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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 14:09 (UTC)My rec post for SV Wishes by Feynite (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System is by the same author as MDZS)
The Green Girl by Colubrina (Slytherin!Hermione)
The Problem Universe by Wyste
Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream and WhatAreFears
A Monstrous Regiment by AMarguerite (author rec for all her work)
The Grand Unified Theory of Shěn Qīngqiū by 00janeblonde. I've described this fic before as "either this needs no canon knowledge or it needs more canon knowledge than I have". It does a _ton_ of worldbuilding and also, despite being 479883 words long as of this rec, with 405 chapters, is not the kind of fic that... like, look, you know how sometimes you're reading a 200K fic that could have been 50K if they'd edited it or had a plan when they started it? This is a 400 chapter fic that could be two giant fics but it's also something like 100 ficlets tied together with a bow. Each chapter/scene starts with a clear indication of what is going on, who is there, etc, and everything builds slowly, and there's no overall One Specific Plotline, it's just SQQ living his do-over, twice. I rec it for the worldbuilding and the thought that's gone into it. As far as I'm concerned, the only canon knowledge you need is that Shen Jiu is the former name of Shen Qingqiu. Then Shen Yuan, a 20something from modern China, transmigrated into the character of SQQ. This fic pretty much does it the opposite way: Shen Yuan reincarnated as Shen Jiu, who then became SQQ, and SY thought it was transmigration because of amnesia.
The Hunt by Caeseria. This is secret canon compliant job fic, which is a trope that I love dearly. Basically: there is nothing at all in canon that says this character does not have this job. (I assume, at least. I don't know from Naruto).
SIDE FORAY INTO SECRET CANON COMPLIANT JOB: Rich Man's World by nirejseki, the first one of her fics that I ever read, in which Leonard Snart is also an accountant.
Countless Roads by nirejseki, in which Leonard Snart is a necromancer.
Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail by owlet
An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite. The order in which I prefer the endings: That Looks on Tempests, A Dalliance with the Duke, and then the An Ever-Fixed Mark.
Love is All You Need to Destroy Your Enemies by shadydave
Halifax Privateers by electrumqueen and Fahye
And Never Been Kissed by thehoyden and twentysomething
The Sum of Its Parts by KouriArashi
What Goes Around by KouriArashi
love is a contact sport by hazel and mermaid
The Sum of Their Parts by holdmybeer