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Challenge #3

In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I know Snowflake is sunshine and rainbows and singing from the rooftops all the lovely and brilliant that is being in a fandom. But, let’s be honest. Sometimes--like with other things--there are sucky parts, heartbreak parts and just plain UGH parts. Rather than holding onto those slights and resentments, or burying them and pretending they don’t exist, just to have them slowly and almost imperceptibly seep into the rest of the challenges this month, why don’t we just let it all out?

For those of us who celebrate Festivus for the rest of us, this will be familiar. We call it “Airing of Grievances” and it is actually very satisfying, whether you do it tongue in cheek, get introspective or just literally scream.

Ugh. I'm fed up of ugly, dark, mean stories where everything is horrible all the time. Give me some hope, damnit. Give me some wonder and beauty and kindness. I'm starving for good things and yet every new series seems grittier and grimier than the last.

Likewise the real world. Give me some hope, please. Currently everything feels like bleeding to death slowly. How about some good news for once?

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FOR REAL.

I hate crapsack world stuff. I don't mind dark stories, or even full dystopian stuff... but when those work for me it's BECAUSE of the hope that comes through despite the bad things. I am so deeply tired of stories that are focused solely on being grimmer and darker and edgier and WORSE than the rest.

Yeah, DH is watching two series which are too dark for me side by side, switching from one to the other when it gets too much even for him. And since I'm sitting next to him, I'm watching them too. Ugh. It's making me feel a lot fonder of Amazon's Rings of Power because that at least has colour in it.

Bleh. Things that are just... unrelenting grimdark crapsack world stuff... I just don't *get it.* There's no appeal to me! And I know there are people who say the same about stuff I love, and so I realize there may be aspects of it that just aren't for me. (Your ~~Kink~~ Genre Is Not My Genre And That's Okay.) And I get burned out on too much all-happy-all-the-time-bubblegum too, so I realize there's room for a wide spectrum of stories being told, blah blah.

But with the nice, understanding attitude out of the way... I am sick to DEATH of grim/grit/dark/misery being considered somehow superior art! I don't care how much of a hippie it makes me sound like, WITHOUT SOME SENSE OF HOPE OR LOVE OR SOMETHING, THERE IS NO POINT!

*G* Exactly! I think that right at the moment we really could do with some stories that show there is something to look forward to

OMGs, yes!!!

<3 :)

Yes! I don’t mind it in fic because I can just click away and it’s also … written. But so many new tv series are just misery upon misery and no silver lining in sight! Everyone is dying or living in super dire circumstances, the world is going to shit, and we also have no budget for proper lighting anymore, as a treat. Ugh.

There’s so much dark and awful stuff in RL, I want some escapism in my media! I guess that’s why I’m so super hyped for the Barbie movie because it looks like silly meta fun with bright colours! Give me that!

LOL! Oh yes, it's also always so literally dark that you can barely see anything :) One of my pet peeves is things like The Vikings where everything is dark brown - that particularly annoys me because as a historical reenactor I know they ought to be wearing the brightest colours they could lay their hands on, and paint their buildings and ships and everything in the brightest colours. So not only are the stories incredibly macho in the sense of the only value is strength and violence, but it's not even good to look at.

I didn’t even know that the Viking houses would be brightly coloured until recently! It’s very typically Hollywood, to just have a certain look for locations or time periods – Middle Ages etc. is brown-grey and muddy, always; Mexico/Middle East is yellow, spy thrillers are cold blue. XD Suuuper annoying after a while…

And when everything is just pitch dark for “realism”, I just give up because realism or not, I want to see what the hell is going on! I’m able to suspend my disbelief for a bit, you know, what with the dragons and elves and stuff, so it’s not so hard to pretend that it would actually be super dark in this scene, but we wanted the viewers to see what’s happening.

Exactly! What happened to just shooting everything in blue light and pretending there's a bright moon out? It worked for the Lord of the Rings movies :)

This certainly resonates! I also come to stories looking for escapism and hope.

Thank you! I think we see enough grimness in real life!

Give me some hope, damnit. Give me some wonder and beauty and kindness.
This. *hugs* Hurt/comfort might be my favourite genre, but I don't like if if there isn't hope and kindness, and it's even better with beauty and wonder. I find myself currently more or less only rewatching and rereading old favourites as nothing of the new stuff appeals, or watching nature documentaries - but even with these I prefer older ones, as most of the more recent ones feel so "clickbaity" in how they are made, if that makes any sense.
*hugs*

I really wanted to watch that new dinosaur documentary! But sadly that one's only on Apple TV. Maybe it will leak out and onto Youtube one day and I'll watch it then. At least there is Good Omens 2 to look forward to, and I'm starting to enjoy Amazon's Rings of Power now I've persuaded myself to think of it as somewhat derivative original fantasy with nothing to do with Tolkien. But even that seems like it's allergic to the idea that sometimes wonderful, beautiful, spiritual things happen. All the numinous things that happen in it seem to be bad.

Hugs back