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Situation update. Posted 2 months ago
So in my last blog post I covered some of the things that were happening here on my end. Quick recap. Donald Trump won the presidential election. I'm an American and live in one of the reddest red states in the country. The election emboldened a lot of the locals to the point where it's no longer safe to openly be any variety of asexual or nonbinary (which my friend and I both fall under to one degree or another). But my friend and I are biologically the opposite sex from one another, so we decided to get married and go undercover as a "normal" straight couple until things blow over. And trust me, in our particular area, it's necessary. I've got neighbors who wear white sheets on the weekends, if you know what I mean...

So update there, the marriage happened. My...
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Why is it always bad news? Posted 4 months ago
Doesn't it seem like every time I make a blog post it's always to inform everyone of something horrible that is happening to me? Just once I'd like to make a post that is talking about something good that happened. But no... Today is not that day... So what's been happening since the last shit storm? Where do I even start...?

How about I start by saying, I'm sorry I haven't been posting much. And to everyone I still owe commissions to... I'm very sorry they haven't been finished yet, but I will get them to you. I promise. Thank you for your patience. But a lot has happened. For starters... I'm getting married. It's actually happening very soon. It's not what you think though... You see, I don't live in an area where it is exactly safe to be queer. Which I'm sure most of you...
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Under attack...? Posted 1 year ago
Hey, guess what? I'm still alive. I haven't been very active lately. I'm sure some of you have noticed, and been wondering where I've been, or at least when the next Miss Smalls will be coming out... But I haven't just been slacking off for no reason. I've actually sort of been under attack by my former boss from back when I was working at the local library. Pretending you actually keep up with my blog posts, some of you may recall that the library I was working at got taken over by a total (and I now suspect clinical) psychopath a little over 2 years ago. And about a year ago she fired me. And I mean, I wasn't the only person. She fired EVERYONE who had been there before her. Usually through very illegal means... I just happened to be one of the few who actually tried to fight against it....
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Guess I'll just die Posted 1 year ago
You know what I love about the American health care institution? The fact that I am sitting here telling myself, I need to go out and get a nice shirt and pair of pants to wear to the funeral for my best friend's mother tomorrow... who died because the medical care needed to keep her alive was too expensive... but I can't leave the house just yet because I can feel that I'm going to start throwing up any time now... which is the affect of missing my medication for two days... my medication that I have missed because I'm out of refills and the only way to get more is to schedule an appointment to go in and see my doctor... which I also can't afford...

Yeah, I love that... I love having to go to a funeral for someone who couldn't afford to stay alive, knowing that next month I...
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Break In Posted 1 year ago
So I had planned to do something for Vore Day. Was going to get a story up or something. But then I got home from work and found my house had been broken into. When I got home and went to unlock the door so I could get into my house, I found that I couldn't get the key into the lock. Upon closer inspection I found that the lock was all torn up as if someone had shoved something into it to force it open. Then I pushed on the door and watched as it just swung right open. So they destroyed the lock on my door and got into the house. Though strange thing was... nothing was stolen... Nothing was even touched as far as I can tell... That might sound like a good thing, but honestly that just makes it worse. Someone successfully broke into my house and didn't steal anything... If they weren't...
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Got fired, got robbed, time to get back to work. Posted 1 year ago
So... I know I said I was going to try to get back on top of things months ago, but then... well... things didn't go well. I got fired from the job at the library I've worked for the last 9+ years. Wasn't anything I did. We got a new director who was pure evil and she decided she didn't want any old people, any people with disabilities, or anyone who was assigned male at birth working for her. (Yeah, I know that's illegal, yeah, I talked to a lawyer, no, they wouldn't help me.) I fell into at least some of those categories so I was fired along with most of the other members of staff who had been there. She literally wouldn't even give me a reason for why I was being fired. Didn't have to apparently... Fucking "at will" state... Anyways, I spent two months unemployed, during which...
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You ever get the feeling the universe is conspiring against you? Posted 2 years ago
I was all set to make my triumphant return. Start posting new content. Had a new Miss Smalls story written to kick things into what I guess amounts to the 3rd season now... Even been thinking of starting a youtube channel for my other passion... tabletop RPGs... And then before I could even get started bottom falls out of the bucket... metaphorically... Although if I HAD an actual bucket I'm sure the bottom WOULD have fallen out of it this week!

Paycheck comes in. Instantly gets eaten up by the utilities bill because a part on my toilet broke and the tank was just dumping water down the drain non-stop, resulting in me having to pay for something around 3,000 gallons of wasted water... Only had a small amount of money left to put gas in my car and buy a small amount of food to...
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So things are really bad... Posted 3 years ago
I took a bit of an unannounced hiatus and had been working on getting things back together. I had just come back and started posting stories again, and then just as I was working back into my old routine, things suddenly got worse than ever. Because I work a county job at a public library and basically get paid poverty wages, I was depending on government assistance (food stamps) for much of my livelihood. I wouldn't have been paying bills and ALSO eating if I hadn't had monthly assistance to pay for my food. But once I got moved up to full time at work the government decided that I make too much money to qualify for assistance now so they have yanked that from me. Which is a bit troubling because while I am making more money than I was, I'm still living pay check to pay check here. Even...
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The last three months... Posted 3 years ago
SO the last three months have been hard on me. These have been some of the hardest times I've been through in a long time. I know some of you have noticed my sudden absence from the site and the community as a whole, because I've received a number of messages wanting to know if I was okay. I'm here now, so let me give you an explanation of where I've been and why I've been gone.

So much has happened and I've been going through so much that I'm not even sure where to start or what goes in what order anymore, but let's just try... For one thing, my health has not been great. I blew my knee out. That has been very painful and lead to a lot of difficulties. I also went to the dentist concerning issues with a tooth and learned that I needed a rather expensive procedure that I...
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Backlash Posted 3 years ago
So the Miss Smalls story I posted about 12 hours ago has already been getting some backlash. I've received comments in various places, including private messages and even on my tumblr account, from people who were less than impressed with my latest story. And you know, that's fine. I'm not here to dictate what you like and don't like. But a lot of the common theming I'm seeing here seems to point to the fact that I wrote a story that was a direct parallel to covid and that seems to have struck a nerve. I'm not going to apologize writing the story I wrote, but I will explain my position.

The entire covid pandemic has been very hard on me and my family. I live in an area where as of right now, less that 12% of the population has even been vaccinated for Coronavirus and now the...
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