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[beccaelizabeth]

Today's anxiety levels are stuck around arrrgh, but that's an improvement over the earlier AaAaAargh, because imaginary Mick Rory imaginary dragged me into the kitchen and told me to eat a food. I know full well what happens when I don't eat a food. Too anxious to want to eat? Tough, it's not going away until you do eat, so eat a food.

See this is why half my imaginary friends are mentally ill too, that shit sounds condescending when it's not from someone who knows just as well.

... and me telling myself without imaginary assistants just wasn't getting me anywhere.



Sometimes my coping methods sound just as crazy as my crazy.

But prettier and much more interesting.



I started rewatching The Flash from the beginning. Two whole episodes so far. I am reminded why I liked Eo!Wells so much. Which is a problem due to the being evil, but he's such a helpful and supportive evil, you know?

*sigh*



Do we know any F&SF shows that are primarily about people around forty? Or over thirty even? I mean, some shows get there before they get cancelled, but so much story is about school kids and college and figuring out the start of things. Where's the shows for people who are still waiting to figure it out by my age?

And the shows where people my age or older are neither obstacles nor evil?



I have a whole bunch of TV on DVDs I could watch, but when I'm this anxious, new can be a really bad idea. I'm just going to stick to reruns for a little while.

But I know I like them.

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[ex_peasant441]

Do we know any F&SF shows that are primarily about people around forty? Or over thirty even?

Battlestar Galactica (the new version)
Charlie Jade
Game of Thrones
Jekyl
The most recent season of the X Files

Where's the shows for people who are still waiting to figure it out by my age?
You might find more of that in genres like comedy, which often feature older characters who are still struggling.

One thing every 35+ person seems to agree upon is that we are all just faking it and waiting for someone to deliver the manual. Just don't say it in front of the kids.

[executrix]

Blakes7 is definitely mostly about people in their 30s, and a lot of the Federation baddies are well over 40; in fact Tarrant and Dayna are the only young major characters.
Continuum and Dark Matter have some young characters but are primarily about the adults. I think everyone in Farscape is the equivalent of 30s and 40s for their culture.

However, I would not trust any Lessons About Life from science fiction.

[beccaelizabeth]

this is true
and I have whole shelves of those things

I guess I'm just watching the wrong things for my mood

[baronjanus]

I like the idea of imaginary friends / muses helping out with rl. It would do me a world of good if I could keep them.


Someone brought up Dark Matter, which I think you watched more of than I have - I started, and liked, but drifted away. Isn't most of Trek, old, "next", the others, mostly about older people? Less of the "trying to figure themselves out" but they try to figure things out, which is a close metaphor.

[rahirah]

Stranger Things had a good mix of kid/teen/adult protagonists.