I have always loved both fairytales and fantastical stories. When I was depressed and all I could do was cry or bleed, my one avenue of escape was fiction - specifically well written fantasy fiction. I mused with friends at the time that it was funny really: if you told an adult 'I love to read!' they'd applaud you. If you told an adult 'I love to ( Read more... )

So yesterday was Kal and my 8y anniversary of our wedding. And I had a weird dream where a very tall and putrid looking blonde female ghost was trying to jump-scare me. So I backed off, petted one of my cats and then went to deal with her. She continued with her trying to scare me shit, but also said, "You think you have two weeks. You don't. You ( Read more... )

'Er... okay. How exactly?'

"Moving forward in our day to day lives."

Wot? Considering I'm not campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty and I'm not penpals with anyone - especially not an incarcerated mass-murderer, I'm not sure how it's relevant to our daily lives. I don't mention my views on the death penalty at all. The only person I ( Read more... )

You like to tell me to shut the fuck up.

Which is interesting since most the time you ask me what’s in my head and I say ‘pooook!’. But any time I produce a sentence longer than that you’re usually unhappy with it. You say I’m fucking insane and out of my mind. And dumb - so, very fucking dumb ( Read more... )

...Because this is a relationship and not a Reddit forum? Also when in the history of  any relationship has that phrase ever worked out well for anyone?

(But I do indeed shut my mouth in silence for the next five minutes whilst you huff and swear and go to bed.) Welp. That was constructive. Yey.

How many times have I told you to shut the fuck up? ( Read more... )

Because you didn't look how you expected?

I didn't like how I looked from 10 to 20years - I hated mirrors.

But by the time I was 20 there were a lot of fun hair dyes - there were even contact lenses. And corsets. And a lot of clothes I was suddenly allowed to wear and no one was allowed to scorn me for it.

The trouble is, I still fall out of sync ( Read more... )

Ooookay.

But are they though? Really? Bit unlikely. (I mean, come on, in all of human history, these two grunge metal bands from the late 90s / early 00s - their songs are the best ever?) Ehhhhhh no. The very fact that I'm indifferent to them does suggest you might be overstating your case somewhat...

You think they're the best? Good for you - ( Read more... )

She wanted to make an online zine.

A B C - Anything But Covid.

Hurrah! Brilliant - sign me up!

I submitted a handful of stories. It became clear from my submissions she would rather short, humorous tales, despite never having mentioned that in the brief nor the feedback. By trial and error and her ongoing complaint that no one could write and she ( Read more... )

There was a debate about Mac vs PC between me and mine.

He: (bitterly) Yeah, but I had a Mac that packed it in after two years...

Me: ... ... (long look)... You mean the 5y old laptop I gave to you that only died 2y later when a kitten knocked a glass of water all over it?

He: ...

Me: You're absolutely right. How dare the daily used 7year old Mac ( Read more... )

My father didn't like my writing - too much purple prose, too many words, not straight up and factual enough. (He'd been a journalist, understandably he'd prefer that style of writing.) Then I wrote one story set in WWI. It was a ridiculous story - I'd written it to fulfil ten or more gothic prompts.  It was meant to be silly. But for some reason, ( Read more... )