Is this what being old and crabby is like?
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, October 15th, 2013 at 02:29 PM (5990 Views)
Oh god, it's finally happening. I've reached the age where I've stopped being able to enjoy things that I used to love. The age where cruel reality finally begins to crush my idealistic hopes and dreams under its mighty boot, where funny youtube videos make me sigh instead of laugh. 'Tis horrible indeed, when I'm reduced to watching Two Best Friends Let's Playing Metal Gear Rising for hours on end, occasionally sprinkling in some all too sparse Epic Rap Battles to spice things up.
Of course, as an intro, the above paragraph is only tangentially related to the actual point of this blog:
I'm starting to lose interest in fanfiction.
Not all at once, mind you, but I've noticed it. For example, I'm finally at the point where reading shitty "X character gets X powers from X verse" fanfics fails to even slightly amuse me (sorry Spacebattles, but our short, thinly veiled relationship where I stalk you for Worm fanfics and am constantly disappointed by them has ended), and where simply by looking at the summary for a story I can already tell if it's going to be crap or not. I stopped reading Naruto fics years ago (thank goodness), and I'm slowly weaning myself off of Nasuverse fanfiction as well. This is slightly more difficult, since the Nasuverse by nature is better characterized and makes more sense than Ninjas of Love, but the dozens upon dozens of horrible "Shirou does X or is X or summons X and proceeds to curbstomp while saving Sakura and making everything right again" have helped somewhat in that regard. I estimate that by the time I'm 20 I'll have completed my transformation into a pretentious twat who refuses to read something that more than a dozen people have enjoyed.
Actually, make that 21. Freakin' Arashi and his stupid well written artsy oneshots.
In the end though, I think this is a good thing and it should have happened even sooner. Less time for fanfiction means more time for writing real fiction, which means my mediocre writing abilities might level up soon enough. Heck, by the time I'm finished with To Tame a Magus and the epilogue to LGS (if it ever happens) the four of you who read it might even notice a difference in my writing style.
Anyway, comment with how you lost faith in X. We need more rampant cynicism around here!