"I don't want fiction to be petty validation fantasies.
Now that I'm an adult and have been utterly broken, I only want the meanest, grittiest stories, populated only by monsters and losers.
Why are you smiling?"
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I went thru a period in my 20s where I read gritty. Now I don't, mostly, because yeah, I've been broken a couple times. I don't need to read gritty, I live that shit. (Nor do I need to read existential despair, I can have as much of that as I want, whenever I want.)
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I read/watch gritty (and other things). I enjoy it.
But I note how often peope use dark stories to reify their cynicism (while attacking stories w/different tone).
It's a bit pathetic, really.
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