Yearly holiday watch: Prancer. Looking at the cover image you’d think it’s a simple story about a girl and her reindeer friend… no, actually, it’s an exploration of immense grief meeting mystery and magic.

Mel King with Frank Langdon.

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My manager who keeps texting me updates about covering my out time: you might have to work two days

Me: hah! No

You ever need help writing a nice/ but scathing email or text that will cut a man in half??? Ask a cancer/gemini cusp with a Taurus moon. 💅

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My managers: oopsies we messed up and forgot to schedule your vacation even though we approved it one month ago. Will try to get it covered

Me: good luck with that. Hope you get it figured out because I’m not gonna be here.

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2014 me would think it’s wild that I’m not scared or freaked out by the spirits who visit the apartment I live in now.

Me when a spirit gets a little cantankerous and throws a framed picture high up in the wall onto the floor:

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You’re asking me what I do in my free time? I’m
obviously listening to Waco Texas by Ethel Cain on repeat while watching clips of Daryl and Carol from the walking dead to hurt myself.

Asking for just one god damn day of peace from the apps on my phone updating. One!

One of the worst things about LA area FB marketplace is that you can tell when local influencers are offloading their free PR package items, even PR furniture from Temu (have seen multiple posts of that ugly foam chaise lounger) for more than second hand market value… and they got it free. FFS

I’m ready for that stage of my life where I have time to become really annoying about making sourdough.

A haunted house but it’s just Dr. Mel King looking for Dr. Frank Langdon after she helps deliver a baby in the ED

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A month and a half and 7000+ words later chapter 25 is done… maybe. Idk.

And my dog lives to see another day of health and prosperity according to the vet. I can report that at 11 years old he does not have glaucoma… just allergies 🫠

Anyone else get that hard AuDHD panic when you accidentally do something wrong and then subsequently burst into uncontrollable sobs when they’re scolded/confronted about it?? How do I make that stop? Asking for a friend.

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If you’re looking for torture porn or trauma porn in the fanfiction sphere I am not the one okay?? Im a “I love the hand flex from p&p 2005” gal and that’s the kind of romance I’m gonna write.

Me tonight while writing at work:

No cheating. The last saved celebrity pic on your phone is your therapist.

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My mom texting asking me to pray for my older brother’s butthole as if it’s an urgent matter is something I wasn’t expecting so early on a Thursday morning. Unprecedented times all the way around lately.

So I accidentally got ahead of myself and wrote chapter 25 of my book when I should’ve been writing chapter 23 so there’s that.

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I would stay up late to write tonight but the partner requested bed time snuggles so… priorities.

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Current comfort clothing hyper-fixation is wearing heavyweight 100% cotton 2xl t-shirts.

It’s a masterpiece all its own.

A picture of a Spotify playlist called sad girl situation shop Saturday evening

Honestly it’s the perfect daylist for the book I’m writing. ☺️

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Coworkers asking me to apply for the open management position at work….

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I’m just a girl watching the stats for her latest fanfic chapter level out.

I offered to go above and beyond and work and forgot that it would require me to actually go above and beyond at work. 😭

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I know that there’s a lot of shit going on with everything but I just realized how much of the parenting my grandparents did in lew of my actual boomer parents and I’m definitely not crying at work in the robo room about it.

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Just feels imperative as a writer, that with each chapter, I both scare the main characters and the readers and leave everyone wondering what will happen next.

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Well chuffed to find out I’m my favorite cousin’s favorite cousin.

Live and on-air babieee!