My friend is a tiny little hunting baby and I thought they'd just be like, running around the forest like the past 1000 times and it'd be safe to let them on my main map. Not so, and now my diamond zone/main hunting area got completely decimated.
How do I drive the animals back in there with minimum humane effort? Am I doomed to just deadzone everything around it until they're back?
I've been reading football RPF after the World Cup. I've never watched football in my life. A writer I've followed for a while posted a fic, and... I'm invested.
What's your unlikely love story?
Etc. applicable situations.
I'm pretty sure my entire hand will come detached from my wrist one of these days just from trying to hold a kettle one-handed to get the water out of my pasta. I have other issues like this that I cannot remember one example of right now, but basically holding anything heavy one-handed, sometimes even opening jars and the like, just feels like a coin toss between (more severe) injury and success. Entirely too many times I have to quit half-way and call it good enough because I can't physically hold or twist the object longer.
How do people exist in everyday situations like cooking and cleaning with spaghetti wrists?
A treacherously simple question up front, but let me break it down into impossible nitty-gritty detail.
How do you like to enjoy your fic? In bits and pieces here and there, all at once curled up by the window on a rainy day, during transit, on the toilet, in bed before sleep, in bed for (uhhhhh), at work while your boss is staring you down and you pretend not to notice?
Per unfinished work - are you one of those who never reads unfinished because you don't want to get burned? Or someone who doesn't mind, or even looks currently ongoing up on purpose: what's your preferred update frequency, do you enjoy a steady stream of content as fast as it can come, or are you someone who struggles to keep up with weekly? What's your sweet spot for new chapters? Does this vary per genre and trope?
Tell me about how you read fic. I'm professionally curious, as mostly-a-writer.
When I read - I like ongoing, I get mostly that from reading particularly from fellow writers in my community, and from following a few I've enjoyed most in the past. I won't promise to keep up with the pace, but I like having chapters dropped into my lap every so often so I feel like I have a permission to pace myself, read a little and then let it go, it suits my ADHD and low energy best. It also removes the question of whether to comment on every chapter or at the end; I'm well-trained to comment on everything when the pause comes. Which does not translate to me as a writer: I feel a burning need to drop everything down all at once, because what if my readers forget about the fic between chapters? What if they forget, like I do, what happened in the previous one, if they don't get it right away? It wouldn't be the first time I get asked if I could please slow down a little. I'd feel that way as a reader myself, but maybe we're the minority. I've also found that I'm not picky per my location and situation: I can read on the go, picking up a cup of coffee while in the city, or I can read while I'm waiting for time to pass in my currently open video game, or purposefully with a soundscape in the background from my screen or just after waking up and still in bed. I've read fic at a party, I've read fic while my friend is cooking, I've read fic right after watching the movie and I've read fic twenty years after wondering what other people think about this classic I just remembered.
What's your preference, your best case scenario for enjoying fic?
Seriously. I keep hearing about how TikTok and YouTube shorts and the like are the most addictive thing to people with ADHD, but it's specifically my ADHD that ensures I'll never make an account for any of these sites because I think I would rather die than endure the tedium of scrolling a site where for every little thing I have to wait for the person to get to their point. 15 seconds of my life to figure out what the gist is? NO. Give me a summary to read or I'm out lmao.
Came to think - I can't be the only one. Where are my people who don't even have the attention span to get addicted?
Some of you may relate.
I've had the worst... two? Weeks of my life again. I was "fine" for a couple months with tolerable levels of pain and my main issue was fatigue, was hopeful about looking into hEDS and physiotherapy and starting to improve my general levels of pain from there after assessments I finally had done recently, and then this hits again. I don't know what's wrong with me and for two weeks my doctor again has essentially told me to take a hike and deal with it (my county has shit for resources due to summer closing up shops per health care everywhere), until EMTs told me the other night that I need to go to urgent care when it opens in the morning because I need to be seen for whatever it is that's wrong with me right now. The specific symptoms don't matter so much, just think autoimmune, massive joint pains, hands and feet hurt, every muscle aches, generic pains everywhere like I've been hit by a truck or have the worst flu of my life, brain fog, the whole mile - I'm waiting for my antibody results right now because I cannot, and the doctor I saw cannot, think of many other options. It's either that or I'm out of ideas, and if it's not that I genuinely don't know how I'm going to go on not having answers and not having hope.
I usually deal with my problems by learning everything I can about them, but right now, I don't know what's wrong with me. I've had flares like this for five or six years now, more or less since turning 30 and suspiciously maybe since the pandemic but I feel like it started before then. They come a few times a year and last a couple weeks to a month or so, then disappear for a while again. Inbetween them I have general stiffness, aching, numbness, and the associated fatigue and brain fog and intermittent issues and smaller flares and POTS symptoms and the like but it's usually bearable, and while I'm always running the risk of triggering a big flare, I can oftenmost live with these symptoms. When the flare hits, it's not bearable. I have an insane pain tolerance and I've been crying a lot this past week because I can't take this anymore, especially not having any solutions for it, anything I can do, any information whatsoever on how I can even help myself.
So what I'm asking is - do we have any podcast (or channel, or blog, or documentary, or book - audiobook preferably because... I don't have the energy to hold up an actual book nor do I have the energy to physically read one at this time) recommendations for managing, living with, and helping chronic pain? I find myself thinking entirely too much that I just can't live like this, I can't do this, I'm either afraid to die or thinking of how to die all of the time, I need something else while I'm trying to figure out the long-term plan here. I feel so fucking isolated and alone because the medical system doesn't care about me in the slightest until I go to the ER about it, I need resources outside of that, but googling for this brings up 10 000 WebMD clones that are utterly useless and YouTube is a crapshoot between clickbait AI videos and ivermectin peddlers, so I'm turning to the commmunity.
What media/resources did you find helpful? Which podcasts should I listen to? Who has written a good book on this? Who can I turn on to talk into my ear so I can feel, at least momentarily, in better control of my circumstances? I don't care if it's mindfulness or buddhism or a clinical interview meant for PhDs to consume. I just need some kind of reframing here. I can't live in a tunnel with no light at any point over the stretch of it.
Help.