I’ve posted before about my taste in fanfic having changed over the past years, and as I’ve got older and life has got tougher, I’m less and less likely to want to read angst-filled stories. I expect I’m not the only one who feels this way.
But… this evening I’ve been going through the fic recommendations from the Gateworld thread of S/J fic recs, as I’d got into the habit of opening new tabs but never getting round to reading them. One recommended author was Surrealis, who seems to have been around from the early years of the SG1 fandom, and is only on LJ, not FFN or AO3. Their fics are mostly angst-y, and I keep reading one, being annoyed with myself for reading something that is clearly labelled as angst (including a depressing post-Threads story where Jack doesn’t break up with Kerry), then reading another one. Why do I do this?