'She looked back at her brother. “Do you ever feel like one day at school, there was this big lesson where everybody learned how people work, how feelings work, how to make your brain work, but you were lying at home with chickenpox that day?” she asked him.'
The first update in nearly a year is here
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/36400732/chapters/125700544
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha Yay! I've got my nighttime reading sorted for tomorrow night.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
I hope it's somewhat enjoyable. I'm a bit rusty
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha I'm sure it's lovely. Don't you worry about that.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
I've actually just started on the first episode of your podcast!
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha Oh gosh. Thank you!! Don't judge me too harshly. The first two episodes were awful. Not the content, but just the fact that I had no idea what I was doing. I did them like 4 years ago or something. It gets soooo much better after episode 1 and 2.
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha I'm sending you so many hugs. Thank you so much.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
I've enjoyed the first episode. Going to go on to the next ones tomorrow (it's 2.30am and I don't want to risk any weird AF dreams ). But don't worry about that. The first episode was cool! And we all feel like our first episodes/chapters/anything aren't the best because we know we lacked experience. Unless you're a complete narcissist who thinks everything they've done is perfect
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha Okay, that was very well said and now I feel so much better about my first 2 episodes, so thank you for that. I hope you sleep well tonight. My podcast was probably not the best thing to listen to before heading off to sleep. You need your rest.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
I fell asleep with an audiobook, Mortal Monarchs by Suzie Edge, and had a very weird dream about looking for something in the kitchen and a load of vertebrae bones spilling out the cupboard. So yeah, actually falling asleep with paranormal stuff would probably be a dumb move by me
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha Oh my god! That actually sounds really really really terrifying. I'm so sorry you had to go through that in your dream.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
The book isn't even scary. It's a history one, about the deaths of the monarchs of England and Scotland. It's a bit disgusting (I'm a big fan of William the Conqueror's corpse inflating and then exploding) but not scary, and I enjoy the gore aspect. My brain just likes to mess with me
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha But even books that aren't that scary can still make our brains do wild things. Isn't it just ridiculous? It's almost like our brains don't like us to sleep at night. Or sleep peacefully, for that matter.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
The brains are absolutely plotting against us
@Luna_Catriona @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha They definitely are. Now you go get some sleep. You need it.
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
I shall try goodnight!
@Luna_Catriona @strangeseawolf @floofpaldi @QuokkaMocha Yay! Something new to read when work is done! Will give feedback as soon as possible.
@Luna_Catriona @strangeseawolf @floofpaldi @QuokkaMocha It may have been a year but it's so easy to get back into the story It has some agatha Christie vibes too. But the dynamic between brother and sister is the greatest here. How they deal and where they are different so that Christina can't always understand her brother. And they are both so relatable with it all. And Lix is so wonderful in this situation. She'd be a great friend.