Friendly reminder (to myself, but if I need to hear it than someone else probably does too) that it’s okay to jump from wip to wip to wip. Writing shouldn’t be about guilt, and no writing is ever a waste.
mulder and scully are like heterosexual slash because its built on the storied tradition of homoeroticism between work partners the buddy cop show the army buddies.. kirk and spock etc because they are actually equal partners in their job a role again until that was both a realistic career prospect for women and seen as marketable to depict on tv was almost entirely the realm of two men and so actually the x files boldly rebuts the question of what if the queerbait ship was heterosexual it would be confirmed and said no it wouldnt thats inherent to the weirdly close partners setup is the maintenance of ambiguity
One thing I urge adults to unlearn is the stigma surrounding forgetfulness.
Perfect memory retention is rare. A faulty memory can be the result a host of mental illnesses, from ADHD to PTSD. It's not a sign that someone wasn't listening. I have a friend that has a four year gap in her memory due to trauma. I have another with poor short term memory retention because that's one of their autism symptoms.
Your brain can also trick you into misremembering things. I can't tell you how many times I've remembered putting my keys somewhere and unearthed them in a completely different place. I have to remind myself what my birth date is because I said it wrong once and now the wrong date is in my memory forever. I have to come up with mnemonics for birthdays, anniversaries, and events because my brain doesn't do numbers for some reason.
I see people bicker about forgetting a person's favorite food or what their mothers favorite color. I think it's important to forgive people who forget easily.