FWIW it’s far from my main interest or anything. It’s just a mood I get into every so often. I doubt it’s something that really shows in my personality, but whenever it comes up I definitely am more interested in tragic news than anyone I know.
I just remembered something that makes me think it runs in my family. My dumbass step brother shot himself through the hand while playing with a gun, and when my mom was telling me about it she excitedly said “you wanna see the bullet hole? :D” and I was like “fuck yeah I do” lmao. It’s not exactly tragic but kinda still morbid to some degree
Dempf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yours is the best take.
My guilty pleasure is the Air Crash Investigation series, or more recently Mentour Pilot on YouTube. It scratches both itches in my brain – the logic / engineer side, and the morbid curiosity & fascination with disaster.
The Roy thing is maybe pushing a little into weird. But if this sort of thing wasn’t normal then there wouldn’t be whole shows, subreddits, etc dedicated to disasters.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for the recommendations ;3
That’s good to know lol. And tbf it is probably a shortsighted desire considering the potential psychological damage.
It’s just that the nightmares I’ve had where I’m facing inevitable death have been super interesting to me in retrospect, so I figure something akin to Roy would just be that but I have full control over my mind and body.