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🌞 Luna’s taking over the blog again today to celebrate Litha! 🐾 Join her for garden adventures, sun magic, and maybe a radish or two. Don’t miss this Summer Solstice special! 👉 https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/litha-a-pups-guide-to-the-summer-solstice/

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🌈 Happy Pride Month! 💖

Kicking things off with a blog post close to my heart—celebrating identity, resilience, and joy in every form. ✨

Come say hi & read along 🏳️‍🌈🖤🤍 https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/welcome-to-pride-month-from-a-queer-disabled-cryptid-with-a-cane/

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Let's Clear the Air...

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An Open Letter to the Ones Who Let Her Go--- 🌙

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/an-open-letter-to-the-ones-who-let-her-go-%f0%9f%8c%99/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKNMTlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHraNhHS5Joaa0Nc7anm_c8hlPfnqmObHp4ur21h-KtT-oEh9mVqGbRi8C5-u_aem_aeHmxkxRrO2v6_4ZuoQjqg

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🐾 Ribs, Ribbons, and Rabbit Ears: Belated Gotcha Day Joy

Okay, so I might be running a little behind on this post—but when you’re juggling chronic illness, pup training, and whispering life back into an entire blog (👀), sometimes the celebrations take the front seat while the writing waits its turn. That said… Bear’s 11th Gotcha Day was on April 13th, and there was no way I was going to let the day slip by without celebrating my couch-loving,…

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🐾 Ribs, Ribbons, and Rabbit Ears: Belated Gotcha Day Joy

Okay, so I might be running a little behind on this post—but when you’re juggling chronic illness, pup training, and whispering life back into an entire blog (👀), sometimes the celebrations take the front seat while the writing waits its turn. That said… Bear’s 11th Gotcha Day was on April 13th, and there was no way I was going to let the day slip by without celebrating my couch-loving,…

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🌙 From the Shadows: A Little Update from the Cryptid Cave

Hello again, my lovely ghouls and garden gremlins— You may have noticed the eerie quiet echoing from The Crippled Cryptid lately. I promise it wasn’t a ghost (well… not entirely). Life simply crept in with all its weight and whispers, and I found myself pulled into the mist for a while. Winter, in all its bone-deep chill and heavy skies, tends to wrap around me like fog—thick and lingering. My…

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🌙 From the Shadows: A Little Update from the Cryptid Cave

Hello again, my lovely ghouls and garden gremlins— You may have noticed the eerie quiet echoing from The Crippled Cryptid lately. I promise it wasn’t a ghost (well… not entirely). Life simply crept in with all its weight and whispers, and I found myself pulled into the mist for a while. Winter, in all its bone-deep chill and heavy skies, tends to wrap around me like fog—thick and lingering. My…

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Finding Balance: Mental Health and Writing Again

TW: Medical, Mental Health, Pet Loss, Fourth Wing, Onyx Storm         Wow, okay. So, let’s see if I even remember how to write one of these.         Let’s start by saying, no, I didn’t die. I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. I just kind of stopped existing in writer’s spaces for a little while. Writer’s block and impostor syndrome has been kicking my ass. And so has the inevitable book…

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Finding Balance: Mental Health and Writing Again

TW: Medical, Mental Health, Pet Loss, Fourth Wing, Onyx Storm         Wow, okay. So, let’s see if I even remember how to write one of these.         Let’s start by saying, no, I didn’t die. I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. I just kind of stopped existing in writer’s spaces for a little while. Writer’s block and impostor syndrome has been kicking my ass. And so has the inevitable book…

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Thoughts on Forced Proximity in Real Life & Novels.

(TW: Mentions of Abuse, Strong Language, Possible Mentions of SA, Mentions of Alcohol, & Relationships.)           I’ll be the first one to call myself out and tell you that I haven’t done a whole lot of reading this year. I don’t know why but, I just keep finding myself in a slump, and I swear it all falls around one fucking trope that makes me want to eyeroll myself into the next dimension…

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Thoughts on Forced Proximity in Real Life & Novels.

(TW: Mentions of Abuse, Strong Language, Possible Mentions of SA, Mentions of Alcohol, & Relationships.)           I’ll be the first one to call myself out and tell you that I haven’t done a whole lot of reading this year. I don’t know why but, I just keep finding myself in a slump, and I swear it all falls around one fucking trope that makes me want to eyeroll myself into the next dimension…

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Life is Ruff Sometimes & Stinky… [It’s Not Where You Walk; It’s Who Walks with You.]

[TW: Talk of fecal matter, strong language, sarcasm, and frustration]           Some days, I swear the doggie updates are far and few in-between.           Most of them, though, come with puns, or frustrations, and I do mean frustrations.  For the past few weeks, the doggies have been in lock down, and they have been hating it. By that, I mean that one of the big summer storms knocked out one…

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Life is Ruff Sometimes & Stinky… [It’s Not Where You Walk; It’s Who Walks with You.]

[TW: Talk of fecal matter, strong language, sarcasm, and frustration]           Some days, I swear the doggie updates are far and few in-between.           Most of them, though, come with puns, or frustrations, and I do mean frustrations.  For the past few weeks, the doggies have been in lock down, and they have been hating it. By that, I mean that one of the big summer storms knocked out one…

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Caged. [One Year.]

[Trigger Warning: PTSD, CPTSD, Medical Trauma, Car Accident, Strong Language, and one really fucking stupid suicide adjacent joke.]           Today, I am toxic. There’s no other way to put it, and if I had a therapist, I’m pretty sure, I’d get mad credit for being able to point that out on my own.  I am volatile, and even I don’t want to be around myself, and I feel bad for the people in my…