"Rieka was regal and elegant. Grayson was silver and fearsome. Caz was svelte and athletic. Blackstone."
I am not normally someone who laughs out loud while reading but this got me so good I genuinely had to stop reading for several seconds to regain my composure. Brilliant work as always
"I found myself wishing my situation was more obviously alarming. Technically, I was getting along. I was functioning. That was the worst part, in my opinion." Relatable!
Never heard anyone describe the listless, world-ending jello-esque feeling of a mental health spiral in the peak of summer quite like this. I think the wolves would get me, too.
This paralell between neophobic wolves and modern isolation hit unexpectedly hard. The part about not being able to opt out of 'everything' perfectly captures that weird trap of having freedom but feeling completly unable to access it. I dunno if it's the enrichment or just Minnesota, but recognizing our own captivity can make the glass walls feel less suffocating. When I went thru something similar, the hardest part was functioning just well enough that nobody knew.
I’ve also recently become fascinated by wolves and wrote a piece asking some of the same questions—while wobbling out of a similar mental health non-crisis (which I now believe to be neurodivergent burnout… Opting out of everything, at least everything I don’t actually want to do, has worked quite well so far.)
Good one. Loved this, "Our sissy pack had been uniformly squeamish about setting the fat, writhing nightcrawlers we’d purchased at the bait shop on our hooks, and we’d struggled to cast our rented rods." Made me laugh. But in general, hope your Call to the Wild brought back your own wildness.
Beautiful and stirring and funny work as always. Have you read Women Who Run with the Wolves? The introduction would probably be really satisfying for you, connects to a lot of these ideas in a delicious way!
This was a really lovely piece. I don't know how to phrase this without sounding weird so please forgive me, but i really think you would get a lot out of playing disco elysium
"Rieka was regal and elegant. Grayson was silver and fearsome. Caz was svelte and athletic. Blackstone."
I am not normally someone who laughs out loud while reading but this got me so good I genuinely had to stop reading for several seconds to regain my composure. Brilliant work as always
"I found myself wishing my situation was more obviously alarming. Technically, I was getting along. I was functioning. That was the worst part, in my opinion." Relatable!
Never heard anyone describe the listless, world-ending jello-esque feeling of a mental health spiral in the peak of summer quite like this. I think the wolves would get me, too.
This paralell between neophobic wolves and modern isolation hit unexpectedly hard. The part about not being able to opt out of 'everything' perfectly captures that weird trap of having freedom but feeling completly unable to access it. I dunno if it's the enrichment or just Minnesota, but recognizing our own captivity can make the glass walls feel less suffocating. When I went thru something similar, the hardest part was functioning just well enough that nobody knew.
The way I’d die for Blackstone.
Call me biased but this is one of my favorite pieces of yours ❤️
I enjoyed this thoroughly.
I’ve also recently become fascinated by wolves and wrote a piece asking some of the same questions—while wobbling out of a similar mental health non-crisis (which I now believe to be neurodivergent burnout… Opting out of everything, at least everything I don’t actually want to do, has worked quite well so far.)
Good one. Loved this, "Our sissy pack had been uniformly squeamish about setting the fat, writhing nightcrawlers we’d purchased at the bait shop on our hooks, and we’d struggled to cast our rented rods." Made me laugh. But in general, hope your Call to the Wild brought back your own wildness.
The first two sentences had me thinking you'd ventured into werewolf supernatural romance territory. I yelped.
I am where you were.
Beautiful and stirring and funny work as always. Have you read Women Who Run with the Wolves? The introduction would probably be really satisfying for you, connects to a lot of these ideas in a delicious way!
This was a really lovely piece. I don't know how to phrase this without sounding weird so please forgive me, but i really think you would get a lot out of playing disco elysium
Oh, that last sentence. Beautiful.