As someone who writes all kinds of things because they just come to me, I’d say: “Write It”. My advice is backed by two ideas:

1. Only you can write the story. Your style, your delivery, the twists and turns, they are unique and only you can write it.
2. Fifty Shades of Grey got published. It’s awful, the structure, pacing, research, all of it. If it can get published, then what people like and don’t like can’t be judged by any useful metric.

As an addition, your writing will improve as you write. Like everything, practice helps. Write the story. Then show it to people. Some people will like it, others won’t. That’s okay. Maybe take some feedback, edit, and share it again.

The idea can’t exists until you make it.

I would also, as an aside, suggest you might want to reconsider your friendship. A friend who doesn’t support a creative endeavour is perhaps not a good friend.

Write it. Keep writing. Share it with others so enjoy reading. Enjoy the process.

If you want to see the short stories I write, you can find examples here: https://ko-fi.com/blackxanthus

Exactly that!

Thank you. This is one of the most useful articles I’ve read in my (very slow) Godot journey. Coming from OO programming to something like Godot, finding the reusable bits, and how all that is meant to work has been the most frustrating. Mostly, it seems, because people assume we all have the same understanding of terms.

When you say the node is reusable, is this a ‘cut and paste’ the node in (so all future changes to the base node is lost) or is the another way? The only way that has worked has been a one-scene node so I can update the node and it updates in all scenes using it.

I’m sure I’m missing something!

Very well done! Thank you!

That’s really helpful, thank you.

It would be helpful (to a noob like me) if ‘composition’ could be explained a bit better.

The starwars d6 really worked as a system. Allowed for the really diverse characters of the starwars universe. Especially with the addition of advanced skills to allow for diversification. Much better than Wizards attempt in 3.5. I’ve heard good things about starwars on the few fate system, but haven’t yet played it because I’m poor.

West End Games’ DC Superheros is a good place to start, but then, I’m a fan of most of what WEG used to do. You can get the pdf fairly cheaply, or pick up the core book.

Then you have mutants and masterminds, the grandaddy of superhero systems, which works really well, and scales a bit better than DC Superheroes, and the third edition pdf is available fairly easily, and they produces a DC Superheros skin for the game, and that’s even easier to find. This system works really well for both dark and light superheroe games.

Then there’s Brave New World, and iconic superhero RPG. Difficult to find these days, but the setting is fun with a leaning towards a Watchmen feel.

If you’re looking for less super, more hero, then something like The Laundry is fun, and a very fun upbeat setting. Then you’ve got 'Is It A Plane’s, an unusual system, but really story driven and leans into the comic-book approach.

An honourable mention to GURPS, because you can play pretty much anything in it, including superheroes and you can get that dirt cheap on the internet.

Hope that helps!

Have you heard of Vibe Coding? /s

Username checks out. And it was definitely ‘Whet’ (wet)

I hear you saying how that intensity is immense.

You are on the right journey. Therapy is not a straight line, more of an upward spiral. It might seem like your not making progress, yet you’ve already seen how the techniques are working as intended - they have reduced your outward reactions.

The intensity will need more self exploration in an emotion-based therapy like person-centered, or psychoanalytic. You may find some support in emotion-based group therapy, for example, anger management or anxiety support groups. The loudest emotion will help to identify a relevant group. While these groups are no substitute for therapy, they may help you in the journey if your location makes therapy inaccessible or too expensive.

You’ve expressed that you shut down even the intensity it too much. Being able to articulate that is an important step. Hopefully you can continue your journey in a way that’s helpful for you.

A wise person of my acquaintance once said ‘Feelings are Newtonian’.

What they mean by this is that you feel in reaction to things. The strength of your feeling will be related to what happened.

For a simple analogy, if you get stabbed, it hurts. If you never take the knife out, it will always hurt, and every time someone pokes near it, or the knife itself, it will hurt. If left, the wound festers so the pain becomes so intense.

When it comes to emotions, we feel them in response to something. If you have a wound, a trauma, it will intensify the emotion. Of course, emotions are quite a bit more complex than this.

