Winter has come: brain weasels and my journal space

[untonuggan]

Seasonal depression hit me like a sledgehammer a few days ago. I'm coping, but it's a lot harder than usual. I was talking to a friend today and I mentioned that thing where you are so anxious-upset-whatever that it doesn't feel safe to go to sleep, even though sleep is probably something that would help your brain and my friend went OH THAT THING THANK YOU FOR NAMING IT. So yes, sleep is hard.

I'm having to do some things to cope with the current weight of the world, and I'd appreciate your help ~

• currently on as much of a news fast as I can manage with the news everywhere. It's fine if you want to talk about the news in your own space, but please don't mention current events here unless it's on a post specifically about a news item. (For others on news fasts, I'm trying to keep them behind magic cut-tags.)
• please do not link any of my posts (even public ones) out at the moment without checking with me first; I'm having trouble people-ing right now.
• writing is helping! I just keep getting stuck. talk to me about writing, though general awareness of "different brains work differently" is greatly appreciated.
• as always, cute photos of animals, humor (light and dark humor), poetry, amazing!science and other things that make the world worth living are amazing and I appreciate you sharing.

thanks for reading!

Comments

[spiralsheep]

I'm assuming you've seen the kittens on a Roomba .gif but....

http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5513399.html

[untonuggan]

eee but it's always worth looking at again :D

[erika]

Good to know! Thanks for telling me how to help you out right now.

[untonuggan]

thanks for listening <3

[lilysea]

Comforting tag has probably been updated since you looked at it last. ^_^ <3

https://pinboard.in/u:Lilysea/t:comforting

[jesse_the_k]

What a lovely resource and something to emulate.

[untonuggan]

awesome! I am thinking for to have something like this for when we finally get bitesizedorg going. :)

[lilysea]

Thank you. ^_^

[jesse_the_k]

Per your request, we have a dog and its anima (wait, do dogs have humina)?



Acrobatic corgi in the corner, sitting upright, underneath a painting of him in exact same position.

[untonuggan]

omg omg omg omg

I wants to smoooooooooooooosh the doggy!

and all the treats and kisses and yes

someday we will have a dog and my cats will just have to deal. probably a dog with a short tail because Lily is a tail-menace.

[jesse_the_k]

More corgi because, why not!

Can't embed because corgis are too wiggly but worth the click

http://www.gifaknet.ru/2015/11/blog-post_95.html

what's your dream dog like?

[pipisafoat]

writing! i wrote the easy part of a thing and now i'm paralyzed by the thought of getting the harder bit wrong and thus haven't written more. have in fact just today noticed that i've instead thrown myself bodily into a different fandom, though i'm not writing it (though now that i've said that watch it happen).
(i feel that i need to do some research to write the hard parts but the research is, emotionally overwhelming to consider right now? which defies the point of writing for me, which is emotional escapism.)

[liv]

Really sorry to hear you're finding things hard. Also I apologize specifically for linking your post without checking first, I really should have done especially as you've always been scrupulous about asking before linking to my stuff.