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Been having issues with my blood sugar this weekend and last week - so, I took another metroformin. I'm on 1,500. Allowed to go up to 2,000.

It's dietary. I need to stop eating certain things, and figure out the carb balance.

Read an article about toxic workplaces. The advice is always the same, either get out (easier said than done, and often impossible and not necessarily helpful - plus no guarantees you won't end up in another similar situation), or find ways to cope. Find a hobby at home. Make sure you cover yourself. Etc.

Discovered there are a lot of toxic workplaces out there.
( the depressing links and lists )

It's a rainy day. And it has slipped away from me. All too soon.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge

I liked this one.

Challenge #11 - In your own space, talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Several.

But I'll limit it to two.

Enemies to Lovers trope is a favorite, so is the back from the dead - second chance at love trope.

I really like the enemies to lovers one. Not quite sure why. Also, a fan of the redeemed villain or the hero who becomes a villain. I like ambiguous characters with a lot grey in them. More realistic. There's no such thing as a purely good or purely evil person. All people are capable of horrible and wonderful things, often at the same time. That's the danger - by the way - thinking that you aren't.

I think I like enemies to lovers - because love overcomes hate in the end. It gives me hope. That we can rise above our differences. Also there's friction and sizzle.

I love it when the villain falls for the hero or vice versa, best when its both.

The back from the dead - second chance at love is a trope that I working on now in a novel, with a wounded hero trope entwined within it. I like that trope quite a bit. The idea of mourning someone, only to find out they aren't dead. Or having everyone think you are dead - and navigating that terrain, how do you approach them - if you are now someone else? I'm reading a historical romance novel that's playing around with that as well.

Soap operas and comic books love this trope, and it has admittedly been done to death. But I find the difficult emotions that it explores fascinating. The idea that we don't really know each other, that our perceptions of one another are skewed. That who we are mourning may never have existed. And the person in front of us - we never really knew. Also,
there's a kind of comfort - when you are grieving - of the idea that they aren't really dead and can return, as someone else.

Also the idea of a second chance. That things aren't necessarily finale.

I like stories that are hopeful. Open-ended. That end...with a kind of rainbow after a storm. Not quite a happy ending, so much as a hopeful one?