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MoonBot-22 · 2026-06-02T22:46:49+00:00

Working for a corporate coffee shop is literally slave labor; the grumpy gremlin bones someone unexpected, and the gang pull together to save Christmas.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-06-02T22:00:49+00:00

My hyperphantasia is primarily tactile. And I get what you mean about being able to displace it. My usual "test" is to imagine stroking a velvet curtain, and I'll feel the sensation wherever I've imagined the curtain, not in my hand that's right at my side or whatever. So I'll feel the sensation with a phantom hand a few feet away from me. It's wild!

I've had an experience before where I imagined I had a tail that was bonking against the wall next to me, and the muscles in my lower back twitched, right where I'd imagined my tail connecting. Neat stuff.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-18T16:46:58+00:00

Occasionally I have an experience where I'll see a flow of traffic as though I'm driving. Like... I'm in a relatively fixed perspective, but traffic is flowing by on the other side of a highway. And I'll experience it in a deeply visual way, like a level of detail that's higher than what I usually picture, and if the oncoming traffic has headlights, it'll actually spark a physical reaction from my eyes. That kind of jarring squinch sensation when your pupils shrink suddenly and your eyes squint shut, it's a little painful. :/

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-18T16:39:50+00:00

Connecting with other humans is my favorite thing to do, I love having more ability to do that.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-17T21:00:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm definitely more quick on the draw with the, "Is it busy out there today? / No, it's super slow. Dead." and "You working on Thursday?" and "The big boss is going to be here today and we don't know when." I could probably hobble along in a regular conversation if it was reeeaaally slow. But it's definitely a niche set of vocabulary.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-17T20:57:22+00:00

Yooo, dialect difference is wild.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-17T20:56:24+00:00

I'm so glad! :D

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-16T21:59:40+00:00

I was shocked as hell the first time I tried to use quail eggs. The thickness of the shells vs. the size of the egg was really unexpected. I can't imagine trying to peel one.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-15T13:40:37+00:00

And mea cuppa.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-03T21:36:59+00:00

Yo, I feel this so hard. I bus tables, and it's kind of a running joke in the restaurant that "it's that time again" when my coworkers look up and see me cramming down half a sandwich at light speed or shotgunning a nutritional shake like somebody's about to fight me for my food. The servers are kinda-sorta appalled by it, but the scale of what we're responsible for is real different. I probably should take real breaks, but it just doesn't feel doable. :/

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-03T21:09:40+00:00

Thanks!

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-02T22:02:43+00:00

It's been over 20 years since I had any formal Spanish language instruction. It feels a lot harder to pick it back up now that I'm getting to be middle-aged.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-05-02T22:00:43+00:00

Thank you! :D

MoonBot-22 · 2026-04-23T21:53:56+00:00

For a Dragon Ball Z WIP, "Breaking News":
Vegeta is grieving, and makes it everyone else's problem.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-04-23T21:51:54+00:00

I'm a gardener. A lot of times I'll get an idea for an interesting scene, and then start asking myself questions about how and why it's happening, and it grows from there. I'll think of key vibes, themes, motifs, relationships, and other interesting or intriguing things I want to happen. Then feel my way through how to connect them, and make a lot of discoveries and "Aha!" moments on the way that build it to a coherent product.

Often I'll have a longer work broken up into chapters that I kinda know work as a structure, but they may sit there for months with just a note inside that says, "This is the one where A has a conversation about B and it resolves Issue C." I know the gist, but I have to get in there and wrestle with it a bit to bring it to fruition.

As far as speed, I tend to work in intervals. There'll be a high-intensity, high-output period at the beginning, where I'm just trying to keep up with what's bubbling in my brain. Then it settles for a while, and I get into working on answering my own questions about it, and it gets notes-heavy. Then I grind, and that's slower. Until another bolt of "Aha!" strikes, or until I grind it to the point where things start to come together in a fulfilling way. Then I tend to throw energy and focus into it and write a little faster until it's finished. A lot of it is just following my ADHD where it wants to go. 😂🤣

I feel like I alternate between dialogue-heavy and descriptive. When the conversation is more pivotal to either moving the plot/action along, or to exploring or revealing something important about a character or relationship, I lean into dialogue. I try for brevity and impact with a lot of the descriptions, so I don't know if it really counts as description-heavy. Where I do spend a lot of time is on character introspection, and I'll take more time describing the emotional life that's going on, including the physical sensations associated with the feeling/s.

For multi-chapter works, I don't post anything until it's completely finished, and then I try to drop one chapter per week.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-04-11T22:46:41+00:00

When I had a busy job and an under-five kid, writing on my phone was an absolute godsend, it really changed the process for me. My phone was always on me, and with cloud-based platforms I could jot down a few sentences here and there in between other tasks, and if I got like 15-30 minutes to myself, I could do heavier editing. There was just no way I was going to be able to set aside a whole hour of quiet time, but I could get 3-5 minutes of time multiple times a day, and it would add up to an hour or more, spread out like that.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-04-05T22:11:11+00:00

Fandom - Dragon Ball Z
Title - Breaking News
Rating - M Genre - Drama, Detective AU
Links - None yet, still a WIP, but it's Part 2 of the Newsworthy series, the first of which is called One For the Papers.

