screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

So who wants to look over the fanart I'm making for one of my poems and tell me if makes sense or not?

Okay, so in my writing class last year, I signed up for a thing that lets you know when something academic attached to your name is downloaded; the only thing I have academically accessible is my Master’s thesis.

I just got updated that someone in Norway and someone in Iran downloaded my thesis about elderly emergent readers and their life history with literacy. It’s odd yet cool.

And. I CAN BE FOUND ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR.

January: 25
February: 55
March: 80
April: 47
May: 63
June: 72
July: 95
August: 32
September: 31
October: 89
November: 73
December: 343
Year-end total: 1,003

Apparently, the list (21 pages / almost 10,000 words) is too large to post here, so if you wanna check it out here's a link.

This morning, my sister decided it was time to let her cat Jenny go; to combat Jenny’s chronic illness would have been cruel because her quality of life... it would’ve been cruel.

Jenny has been part of my life for almost ten years. Of course, I named her, and her nicknames rotated between Jenny the Hutt, JennyMelon, and JennyBean.

Triggers this past week:

On thanksgiving, my uncle's oven literally caught fire - there were actual flames.

Last night (11/28), I dreamed about running into a fire to rescue dozens of cats.

Today (11/29), someone texted me pictures of kittens that need fostering and one looked exactly like baby!Gus.

What the fuck is the world trying to tell me?

So, I'm taking a class called Subversive Fairy Tales and Radical Bliss, right? We read various fairy tale themed works and write fairy tale prose/poetry.

I am straight-up writing poems about fairy tales and mostly playing with format; my classmates are writing poetry that interprets our prompts other ways, and some of the works, I am really not liking. We read our pieces aloud and then have small-group workshops, where everybody's gets 5 minutes of focus. I'm the only non-English/creative writing major in the room (though, I DO have a BA in English).

I just... some of the feedback I've been getting is making me wonder if I'm as good a writer as I think I am, but then, maybe it's just that our styles are different? I'm not experimenting with topics or voices or styles; I am straight-up writing fairy tale poetry for my subversive fairy tale class, and I guess it's too on-the-nose for some of my classmates?

This is my fun class. I'm thinking of talking to the professor about it tomorrow, because we're meeting to discuss my work thus far.

Tell me or link me to your favorite uplifting quote or poem, and/or an uplifting piece of advice, please.

Book count for July through March (not including books that were begun in those months and finished in another; including books begun in earlier months and finished in these):

July: 95

August: 32

September: 31