Mood synthesizer

[desperance]

All week, I have been in this really bleak, bitter, despairing mood.

There are reasons and causes for it, obviously; but also, all week I have been utterly immersed in Jo Walton's "Small Change" trilogy. Which is brilliant; and which leaves me feeling, um, yes. Bleak, bitter and despairing.

Damn this literature stuff, anyway...

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[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Damn this literature stuff, anyway...

Can't live with it, can't live without it.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry!

I did the best I could to give it as happy an ending as I could. I didn't do what Z suggested and have aliens arrive and nuke them from orbit!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm with Zorinth...

No, seriously: at the time I hadn't quite got to the end. And yes, clearly, that is an optimistic ending, and I was grateful for it; and I wasn't really grumbling, because the achievement en route is magnificent. I'm wondering, just: does that kind of immersive experience spill back out of literature to affect one's mood in the real world? I might've just been dead gloomy anyway, but...

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Should I prescribe a course of Wodehouse? No-one's written a Wodehouse-with-zombies book yet, so now's definitely the time for a rest cure.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

There is a Wodehouse with Cthulhu in Alan Moore & Kev O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier though...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I did spend some of the weekend communing with fluffcthulhu - does that count?

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that Black Dossier counts except among cognoscenti.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Oh, literature. Bad things happening to unobjectionable people. :(

I love the Small Change books, though.

[daydreammuse.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. :)

I guess it's natural insecurity, which in terms makes us strive to be better. Plus you have had quite the experience with the pub bizz, you oughta know you will make it through.

[szandara.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I agree with gilpollack--this definitely calls for a day or two of Wodehouse immersion.

[devonellington.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Hope the mood lifts soon, that actions are taken to root out and solve the cause. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.