Harlequin romances

[wiseheart]

... or rather their YouTube equivalents. Channels called Golden Revenge, officialrosiecullen and the likes. I've taken a liking to them lately... mostly because I'm too tired to focus on anything longer than, say, twenty minutes, and because they're rather cathartic.

Oh, I know all those stories are made up. I'm fairly sure that in real life all those wronged people would never get the chance to reclaim what's theirs by right; to start anew and become successful overnight and all that. But it is fun to read about it. Well, listen, actually, but they also have English subtitles, which makes it easier for me to understand. Spoken English isn't an easy thing for me. In any case, it's like books with happy endings, and I like those. Life is sh*tty enough in itself, I don't want to read such stuff on top of reality. I chose the videos that are between ten and fifteen minutes long because really, that's about the amount of time I can concentrate on them.

I'm sure this phase will blow over, soon enough. It's like reading idiotic Harlequin novellas, which I usually did when I had exams, back in my forgotten youth. Some kind of voluntary brainwashing. It is relaxing at the moment, and that's enough right now.

Speaking of real life, I made the grocery shopping today, cooked lunch (more asparagus, to use up the leftover Hollandaise sauce - thank goodness it's gone now), we had the regularly scheduled appearance of the exterminator, and that was, basically, my day. Very little me-time (not even a nap, as we couldn't be sure when the exterminator would show up - "late afternoon" isn't an exactly precise time), no phone calls, nothing creative done. And tomorrow we'll have a visit from our talkative chiropodist lady. That will be fun - NOT!

Comments

[artemis10002000]

I feel you so much on sometimes needing very simple brain candy in the form of short and simplistic stories, especially when life is stressful

Complex historically accurate tales are great but not always what you have the spoons for

My recent trashy obsessions are vertical dramas, tiny Chinese soap opera-like shows where each "episode" is just a few minutes long — vertical because they're made to be watched on phone, so the screen is a cell phone-shaped upright square

Most of them are terrible both in writing and production but they are like eating candy 😂

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Happy endings sound like a great idea.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Simple stories, happy endings. Sometimes that’s exactly the content that soothes the mind.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Exactly! 😜

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True. I am so fed up with all that dark stuff, doom and gloom we get fed by tv and movies! Look what has become of originally optimistic series like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica or Stargate!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

'Relaxing' is why I like Chinese costume drama. The plots are often ridiculous, but they involve little thought on my part.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

At the beginning i was so happy when I found reels- the funny ones! Now it´s mostly depressing stuff and AI made for clickbaits...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, the AI narrators are horrible, but I still reveal in the happy endings.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. ;)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching Battlestar because it just became a political show.

Yeah. :( Although the new movie about Georieau and Section 13 was kind of fun (sad, as well, but some really good parts).