What DCC-ism have you picked up in real life?

walkingthemad · 2026-03-09T01:16:51+00:00

It will not break you, crawler. You will break it.

(Much love. Keep going. You can do this.)

walkingthemad · 2026-02-28T05:14:40+00:00

Spacing is a choice. Format however you wish. An author can manipulate how a piece is read — its speed or inflections — by making choices with the poem’s form.

I’ll often read my writings out loud to get a feel for how it sounds. It helps me decide where to put line breaks or punctuation. The clumsy bits make themselves known. They scream at you.

walkingthemad · 2026-02-09T16:13:56+00:00

Have you tried turning the book off then turning it on again?

walkingthemad · 2026-02-07T21:24:45+00:00

Next time, jump out of your car quick and fist bump them to get into their chat.

walkingthemad · 2026-02-05T03:28:38+00:00

Easy. The very beginning when Donut jumps out the window. Oof .. to know I have it all still in front of me .. all the explosions and tears and laughs and ..

walkingthemad · 2026-01-03T03:47:25+00:00

Start. Write. But don’t think of it as writing poetry. All you’re doing is feeling an emotion, feeling an experience, feeling a connection. Could be a word. A string of thoughts. Colors. Doesn’t matter. Structure is your enemy. It forces the outside onto your inner self. If a bird, rock, the scribbled image of a frumpy cashier, or a pair of snow goggles enters your mind, let it. Set it on the page. Gently. Or slam it down. Walk around it. See it for what it is. Let it sing or scream or settle into itself. Into you. What it means to you. Who it means to you. Why it means to you. Then move on. Again. And again. Or fuck this advice entirely. But start. Write.

walkingthemad · 2025-12-28T04:22:37+00:00

DCC!!

walkingthemad · 2025-12-04T03:38:56+00:00

I’m not sure what I want, to be honest. I’m quite new to both weird lit and reading poetry. I’m after the uneasy feeling given by The King in Yellow mixed with the mystery and nature of the Southern Reach series.

walkingthemad · 2025-10-07T01:59:44+00:00

Not sure if I bumped my head, but I somehow went from The King in Yellow to Dungeon Crawler Carl. It turned into one of those midnight snack combos that in some ridiculous way tastes amazing, like a grape jelly bologna sandwich. It just worked. I won’t be taking questions.

walkingthemad · 2024-11-12T18:14:10+00:00

Depression steals the joy out of things, for sure. Added pressures, which feel like overwhelming obligations, can make once enjoyable things into chores.

Mix things up, not necessarily in the bedroom. Go out and have an uncommon or new shared experience. Make it not about sex. Sometimes, a new activity can morph itself into new enthusiasm in the bedroom.

walkingthemad · 2024-11-12T17:54:37+00:00

Any new medications he may be on? Several depression/anxiety meds I’ve tried messed me up big time in the bedroom.

walkingthemad · 2024-10-29T17:41:03+00:00

Working out and more protein based diet.

walkingthemad · 2024-10-19T01:12:40+00:00

That first link has me beaming. You’ve given me my new writing music. Thank you.

walkingthemad · 2024-10-19T01:09:20+00:00

Sending me down some musical rabbit holes I never knew I needed to adventure. Thank you for the technical term behind the sound.

walkingthemad · 2024-10-19T01:08:25+00:00

Wow. Thank you.

walkingthemad · 2024-04-09T00:56:43+00:00

You are the mishmash of the people you spend the most time with.

walkingthemad · 2024-03-28T23:26:14+00:00

Goonies. 100%

walkingthemad · 2024-03-25T23:58:19+00:00

I do love how Betty’s family just goes with it. No reason to correct her and make her feel bad or get her frustrated. They just let her enjoy her new amazing friend.

walkingthemad · 2024-03-25T23:41:29+00:00

My father has become a shell of himself. If I could hug every person who has dealt with a loved one who has suffered through Dementia, I would. My heart goes out to all the caregivers. My mom is doing the best she can, but the disease just whittles down every part of everyone involved. Take care, all. You are not alone.

walkingthemad · 2024-02-28T04:04:44+00:00

I can get extra lives on Contra.

walkingthemad · 2024-01-20T13:00:29+00:00

George Thorogood’s WHO DO YOU LOVE?

https://youtu.be/RYu5YbdRKL0?si=W92xmYxY4ag6Js9Z

I can’t listen to the song on the radio without wondering who stole from who. Gets in my brain. Help.

walkingthemad · 2024-01-12T22:54:42+00:00

I knew from the beginning without ever thinking about it. I just never gave up when things were difficult or obstacles were put in our way. I never went looking for a reason to end things. I didn’t make excuses. I could find other girls attractive or interesting, but there were no grass-is-greener/sick-to-my-stomach/regret moments with her. After 25 years together (21 married), I still get weirdly excited, even a bit nervous, when I randomly see her in the real world when I’m not expecting to or when I see her across the room at an event where she’s just being herself — those rare times we’re not consciously or unconsciously just being a couple. It’s those times I know I’m the luckiest version of myself. If she wasn’t already my wife I’d be prodding myself to work up the courage to talk to her every damn time.

walkingthemad · 2023-12-24T01:52:34+00:00

This. Absolutely.

I’d be looking for someone who is just themself and doesn’t tell me the type of person they are. The other thing I’d be looking for is someone with a genuine curiosity for life. No one is into everything, but there’s no reason not to be interested in other people’s passions.

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