i had a frustrating day at work

[chase_acow]

and ended up spilling eye juice all over the place when my relief came in. It was definitely a feeling of helplessness at being poorly positioned to support my shift, pre-anxiety for a meeting on Thursday where I need to bring up issues and try to resolve them on behalf of my department with the big boss, an overreaction to a new officer who is of the old school gentleman class of casual touch, and then an embarrassment loop because I freaked out when he touched my back as we passed through a narrow spot in the stations and somehow it is now documented in his training file that he was reprimanded for not keeping his hands to himself. And like . . . you shouldn't touch people you don't know very well, but now it feels like my freakiness is on display for everyone to see. And if the LT comes down and tries to peer support me tomorrow, I'm gonna lose my shit.

I am a person, who in the past and apropos of nothing, started to daydream about how to get out of theralpy if an alien civilization showed up and I could save the world if I finished a session so they could know me completely. The world is doomed.

The Big Bad Wolf series by Charlie Adhara is available on Kindle Unlimited. And yeah, Amazon is bad, my public library system/Libby doesn't have the widest selection of m/m, and I love these books. The main character is an emotionally constipated porcupine who is trying to be better for the love of his life. The mysteries are so good, the clues are all there for you to figure out if it's your jam, and otherwise there's always a satisfying reveal. Anyway I think I've pushed these on y'all before, but I love them, I bought the ebooks, and if they were available in print, I'd buy those too.

I've also been drowning in nostalgia and reading all the old Valdemar books I loved in my childhood, but that's another post once I've finished the Storm books.

Comments

[turps]

That is a lot of work issues to deal with. I hope everything goes as well as it can.

[chase_acow]

Thanks! Nothing will ever change, because nothing has ever changed, but I need to focus and let go of the things I can't control. But it also helps to yell into the internet, so thank you so much for listening! It definitely makes a difference.

[8hyenas]

Vanyel! He'll forever have my little preteen heart.

I just finished the first two books in Sugar and Vice by Allie Therin and they're blurbed by Charlie Adhara and give the same vibe of world-building, mystery, THEN slowburn romance. Recommended!

[chase_acow]

Same. Finding The Last Herald Mage books was definitely one of those life altering moments. : )

Thank you so much for the rec! I went to look it up, and I am super excited to give it a read.