u/LustyRegencyMaid

Greetings fellow sufferers,

I've had open cts surgery on my dominant hand about a year ago. It healed well and the symptoms went away basically 99,99% except... Well, I work remote at the pc.

Mouse: Using a normal mouse is impossible now. I got an ergonomic vertical mouse and it improves the issue, but I still have to use a mouse with my non-dominant hand most of the time. Which is fine usually, but doing more detailed work with vector and 3D programs is horrible. I know I would be much more detailed and quicker with my dominant hand. But if I try it with the dominant hand, within minutes my hand grows numb and tingly and I get shooting pains.

Keyboard: Was impossible until I got a gel cushion for infront of the keyboard. Since then I can write a post like this just fine. But if I write something longer, like for example a longer story, and I do want to finish my book someday... well, withing about one page my hand has all the symptoms and gets so numb it's hard to continue. Wearing a brace does help a lot, but it's not a good fix for the long term.

Art: Somehow, with tattoo artist machine tape around my pens and some of my fingers I am totally fine and can draw for hours and hours and hours with maybe a bit of soreness after a long day.

Do you have any recommendations? My Drs all say the hand is fine, and the electric nerve tests they do always come back totally fine. One Dr recommended physio, which I went to, but it runed my hand to the point I couldn't use it at all for a whole month.

Any advice for an artist who has to do a lot of pc work?

Edit: Spelling

Hi, this is more of a... mini rant, I guess. I'm currently reading a romantasy book which I like so far. But...

Look, I get it, we're all tired of infodumps. Nobody wants to read Tolkien rambling about his worldbuilding for 20 pages or read a whole ass dissertation about the holy war between orks and jedi.

But please, PLEASE, explain stuff at least a little bit? In the book I read right now, there's mention of people belonging to different countries (or tribes?), but somehow people have all the same hair and eye colour but for some reason are very different? I have no idea what the countries are supposed to look like or why one destroyed the other, or anything... I have no fucking idea. The MC is supposed to look super special which was explained, but they keep throwing words around and speak like they all know what it's all about, but that have not been explained enough. My brain doesn't understand what's going on in the world or how I'm even supposed to imagine anything. It feels like reading a text in a language I don't speak fluently. I keep not understanding stuff and missing context. And I'm starting to just glaze over stuff and then I have to go back just to find out that no, I did not miss the context due to my adhd. There was no context. Somehow I'm supposed to care about stuff I don't understand at all. It's just exhausting. Sigh.

Please for the love of all things holy, at least explain stuff for 2 or 3 sentences. I BEG YOU. This is definitely a teaching moment for myself, too.

Btw I'm open to recommendations where books don't throw me into a black box for the first 10000 pages. Thank you for reading my bs! 😃

Hi everyone,

I got a ridiculous problem. I have scrivener, but I want to write in cafés and trains, on my smartphone with a keyboard. So I need a writing software with those specs:

- is an android app or website

- cross-platform sync between windows pc and android smartphone (or just a website you open in the browser)

- preferably free of course, but I'm willing to pay 10 bucks max monthly

- pay with paypal (NO CREDIT CARDS!! No paypal credit card number at checkout!)

- pay MONTHLY, not yearly

- has a similar structure to scrivener, dabble, novlr (all the stuff on the side bar), not the strange folder structure with all the documents inside like in ellipsus.

- isn't into artificial int (please no discussion about pros or cons of this, it's just my preference)

Examples of programs I like but aren't exactly what I need:

Scrivener: Obviously no sync. Dropbox would work but Scrivener is not an android app.

Dabble: Perfect, but wants credit card

Novlr: Perfect, but free has only two projects. Payment only with credit card, even w/ paypal. Payment at checkout is only for one whole year, not monthly.

Ellipsus: Documents are just all inside folders. I need a sidebar I can organise myself.

Evernote and Notion: Amazing, have basically all I need, but their push for their artificial int functions drives me nuts and I can't trust them to not use their users' texts to train it. I literally can't believe a "We're totally not gonna do it hehe".

Google Docs: Haven't tried it yet tbh but I think my problems would be similar to Evernote and Notion.

Help? 😞 I guess if I don't find any alternative, I'll just stick with notion for now, so it's not the end of the world, but I'd really like to finally settle on one thing.

Hi!

I've started 3 dark rom / erotic horror books the past weeks but just can't get through them bc the alternating 1st person pov oftentimes isn't working for me. 24690 even has 3 people's pov and I keep losing track who is who lol.

Can you recommend me some filthy erotic horror like "In love with the devil" by Sky Blu, but in 3rd person pov?