So yesterday, I did a little browsing of TVTropes. Killed a few hours that way, but I've been a Trope Addict long enough to know how to control it so that I don't end up with twenty tabs. (Mainly, I look at the size of my scroll bar when all the contents of the page are being shown. Too long, and I read the trope to get familiarized with it and then leave without looking at examples.)
But sometimes, I can't help but let the curiosity get the better of me.
It's not what you think; I didn't waste that much time on TVTropes, but TVTropes is at fault, I suppose. Basically...you know how some things are incredibly Troperrific? Showing up constantly when you're browsing and sparking interest in something you probably otherwise would never have read?
Yeah...well, when you have a webcomic started in 2005 updating five times a week, you're bound to get a lot of pages and therefore a lot of tropes and mentions on trope pages. In this case, yesterday, I briefly touched upon the Misfiles tvtropes page. (Character page, actually.)
I'd been to that page many times before, because my curiosity had been sparked previously via its constant mentions and me liking the links I clicked to see the comic. Nothing special, right?
Well, I got an urge, and succumbed to it by saying, "Screw it, I'm reading it." And so I did.
I started reading from the beginning.
And reading.
And reading.
...And I kept on reading. For hours after hours. Time kinda starts to blur when you've gotten invested into something and...well, I didn't really pay attention to the clocks at all aside from the occasional glance, which I proceeded to ignore so I could continue reading...
...And I think I finally realized I was too tired to continue at around eight in the morning. So I took a nap, woke up some time around 1 (it had 1 on the clock, but I don't know the exact time), and...went straight back to reading.
All 2000+ comics, meaning an average of 1,000 comics a day, blowing my old record out of the water. (I think I've done 600 comics in a day to finish a comic, but I think my multiple-days record was still in the 200-300 range before today.)
And then I read the TVTropes page and subpages. All the CMOA/H/F, Fridge, WMG, Headscratchers, Trivia, and Character pages (roughly in that order, if memory serves), before reading the main page as well--frequently clicking links to comic numbers as well.
So by the time I finally finished, I decided it was a good idea for me to get breakfast, which I just now did a 6...PM. :P
(Funny thing is, I wasn't really that hungry, either. Nor was I feeling that tired, aside from maybe one time at like 3 or 4 pm. I felt perfectly normal.)
What can I say? When I get devoted to something, I really get devoted to it. I even knew this was going to happen when I began, because I know myself well enough to recognize that not stopping is EXACTLY the kind of thing I'd do. :P I even had the thought process of "I'll probably regret this later, I'll probably miss a meal or two, I'll probably be skipping my night's sleep, but dang it, I'm doing it anyway!" :P
But hey. It felt good. (Not looking forward to tomorrow, though, because I KNOW this is going to come back and bite me. :P)
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