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RL has ambushed me with crazy crazy time-suck as it always does in the spring, and it started far earlier than usual this year, starting in February, but I haven't had a chance to put up the annual "RL is eating me" note until now.

On the fannish side, I am still avoiding large swathes of the Internet as I am still less than halfway through watching Sherlock 3.03 and don't want to know more than I've already accidently found out (:-/). Everything else is on hold until May or June, unless small things manage to sneak out the cracks. :-P

I want to share this video. I've been dithering about making this post since I first saw this video yesterday, which is one reason why I think I really need to post this, even though I'm sure other people have as well.

It's not fannish, but I have the feeling some people who visit my page now and then might identify with some part of this. It's about bullying, self-identity and survival, and that's putting it far too simply.


Triggers and warnings: Contains references to and depictions of depression, self-harm, bullying, drug use, child abuse, and lots of hurt. It might make you cry.

( Embedded YouTube video below cut. Spoken word (rhetoric? poetry?) by Shaun Koyczan, with animation done by many people. )