Having literally just seen a teacher w/ a logo design side hustle be told that her work & her effort was "basically worthless in the era of AI," I'm even MORE anti-AI than I was 10 minutes ago.

Oh thank you! "The email will not find me if I stay still and do nothing" really gave me a huge grin, and is so relatable! 😆 Such great little things to make you smile! 😀

How cool! Hope they *both* have fabulous birthdays! 🫶

Thank you! I'm laughing less than a minute in! 😂

Thank you, Andie. ♥

I've also started a conversation with my doctor & therapist... and have appts soon! It helps in the meantime to see examples of joy though, if that makes sense!

Hope your pupper has the best 7th bday next month & wishing her many more, too!

What a cutie! I can see why your dog brings you joy! 🐾😍

They do look an awful lot alike! Especially when my boy is in more natural light. He's that same pale kind of ginger, when the light doesn't make him look extra orange! 😊

Hope you had good sleeps - you and your ginger fatass - from me and my ginger fatass. ♥

... perhaps consider that in sharing explicit and gory details of traumatic events in your stories may only "feed" the desires of some individuals, and maybe you don't need to do that. Maybe some things aren't worth "feeding." 6/6

I guess, what I'm saying in short is just this: a) always, always, always provide content warnings if possible, and b) sometimes alluding to traumatic events is equally or more effective than describing them explicitly and uh... the last bit, might be a doozy but... c) ... 5/

And from an artistic standpoint, even, sometimes leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions about the severity is viable, not only in terms of how far their imaginations go, but also in terms of where their imaginations will *safely* take them, too. (Hope I'm making sense here). 4/

... but there are ways and means to tell a story, even one that involves traumatic events, w/o resorting to getting into the explicitly graphic and gory details. And it's certainly not necessary for storytelling purposes to involve visual depictions of those types of details. 3/

I believe (good) storytelling requires conflict (and conflict resolution). I believe that "trauma" as a term is actually a very broad one, and that positive experiences AND traumas shape people, impact personalities, and are part of the "drive" of stories... 2/

It's not so much difficult to share the day for me, but as a Pisces, I won't date another Pisces. That's too much fish for any one person. 😂