awwww yeah it's raid night #wow
So some #mentalillness talk...
I had a really important agent interested in my novel. She suggested some revisions, and I addressed them, and I sent it back. And I got nothing for a year. Poked her a couple times early, got an "I'm working on it," then my life fell apart. Poked her again recently, she'd asked someone else to look at it and they ended up in the hospital and it had fallen through the cracks.
And, like... I feel like that's me now. That's just my life.
So some #mentalillness talk...
When you're already dealing with derealization/depersonalization, it really doesn't help at all to send writing submissions and job applications out into the ether and never hear so much as a rejection. Am I even here? Am I a silent voice screaming into the void? Is there any point to any of it? I need to make money to support myself and I get so hopeless sometimes, like I have to scream and scream and I'm still never heard...
So here's some thoughts on politics:
The US has a two-party system, and changing that is nearly impossible. But our "left-wing" party is weak. And it's weak because it's run by and full of cishet white men with nothing on the line. They aren't fighting for themselves the way the right is.
And THAT. THAT is what there's a hope of changing.
We need to demand they nominate women, and better, women of color. Gays and lesbians and trans folks and all kinds of queers. Only then will they be strong.
I can't sleep so here's some validation:
Your problems are "enough". You don't have to earn anyone's approval to feel bad about something going on in your life. We all have problems, and yes some problems are bigger than others, but they are still just as important and vital and painful to us when we're experiencing them.
Take the time you need to experience your pain. Name it, process it, and then take care of yourself. Give yourself permission to treat yourself with love. You deserve it.
Okay, so I am a long-time player of death knights in #worldofwarcraft. And I just love how unrepentant their new class mount is. Not only is it a skeletal dragon, your seat is a COFFIN and the reins are A PAIR OF RUNESWORDS STUCK INTO A PILE OF SKULLS
http://www.warcraftmounts.com/mounts/deathlordsvilebroodvanquisher.php
Also I wrote an article about this whole Mastodon thing http://www.stjanemedia.co/jjs-desk/2017/4/8/mastodon-lets-you-run-your-own-twitter-or-join-theirs
LOL this is so much better than I thought. Fuc king Time magazine https://twitter.com/rypauley/status/851034975717687296 https://mastodon.social/media/rPqNmk8axgaTdGhO_MI https://mastodon.social/media/-j582SAig01ZXgPdQ_o
@Firstaide Very useful! Thanks, I'll give it a look! :D
@Firstaide The list on github has little blurbs for each one, but I'll have to look into that one too. To me that's way more important than whether they support IPv6.
Team Mystic. Angry Lesbian, literal heathen, cis-ish woman. Writer and editor, trying to scratch out a living with both. Too fond of Transformers.