After spending decades of my life consuming fantasy I've become completely disengaged from reality and I can't bring myself to care about anything. I only live to read more fantasy, even if it's trash. Working and eating are like breaks I take in between more consumption of escapist media. I'm more invested in fantasy worlds that the one I live in. What now? This obviously isn't healthy and it's not going to end well. How to escape this?
Study the ultimate fantasy aka holocaust. Seek Christ. Develop an anthropic desire to preach truth and against evil.
>Study the ultimate fantasy aka holocaust
obsessed
I apologize on behalf of /misc/ a lot of them haven't realized the holocaust did happen and the only thing we should be mad about is that it stopped
Go leave.
>Study the ultimate fantasy aka holocaust. Seek Christ. Develop an anthropic desire to preach truth and against evil.
Study the ultimate fantasy aka Christianity.
You apologists are pathetic
>Study the ultimate fantasy
>Seek Christ
the irony in this statement
lol
>hates israelites
>worships a israelite
Many such cases!
What is differentiating?
Read Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories” for perhaps a different perspective on escapism and what is so appealing about fantasy.
As for life advice, I guess just introspect and try to find out why you feel compelled to constantly escape into fantasy. What is it about the fantasy setting that entices you? Try to find that thing in your life or alter your life to be more like that. Or is it just a hatred of the modern world? Then try to make your experience less like the modern world, minimize that aspect in your life. Is it just a general ennui with the mundanity of life? Read Jung, Campbell, and Peterson (Maps of Meaning) to uncover the archetypally mythological nature of everyday experience.
If none of that works, just carry on and derive what meaning and fulfillment you can from your reading.
there is no deep, complex answer i can give you. fantasy worlds are simply more interesting
I’m just wondering if you could pinpoint something specific that makes them interesting? Like, is it a sense of adventure? Unexplored territory? True heroism? Clear divisions between good and evil? Maybe there are common elements among all your favorite fantasy that wild reveal the nature of your interest in them.
>Like, is it a sense of adventure? Unexplored territory?
Yes, that's it. In fantasy you can be anyone and anything. every book has a new world to explore and learn about.
Then if you want to escape this escapism, try to find interest in the real world. Or don't, I don't think a fantasy life is that bad...
I wish I could love anything that much
fricking based answer
Have you read the Amber series? Can you tell me if it's any good?
Not op but it's good! I read the first five and they are fantastic and unique
What worked for me was playing Morrowind and realizing that real life is basically the same way, and the reason I can't just walk up to people and get a job was my personality and speechcraft levels were garbage. So I worked on those and my appearance and things got better. Joined a shitty guild, accumulated wealth, now I'm exploring the world. I still read a lot of fantasy (mainly translated LNs), but it's just for fun and it doesn't interfere with my real life.
Instead of asking IQfy to help you stop reading, ask IQfy how to fix your personal finances and get some good investments.
This is good advice, but it only works if you're not an N'wah
Actually it DOES work if you're an N'wah. Rather than being some gravel-throat native with a family preparing a place in society for you, the n'wah (foreigner) (I know that's not entirely what n'wah means) can improve himself and build a place for himself in society, even a foreign and xenophobic one.
Fetcher
>What worked for me was playing Morrowind and realizing that real life is basically the same way, and the reason I can't just walk up to people and get a job was my personality and speechcraft levels were garbage. So I worked on those and my appearance and things got better. Joined a shitty guild, accumulated wealth, now I'm exploring the world. I still read a lot of fantasy (mainly translated LNs), but it's just for fun and it doesn't interfere with my real life.
based
There was a time in my life when seeing plants growing out of concrete made me want to pick them
I remember playing Morro on xbox, basically never done a single quest, just wondered aimlessly in the world
I even got the Boots of Blinding Light, I fricking loved that shit
>I remember playing Morro on xbox, basically never done a single quest, just wondered aimlessly in the world
I was always doing that when playing vidya as a child, I wonder why. Did you do that in most video games? I loved exploring stuff. I was also doing quests and minmaxing, but most of the time I'd wander and explore, and try to get into a peaceful state of mind.
>Did you do that in most video games?
Hmmm kinda. But I do complete quests in Skyrim.
