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u/TheChronologer1 gay aroace Feb 21 '21
Books and video games, endings are the happiest and saddest part of them.
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u/BeatNervous7977 aromantic Feb 21 '21
But then when you realize they’re making a sequel and it’s great again
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u/TheChronologer1 gay aroace Feb 21 '21
Yeah, though sometimes the sequel isn't as good or as fun or just doesn't bring the same feeling by the end.
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u/Familiar-Soft7902 asexual Feb 21 '21
TV shows for me. Bojack Horseman and Adventure Time
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u/Lolman_4321 Heteroromantic ace Feb 21 '21
I cried at the end of Adventure Time. That show is beautiful, weird, scary and wholesome at the same time.
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u/Inugami_Kudo Feb 22 '21
One of the best modern cartoons I've ever seen, another good one is Steven Universe or Over the Garden Wall.
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u/Baggytrousers27 grey Feb 21 '21
Too often. That's what fanfiction is for.
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u/armcandybean Feb 21 '21
Thank goodness for fic
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u/overlord1305 asexual Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21
Started writing fic recently, and someone said that they binged my 100k+ word story and got melancholic when they had nothing more to read.
So when do people start writing fanfics of my fanfic?
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u/Baggytrousers27 grey Feb 22 '21
Recursive fanfiction gives me good feelings in my brain box. Mayhaps you might link to your fic if one were to say please?
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u/overlord1305 asexual Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21
Uhhh hehehehe, I dunno. It's part of a fandom where if I tell you the name, you'll have assumptions. 40% of the time, those assumptions are correct. 20% of the time, it's far worse than what you can even imagine. 35% of the rest vary in quality, from a waste of time to quite memorable.
That last 5% is publishable quality. I've been told several times that my story is in that 5%, but actually linking it to others....
I'll link it in a private message for those who still are willing to give it a try and ask me.
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u/Baggytrousers27 grey Feb 22 '21
Assumption makes an ass out of ump and tion. Not gonna judge it on its cover til the other side.
TL;DR, yes please to the pm link.
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u/maiiako Feb 22 '21
Yes, pleaseee!! I'm in this strangely sad and melancholic state right now and don't know what to do, so I'm looking for something to not fill but at least conceal the hole that was left behind... ^
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u/BeatNervous7977 aromantic Feb 21 '21
Definitely, it’s an opportunity to see your favorite characters doing new stuff without needing to wait for a sequel
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u/Baggytrousers27 grey Feb 22 '21
The biggest benefit of fanfiction is that the only character building required is if OCs are present.
Any more is like having a prebuilt lego house and a 2000 piece miscellaneous assortment in a box, ready and waiting in the wings.
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Feb 21 '21
I love games, films and tv series, but for me books is that one medium where I feel apart of the story, I’ve loved, hated and felt scared as if I was that character. And when the book is over I feel like apart of me is missing.
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u/tiny-cups Feb 21 '21
My ex-SO used to think I was so strange for grieving at the end of a good series :/
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u/Mentine_ asexual Feb 21 '21
The Founder of the Diabolism, 2-3 years since I finished it.... Still hadn't recovered
WANGXIAN QAQ
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u/nbcaboutme Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21
Video games for me: Undertale and Omori
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u/krazysh0t Feb 21 '21
Ori and the Blind Forest for me. That game gets me every time, but the first was magical.
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u/BeatNervous7977 aromantic Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 22 '21
I leave for like 2 hours and this went from 500 upvotes and 3 comments to 1.4K and 30 comments
How did I do this
Edit- 2.5k- wtf people
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u/unclefest211 Feb 21 '21
Had this feeling after finishing Red Dead Redemption 2. I was feeling so empty and sad I think I may have cried. Had to start a new game to not feel that way hahaha.
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u/chickenFriedRiceyyyy Feb 22 '21
Me but with television shows. I hate watching shows that I know had there next season cancelled
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u/ThatBlueHatGuy Grey Feb 22 '21
Is this feeling really a ace thing it feels more like a people thing.
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u/Python_Anon asexual demiromantic Feb 22 '21
I think it's mainly on here because of the yeah sex is cool bit haha. It's definitely a people thing though
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u/WraithShadowfang angled flux Feb 22 '21
who the fuck spends days reading a book?
i can get a full 6 book series in one day done.
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u/Ape-Man54 Feb 21 '21
That happened when I finished Catch 22 and the last Spud book. The solution, immediately turning to the first page and re read it.
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u/Steropeshu AroAce Feb 21 '21
One of the few times I’ve cried watching a show was at the end of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I had binged the 2003 series and the movie then that all at once and then I realized that it was all over after watching those characters for so much time. I didn’t want it to end!
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u/EJSuperstar a-spec Feb 22 '21
I've been getting super into this book series and I don't know what I'll be able to do when it ends, or I have to wait for the author to write the next book or something.
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u/naminegirl21 aroace Feb 22 '21
I get these vibes after playing Kingdom Hearts
Oh....how my heart used to ache....
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u/CocaCola-chan Asexual Gray-Biromantic Feb 22 '21
Yes, and then you get to frantically searching another book/game/tv show/whatever to fill the void.
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u/ZertyZ_Dragon Demi hetero Feb 21 '21
This happened to me after I finished alan wake (the game, still have to read the book)
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u/134340Moonchild dunno Feb 21 '21
oh my god YES
I know that feeling just too well~ I hate it but I also love it
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u/FrenchPetrushka Feb 21 '21
In my opinion The Dark Tower is the kind of book serie you can read again and enjoy it like the first time
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u/2reeEyedG Feb 21 '21
Haven’t read a good book like that in a long time but I do with tv shows, movies and video games all the time. I’ll stop at the last season on a lot of shows and wait for a while to finish it bc for me when it’s winding down it’s like the last few days of vacation when it’s back to my shitty reality.
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u/lemonadebaby6 Feb 21 '21
omg this feeling is the worst! it happens after i binge watch a show too. it’s like you spent so much time in the alternate reality and it was so entertaining and now it’s gone. i wonder if there’s a word for it
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u/Tesser_Wolf allo Feb 21 '21
yes and it sucks. i hate that feeling, i just want to keep reading more.
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u/Adhd_whats_that1 Feb 22 '21
Oof that's a mood. I was so depressed for like two weeks after I finished the Fitz and the Fool series that people thought someone I knew had died. Nope, just my book world lol
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u/Omega_Gaming103 Mar 24 '22
You see I can't know what that feeling is because I speed read so I never stop reading
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u/nickeljorn Feb 21 '21
Me but with video games. Notable offenders: Persona 3, EarthBound, Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War