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she makes her own dystopia as she goes

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I hate it when I have a problem and the answer really *is* "fix your sleep schedule, do some exercise, leave the house, and drink water" like fuck offffff I don't wanna

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leave the house for the first time in three days against my own desires and feel like both the soaking wet cat covered in flea medication and the owner struggling in the tub with it

the genuine human experience is to be both animal and owner

i have three responses to "how is your writing going"

1) it's not

2) it's going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

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Fun fact, in fanfiction we can do whatever we want, including completely ignore the canon “timeline,” if we can even call the hot mess of canon anything resembling a coherent timeline.

90 words written today, and I don’t actually like the last couple hundred words in this scene so I’ll probably cut them tomorrow and try again.  Today was a post-traveling day of trying to get my life back together -- laundry, groceries, hoping I can reset my sleep schedule.  I got back late last night (around 12:30 am) and immediately had to deal with the fact that one of my circuit breakers had tripped, though I didn’t realize that at first and had the immediate assumption that my power had gone out.  That’s actually the first time this has happened since the electrical got updated four years ago; prior to that I had a fusebox and no grounded outlets.  (I’ve still got a box of extra fuses in the closet.)  Love to have internet that actually works, all my hotel wifi over the past week sucked.  Started an Outlander rewatch to go with my Outlander reread and maybe I’ll finally manage to catch up on both.  (I have been reading this books since I was eleven; they are formative influence stuff for me, so I’m not quite rational about them.  I cried when the show premiered back in 2014.)

Pink

Pink ain’t come to play wit you hoes!

This is also an excellent example of providing breed-adequate enrichment, because Border Collies are herding dogs. They were bred to run a lot and do multiple quick and sharp turns, so if you can’t provide your collie with an actual herd of animals to… well… herd, an obstacle course like this is a great alternative. That dog is having the time of her life.

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being a fan of popular characters in media is hilarious cause you'll see them reduced to a personality trait that they don't even have. neoflanderization

when I become Queen-Empress of the universe my second act will be decree that all hotel bathrooms must have written and illustrated instructions for their showers.  (my first act will be outlawing back zippers, human arms are not meant to bend that way.)

for the record these this is the hotel shower that prompted this. I never figured out the handheld as it had zero controls attached to switch from the overhead and the main controls (once I figured those out) had no effect on it. (showerhead is out of view of the picture. by the way yes it also leaked water all over the bathroom floor.)

it's actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don't give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it's just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word "cock" and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there's nothing much you can do about it