feeling unmotivated and need to laugh? 
try r/fantasywriters
normally i wouldn't tell people to give up on their dreams but come the frick on 💀💀
in typical reddit fashion, everything is so so bad. 
the advice, the depressed writers looking for people to validate their awful ideas. i distinctly remember one poster who wanted to know if people wanted to read about dinosaur bones. 
that's it. no mention of characters, no worldbuilding, no paleontologist murder mystery set in the heart of the african jungle. if you can't convince yourself, why should we care? 
here's a quote from Adaptation (2002):
People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fricking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fricking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life!
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It feels like this happens with every hobby sub; people just use them as cheap outlets for validating their own egos. And somehow nobody ever notices that the supposed hobby sub has very little interest in the actual hobby. Just looking at the front page, most of the posts are about random fantasy world minutia, and the few that do mention actual writing are completely surface level with low engagement.
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