The strength of emotion is one thing, how we deal with it is another. These are two different approaches. DBT for dealing with how we respond to them, counselling for the intensity of the feeling.

Of course, you mentioned at the end that you were trying various psych meds. If your emotions are connected to a medical response, counselling can still help reduce them, but sometimes it requires a perscribing psychologist to manage it

Therapy takes time. It can also take practice. Keep at it!

It’s difficult to offer specific ideas, as we don’t know what country you from. Based on the notion of ‘insurance’ I’m assuming the U.S.

I’m hearing a lot of frustration in your therapy journey, and there may be some confusion on the role of a therapist.

A licensed and trained therapist will have been trained in a method (Modality). This particular therapist seems to have a grounding in something that’s person-centered adjacent. The theory in person-centered (outlined by Carl Rogers) is that it is the client who is best placed to know their own solutions.

The process works by exploring the world from a client’s perspective, and helping them see and articulate solutions that will work for them. This type of therapy is useful for the broadest category of people when done well. It is not useful for everyone.

Emotional Disregulation, as you have described, has two primary sources.

1. Medical: a client cannot, on their own regularly their emotions due to issues with hormone production. This requires a doctor or a psychologist to diagnose.
2. Developmental Trauma: a client has been disempowered with emotional regulation during key development stages. It may be compounded by adverse experiences when showing emotion.

However, it can also be a mix of both, and one could be feeding the other.

A therapist is going to seek to help you explore your own self-understanding, to see which areas are a struggle, and help support a client towards readiness to change, and change itself.

You say in your writing that your looking at support in your job, I wonder if there’s some anxiety there.

You also ask about tips on dealing with things. Those kind of responses are better supported with a more practical modality, CBT, DBT for example. These require practice, and repetition. Lots of repetition. It is no suprise, therefore, that your therapist revisits the same sections of a book.

I wonder, however, if the mixed use of person-centered and practical therapies is not functioning here in a useful way. I wonder if it would help to approach different therapy sessions seeking different outcomes. Exploring CBT/DBT with one, then to explore if there is anything underlying with another.

Generally, a client should only with with one therapist at a time, however.

I hear your frustration with the process, and the desire to moved forward. From your writing you’ve already taken the biggest step in finding therapy. Hopefully you can find a therapist that works for you.

Never think of your writing like that. Remember that both Twilight saga and 50 shades of grey exists as best sellers. Your writing is clearly better than that (just from this post!).

Consider something like Smashwords, or even sticking it on Amazon for free/cheap. You may not be the next Tolkien, but you worked on the book, let people read it!

Like some kind of submersible vanity project to visit the Titanic.

I think it’s more likely to just fall down.

If Trump is paying for it, as he claims, it means no-one is actually getting paid. He’s been taken to court repeatedly for stuffing builders, (https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282933-report-trump-has-refused-to-pay-hundreds-of-workers/) , which means stuff won’t be finished, and he’ll probably cut corners to save a buck or two.

If he thing is still standing in a decade, I’ll be surprised. Even more if it’s still usable.

My guess is if it stays, it will have to be continually repaired, and effectively rebuilt section by section once Trump leaves office.

User name checks out

It’s not a protection racket, it’s a protection dome!:)

As a lost lemming stumbling over this post, I wonder if it would work as a circle in the center of a necklace? I wore mine on a necklace when they stopped fitting on my finger, and I made a pretty chain to attach them too.

There we are. Now all is right with the world.

What would an editor discuss be without those that support Emacs?

I noticed we even got some doom evil advocates! Lemmy truly has come off age!

(Note: as tone is hard on text: I’m genuinely pleased, and agree that the joy of Linux/Unix is it’s variety. Thank you everyone)

The comments on this post went exactly like they have over the past 20 years, with one exception.

Emacs is all but forgoten.

Vim wins.

Vi

And, the last gasp of democracy happens with the stroke of a pen.

Even if Trump is somehow removed from office, it will take a strong person to give up the power gained. The USA can no longer pretend it’s a democracy.