Walking Dogs After Midnight - Will I Regret Beginning to Post it This Week?
Ever since adopting my dog, I've worked hard to find the least scary times to walk him. Once, I took him out at 2:30 a.m. just to run into two different neighbors who caused him to panic.
I used to attempt a long sniffy walk at 6 a.m. Then we began running into a neighbor with her reactive dog, so I started walking at 5:30 a.m.
Another neighbor adopted a new dog, and walked her at 5:30. So, I started walking my dog at 5:00 a.m.
A new neighbor is now walking her dog at 5:00 a.m. After running in to them twice, I've changed things up again.
This morning I walked my dog at 4:45.
All this is to say, I've struggled writing this fic. My longer works are always personal. This one, however, relates to my present, not my past.
I was inspired to write it when a new tenant paused on his way to the laundry room to say hello. He looked like he was entering flirt mode, and moved closer before my dog erupted in terrified barking.
My neighbor ducked into the laundry room and hasn't even made eye contact since.
So I decided to write a love story in which dealing with a frightened dog isn't too high a price to pay for getting to know someone better.
Will anyone read it? Or like it? Or even understand it? Probably not. But I gotta get it out of my system and begin posting, even if i haven't finished writing it. (Ugh, I know. I never do that. Bring on the AO3 curse.)
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one of the most insidious wellness/health trends is the “women ditch your birth control because it’s bad for you!!! they’re trying to poison you but it’s okay you can track your cycle naturally and that alone will prevent pregnancy”
can guarantee that if you go into the following of these accounts, the sources cited from these accounts, the tagged posts from these accounts - they are nearly always linked to greater movements about “restoring the west”, “we need women at home having children again” and other weird trad shit
“many women have issues with birth control because women are routinely dismissed/misdiagnosed by medical professionals” =/= “you should trust suspicious people about high risk alternatives”
To add on to "T is not birth control": there are forms of hormonal birth control that don't conflict with T! Anything progesterone-only (the implant; hormonal IUDs; the depo provera shot; the progesterone-only pill) doesn't affect T. So if these methods work for you, you can take them while taking T 👍
and look. It's true that no method of birth control is 100%, perfectly effective. But modern birth control methods (the pills, shots, IUDs, hell, even modern condoms) are significantly more effective than just using natural methods like the rhythm method or just breastfeeding longer and hoping for the best.
Safe and effective birth control is a huge deal. Don't throw it away because bigots are trying to mind-control you. If you look at all the facts and decide that you don't like it, that's your choice, but please make an informed decision first.
Once again begging: if you use birth control and experience all the horrible symptoms wellness influences insist are poisoning you? Please speak to a doctor or health professional. Even one "method" has variations, different times of day to take it, different dosages, same dosage but different manufacturers, different combinations of hormones... and that's just "the pill", there's different things based on what you need. Chemical or material (copper IUD) oral or injection, anything. If your doctor is at all decent they will work with you to find something else that works if you ask to review it.
Sometimes I worry that all this reaction is just because some people are lucky and contraception is the only medication they take. Both chronic and temporary conditions I had took trial and error to figure out what works best. Every medication has side effects you need to balance with their usefulness. "this is fine but could be better" or "well you reacted poorly to this, so I'll give you a different kind if antibiotics, it takes longer but will make you feel less nauseous". Any decent doctor tells me "lets see how you react to this and then we'll see if we should adjust it".
and the worst thing? Influencers will tell you to quit certain medications cold turkey and they point to your reaction as proof of getting over an addiction or it having been bad. A lot of meds, even very benign and easy to take ones, will cause a negative reaction if you quit all at once and your body gets used to the new balance. And there is always "I feel so well clearly I don't need it anymore". That's the devil talking
A Summer Omens Big Bang collab by @maon25 (art) and me (story)
Read here on AO3 (G, 8k)
Look at all the amazing art by @maon25 :
In chapter 5 🔝
In chapter 2 🔝
In chapter 1 🔝
Summary:
It’s summer once more in Kensington Gardens.
The white marble statue of an Angel, half hidden under a canopy of trees, is content enough with his life, his animal friends in the park, the here and now.
Until an unusual Black Nightingale lands on his left wing and sings to him stories of woe, of mystery, of a dear friend lost, of his quest to find the love of his life again.
Every summer, the Nightingale, who remembers only fragments of what really happened to himself and his long-lost soulmate, revisits the Marble Angel, having gathered more hints and ✨Clues✨ to help his quest. The Angel’s marble heart melts with empathy for him, and with other feelings that seem new - but are they?
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This is a romantic fairytale, inspired by Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince’, retelling Good Omens in symbolic language.
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Thank You to:
@maon25 for the beautiful art, beta reading, helping with decisions, and a fun and fruitful collaboration!
@gosummerbang and all the writers and artists of the SOBB discord server, for making this bang such a fun and friendly experience! Check out the other SOBB collabs posted on that blog!
@thinkinginscripts , who is the best beta in the world!
@whickberstreetwriters for support and encouragement!
Tagging List under the cut
Let me know if you want on it for future posts of mine!
I forgot to tag y’all last time I completed a story, it’s here if you want to see/read/be so kind as to give it a reblog. It’s very different form the current one, a Dracula x Good Omens cross over 🧛😇:
💬 0 🔁 15 ❤️ 16 · AU Roulette 2026 · Thank you @au-roulette for organising! ❤️
My prompt: Classic Literature
read now on AO3: Naturally
Stop All The Clocks, a Good Omens comic based on the poem by W. H. Auden I did in 2023.
Back then I tried to sell this comic on my ko-fi but just one person bought it (if you read this I’m forever grateful!). Today I decided to finally share it for free. However, if you’d like to support a broke artist in these trying times, here’s my ko-fi and here are my commissions. Just wanna pay my bills so I can continue making comics.
Chapter Six of my Valencia-set Summer Omens Big Bang fic, One Last Hurrah is out today.... and this one comes with AMAZING traditional art from @alwaystuesday
Look at it! LOOK!! and thank @gosummerbang for matching me with one of my favourite artists
If you want to know why Tour Guide Crowley is waking up looking like.... that..... then you'll need to read from at least chapter 5!
Posting a chapter every day until it's finished (another 4 days)
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