ojtheviking

Isolation and social anxiety is valid. But remember, there can be other places in life where you have a safe space. Places untouched by your abuser, where you are free to make entirely new routines and memories, completely independent from your past.

The woods can be part of it for me. But it can be something else for you. Just don't stop looking.

When you're a writer and a musician, three moments you're guaranteed to experience creative surges, is when you're taking a bath/shower, on the toilet, or in nature.

...wonder if I'd create a masterpiece if I combine all three...?

The Haunting of Hill House! One of Shirley Jackson's most timeless classics, and one of the two works that put her on a map as a successful author. It's been adapted into a movie, which itself received a remake, and then Mike Flanagan created an extremely successful TV series adaptation of it, which I have yet to see. It's partly why I am finally reading
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New song by Ghost was released yesterday!

Next up! As I'm letting the wonder that is Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary sink in for a while, I think a change of genre is the most suitable, as another sci-fi story at this point might be unfairly compared. So I decided upon horror!

The description: "Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the
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Beam me up, sci-fi genre! A friend was recently singing this novel's praise, and I happened to have it in my bookshelf, so I decided to put my faith in her opinion and go with this one next.

The plot as I understand it: An astronaut awakens on a spaceship with amnesia, only to discover he's humanity's last hope against a microorganism draining Earth's sun,
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