Going to bed early, goodnight. 

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

Hey… this is just. A small shout-out to those of you who have successfully left cults and/or are in the process of doing so. What you’ve done is very brave, and you are not wrong or evil or selfish for wanting to escape from that, even if the obstacles between you and freedom are psychological rather than physical, even if you feel foolish for thinking of it as a “cult”.

Furthermore: it is not strange rituals and clothing that defines a cult. It’s far less about religious beliefs than it is controlling group dynamics. It may be more useful to think of a cult as a type of emotionally abusive relationship in which members are groomed and manipulated by a leader and each other… the “theme” might be a god, an individual, or even something as innocuous as fandom. There may be cults within larger religions – even individual churches can construct group dynamics typical of a traditional cult.

I guess I have at least two anons in my inbox right now. Hi, other anon. I’m gonna call the one who just messaged me about my fic Fan-on so I can tell you apart.

I have a lot of small works on this account, tagged “my fic” and “OC fic”, I’m bad about also uploading them to AO3. That’s a mix of Transformers stuff, generic space/scifi stuff, and generic fantasy-world LOTR-esque stuff. 

https://archiveofourown.org/users/BSplendens/works Most of that is older. Betrayal is currently in sort-of progress. The fic NWTW is 3 years old and long. It’s not bad, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I write differently now and do characterization a bit differently. 

The ask/review you just sent. At least I assume that was you. I’m keeping it in my inbox, regardless.

@anon, see, that is how you encourage a writer to continue something. Thank you very much for the review. 

Truthfully, it’s something I’d like to revisit in the future. However, it’s 3 years old. My writing style has matured considerably in that time. I’m not sure how much of this fic is properly in character, either. If I were to revisit it, I’d have to rewrite everything, at least for style if not for characterization. That’s a massive undertaking, and I have projects I want to work on write now, including a book I want to publish. 

I may write a sequel, but not right now. 

However, I am writing a finishing chapter, as in currently working on it and probably going to post it tonight. I can at least leave things in a good place.