A feature of shit I write - especially fanfic - is that I'm often either writing to see whether I can do something, or to convince myself of something (to see if I can convince myself of it, in fact). This has in the past led to writing about Gwen Cooper because I wanted to see if I could make myself like her, and in ASAH led to Ferdinand existing ( Read more... )

Torn between wondering why the hell anyone would be friends with me and wondering why the hell I want to be friends with anyone else since my options for conversation seem to be "I'm crazy and everything's terrible", "I'm crazy and I'm fucking amazing let me tell you how amazing I am" and "Bluh ( Read more... )

Blog posts

Making a dress, Des Anges fashionToday's activities ( Read more... )

In other news, today's chapter SUCKS and needs to be rewritten and the reason that it FUCKING SUCKS is that it's really fucking hard to write when your uterus has grown teeth and is trying to chew its way out of your body in order to have a look around the local library. I FUCKING HATE YOU, OVARIAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. I DON'T WANT BABIES. GO AND ( Read more... )

Are any of the following good reasons not to go to work? "I have a computer virus", "I have a throat infection", "I had really unpleasant dreams", "I have RAGE", "I have monster period pains". I suspect none of them are and yet the prospect of spending all day sitting upright fills me with what is either dread or uterine cramps ( Read more... )

Which helped to reduce it down to this ( Read more... )

Necklaces I Made for myself/which ended up as mine because no one would buy them
Earrings I Made for myself/which ended up as mine because no one would buy them
Misc

How AstroPhysicists would be treated if they were climate scientists

Women aren't crazy ["Gaslighting is a term, often used by mental health professionals (I am not one), to describe ( Read more... )

Yesterday:

atropinesulfate and I went to the ZOO. It was very expensive and later very wet and quite full of inordinately awful children but in spite of this and sore feet A Good Time Was Had. There seem to be more walkthroughs than there used to be, which I am strongly in favour of as having large butterflies throw themselves at my face is hugely entertaining ( Read more... )

Day 22: Your academics

My academics? Well, crotalus_atrox is leaving education soonish, and so is stratospherique ... is anyone else resident in academia for a while? Doing post-grad stuff? Do we know each other well enough for you to be consider "my" academics to an outsider? This is a weird question ( Read more... )

In this instance, I was all geared up to go to this Christmas Party thing at the Shunt Warehouse tonight for mulled wine and awesomeness and live music and excitement and potentially connections and also getting justen to meet glowering and tomorrowboy as I thought they'd get on like the proverbial building-base-conflagration, but I woke up this afternoon going, "Yup, I ( Read more... )