Guardians Against Entropy

[firecat]

Someone on a fandom community commented that they spend hours maintaining their tbr/tbw lists and then would rather consume something they've already consumed than something new that's actually on one of the lists. That caused me to write the following comment.

Those of us who enjoy the hobby of maintaining lists need to step out of the shadows and proclaim that we love what we do. Maintaining lists is incredibly soothing! Nothing else gives you quite the same sense that you have created peace and order in this one little corner of the multiverse. There's no reason to hide where the real joy is and pretend that you're only doing it to facilitate actually reading/watching new things. We need a name for our hobby. Maybe Guardians Against Entropy.

Comments

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Listmaking is a fine hobby! Sometimes, it's useful, as in grocery lists or reading lists. But other times it's just plain fun, like collective nouns.

I support worldbuilding as a hobby. You don't have to do anything else with it to "justify" it. People build ships in bottles, there's nothing wrong with making a model planet if that makes you happy. So I also support other hobbies that are fun for their own sake, even if other folks think they're silly.