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me: yeah, it’s gonna be a quick drabble but I am working on something

also me: physically incapable of writing drabbles, already over 1K and not even halfway to where I was intending to get with it

i did actually start working on a lil thing this past week actually though. like, i only have three lines, but still lol i started writing something lol

maybe i will have a lil introductory pre-slash superbat drabble for the asmrtist clark kent au sometime soon 👉👈

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HELLO MY DARLINGS! I'M NOT DEAD!!

so uh. last you guys heard from me looks to be almost a month ago now, Jul 30th, upon me announcing my realization that my antidepressant was like. messing me up lol. WELL, i have been doing okay since then! I promise! that realization that my med was incorrect was actually like, the most important step towards getting better actually lol.

I actually started tapering myself off the med myself immediately the next day, but I saw my psychiatrist a few days after that realization anyways and told her what i was feeling (it wasn't helping my depression or anxiety, and while it wasn't making the depression/anxiety worse, it was making me worse -- I was unmotivated, uncaring, I had no desire to do anything, whether it be hobbies i enjoyed or my literal job, i was even thinking about cancelling a creative writing course i had signed up for this fall because i couldnt fathom the thought of writing because like... i didnt see the point. like. why write? there was no drive -- so basically all stuff that could definitely be read as worse depression, except i wasn't actually more depressed. it was all amotivational syndrome and HEAVY emotional blunting as med side effects) and she was immediately like "yeah so let's get you off that immediately, good job starting the tapering off, follow these further taper instructions and you'll be off it by the end of the week or before. and here's a new med for you to try"

and for a couple weeks i was like. still not feeling very different lol. I was unmotivated, lethargic, trying to keep up with my hobbies and interests when I had so little to give them

and then all of a sudden, in the past week/week and a half or so, i just started Feeling Better. I had energy again, passion was back, i had drive to complete tasks and pursue hobbies, i was excited about things again. I had realized that the med was messing me up at the end of July, but i didn't realize HOW BAD until this past week when i have finally started to come out of it and i'm like,,,,,, i was literally nothing but a zombie. i was feeling so, so little 90% of the time. My creative writing class started Thursday and I am actually so excited for it and looking forward to it, i LOVE learning, and esp when i am learning about something i'm passionate about.

SO -- I've been doing okay lol. Just working through med switches and waiting to feel balanced again. This new med that I'm actually on, i'm not even feeling the effects of yet -- it'll take another few weeks to a month at LEAST to start noticing any sort of impact this new antidepressant is making on my mental health -- but just being off the original antidepressant my psych was trying me on has already improved my state of being so much lol. I finally feel like i am (slowly) coming back into myself again, and I've actually been feeling pretty good this week and I love that for me!!!

I am sorry to have disappeared though -- the disappearance and hiatus was so incredibly accidental. Just, with the amotivational stuff and emotional blunting and lack of any drive or desire to do anything it was like... I wanted to come and talk to yall, but I just couldnt get myself to do it. And it's kinda been something that's been going on for months without me realizing it, slowly getting worse and worse, and only had a big spike right there before my accidental disappearance because I was upping my dose every couple of weeks in-between psych appointments according to the instructions from my psych. and every time i upped it, the worse those zombie-ifying side effects got lol

looking back, even though it wasn't making me more depressed or putting me in any sort of danger because of the state of my mental health, it's actually kinda terrifying to look at what that med had turned me into... but I'm working with my therapist and my psych and doing my best to not get scared off trying to find the right antidepressant for me! whether it's the one we've switched me to now, or i have to go through even more trial and error, we will find something that works with my brain and body. and this is for yall too lol -- dont let this horror story of my first antidepressant the past handful of months scare you off trying any meds for your own mental health improvement!

I DO feel a little bad that i am like, returning empty handed lol -- especially cuz i dont think ive finished and posted any fics since, like, May or June? Which, now understanding what the med was doing to me all this time, having started it in May, I can really see that this was happening for so, so much longer than I realized lol. But I'm hoping to get myself back into the swing of things again!! I won't be writing at the same pace as earlier this year for sure lol (both because I'm still coming back to myself, and because i have that class going and other real-life stuff going), but I wanna get writing and posting stuff for y'all again!!

I missed you guys so much and I'm so happy to have the energy and drive to be back here again!! hopefully i can start getting some fics and headcanons out again soon!! And also get my queue built up again cuz i have like 500 things in my drafts lol, its a nightmare omg lol. Hope you all have been doing well, also!! Let's catch up!! Come say hi, I missed you all!!

