I don’t know why I was complaining about there being no books to buy in August. I haven’t read any. Well, I take that back. I’ve read 1 book this month and it’s the 20th. Nothing is appealing to me at all.
Instead, I have gone down a deep, deep hole with Webtoons. I started reading 1 or 2 webtoons last winter and liked them fine. Then one day maybe not quite 2 months ago I opened the app and the Webtoons banner had an advertisement for Midnight Poppy Land. It took me less than a week to get caught up with all the published episodes. I’ve re-read the entire thing multiple times, plus smaller sections of related episodes many, many times. I’m looking at you #25 and #26. I even gave Webtoons my money to buy coins for the Fast Pass episodes. Then I joined 2 fan groups on Facebook. I don’t even like FB and I’m getting on there constantly now to check on what’s going on in the groups. I’ve found 2 different podcasts to listen to things about MPL. I bought notebooks I don’t need because they have pictures from MPL on the cover. Sure, I wanted to support the artist, but I really just wanted to look at Tora and Poppy. I am hooked. We are only on episode 44. I have no idea how many episodes it will be but years of my life can go by before this story is finished. I want to own it in print so badly. I really hope one day it gets published in print format. I haven’t started reading the fan fiction yet, but if anything gets me to do that, it will probably be MPL. I’m hoping the obsessing part will die down a little bit because I can’t live my life like that. I know from other experiences with other stories, that eventually it will fade and I’ll handle it normally. At least I think so. I’m not used to having to wait for the next episode to come out. At least I’m not alone. I’ve already figured out that I can work myself up and then get disappointed by an episode that is too short or goes in a direction I didn’t expect.
Since I am caught up with my favorite, I’ve started reading others. Some I’m liking a lot and others are ok. I’ve got a huge list saved on my account though and I’m slowing trying and reading through them. None others have hooked me like MPL, but there are a few really popular ones I haven’t gotten around to starting yet.
Anyway, yeah, I’m spending the majority of my reading time with web comics and podcasts about web comics. I guess it really doesn’t surprise me. Nothing about this crazy year is anything like I’d thought it would be. So if this year’s book count is a lot lower than the previous year, and it seems it will be, it’s because I’m on Webtoons. Not a bad place to be, I guess. I’m not alone, that’s for sure.
