Snowflake Day 10 and other ramblings

Day 10: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


It would be easier for me to name the ones I don't like than it is for me to think of ones I do. Somewhere, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of, I started liking the abused/beaten down boy trope, watching him fight back and pull himself out of the horror of his past. There's that and for some reason insane women keep appearing in my stuff.No clue. I try not to think too much about it. As far as kinks go, light bondage is probably mine, nothing too heavy or painful.

I keep forgetting to telling seta_suzume thank you for her delightful New Year's card. I got it before I left PA a week ago but I'm an ass and keep forgetting to say I got it.

I'm just starting the semester and I'm already looking forward to its end. I think I've been here too long. I turned 40 here and now I'll turn 50 and I do not like it one bit. I know life never goes as planned but mine feels so off the rails it doesn't feel like its mine any more, nor is it a life that makes me happy. My world is hollow.

It doesn't help that today I was forcibly reminded I'm so definitely second or third tier in my publishing house it's not funny. Someone wrote our private group saying her editor left the publishing house and who should she choose to replace her. No one has ever given me an option. My stuff has been passed thru 3 people every time. I never know their names (except one) And I'm like wow...I see how very little I count for.

I had a weird dream (been having several but this one is the one that stuck). I was giving myself my insulin (in a room I've never been in before). But instead of in my belly I was putting it in the underside of my left breast but I didn't want to. The needle was much bigger than normal and somehow I messed it up, tearing my skin. the needle came out with tons of blood and pulling fat tissue with it. I tried to get the people with me to help me but no one did.