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i did actually start working on a lil thing this past week actually though. like, i only have three lines, but still lol i started writing something lol

maybe i will have a lil introductory pre-slash superbat drabble for the asmrtist clark kent au sometime soon 👉👈

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HELLO MY DARLINGS! I'M NOT DEAD!!

so uh. last you guys heard from me looks to be almost a month ago now, Jul 30th, upon me announcing my realization that my antidepressant was like. messing me up lol. WELL, i have been doing okay since then! I promise! that realization that my med was incorrect was actually like, the most important step towards getting better actually lol.

I actually started tapering myself off the med myself immediately the next day, but I saw my psychiatrist a few days after that realization anyways and told her what i was feeling (it wasn't helping my depression or anxiety, and while it wasn't making the depression/anxiety worse, it was making me worse -- I was unmotivated, uncaring, I had no desire to do anything, whether it be hobbies i enjoyed or my literal job, i was even thinking about cancelling a creative writing course i had signed up for this fall because i couldnt fathom the thought of writing because like... i didnt see the point. like. why write? there was no drive -- so basically all stuff that could definitely be read as worse depression, except i wasn't actually more depressed. it was all amotivational syndrome and HEAVY emotional blunting as med side effects) and she was immediately like "yeah so let's get you off that immediately, good job starting the tapering off, follow these further taper instructions and you'll be off it by the end of the week or before. and here's a new med for you to try"

and for a couple weeks i was like. still not feeling very different lol. I was unmotivated, lethargic, trying to keep up with my hobbies and interests when I had so little to give them

and then all of a sudden, in the past week/week and a half or so, i just started Feeling Better. I had energy again, passion was back, i had drive to complete tasks and pursue hobbies, i was excited about things again. I had realized that the med was messing me up at the end of July, but i didn't realize HOW BAD until this past week when i have finally started to come out of it and i'm like,,,,,, i was literally nothing but a zombie. i was feeling so, so little 90% of the time. My creative writing class started Thursday and I am actually so excited for it and looking forward to it, i LOVE learning, and esp when i am learning about something i'm passionate about.

SO -- I've been doing okay lol. Just working through med switches and waiting to feel balanced again. This new med that I'm actually on, i'm not even feeling the effects of yet -- it'll take another few weeks to a month at LEAST to start noticing any sort of impact this new antidepressant is making on my mental health -- but just being off the original antidepressant my psych was trying me on has already improved my state of being so much lol. I finally feel like i am (slowly) coming back into myself again, and I've actually been feeling pretty good this week and I love that for me!!!

I am sorry to have disappeared though -- the disappearance and hiatus was so incredibly accidental. Just, with the amotivational stuff and emotional blunting and lack of any drive or desire to do anything it was like... I wanted to come and talk to yall, but I just couldnt get myself to do it. And it's kinda been something that's been going on for months without me realizing it, slowly getting worse and worse, and only had a big spike right there before my accidental disappearance because I was upping my dose every couple of weeks in-between psych appointments according to the instructions from my psych. and every time i upped it, the worse those zombie-ifying side effects got lol

looking back, even though it wasn't making me more depressed or putting me in any sort of danger because of the state of my mental health, it's actually kinda terrifying to look at what that med had turned me into... but I'm working with my therapist and my psych and doing my best to not get scared off trying to find the right antidepressant for me! whether it's the one we've switched me to now, or i have to go through even more trial and error, we will find something that works with my brain and body. and this is for yall too lol -- dont let this horror story of my first antidepressant the past handful of months scare you off trying any meds for your own mental health improvement!

I DO feel a little bad that i am like, returning empty handed lol -- especially cuz i dont think ive finished and posted any fics since, like, May or June? Which, now understanding what the med was doing to me all this time, having started it in May, I can really see that this was happening for so, so much longer than I realized lol. But I'm hoping to get myself back into the swing of things again!! I won't be writing at the same pace as earlier this year for sure lol (both because I'm still coming back to myself, and because i have that class going and other real-life stuff going), but I wanna get writing and posting stuff for y'all again!!

I missed you guys so much and I'm so happy to have the energy and drive to be back here again!! hopefully i can start getting some fics and headcanons out again soon!! And also get my queue built up again cuz i have like 500 things in my drafts lol, its a nightmare omg lol. Hope you all have been doing well, also!! Let's catch up!! Come say hi, I missed you all!!

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okay, i think i have caught up on everything that is not a headcanon, fic, or prompt lol

those i will get to over this coming week so i dont like. keep spamming everyone's dashes with my asks lol

update post incoming!

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hiya! this might be a long shot, but are you still considering a sequel to We Can Try? it’s one of my favorite fics and i re-read it so often, so i figured i’d ask. if not that’s totally fine, i promise i’m not trying to pressure you into anything!! thank you for sharing your wonderful works with us 💛

Hi!!

