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Samantha Bryant's avatar

Ah, James. I don’t know how to take this one. Whether these are me musings, fictional explorations, or real suicidal thoughts. All creative endeavors feel pointless at times. But that doesn’t give the lives of the creators less value.

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James Garside's avatar

Thanks for the message. These are notes from my personal archives. Real musings and real thoughts. From my notebooks. Unedited. Published at random. But from several years ago and often sight unseen. I'm working through my archives and publishing old stuff as bubble wrap inbetween proper stuff because I'm exhausted and it feels like no-one is reading. Until I get a comment and then I worry what people must think. I literally went through my drafts folder and scheduled over a year of stuff. But I've not read each piece and thought "Yes this is good." So I panic slightly when I get comments. But in the words of Han Solo please be reassured: "Uh, had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?"

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Samantha Bryant's avatar

I'm glad to hear this isn't how you're feeling currently :-)

I'm doing pretty well. Got a lot of irons in the fire, as always.

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