I've been having this problem with This Is How You Lose the Time War which totally implies the human species will survive the next few centuries regardless of the climate crisis, the plastic crisis and our preference for fascism or annihilation rather than giving up capitalism and hierarchy.

In fact, the conflict is just an epic tastes great / less filling choice between two transhuman far futures in which all of today's culture is recovered and preserved. We matter!

But yeah, its just the correspondence between two fictional heroes in love. They don't exist past the page.

No need to check on my sanity. Im long diagnosed and a soul crushing emo whose suicide risk is carefully managed.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The world is full of endless possibilities. Fiction is fun because no matter how improbable, the words on that page could come true some day. At other times, is fun to imagine what could've been if things had gone slightly differently.