Well, this is entirely expected
Oct. 27th, 2011 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gryphonseggSurprising no one at all, my post-apocalyptic snippet is turning out to be too long and complicated, and my grad school app anxiety has started surging again. So I'm going to send out my requests for transcripts and GRE scores tomorrow/early next week, and I'll come back to the fiction posting after I'm done with that.
If I frame it the right way in my mind, I'll start to think of it as using the requests as delaying tactic against completing my self-imposed challenge. Then I'll be sure to get it done!
In the meantime, have a true-facts anecdote about a completely stupid situation: I went out for dinner this afternoon, but first I went to a used bookstore to get something to read while waiting for my food and during my daily stretches of time-to-wait tomorrow. I took longer than necessary to go about this because I was feeling hypersensitive and wanted to make sure I got something that unlikely to have rape scenes in it. I found a book that looked pretty safe, paid for it, went to get food, and opened the book while waiting for food. What was in the first two pages? No, not rape this time-- graphically described eye injury! :/ I put the book down because I could not continue to read that and then expect to eat the food, which I'd already ordered. At first I was doing this: DX Now, I'm kind of laughing at myself because I was so careful to avoid one upsetting thing that's more serious than a squick but not quite a full-on trigger for me, but I ended up getting blindsided by a more rarely encountered squick. In the context, the eye injury wasn't part of a torture scene or anything like that, it was "only" cybernetics-related and the character it happened to was fully consenting and kind of implausibly blase about the whole thing. I DID NOT CARE, OW, YOUR EYE*!
*Icon selected for the beauty of protective goggles.
If I frame it the right way in my mind, I'll start to think of it as using the requests as delaying tactic against completing my self-imposed challenge. Then I'll be sure to get it done!
In the meantime, have a true-facts anecdote about a completely stupid situation: I went out for dinner this afternoon, but first I went to a used bookstore to get something to read while waiting for my food and during my daily stretches of time-to-wait tomorrow. I took longer than necessary to go about this because I was feeling hypersensitive and wanted to make sure I got something that unlikely to have rape scenes in it. I found a book that looked pretty safe, paid for it, went to get food, and opened the book while waiting for food. What was in the first two pages? No, not rape this time-- graphically described eye injury! :/ I put the book down because I could not continue to read that and then expect to eat the food, which I'd already ordered. At first I was doing this: DX Now, I'm kind of laughing at myself because I was so careful to avoid one upsetting thing that's more serious than a squick but not quite a full-on trigger for me, but I ended up getting blindsided by a more rarely encountered squick. In the context, the eye injury wasn't part of a torture scene or anything like that, it was "only" cybernetics-related and the character it happened to was fully consenting and kind of implausibly blase about the whole thing. I DID NOT CARE, OW, YOUR EYE*!
*Icon selected for the beauty of protective goggles.
