bailey//rockruff⚪
i think part of the reason i stopped being able to enjoy books might've been that on one side, school was forcing me to read boring af Books For Intellectuals written by self-important white dudes, and on the other, i've had so many people be elitist about what reading material they enjoy
i read at a high level but my reading pace and the way i read in general just makes longer, more wordy books an extremely tedious encumbrance
bailey//rockruff⚪
i read slowly but i need lots of easy to parse, extremely tangible bits of information to be entering my brain so that my visual imagination can run wild and properly create the movie-like experience i'm used to.
and a lot of Mature novels barely touch on subjects i actually enjoy and just often seem pretty tired in their ideas and realism.
i just love whatever stimulates my imagination, and kid/teen books seem to cater to that way better than many adult-oriented books
bailey//rockruff⚪
some of the most prolific books of our time are aimed at younger audiences but still cover mature topics and there's good reason for that
kids desire more serious topics, problems to solve, and more juicy information to learn and absorb. adults desire more imagination, fun, adventure, escapism.
combine the two and you've got something that near anyone can enjoy. general audience media is often the best from what i've seen.
bailey//rockruff⚪
adults always seem to insist that they're super different from kids and that adult books should be wordy and poetic and always telling us something Deep or at the very least portray something gritty and real. but we entirely forget that we're still pretty much kids no matter how old we get or how much we deny wanting to have fun.
we still need to imagine and discover and go on adventures, even if it's all just in our heads. even if it's not Practical.
bailey//rockruff⚪
kids are allowed to have fun and use their imagination and play, while adults always have to be working in some capacity. adult hobbies are all basically just another form of work.
but we seriously do need to have fun, even as adults. we're not just meant to work our whole lives. we shouldn't be forcing ourselves to uphold some kind of image of a "productive member of society" as if that's the only thing that matters
and even then, fun and imagination are extremely important tools
22Decembre
@ctrlaltdog reading, diy, swimming, shooting archery... Are not work.
>and even then, fun and imagination are extremely important tools
And you say we should stop "working" ?
tethre
@ctrlaltdog I read Momo as an adult, and I would argue that children might rather be bored by it because "d'uh!", but that it could be compulsory for adults ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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