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Mar. 27th, 2022 18:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldabeSo, I'm planning a Social Media Break.
Whenever I'm bored (aka...a lot) I just pop open tumblr or sometimes twitter or even AITA on reddit to just get a quick hit of serotonin or something to keep my brain churning along. I do very occasionally doomscroll, but really I haven't logged into twitter since 2019 and I raaaarely go to my tumblr dash, so-oh wait! I do scroll facebook! I'm only offbeat sometimes.
Basically like, I'm not loving how social media can really get me down a lot. It's a little like roulette - is this time going to be a cool fanart or meta on a fandom I like, or the first step down a four day anxiety spiral? Such fun! I also wonder if the anxiety spiral is part of what is killing my ability to work on my own fic, which has been a major struggle for, um, years now. (Other options include: Pandemic, and Hell Job. I left Hell Job, and I can't do much about the pandemic, so you know, this seems worth a try.)
But as social media has become my automatic boredom cure, I'm literally gathering up a bunch of things to DO when I would just open a new tumblr tab. I've downloaded more mobile games for my phone, I've bought some KJ Charles ebooks that I know I can just open and browse, I'm getting romance novel and fic recs from friends (feel free to leave any in the comments!) and I'm just trying to find new quick and mobile Solutions To Boredom. Wish me luck?
I'll probably keep coming to Dreamwidth as my experience here has always been entirely different. Ha, maybe I'll even post more! And like, I'll follow links to social media stuff and all, I'm not cutting myself off from friends or anything. I'm just trying to modify my own habits. Let's see how it goes!
Whenever I'm bored (aka...a lot) I just pop open tumblr or sometimes twitter or even AITA on reddit to just get a quick hit of serotonin or something to keep my brain churning along. I do very occasionally doomscroll, but really I haven't logged into twitter since 2019 and I raaaarely go to my tumblr dash, so-oh wait! I do scroll facebook! I'm only offbeat sometimes.
Basically like, I'm not loving how social media can really get me down a lot. It's a little like roulette - is this time going to be a cool fanart or meta on a fandom I like, or the first step down a four day anxiety spiral? Such fun! I also wonder if the anxiety spiral is part of what is killing my ability to work on my own fic, which has been a major struggle for, um, years now. (Other options include: Pandemic, and Hell Job. I left Hell Job, and I can't do much about the pandemic, so you know, this seems worth a try.)
But as social media has become my automatic boredom cure, I'm literally gathering up a bunch of things to DO when I would just open a new tumblr tab. I've downloaded more mobile games for my phone, I've bought some KJ Charles ebooks that I know I can just open and browse, I'm getting romance novel and fic recs from friends (feel free to leave any in the comments!) and I'm just trying to find new quick and mobile Solutions To Boredom. Wish me luck?
I'll probably keep coming to Dreamwidth as my experience here has always been entirely different. Ha, maybe I'll even post more! And like, I'll follow links to social media stuff and all, I'm not cutting myself off from friends or anything. I'm just trying to modify my own habits. Let's see how it goes!
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Date: Mar. 28th, 2022 02:03 (UTC)For phone games, I like "I Love Hue" and I usually have a crossword app handy. And I've been into Wordle and all of its varied spinoffs already but presumably you're already either on that train or not on it for a reason.
I've also been really into Chinese webnovels over the past year and a half but will not give any recommendations unless you are actively interested (if you are unaware, webnovels are basically really trashy romance / action / pick-your-genre novels, that interested fans translate -- probably not quite legally -- into English; I describe them as trashy because they're serialized and authors are compensated based on fans buying chapters, so the payment model incentivizes authors to prioritize tropes over plot/themes and nothing gets beta'd or edited as far as I can tell; there are some very excellently-written webnovels under this model, but there are also a whole host of very tropey, trashy, fun-to-read novels as well).
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Date: Mar. 28th, 2022 02:44 (UTC)And thank you for the game! I am fully on the wordle train lolol, good call.
I, hmm, well I got a rec for MDZS fic above, which I think started as webnovel? But honestly the idea of diving into a long running serialized anything sounds overwhelming right now haha. I love the idea of serialized fiction (I once waxed poetic about the serialization of Monte Cristo to a friend for an hour) but in real life I find it hard to keep up. Are there any...short webnovels? Is that a thing?
(Also haha, shady English translations. I have fond memories of my shady anime/manga days, that's not a limiting factor!)