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Category: on Chronic Illness

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on Chronic Illness/Poems

heat {poem}

a poem, about overheating

Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland
on Chosen Family/on Chronic Illness/on Decolonizing/on Happiness/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Hope/on Neurodivergence/on Queerness

australia adventures: it’s okay to not be okay

I want to find the places where my soul belongs. I want to be in places that I love so much I will always miss them after I'm not there.

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Journal Entries/on Chronic Illness

november 7 journal: bring me a song

Maybe not all magic is meant to be understood.

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on Chronic Illness/on Mental Health/on Queerness/the Pandemic

fragments of self

The self that exists in meatspace and on the internet has become fragmented in a way that deeply upsets me.

three round hay bales in a foggy field
on Chosen Family/on Chronic Illness/on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Decolonizing/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Mental Health/on Queerness/the Pandemic

I write what hurts my feelings

The pain leads me to what is true.

a comic in three panels. first panel is a mouse saying 'don't dwell on past mistakes.' second panel is a different mouse saying 'oh god...' third panel is the second mouse saying 'that's exactly what I did yesterday.'
on Chronic Illness

how to lose a bunch of writing time

cw: chronic illness experience I’ve had a fair amount of time now with my chronic illness diagnoses — my doctor has been very good at pinpointing what’s going ...

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Nix Kelley

hi, I'm Nix

The sidebar got too big so I moved all my words about me to a page: who is Nix?

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CURRENTLY READING:

I am on StoryGraph tracking my reading and the reading challenges I've joined. You can go to my StoryGraph profile if you want to see what kind of reading I'm doing right now.

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

I am using MyDramaList now! Here's my MDL profile and my MDL watchlists. I recommend looking at my 2025 watchlist to see what I've watched already and what's on my massive personal wishlist for the year.

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

-- excerpt from The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. LeGuin

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