Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Monday) now to midnight UT (8pm Tuesday Eastern Time).

Poll #24470 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 55

How are you doing?

I am OK
46 (83.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (14.5%)

I could use some help
1 (1.8%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
24 (44.4%)

One other person
18 (33.3%)

More than one other person
12 (22.2%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[twistedchick]

I just resigned my major Second Life volunteer position, the one I've had for five years, and I feel both slightly in shock and very relieved. Now it's not my problem, and I can spend my time doing things I enjoy more. It was the unpaid equivalent of a 20-hour-a-week job, with occasional overtime. I am glad to be done; someone with more energy needs to have it. Not my problem.

[ex_flameandsong751]

*sad noises*

[kathmandu]

Hugs? Sympathetic ear? Cosy comforting story recommendations?

[ex_flameandsong751]

Hugs and fluffy recs always welcome. <3

[kathmandu]

You may have seen these before, but I'm very fond of the Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail series, by Owlet. Captain America / Winter Soldier storyverse. Lots and lots of comfort, hardly any hurt. I am particularly charmed by the Olds.

He Says He is an Experimental Theologian, by ErinPtah, is a crossover between Night Vale and the Golden Compass storyverse. Canon-typical hazards, but lots of cheerful discovery and humor and romance. The crossover works really well and excellent effectively-original characters.

Harriet the Hamster Princess, by Ursula Vernon, has a kickass heroine and a plot that went off at right angles to what I'd expected, only 1/4 of the way through. Cheerful children's story, first in a series. Lavishly illustrated, shading into cartooning, so if you're downloading an electronic copy, best to use a larger screen.

I remain very fond of Narbonics online comic strip. Six years, humor and adventure and romance and an *amazing* long story arc that I did not see coming. Made me go right back and start re-reading from the beginning. Art and lettering is a bit scribbly at the beginning but improves lots by the end of the first year. Turn the director's commentary to Off to avoid spoilers if you're reading online. Also available on paper, but the online version is complete and free.

Possibly the most fluffy thing ever: The Adventures of the Comfortable Courtesan, a massive and on-going work of fiction starring a Regency-era professional mistress... but it's not about sex, that barely gets a line here and there. It's about her and her friends and sweethearts and acquaintances, and loyalty and creative problem-solving and mutual uplift, and what she starts calling, after encountering Utilitarian philosophy, the maximization of felicity. Really sweet and happy and just decades' worth of 'and then another good thing happened'. Written serially on Dreamwidth, also now collected into ebooks for sale. One of my constant go-to comfort reads.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Thank you very much! :)

[mific]

You might like some of the crossovers currently being reccd at fancake here on DW. It's generally possible to see if they tilt towards the fluffy side from the rec and the tags etc.

[hitokage]

I just ... want to be able to draw a modest income through my writing and Tarot readings. This is apparently too much to ask of the universe right now....