only one who has worked on a math (Algebra to be exact) problem for an hour and sobbed uncontrollably about it?

Yeah?

Yeah, I probably am.

Originally Posted by Aynonomus_Angel (Post 496681)

Am I the only one who has worked on a math (Algebra to be exact) problem for an hour and sobbed uncontrollably about it?

Yeah?

Yeah, I probably am.

Originally Posted by maxi (Post 496416)

:I Well... Definitely not AG. XD XD XD XD Nooo, I'm not starting up that crap again. I was going to start a mental institution in the future but that didn't go well and now I'm writing FW: DJ and this book about a fictional drug thing that connects with this thing and yeah. idk.