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Hey there, Badger here! Yep, I’m the Narrator for Let’s Read Homestuck but since the issues that happened and the breakdown of the group I have respectfully chosen to not be a part of it any longer due to personal differences.

What do you get if you cross an elephant with a Rhino?

… ‘Ell if I know!

Thanks for confiding in me your LDR situations everyone, but I have to note an important thing:

Please try to be more descriptive in regards to your situation.

I already worry my advice is starting to sound all the same, because I get a lot of asks along the lines with “I’ve met x and we’re now in an LDR, advice?”

Please remember, I’m not a professional when it comes to love. Nobody has ever returned to mention the result of my advice so I can’t even be sure I’m helping anyone at all with my words.

That’s pretty rough, friend.

The best advice I can tell you is that you should do your best to not enhance a negative environment, during this period while you’re sorting your heart out it will be very easy to sink into a pit and just mull there forever.

Personally, I believe your heart will be much more accepting of the reality if you do things that will make you biologically feel better, such as being outside in the sun or regular exercise, even if the motivation is hard you need to make the effort to pull yourself from that grim feeling.

During the loss of someone very close to me I found that the satisfaction of taking up a new hobby (around this time I studied video editing and becoming a voice over artist) really helped me perpetuate a more positive attitude as people were reinforcing my confidence about it and my self worth didn’t feel so minuscule.

I’m not telling you to distract yourself from the issue, what I’m trying to encourage is to reinforce your positivity so you can look at the situation from a more objective standpoint and accept it for what it is without the taint of self pity or misery.

Keep your personal space tidy– eat balanced meals. Doing your best to keep up the routine will help you find stability in otherwise tumultuous times.

These tasks are simple and you absolutely can accomplish this as long as you want to.

A silly, but personal thing I did to overcome my misery was to associate any powerful negative thoughts with something I much preferred, every time a bad/unhelpful thing popped into my head I forced myself to think of kittens– if I felt unmotivated I would shout internally to straighten my back and to not stare at the ground, almost like my own internal boot camp.

A common misconception, no I am not in fact a furry!

My Badger representation is more a mascot character than anything, that’s why I go so far as to have him represented as an almost literal Badger, rather than going  anthropomorphic.

I chose Badgers because they’re plucky- ferocious and kind of cute on the side despite smelling like farts.

It’s fantastic to hear that your LDR is successful because I feel as though people don’t have enough positive stories to really go by– you only hear the scary ones and the hardships.

Here, everyone we have a fabulous testimonial that it can work out as long as you have hope.

Jen and I are fairly confident we’ll make it work, no matter how many years it takes. It could be as early as next year (due to the Kickstarter) that we’re together, but even if it takes 5 years it will not deter us from what we’ve set out to do.

I wish you the best of luck in the future and hope your marriage is wonderful.

That’s a really interesting comparison, my face definitely isn’t as chiseled as his, but I’ve always wanted to try dying my hair a shade of blonde at some point next year-- but I’m not sure if blonde hair would suit me.