icon: "overwhelmed (the character Keenan from "Playing By Heart," with hands over their face covering their eyes and head tilted back)"I have posted an average of once a month since October. Part of this was the deep depression I was in (which is starting to lift now) but most of it was just guilt at not replying to comments and not commenting on ( Read more... )

icon: "eccentric (a photo of me tilting my head and with raised eyebrows and a pursed-lipped smile)"Last night I streamlined my profile (to the most stripped-down it has ever been), and while doing that I skimmed over the last few months of posts to make sure I was being accurate in listing the kinds of things I write about. I realized that I haven ( Read more... )

I've been successful in keeping up with writing for 6 days now, which is my longest streak in at least a year. I think the biggest reason I'm having success is that I have given myself permission to send out things that are unpolished and even unfinished. My usual ritual with writing is to sit down, drink a lot of coffee, put on some music, and ( Read more... )

lately everything has been super stressful for both me and Topaz and we've both been terribly busy so our time has been like thrice a week we eat dinner and watch a show together and then go to bed because we have neither the time nor the energy to do anything else ( Read more... )

When I was a kid I identified as a 'reader.' I think above anything else that was my self-image. From the time I started reading, every word that came within sight was fascinating: I read the toothpaste tube, sounding out the ridiculous ingredients. I tore through the beginner reading books my school made my parents get with wild delight and ( Read more... )

well today was fuckin dreadful. I left work at 4pm and drove until 10pm and ended up less than halfway home. I planned on the ice and snow, but not the dreadful traffic. it's like everyone got on the road in a big shit party. I tried to get gas but after 3 empty stations I gave up. Hedwig hates starting cold and hates driving on low gas so I'm ( Read more... )

I got Adi and Locke and Topaz (and mayyybe Aurilion and Camellia) to join me in the 22day challenge, yay :D I feel inspired and invigorated. Today I gave the prompt: if you had to pick one subculture with whom to spend most of your time for the rest of your life, who would it be and why ( Read more... )

today I'm starting a 22 day streak of writing daily, and you're invited to join me. it doesn't have to be 'important' or 'worth sharing' - just original content ( Read more... )

Some people haven't learned many ways of intimacy; they might use "drama" (artificial fights) or sex to try and reproduce the times they felt intimate with another person ( Read more... )

In relationships, I consider the only appropriate unnegotiated expectation to be this: that the other person will not actively, deliberately hurt you. Everything else -- yes, EVERYTHING -- needs to be negotiated. We can't just expect that other people will be kind to us -- because we may define kindness by different actions than what another ( Read more... )