I have books to write and weird horny art to make about my OCs. See a dentist. Get my diabetes under control with better diet and any exercise at all, having the time for structured classes where I thrive best. Maintain my car. Buy a dairy and an egg farm and gift it to the local food pantry.

Which is a long way of saying it’s not unethical to run your fictional boi through the wringer of what you want him to go through, for no other reason than you want to.

And there’s also plenty of shenanigans like ‘trouble ensued and I didn’t have time to visit a midwife and get it done while I was on the run and now it’s awfully late and I’m reconsidering’

I get it. And sometimes I will happily read about characters I want to see knocked up doing just that because it makes sense in the story I want to see, and it’s equally valid to explore the other trouser leg of time because that’s the premise in the story I want to read.

You are not a failure. None of us working ‘real jobs’ right now are making it. It’s all priced just out of reach. This is not on you, even if you’re being stuck with the consequences.

Hugggggs

I am intrigued

Hugggggs

Mayhaps on a weekend after Thanksgiving!

Hugshugshugs

Sometime!

🤣

Partner is okay!!! Dealing with health but okay. Life continues to happen at speed.

Solidarity and sympathy

Any number is an unrealistic number if you believe in yourself hard enough

Oooh- I’ve got job alerts from State of IL but I didn’t think of that. I’ve been mostly on Indeed, and once you list your insurance licenses that’s about all they show you.

You and me both. I’ve set myself on fire to keep this man warm and I’m *done*, just as soon as I have something else in hand.

I’m managing with stovetop hot water and washcloths, but it’s just annoying to be denied the best thing for my tight traps and neck. Four ibuprofen and a hot shower and I’m flyin’.