writing can be stressful in itself, too, but it can still be so... equalizing. Stabilizing? Something in that ballpark.

Yes! And it's also good to just have voices in my head that aren't anxiety but are cute conversations between chars I enjoy. Right now I've set the extremely low goal of 100 words a day and they're slowly accumulating...

I've always found self-indulgence to be a great thing in fic, but yeah, sometimes I just gotta roll my eyes at my id. ^^

And this -- it's not exactly sex pollen, but it started from somewhere around there, anyway? Now I just gotta keep going with it...