This is my first news post since I moved my site to be self hosted and updated its looks.
However, it’s not a great news post, unfortunately.
If you follow me on Twitter or Bluesky, you may already be aware of this but on Monday 29th of June, I broke my hand.
This means that typing is difficult. Not impossible, as I’m typing with one hand for this news post. However, it’s difficult enough that making new content or editing old content is difficult. So for the time being there won’t be much new reviews or new chapters, of stories that I need to continue writing or read through once, likely during the whole summer, and no edited and re-published old posts. Please bear with this for the time being.
I haven’t given a lot of detail, and I’ll try keep it brief. Even so, I want to share this:
Hands are surprisingly brittle, apparently. Or my bones are, but the doctor didn’t mention this matter to me, so it would likely be the former.
I hit my left hand against a metal railing when I missed a step walking down some stairs. That smack was enough to sustain three metacarpal fractures. I think at least two bones are fully broken, while the third one is not, because they could only see the fracture from one angle on the x-ray. The fractures of two of the bones caused rotation of my fingers as well, so my index finger bent into the palm, while the long finger is according to my perception of how my fingers should look rotated, and the surgeon who looked to it thought so too.
I didn’t break anything in my fingers or my wrist.
Does it hurt? No, not really. Sometimes there’s a sharp stab in my palm or wrist, but it requires very specific movements of my arm. Should it hurt? Probably. The nurses and doctor has assured me that sometimes people don’t feel a fracture. I know what fractures can feel like, I have had one confirmed through x-ray (foot), one that wasn’t x-rayed because it was so likely due to symptoms and cause (rib, from coughing), and one I greatly suspect and is even more sure of now (toe). This one is the least painful injury I’ve ever had. It’s also the most serious one.
I will go through surgery early next week to support the broken bones and fix the rotation of the fingers.
So, in the meantime, while I heal, I will primarily work on the internal tagging system to remove the large amount of tags otherwise seen on old posts. For as long as it’s sustainable I will also post new chapters or parts from stories daily. Nothing newly written, but from the absolutely humongous mountain chain that had accumulated over several years before I expanded this site from just writing about fiction to also the stuff I write. It can be anything from a first chapter to a lot more and the lengths will vary depending on story. These post aren’t proofread before I post them now, and may occasionally have formatting differences within a story or some spelling variations. I will fix these eventually when I make updates of said posts.