Category: Fighty

The Lioness

September 30, 2019

The thump of her heart was loud in her ears as she continued to run. The lioness in her raged through every muscle fiber in her legs sending the signal back to her brain with the instinctual message;  Run. The only other sound was her fevered breathing, the volume seemed amplified as if routed through a microphone and replayed for her through a loudspeaker back into her own ears. She tried to squint at what was ahead as if she concentrated on...

The Manifesto...

March 15, 2019

I feel like this word will continue to bleed through online media for months to come as we mourn the loss of life resulting from the horrific shootings at the two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. A white-supremacist shooter murdered innocents while they sat in peace, for what seems like a sick twisted plot that was dreamed up only to bait the media. The shooter live-streamed the attack itself on Facebook, and the video was quickly shared...

Loving yourself first.

January 28, 2019

If there's something that's become increasingly more obvious to me as I've become older and more mature is that to deal with life's challenges and be a better more whole person is that we have to heal ourselves and learn to love ourselves first, before we can be loved and be of true use to the world. Not to say we can't be loved and be useful to others without it - but I've come to a certain understanding slowly over the last few years. I really...

When you need others.

January 16, 2019

Asking for help isn't inherently a bad thing. We're often told that to be strong, we have to do it ourselves. To be brave, we can do it alone. To be stoic, to have a stiff upper lip, that we should and can tough it out. This isn't a thing that just men have to deal with, though they have it MUCH worse than women do. They have to do it without showing emotion. Women are at least given a pass that they have to do it, but people will wait if...

On Being Sexy.

January 14, 2019

It took less than a day. I had been streaming on Twitch for less than 24 hours. One comment in my public channel while playing Sims4, and then a direct message. One said, "What would you do for $1?" the other told me, "God, you are so sexy." Being told you are sexy will most likely bring about specific emotions in a person. Which emotions may depend on a few things; the person delivering the message, the context,...