I do genuinely think about We Can Try at least once every couple months lol. I do always still think about coming back to finish that sequel, and I want to, but the writing inspiration and motivation can be so fickle

SO -- Never say never!!! I really do want to someday!! But i have no idea when that day will be unfortunately

but thank you so much!! I'm so glad you enjoy that fic so much, it means a lot to hear!!!!

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hi dude how’s it going?

omg absolutely i can submit prompts individually it’s no problem at all!!!! tbh the main cause for sending you so many was cause i wanted to autism about them with someone, i can absolutely send em one by one. i won’t send all of them though dw. just the two you really liked and maybe like one more.

oh also!! is sending headcannons okay too? not for fix writing purposes, just for like. omg have you considered these cute lil headcannons.

ANYWAYS!!! we are staring at each other with the most autistic eyes ever and rattling the batfam like marbles going ‘look at these little dorks i think they need Tickles’

hope you have the best day ever and get to eat yummy food and watch fireworks for national alice in wonderland day because that’s the only important thing happening today unless you also celebrate national Caesar salad day :))))))

bye bro!! until next time ⚔️⚔️

-Frosty

NO THE AUTISM IS SO REAL, send as MANY prompts as you like tbh lol, it just might take me a while to get to them lol. I think there was a break in communication before though -- the two i listed were actually the only two in your list that i wasn't sure about/considering denying... But you added enough changes/details in your resends that I will happily take them on!!! (i may save the christmas one until the holiday season and do a lil vignette series type deal like training montage.....)

But also, please feel free to re-send any of the other prompts you had as well!! There were some other super good ones in there dude i'd love to have them all sdkjfhdf

Also -- sending headcanons is ALWAYS okay, yes absolutely! I LOVE getting headcanons from folks in my inbox, it brightens my day every time!! Send as many headcanons as you like!! We are headcanon central over here lol, everyone loves bouncing off each other and it's so cool to see

hope youre having a great day/night/whatever time it is, and sorry for taking so long to respond to this ask!! thank you!!!

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hello!! please forgive me if you’ve answered this before, but are you comfortable with your tickletober prompts being used for suggestive and/or nsfw fics?

Anyone can use my tickletober list to write what they like! I don't police it in any way and I don't want to, I want people to let their creativity flow and write/draw/create what they choose

I just ask that everyone who uses it tags things accordingly, so that people don't stumble across something they dont wanna see if they're going through the tickletober tags! So if you're writing nsfw, or you're writing something with triggering content, etc. etc., just make sure to tag properly and make it clear! Plus, tagging accordingly is just good practice in general anyways lol

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would you ever consider doing Marauders stuff, maybe for tickletober if you wanted new fandoms to do?

Hey hey!

Unfortunately, probably not :/

While I have the basic knowledge of Harry Potter (read 6/7 books and watched all the movies), I really have no desire to write for it. While I definitely do not begrudge anyone for writing fanfic for it, I understand the love of problematic media so well, I really cannot bring myself to write for it with like. The Everything about JKR lol

Thank you for the ask, though! I know there's others in the tfb community that used to write for mauraders/HP stuff (and I'm sure there are people who still do -- i just wouldnt know who cuz i have HP tags blocked tbh lol), so I hope you're able to find some of the tickle fic content you're looking for!

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Bestie I LOVE YOUR WORK. I'm sorry to be stalking your blog like the back issues of the morning paper but it is seriously the only thing keeping me sane while I'm trying to finish my dissertation proposal

BESTIE omg, never apologize for stalking my blog, it brings me such joy lol. There is never an apology needed for that!!

but omg, I hope finishing your dissertation proposal went/is going well!! Good luck!!!! Make sure you are taking care of yourself with all that work!!

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Hope ur surviving okay king, excited to hear ur thoughts on the Superman movie when you get a chance to watch it!! Saw it for the second time today and still just as good as the first time

Anyways hope ur well!!

I HAD IN FACT ALREADY SEEN IT WHEN YOU SENT THIS ASK -- though the day i saw it i had been up since 4am because i had a flight that morning, and i was getting sick, so i was a lil fuzzy-headed admittedly sdjkfhds. But there was no way i couldnt NOT see it opening weekend lol, so i persevered!

