Thursday

Adorable Happy Lunar New Year art by yue_ix

This week's dump on cm.net.

Kind and encouraging words from a friend made me cry this morning, so it's that sort of day. ( Cut for discussion of ~mood altering~ substances )

In a Marco Polo message yesterday, I was finally able to articulate a bit of how my brain feels these days. It's something I've wanted to write about, but I can't hold onto thoughts long enough to write them down. Talking them out seemed to work, though. I'm sure it was very inspiring and uplifting (not). See what y'all are missing out on by not being one of my conversation partners on Marco Polo? 😁

undeadrobins gave me a great idea for Good Intentions, so if I can claw some sort of coherency out of my skull I'd like to get back into that. I also wrote some notes for Reconstruction that I'm digging. I think people are going to be surprised at how much Ye Zun there is in this fic. I know I am! Please come back, fic-writing brain! I'm begging, here.

I think if I was still in the house with McKitterick I'd be deep into a Hell Spiral. At least I'm staying above that for now. *dog-paddling furiously*

So I just had a thought...

I'm not proud of some of my coping mechanisms but I'm also unashamed about using them when needs must. I realize though, that some people might not have similar relationships with their demons. So please tell me if it bothers you when I talk about substance use and, if so, how you'd like me to deal with it when posting here.

Poll #25278 Reading about recreational drug/alcohol use...

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...bothers me...

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...not at all.
30 (93.8%)

...and I'd like you to put it behind a cut.
2 (6.2%)