I intend to write it.

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I have continued to work on my mental health as a primary focus these last couple of months. It is not sexy or exciting, but I’ve reached a point where I understand and have made some peace with what drove me into depression in the first place. I’m not going to dump. I’ll just say that I didn’t even realize how hard I was fighting to keep it from hitting me.

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I am writing again. And reading. Slowly. But sustainably. It’s even a bit fun.

I’ve been deliberately inserting more positivity into my brain, courtesy of Trish Blackwell’s confidence podcast. Whether or not it’s your thing, it’s been a source of tools to help me go beyond surviving and take aim at thriving again.

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Congratulations, my fellow Americans: we’ve elected as president a 34-time convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and leader of an attempted coup. And we did it with a popular majority. Just fucking magnificent, all of you. I can’t wait to have another chance to inject bleach, betray allies, suck authoritarian cock, and negotiate with terrorists.

Fucking beautiful show. All of my best.

All right, I don’t have that story out. But rest assured, I have the best excuses. Some say, the greatest excuses. Strong men come up to me and say, “sir, your excuses aren’t like anything we’ve ever seen before.”

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It’s my ✨200th blog!✨ Party time (or something)!

Man, how about that COVID era?! I’ve had a lot going on since then. I think between personal medical stuff, and my disappointment with how certain people-groups minimized COVID’s impact, as well as all the crazy stuff America got into with casually almost overthrowing its own government (and mostly failing to bring justice or accountability for that)… I’ve been doing more thinking than speaking! It’s been awesome (it has not been awesome.)

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The other day I got a message from ZanarNaryon telling me they had created a TVTropes page for To Serve In Hell. Now, TVTropes can be a dangerous place to start reading, unless you have a few hours to spend getting lost in it. But if you want to check it out, please do! It’s a delight seeing the whole thing laid out like an actual story on there!

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Hey friends.

I didn’t used to believe in writer’s block as such. I always thought the phenomenon was a manifestation of something else in a person’s life. I also thought the cure for it was just to sit down and write any garbage you can. Editing should never mix with drafting, and if you can get yourself to stop editing, you’ll achieve more and better drafting—which can then be edited.

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Almost exactly 2.5 years ago, my family and I bought tickets to Whinny City Pony Con 2020. Of course there was no such con, at least not in a physical capacity. But good egg that he is, Charlie Worthley (con organizer extraordinaire) has made it effortless to transfer our tickets from that long-ago time to right now, despite all that’s transpired between.

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I live.

Time's gotten away from me.

2020 got weird. My 2021 started with an honest effort to get back to normal. But after I started getting treated for depression, I began to see more and more ways to improve things in my daily and family life that hadn't fit together very well in years. Including some of the core issues that had pointed me in the direction of MLP in the first place.

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