But yeah I don't remember the details as well as I'd like (better than my father though somehow, because i went to the theater with him and my younger sibling, and now a month and a half later i'll remark on plot points to him in conversations and he will be like "what on earth are you talking about when did that happen" and he was wide awake and NOT sick, so, lol), BUT now that it's out on digital i plan to get it as soon as I am able to convince myself spending the money is worth it lol, and then i will watch it on repeat for like 5 days

BUT OH MY GOD, IT WAS SO GOOD

Genuinely, i absolutely positively adored that movie. That was my Superman. My father is lame and doesnt get Superman at all and likes the Snyderverse Superman better (gag), but dude. I was staring at the screen and i was like. That's my Superman. I don't know a ton about Superman, my biggest exposure is the DCAU/Timmverse cartoons from the 90s/00s (which are what made me even like Superman in the first place here in my 20s, because growing up my only Superman exposure was the Snyderverse crap and i thought Superman was the most boring, unexciting, flat character ever and i didnt see the point of him and disliked him for like a full decade until i picked up those cartoons after falling into my batman/batfam obsession lol), but looking at that screen i could tell that both Gunn and Corenswet really GOT Superman, and, just as importantly, really got Clark. Everyone loves to forget about Clark when, like, bruh. Superman wouldn't exist without Clark. You can't have Superman without Clark. Clark is the foundation of all of this.

Also, LOVED Lois oh my god, she was so good. I will never get over it, Brosnahan was literally perfect, she NAILED it. And Jimmy!!!! And Krypto!!! And the Justice Gang! (even if it's not Shayera, I'm still excited to see Hawkgirl right here at the start of the new cinematic universe!). And so much more!! But it's not even been two months yet so I don't wanna be too spoilery lol, maybe I'll talk about it more later (and probably under a cut) after i rewatch it myself

Like, the one criticism i remember having about the movie after I came out of it was like. It did feel like there was a lil bit of plot bloat. They were trying to do SO many things, so it wasn't entirely unexpected.

But genuinely?? Bro this was such a strong freaking start to the new DC cinematic universe, and I am so hype and excited to see where it goes from here. It was a phenomenal movie, especially a phenomenal Superman movie. He was passionate, he was feeling, he was kind (and fought for that kindness). He does things simply because they are good. And he's goofy. Oh my god dude it was so good. That was Clark Kent. That was Superman. I cannot tell you how much I adored that movie

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Hi HELLO !!! August how are you? The Victorian kids are slowly dying because of the August-starvation…. Kicks a rock sadly, whistles mournfully, stares at the sky mournfully

MY WIFE i have returned from the war to you, the famine is over, i will take to the kitchen and feed our starving victorian orphan children

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you uh. You alive? It's been two weeks pookie (take ur time tho, recover)

YES i am alive omg so sorry!!! i did Not mean to take an accidental hiatus there you guys lol, absolutely unintentional. I'll make a lil update/return post about my disappearance in a lil bit after responding to some of my asks lol

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HEY GUYS TURNS OUT IT MIGHT BE MY MEDS ACTUALLY SO IT MIGHT BE A LIL BIT BEFORE IM FUNCTIONAL AGAIN SO SORRY ABOUT THAT

DJSFHJDFH SORRY IM NOT DEAD I DID NOT MEAN TO VANISH AGAIN

i got hyperfocused on a different project and my brain deleted tumblr's existence from my very limited object permanence BUT IM FINE

gotta figure out how to get my brain to balance multiple things kjsdfhdf please bear with me besties lol, hopefully back to regularly scheduled programming soon!!!

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i think we're honestly getting a real-time show of how terrible my time management skills are as i keep saying i'll be back soon and then getting distracted by things and forgetting to dedicate time to this blog or writing dksjfdfh

BUT I PROMISE IT WILL GET BETTER SOON AND I WILL BE BACK SOON i just gotta get to a certain point on this project i accidentally started and hyperfocused on and then things will level out again and i'll be able to maintain multiple projects again. probably dskjfh

DJSFHJDFH SORRY IM NOT DEAD I DID NOT MEAN TO VANISH AGAIN

i got hyperfocused on a different project and my brain deleted tumblr's existence from my very limited object permanence BUT IM FINE

gotta figure out how to get my brain to balance multiple things kjsdfhdf please bear with me besties lol, hopefully back to regularly scheduled programming soon!!!

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DJSFHJDFH SORRY IM NOT DEAD I DID NOT MEAN TO VANISH AGAIN

i got hyperfocused on a different project and my brain deleted tumblr's existence from my very limited object permanence BUT IM FINE

gotta figure out how to get my brain to balance multiple things kjsdfhdf please bear with me besties lol, hopefully back to regularly scheduled programming soon!!!

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I am alive!!!!!

but I did get sick again on my busy week away from tumblr hfkdkkf so bear with me as I get the energy to catch up on asks and such, and hopefully I’ll be writing again soon!