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"the paddock slut/ princess"
someone left a really nice and heartfelt comment on my (almost 6 yr!) old hlvrai fic tonight and im just struck my how incredible it is not only that people read my work but return and read it multiple times, over multiple years.
if youve been with me since the hlvrai days - especially if you commented and encouraged me to finish the novelization project - i owe you some sincere thanks. it really pushed me to quit the military and pursue this writing thing as a career. i just completed my master’s degree in fiction writing last week, with an original novel as my thesis. im not sure i would have applied otherwise, so thank you so much, fic commenters. the entire experience of writing good jokes seriously changed the trajectory of my life for the better.
“Don’t call me a mad scientist. I’m not mad. I’m evil.”
Source: @badjokesbyjeff
Ghost culture where everyone greets each other with "Good mourning!"
Ah, so once again our SNAP benefits have been turned off for mystery reasons, and of course Monday is a holiday so of course nothing can get done about it until Tuesday at the earliest.
The social services worker assigned to our case is either inept or contemptuous and I cannot tell which, maybe both, but this is a years long saga where she gets our paperwork (which we spend the gas money to hand deliver, it’s a hike to get there) and then she just doesn’t deal with it. And everything gets shut off.
I think we have enough to get through these few days and a tiny bit of cash if it goes sideways, but if you ever believed that getting any kind of assistance is easy or lazy, it’s not. I am regularly doing secretarial work for people getting paid by the state because they don’t keep copies, or notes, or remember to look at things.
Anyway I love, love, love this twice a year nonsense that is an immensely stressful struggle for no reason. What a well functioning system. Have I mentioned that stress makes my pain flare up? Stress makes my pain flare up. My right arm and leg have been on fire for days and also feel like they’re full of broken glass. I have been sleeping very poorly.
Good times!!!
I cannot wait for some ambiguous point in the future where I can afford like, a chest freezer, and somehow stock some food ahead that isn’t just non-perishable stuff. We have an ordinary freezer but it’s very tiny. The idea of being able to grab frozen ingredients or even pre-prepped dinner or leftovers seems like such a luxury. The dream.
It’s a….. it’s… a soul patch :) hehe haha