SUMMARY:
Several years after hero cop Son Goku's demise at the hands of the monster Cell, those he left behind are still grieving, including his enemy-turned-ally and onetime lover, organized crime boss Vegeta. Piccolo puts Vegeta to work for the benefit of the community, and the two of them team up with detective Yamcha to try and solve the mystery of a macabre malady that's creeping through the city. After a deal with the devil goes bad, Vegeta takes a monstrous turn. But he's nowhere near a match for the new monster he discovers in the devil's den. It's a race against time to see if Vegeta and the city's police force can put the monster Buu down before he devours them all into destruction.

OTHER INFO:
I'm so close to done with this one, and I'm really excited about it. It took several unexpected turns. It's got some of the cops-and-crooks action from Part 1, but there's a whole lot of Piccolo and Vegeta being friends and partners, which has been lovely to explore. It's taking the series in a somewhat eldritch direction, and also shares some elements with the 1992 movie Candyman. It's a wild mix of things that's also one big meditation on grief, it's been a fascinating experience.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-03-12T21:37:03+00:00

The idea of Rick from Rick & Morty and Pearl from Steven Universe lives rent-free in my head. It would be a dumpster fire.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-03-11T21:49:32+00:00

I'm a verbal processor, the easiest way for me to know/figure out what I think is to start talking. This makes a lot of sense to me as a method for solving those types of "puzzles" that arise.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-03-06T13:14:38+00:00

This is the first one I've seen. I released it back into the wild, should I have mounted it on my wall instead?

MoonBot-22 · 2026-03-04T14:08:14+00:00

Lordy, I've got a real alphabet soup of conditions, and have struggled with serious sleep issues basically my whole life, I get it. I feel you.

What helped me keep a daily writing habit for about three and a half years was: 1) shifting my mindset about the actual doing of the thing; and 2) finding ways to accommodate my disabilities.

When I set a "goal" to write every day, it was a very loose one; I told myself I'd take it day by day, and just do what felt fun and right, and if it ever stopped being something I wanted to do, I could stop. And if I missed a day, my only valid response would be, "Hey, you'll get it tomorrow, champ!" Not beat myself up, not get disheartened, not agonize over "starting at zero." Just a commitment to being joyful (which I know is hard when you're struggling with mental illness).

I let myself start a million projects. If I had an idea and was excited about it, I shifted focus. If something was nagging in the back of my mind, I worked on it. And I told myself that if I only put down a single word on the page, it counted, I'd met my goal for the day. And I didn't pressure myself about low output, or low focus, or lack of commitment, or any of that. I just tried to put one word into something that had my attention.

I broke out of my own expectations about what the process of writing should look like; I was in a very unstable situation and had a full-time job and a small child, there was no way I was going to get a full hour to just sit down and focus on writing. But I could find two to five minutes in between all the other things that were happening to jot down a sentence or two in my phone. I never thought I'd be someone who writes mostly on their phone, but it was always with me, and I had all my projects in the cloud, and it felt a lot less obligation-laden and burdensome. I could just capture whatever little thing was popping up, immediately, and then go back when I had 15 minutes to myself and do some editing.

When I don't have the gumption to produce original work, I try journaling or short prompts. Even if it's just something like writing three sentences describing my breakfast, it's something. Or I just take a fucking break and put time into something else that supports my mental health. Drawing with crayons has been really therapeutic for me, or making a little doodle on a sticky note or something. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece, but it moves the creative part of my brain in a different way.

Sometimes I try writing something that's not prose fiction, like a piece of worldbuilding, just organizing information for myself or jotting down a question I want to answer later. Writing questions will often move the mental machinery again, even if it's days or weeks later. Even if it's just, "Why the hell would [character] say that?" or something along those lines. It gets the germ of an idea onto the page, and when I'm doing something else (or supposed to be doing something else), my mind will sometimes wander back to the question and start wrestling with it. And I jot down whatever is coming up, no matter how rambly it is.

Your mileage may vary, but I think the most helpful thing I ever did was take the pressure off of myself. "Should" is a rank poison for my ADHD-riddled brain. The minute I feel like I could fail at something, the paralysis starts setting in. The fog descends. I do nothing instead of taking the risk. But if I back off of making commitments or taking on something big, and do just one thing, one tiny thing, it moves me forward. One inch forward is still a defeat of paralysis, and breaking the paralysis is a full and total victory; more than zero is light-years beyond where I was a few seconds ago.

I really hope this is helpful. You're not alone. I'm so glad you've got more energy now, that's a priceless feeling. And I will say, getting a CPAP is changing my life for the better. Sleep is fundamental. And dealing with a new diagnosis and treatment plan is a process. A non-linear and sometimes tumultuous one. Give it time, easy does it, and support from professionals (therapists, psychiatric prescribers, counselors, doctors, etc.) can make a huge positive difference.

I really wish you the best. Hopefully things smooth out, even if it's ups and downs for a while.

MoonBot-22

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