Fighting Back

Having a midnight internet trance. Clicking through to links that linked that linked that linked to my posts. Reading awfully sad things. Stories from survivors who didn’t “fight back,” and struggle with what that means to them, and what it means to others. “Fighting back” always seems to mean something physical, audible, or legal.
Personal resolution:
To [...]

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Reaction Part 2

I wanted to clarify some things from this post and the relating comments thread. Again, I don’t mean this to respond to any particular individual or blog I saw that linked me, because I still don’t like call-and-response blogging (though I feel like I’m doing too much of that in the comments, and might back [...]

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I’m back

Hello again, Internet!
Welcome to my new feature! It’s called “disappearing for months on end and then writing an obscenely long personal blog post.”
AWESOME
New Feature Part 1
Overdue Response to Commenters
TW1 and CR: Thank you for the vote of confidence! As CR already knows, my job interview fell through. The governor released the mangled shat-upon budget a [...]

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It always takes me aback…

when I remember sometimes that there are people in the world who hate me, who wish me tremendous harm, who honest to god spend time thinking about the horrible things they hope will happen to me.
And, don’t fool yourself, anybody who says, kindly, “I don’t wish anything bad on her, but I know the way [...]

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Dear Hospital

Dear Whatever Hospital My Ex-Friend Polar Keeps Getting Admitted To,
By all means, do as many tests as you need. It could be her consistent and crippling stomach pain is due to something physical and medical that needs swift attention and correction.
But considering you have already done thousands of tests, and have come up with absolutely [...]

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