Me too. I played morrowind for outlandish amounts of time just interacting with guild members, killing the owner of hallelujah manor and decorating it making it my home, going to bars.
I miss being a kid sometimes
>trying to escape frome scapism
you've gone full circle it's over
Do NOT read Plato OP
>After spending decades of my life consuming fantasy I've become completely disengaged from reality and I can't bring myself to care about anything. I only live to read more fantasy, even if it's trash. Working and eating are like breaks I take in between more consumption of escapist media. I'm more invested in fantasy worlds that the one I live in.
based
>How to escape this?
don't
>How to escape this?
Move from young adult literature to adult literature.
Might be a sign of the 'tism but I've got a similar thing. Try extracting elements from it and attempting to realise them in life. Say you admire some architecture or lifestyle try to meet the material preconditions to produce it in reality. If you like swordplay do HEMA. Like exotic foods get some heirloom seeds and start gardening. And so on. This isn't too wean you off it, because reading isn't a problem, but so that the different aspects of your life become complementary. Reading anything can be productive or unproductive. You could learn enough mathematics to make Newton look like a brainlet but if it didn't improve your life, whatever you consider that improvement to be, then what'd be the point?
Also: The final redpill is realising that if you are muscular and good looking people will approve of anything you do. So get yoked.
>Also: The final redpill is realising that if you are muscular and good looking people will approve of anything you do. So get yoked.
Didn't expect to see this ITT. This is true, because most people (especially normalgays) have a primitive brain, and they think that a musclegay is automatically "the alpha" or "the boss". It's very similar to how simps want to help a woman just because she looks good. Having muscles as a man makes you trigger the beta/simp instinct in men, and you also make women more submissive, sexual, etc. If you're a scrawny guy, you're a nobody, unless you have godlike speechcraft:
It's incredible the difference it makes. It alters their (especially women's) perceptions of you entirely: If a hunchback stood quietly in the corner he'd be 'creepy', if Chad did it he'd be 'mysterious'.
This also has a lot to do with rape stuff imho
Can you explain?
You know, the whole "dude touched my ass while I was just dancing naked in the club"-thing
If she likes you, cool
If she doesn't, that's rape
I'm not sure I get your point, you're saying that being a musclegay makes women feel "subtly raped" and they become more submissive and treat you like they would a Chad? If so then I agree. Women are animal-like. Big guy, big dick, women spread their legs. No matter what they say and how intellectual they think they are. But men are just as stupid. Imagine how much more seriously an intellectual musclegay will be taken if he talks to a bunch of skinny intellectual dorks. Sure, the dorks will seethe and think that "this guy is just a roid Black person, he's big and dumb! I've read more books than him", but they still feel weak and stupid compared to him.
Or wearing revealing clothing. They do want attention, but only from Chad.
Idk I don't think muscles look good on everyone. If you have a nerdy looking face then it might just appear jarring.
Some people just naturally look more attractive somewhat skinny. Like that character on Cowboy Bebop
There could be other trade offs as well. Like maybe now people see you as a gym rat and so assume you aren't all that intelligent.
I'm not talking about becoming huge and taking roids. If you don't take roids you will never look "too big". You'll look athletic, manly, etc. And a buff nerd demands more respect and he's taken far more seriously than a scrawny one. Even an ottermode nerd is superior. It's just normalgays being normalgays. I treat everyone equally, even deformed people, old people, young people, everyone. But normalgays are incredibly judgmental. I think the best way to understand this is to understand the fact that the normies that used to bully the ugly nerds never truly grew up, they became adults but they're still stupid and judgmental and you should absolutely game the shit out of those normalgays if you want to have a successful life
Write.
Fantasy is better then real life, i say this as someone who's done a lot IRL and had a similar problem. Life is ugly, with pretty moments sprinkled in maybe, but it opresses and crushes us and seeks to dominate us. Fantasy books are based, much better then IRL. don't come to irl man its no fun.
endure and take the quixote pill
Do you even lift?
unironically, make enemies.
Go to a Ren Faire and meet others like yourself.
Either you will find a happy niche as a blacksmith who flirts with the barmaid across the tent 4 times a year, or you will be so disgusted by what you see there that you will join an adult league softball team that very day