I visited an ex the other night – we’ve seen each other a few times since the break up, and it’s been awkward, distant, lonely, but nice, I guess, that we were able to exist in the same space together….
Category: Personal
Food Fight!
Sometimes things don’t work out as planned or as hoped. Sometimes too many roommates being around stops a scene. Sometimes sudden illness, surprise visitors, or conference stressors do. Sometimes a scene takes about a year to actually come into fruition….
Write Some Dang Words Already!
The start of the year saps the creative life from my bones, takes my words and vision and grinds it to a halt. It’s always been this way. I’ve always put the blame on a wicked case of seasonal affective…
Speak // Swallow Me Whole
The below audio recording is an auditory transcript of this essay I’ve got my earbuds in and his voice – soft, yet rough, my favourite tempo – fills my ears. I could hear him speak for days, would listen to…
Leave the Orgasms at the Office
You know the saying “do what you’ll love and you’ll never work a day in your life”? Well, if you’ve ever tried following that saying, you’ll know that, inevitably, that thing you love…becomes your work, it becomes something that you…
Broken Pieces
TW: chronic health, eating disorders, images featuring needles I like to joke that I’m a collection of slightly broken parts. It’s a joke except it isn’t. It’s one of those things you say with a laugh because if you say…
I Just Really Hate Conferences
TW chronic health, food, eating disorders, income/money On face value, conferences seem like something that I would enjoy. There’s so much opportunity to learn and practice different skills, a bunch of your friends, probably a pool or lake to swim…
Healing from Trauma
TW description of sexual/assault, trauma, mental illness, self harm, intrusive thoughts, gay slurs, slurs toward sex workers, non self-inflicted cutting, death threats, nonconsensual age play, suicidal thoughts, suggested necrophilia, nude photos, photos of implied (but not actual) cutting I haven’t…
Endings
CW: mentions of Daddy/boy kink. I broke up with a partner this year. The relationship had been over for a while and both of us were at fault, as is normally the case. But we didn’t want to accept it…
Collars
“I was wondering…” I began nervously, trying to control my voice in order to appear more relaxed than I actually was. “How would you feel about me having, you know, a thing. Of yours. That I could wear around my…