As a disabled games reporter, I've only been able to attend one in-person event
As a disabled games reporter, I've only been able to attend one in-person event
In Defense of Alcohol
Not a health guide. Not a sermon. A cultural and philosophical defense of one of humanity’s oldest, messiest companions.
The Trap of Carpe Diem
“Seize the day” sounds beautiful until it becomes another impossible demand. A piece about mortality, illness, attention, and modern pressure.
https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/the-trap-of-carpe-diem/
#CarpeDiem #Mortality #ChronicIllness #Mindfulness #PersonalEssay

So there, I said it: carpe diem is excellent advice. Which is unfortunate, because it’s also terrible advice. Maybe it requires balance… No. Fuck balance. We roll. So, yeah, Tolstoy said it better: “Life is meaningless because death swallows everything.” Good work, people. Happy Monday. Let’s wrap it
Don’t Take Things Personally, or Allow Me to Be an Asshole
A reflection on boundaries, emotional distance, and the strange freedom of not making everything about yourself.
https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/dont-take-things-personally-or-allow-me-to-be-an-asshole/
#Boundaries #SelfImprovement #MentalHealth #Philosophy #PersonalEssay

So, you’re back again for more. I can’t say I understand you but — no, you know what? No respect either. This morning, while talking about that piece about misery, someone said one of those forbidden phrases that immediately sets off alarms in my head: “Don’t take things
On How Misery Scales, or License to Feel Bad
Pain does not need to win a competition before it becomes real. A piece about suffering, perspective, illness, and allowing yourself to feel bad.
https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/on-how-misery-scales-or-license-to-feel-bad/
#MentalHealth #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #SelfCompassion #PersonalEssay

If you spend some time around people — and I can’t stress enough how much I recommend avoiding this if at all possible — you’ll hear conversations centered on how someone has it bad, and how others have it worse. Just now, I saw a post mocking former child actors
On Not Being Good Enough
An essay about ambition, self-doubt, perfectionism, and the exhausting little monster inside that keeps asking for more.
https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/on-not-being-good-enough/
#SelfDoubt #Perfectionism #ImpostorSyndrome #Philosophy #PersonalEssay #mentalHealth
杯麵與文化認同 / Cup Noodles and Cultural Identity
......https://photomichiblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/cup-noodles-and-cultural-identity/
I only play games when I'm exhausted and that changes everything
New blog post: "The Cousin"
Years of attraction building to a threesome. How she went from rejecting the idea to asking us to help her explore her sexuality. Includes foot massage, teasing, and more.
https://tales.tiggi.es/kinkysimmelian/the-cousin
#sex #sexuality #sexpositive #personalessay #threesome #intimacy
The five stages of grief were never the full story. Some losses have no funeral, no acknowledged mourning period — just a collapse that keeps pulling you back. This essay maps that experience onto astrophysics, not for poetry, but because the physics actually fits. Grief bends time. It needs space to move.
https://kalvin.obulou.org/when-grief-behaves-like-a-black-hole
#grief #mentalhealth #healing #psychology #trauma #loss #awareness #personalessay #neurodivergent #autism #recovery #emotions #truth #reflection #humanity #spark

I came across a framework that maps grief onto astrophysics — gravitational collapse, event horizons, time dilation — and my first reaction was that it sounds like academic overreach. But the more I sat with it, the more it made sense. Not because the metaphors are poetic. Because they describe something I