Devs only: What are your dev struggles lately?

[devogirl]

May 29, 2024 23:45:21 GMT -5 melaney23 said:

Lately I've been feeling really annoyed with myself for not continuing a conversation with this cute blind guy who came up to me to ask for directions. It happened a year ago and I'm still thinking about him! I was so flustered that I even did the classic annoying thing of just staying quiet after the last exchange -- I saw him hesitate, presumably unsure if the convo was over -- and then he also kinda awkwardly bowed out. Ii've read up on enough blindness etiquette to know that was the wrong thing to do, but in the moment I panicked and didn't want to come off as over eager.

Oh no! 😭 Next time just keep talking.

I ran into a young blind guy a few months ago. He was asking random people for directions and everyone was ignoring him, so I walked up to him and asked if he needed help. It's an area I know well but when he said where he was going somehow there was some miscommunication between us and I couldn't give him the direction he wanted. He walked off to go ask someone else. He was much younger and I'm married, so I was not trying to strike up a conversation with him, but I felt like I failed as a dev for not being able to help him out.

[melaney23]

May 30, 2024 7:43:08 GMT -5 devogirl said:

May 29, 2024 23:45:21 GMT -5 melaney23 said:

Oh no! 😭 Next time just keep talking.

I ran into a young blind guy a few months ago. He was asking random people for directions and everyone was ignoring him, so I walked up to him and asked if he needed help. It's an area I know well but when he said where he was going somehow there was some miscommunication between us and I couldn't give him the direction he wanted. He walked off to go ask someone else. He was much younger and I'm married, so I was not trying to strike up a conversation with him, but I felt like I failed as a dev for not being able to help him out.

Ah, thanks for this! It's comforting to know that even a seasoned dev like you can't always handle it perfectly

[Inkdevil]

Dev struggle? Not feeling like a dev at all.
Been on a dev low for so long, I can’t even remember what the high was like.
I don’t even want to be high again. A nice middle ground would do.
I feel…nothing.

[blueskye101]

Jun 3, 2024 13:57:36 GMT -5 Inkdevil said:

Dev struggle? Not feeling like a dev at all.
Been on a dev low for so long, I can’t even remember what the high was like.
I don’t even want to be high again. A nice middle ground would do.
I feel…nothing.

Do you miss it?

[ana]

Jun 3, 2024 13:57:36 GMT -5 Inkdevil said:

Dev struggle? Not feeling like a dev at all.
Been on a dev low for so long, I can’t even remember what the high was like.
I don’t even want to be high again. A nice middle ground would do.
I feel…nothing.

since i met my soul mate my dev is practically gone, but i had a relapse during the last month, just afer a big fight we had. i used to need my dev dreams to enjoy sex with previous partners, however with him i am satisfied,  even thought i was "cured", because its been a year and a half without the dev arousal. 

[em]

I got back from a holiday and I have to get back to work, which involves a lot of writing and thinking (and little interaction/working with people because everyone else is on holiday too). Somehow this kind of situation always triggers a dev high, and I wish I could be writing stories instead of boring work stuff!
I did finish a fanfiction yesterday (I only planned to post two chapters because other, longer stories I started years ago never got finished) - so I'm proud of that and I guess I'll have to take that as a win. But I'm struggling to focus on work and I just keep googling things to read or going through my old files to find some stories I could continue with....

[kat]

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[Celaena]

Aug 15, 2024 9:07:35 GMT -5 em said:

I got back from a holiday and I have to get back to work, which involves a lot of writing and thinking (and little interaction/working with people because everyone else is on holiday too). Somehow this kind of situation always triggers a dev high, and I wish I could be writing stories instead of boring work stuff!
I did finish a fanfiction yesterday (I only planned to post two chapters because other, longer stories I started years ago never got finished) - so I'm proud of that and I guess I'll have to take that as a win. But I'm struggling to focus on work and I just keep googling things to read or going through my old files to find some stories I could continue with....

What fanfic??? I have been reading indiscriminately across all fandoms and genres!

[em]

Sept 15, 2024 20:14:08 GMT -5 Celaena said:

Aug 15, 2024 9:07:35 GMT -5 em said:

I got back from a holiday and I have to get back to work, which involves a lot of writing and thinking (and little interaction/working with people because everyone else is on holiday too). Somehow this kind of situation always triggers a dev high, and I wish I could be writing stories instead of boring work stuff!
I did finish a fanfiction yesterday (I only planned to post two chapters because other, longer stories I started years ago never got finished) - so I'm proud of that and I guess I'll have to take that as a win. But I'm struggling to focus on work and I just keep googling things to read or going through my old files to find some stories I could continue with....

What fanfic??? I have been reading indiscriminately across all fandoms and genres!

I basically only read/write Dramione or occasionally other Harry Potter fic, somehow this is how I started with it and nothing else compares for me. I'm happy to share mine in case it also helps someone out in a dev high situation! www.fanfiction.net/s/14369190/1/A-blind-date

[lisa]

Sept 26, 2024 6:18:30 GMT -5 em said:

I basically only read/write Dramione or occasionally other Harry Potter fic, somehow this is how I started with it and nothing else compares for me. I'm happy to share mine in case it also helps someone out in a dev high situation! www.fanfiction.net/s/14369190/1/A-blind-date

Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed the story!