Hi all. I hope everyone is doing well. I've been taking an extended break from FimFiction lately. Had some undesirable interactions with some users. That coupled with some of my creative frustrations just makes logging on... kind of unpleasant? If I do log on, it's usually to try and catch up with the fics I'm reading and then I quickly log off. I'm just feeling drained with the MLP fanfic
Writing updates. Chattin' up about life. Not a dense post, but get it after the jump.
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It was my birthday yesterday! I'd meant to post the day of, but honestly, I was so tired and busy I just didn't have much time or energy to sit at my computer. Wanna hear a funny story or two, plus see the new playlist I made for Sassaflash? Get it after the jump!
New chapter for What They Hope to Find is out! I talk about what's next after the jump, but before that, a quick anecdote:
Last night, my family was having trouble finding something to watch together. My nine-year-old son didn't have any ideas, but he pretty much shot down every suggestion we had. Eventually, out of frustration and half-serious, I say, "Let's just watch ponies."
I'm participating in this year's Jinglemas! It's a cute fic exchange that happens every year. I requested a rare pair ship, three guesses which. 
Today is the last day to join, so if you want in on it, be sure to read over the rules and PM Shakespearicles!
I learned in therapy that this song apparently unlocks my happy-side. Really.
Chapter 14 of What They Expect to Give is at 3k words. It's trucking. I'm actually a little surprised at how easily it's coming along, considering some of the nonsense I've had going on in my personal life.
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*Knocks on wood*
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XD Ol' knock on wood :) it always works :) I once got lost in a department store a long time ago, when I was looking for my parents, and I knocked on a wooden shelf, my dad came and found me a second later.
3836236 It's a persistent superstition that I can't seem to rid myself of, lol
3836239 I believe in it :) as they say in Japan, Kuwabara, kuwabara :)
On the song, it may be because of a sense of community. Most people in today's society don't feel like their neighbours will be there to help them, or support them, and so it causes unhappiness and depression. When you feel like you can be part of something as a community, it increases someones happiness by a lot.
Perhaps the song makes you feel like part of something and like people you live near will always be there for you.
Or I'm wrong -- most likely wrong, even.
3836494 no, I think that's a pretty astute observation. That would explain it's appeal to me on a personal level. On a more sciencey level, what we observed is that it seems to encourage a strong response that uses neural pathways completely separate from other, less ideal ones that had been created and strengthened since a young age.
My guess is that it's tapping into a part of my brain that may have also been created as a child. Those neural pathways may have always been there, but I just have to teach my brain to use the happy brain cells instead of the frowny brain cells as a default to coping with stuff.