I know I've written about the mind-body connection before, and how important it is to listen to your body. Great idea, right? Listen in to your body, make sure that you understand how what it is telling you relates to your mental health! Easy peasy!

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Speak Chapter 22 coming Friday to a Fimfic Near You.

DEAR GOD I AM GOING TO MAKE SURE IT'S NOT A YEAR BETWEEN UPDATES THIS TIME I SWEAR

Shows up Sleep Deprived, Over caffeinated, over stressed, and a year late

What's up bitches, I brought HORSEWORDS. 13.5k of them, pre-editing to be exact

Speak chapter 22 is going off to Bro and RoMS. All 3 of us are presently gestures towards her opening line of this blog, so it may be a bit, but hopefully by mid April I can get it out to you all!

Hey all!

Sorry for the comm silence the last few day-...wee-no, Months? Months? Decades? Time allegedly passed between 2019 and 2021 and I'm still not sure how long it actually was.

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Hey all! I am alive! I am healthy (or as healthy as you can be when your state is on fire and the air looks like something out of Bladerunner), and I am very, very, very slowly finding the time/headspace to write Speak.

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One of the things I frequently harp on my friends who identify themselves as Leftists is the large divide between needing to read 87 books to understand a ten-page Leftist joke, and the fact that there’s often a struggle within academia and in leftist politics to condense information down to people that, quite frankly, don’t have time to read said 87 books. My friend RoMS was asking what I meant by that, as one of the topics I frequently point toward is the difference between the oral culture

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I was gonna start this off with a quote from someone older and wiser than I about anger, but I quickly realised that I didn’t want someone else talking over my own voice. I feel that it happens often enough in my life offline that I’d rather not repeat the experience in my own blog.

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Coming on Thursday, the 21st of May!

So I'm not dead! I just sort of sank into a weird space of vacation in the midst of a pandemic and a few bad habits that were largely my own desperate attempts to support everyone around me. This has largely not worked out for me, but it's given me the time, space, and energy to make neat flow charts on how to badly handle a pandemic as a healer. For those curious, mine went something like this:

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So Speak is not dead, work has just eaten my life! While I do have a job that is often on call, I have a hard time finding the mental RAM to be able to write when a part of me is stressing about whether or not the phone is going to ring with someone having the worst day of their life so far. While things have calmed down considerably with CoVid-19 going around, it's slowed down the number of calls I get, but the stress remains.

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