V.R. Raw @gremaure@wandering.shop

#selfpromotion

I did the Big Scary Thing and posted up a few chapters of my draft on Inkshares!

The Glass Tree is a character-focused epic fantasy novel with a diverse cast, and if that sounds like the kind of thing you might want to take a look at, the link is here:

https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-glass-tree

Hi everyone, I'm Grem and I'm totally new to mastodon. I'm demigender (she/her).

I'm predominantly an LGBT high fantasy writer, currently working towards self-publishing my first novel.

I'm also big into video gaming. I love me a good story-driven RPG.

I have a very antisocial cat named Morrigan, and nothing cheers me up like a good cup of tea. :)

#introductions #amwriting #highfantasy #rpg #cats #tea #lgbtcharacters

So today I went outside, did a food shop, cleaned and tidied the kitchen (including organising the spice rack which had gotten somewhat out of hand, it was less of a spice rack and more of an entire seasoning aisle but in my kitchen), ran a load of washing AND did some work on the novel.

For me this is a highly unusual level of productivity, let's hope the upswing lasts for a while this time.

My cat has developed this new habit when she wants my attention while I'm at my desk. She'll go under the desk, go up on her back legs and kind of pat me on the knee until I stop what I'm doing and play with her.

It's cute, but her claws are long at the moment. So also ouch.

Today consisted of nothing apart from the annual February Lord of the Rings marathon with my husband and an excessive amount of pizza. As such it has been a good day.

My mum has been quietly absorbing my complaints about things in my kitchen that are missing, broken or that I just never had since I moved out, and this weekend she showed up at my door with plates (husband breaks them), forks (no idea where they've all gone), a stock pot and a raclette grill. It's not even my birthday!

While I was running errands in town I bought myself 400g of yoghurt covered cranberries which I don't have to share because my husband doesn't like them, I regret nothing.

Husband got me a really tiny little donkey and it may just be the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Smacked both my elbow and my knee fishing the cat out from under a chair before she could finish swallowing the piece of string she found that she was so desperate to swallow.

She's sulking now, but she's also not having emergency surgery or choking, so there's that.

Today went downhill in a bottle very quickly and I do not want to be a burden but I am told that talking can help so here I am, rambling at The Internet. I generally thought I was past the 'drinking to feel' thing (I dissociate a lot and it brings me back, not healthy I know). BUT apparently it still gets me every now and again.

The plan for today is to move the duvet and all of the pillows to the sofa, build a nest, and watch the entirety of Grace and Frankie season 5 while sulking self-indulgently about all of the things I should be doing instead.

Caaaaaaaat.

My brain is very tired today, 'cat' is all the caption I can come up with.

When I reconnect with my body (for lack of a better way of describing it), clothes feel weird. I'm just hyper-aware that they're THERE. It's not necessarily a bad feeling and it doesn't usually last long, but it is sometimes a bit weird.

I am not having a great day today (thank you bpd, feel free to sod off any time you like) so here are some pictures of my cat when she was a really teeny tiny kitten for anybody else who is not having a great day today. (Dishwasher for scale. She was really, really tiny when we got her.)

I hope they help.

The hardest part of switching phone is teaching the new dictionary all the made-up words my husband and I use to communicate.

My cat is asleep on my office chair and her little face is tucked into her little paws and that is the story of how I got no work done today because I had no chair.