Not great, Bob
Nov. 7th, 2024 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Uh...so how's everyone doing? Should we do a sound-off? ...maybe just the Americans?
It's bad here, y'all, and one of the worst things of all is how I hesitated to even log on today, 'cos I haven't been around lately and, like, what right do I have? To unload on you all? There's nothing worse than that friend who only pops by when things are sucky and they wanna complain. I've had that friend. I do not want to be that friend.
But also, I'm kind of doing that Birdcage thing, you know? Riding a psychotic horse toward a burning stable -- metaphorically! -- and there's a bucket of water *right there* but no one's reaching for it because it was poured by a highly competent Black woman?? I guess??
Forget it. Bad metaphor. Awful, awful metaphor.
Don't laugh, but I thought it'd all work out for the best. In my naive, pie-in-the-sky little heart, I honestly did.
And also! I'm feeling the weirdest urge to fiddle around with my old WIPs today. I dunno...something-something the beauty of creation, something-something defiance and the triumph of the human spirit, something-something two guys rawing each other on top of some hay bales? Maybe it's not so weird.
Anyway, um. Hi?
Uh...so how's everyone doing? Should we do a sound-off? ...maybe just the Americans?
It's bad here, y'all, and one of the worst things of all is how I hesitated to even log on today, 'cos I haven't been around lately and, like, what right do I have? To unload on you all? There's nothing worse than that friend who only pops by when things are sucky and they wanna complain. I've had that friend. I do not want to be that friend.
But also, I'm kind of doing that Birdcage thing, you know? Riding a psychotic horse toward a burning stable -- metaphorically! -- and there's a bucket of water *right there* but no one's reaching for it because it was poured by a highly competent Black woman?? I guess??
Forget it. Bad metaphor. Awful, awful metaphor.
Don't laugh, but I thought it'd all work out for the best. In my naive, pie-in-the-sky little heart, I honestly did.
And also! I'm feeling the weirdest urge to fiddle around with my old WIPs today. I dunno...something-something the beauty of creation, something-something defiance and the triumph of the human spirit, something-something two guys rawing each other on top of some hay bales? Maybe it's not so weird.
Anyway, um. Hi?
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Date: 2024-11-10 01:38 pm (UTC)You could never be that friend, because it's always lovely to see you, even if you do just pop by to unload. Which is very understandable. I'm shocked at the result, and that's from an ocean away.
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Date: 2024-11-12 06:00 am (UTC)I feel like everyone's already moving on into the philosophizing and self-care stages of whatever this is and I'm still just sitting here, shocked and stuck. I can't seem to process it.