Write Every Day 27

comment_fic is doing their lonely prompts and I picked up one for a total of 988 words on something I shouldn’t have been writing.

Interesting writing prompt




alt text: Old cemeteries were bounded by iron for a reason but in this case it appeared the metal wasn’t pure enough and now we had some escaped ghuls on our hands


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Day 26 regshoe, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, alexseanchai, bethctg, sanguinity, cornerofmadness

( other days back here )

I have a hole in my memory the size of the 1990s

So for the last week my parents have made me feel I'm nuts saying I said things I didn't. Okay maybe a slip of a tongue but then last night Mom was actually sounding scared because I couldn't remember a story I told her about a 106 y.o. woman driving with her daughter to FL. I'm like MOM I didn't tell you this (tonight she called me and said yeah it was her best friend who told her, meanwhile I spent the night thinking I was insane)

But it got me thinking, that and Emergency! as I have now almost completely finished rewatching it and thinking AGAIN with all the people losing their minds over OMG PoC being in shows, women!!!! they suck. Yes I do feel this stuff must go in waves. Looking at the 60s and 70s Star Trek was uber political and progressive. M.A.S.H. was political and damn Emergency! was a PSA for so many things, how to use EMS (and not), don't use milk to counteract heroin, that paramedics are a viable thing, don't do drugs, don't use certain house hold cleaners together etc etc. And ST and Emergency aren't 100% White. Uhura and Sulu. Johnny, Dr. Molton, Marco (and Johnny got his big anti-Colonial rant and Molton did get a few about being Black in the 70s)

So I started thinking about WHY do so many fans right now feel so threatened, so unused to seeing characters of color (or women or gays) and that's when I realized I COULD NOT remember much of 90s. I'm like there's the Star Treks, The X-Files and Buffy/Angel. What the shit did I watch?!?

There is no surprise I struggle with the 90s. The first half was medical school/medical residency where I'm stressed beyond belief and busy AF. Then came starting up my own medical practice which still to this day feels more important and longer lasting than what I do now (which is not even remotely true but I have never recovered from that loss)

I literally had to Google it. Oh right, Frasier, Northern Exposure, Law & Order, Homicide life in the street and NYPD Blue (which at least has some CoC) but almost everything else WAS overwhelming white, like with zero characters of color (Buffy did poorly in that respect. Angel fared marginally better. Star Trek gave us Black and Female captains so really ST 'fans' sit the fuck down about the new shows and your racism/misogyny because I'm not even sure what show you thought you watched. ST has always been woke)

It's actually very striking to me that the 70s did more to showcase people of color than the 90s. Though when you look at what was going on at the time, it makes more sense.


Had another nightmare. I don't remember all of it. I do know I was in NYC for part of it. I was also in a house (another of the labyrinth affairs) with friends and family but what struck me as the worst of it, whatever bad thing happened, whatever I was running from, I had fled and forgotten my laptop. I woke up in a panic thinking I had lost this loaner laptop. It took literal minutes to calm down and remember you haven't GONE anywhere. The computer is in the living room, packed for work tomorrow.