Today’s Discussion Topic: What is your guilty pleasure?
“If you enjoy something, there is nothing to feel guilty about.” – Busy Phillips
My motivation for writing this post has been at zero percent all day long. I’m not really sure why, but I will do my best to keep this post from being too boring. I can think of three guilty pleasures off the top of my head.
- DQ ice cream cake – these are the greatest things of life. I can buy and eat one of these things all to myself over a couple of days. I know I shouldn’t. I know they are basically just sugar and dairy, but they are sooooooo good. Well, except the chocolate crumble and fudge. That is just too much chocolate for me. I like the ice cream part of the cake and if I could get the cake with just the ice cream, I totally would.
- Disney flicks/Titanic and similar movies – I love Disney movies. I actually want to have a whole collection of Disney movies, but they are so expensive, I can’t justify buying them, even to myself. So I make do with what I can watch on Netflix or borrow from my friends and family. This also applies to movies that are romantic and sappy. Titanic is first on that list. I will be honest. The last weekend that Ashleigh was away for school, I watched this movie three times. It doesn’t matter that I can probably quote the entire movie to you, I love it. This goes along with movies like Rent, Atonement, etc. Basically any movie that Ashleigh hates is one that I deem binge-worthy. I’m pretty sure that my dad will be happy if he never has to watch Titanic again because of how often I made him watch it with me when I was younger.
- Fanfiction – Let me start this with: I wrote fanfiction when I was younger. It was a good outlet for me when I wasn’t really sure what my own ideas were. It helped to have fully developed characters just waiting to be given a conflict of some type or change the narrator from one main character to the other. Then for a few years, I fell out of the fanfiction world because I was developing my own voice and it kept getting lost in the fully-created characters I was using. Recently, I found my way back to fanfiction as a reader and I love it. I love reading the experimentation of other writers with characters I already know and love. Anything that finds its spot in the Harry Potter universe is okay by me, but I have my preferred couples or ships. Personally, I really enjoy Dramione (if you don’t know what that is, I’m not going to tell you). I find that fanfiction allows me to experience parts of the characters through the views of other fans.
Those are my guilty pleasures. That’s all for now.
All is Fair in Love and Writing 