APS dev bits and early draft

I wish I had more to show at the moment. It's been a rough month, and hopefully a net positive. I'm finally transitioning from the Missouri clinic I went to from 2019 through mid 2023 to receiving medical care in Oregon. It looks like this will finally include an ADHD assessment - something that I've needed since 1987.

Making all of that happen was a weird mix of completely impossible and unbelievably easy and honestly if the medical entity that handles me hadn't called to ask if I'd received the onboarding materials they'd sent in November... I'd still be a screaming ball of unproductive anxiety.

As it is, right now I'm a screaming ball of *RSI*. My hands are killing me. That's a major reason I haven't been able to generate anything last-minute, like I usually do. Instead, attached to this post are two files. An early partial draft of A Practical Succubus, which was started in the first person, and some APS structural development notes defining the shape of the organization that Cass works for.

I hope we'll be seeing more of that soon. The next chapter of APS is high on my priority list; I just need to make it happen. And I need to get back to art.  And I have... 25 days to make that happen, as the entire last week of February is nothing but medical appointments, and I'd rather y'all got something from me *before* then for a change.

I've done some cautious self-experimenting with meds recently - the short of it is I need to reduce my progesterone and I need to quit caffeine again. The latter is going to suck but, uh... it's a vasoconstrictor and my resting blood pressure is 150/80 *with blood pressure medication in my system*, so... something's gotta change. I'm cautiously optimistic that those factors combined with finally having access to psych treatment again should help to get my head back in actionable shape. I have been *STRUGGLING* for the past six months, to put it mildly.

Your continued support means the world to me. 🙏💓 Thank you for bearing with me.