Congrats AstralVagabond -- very cool! My DCs seem like yours -- pain is a sensitive topic there.

I personally avoid any tasks with negative ideas, like pinching this month, or zombies last month. I just don't want/need to give air time or mental space to negative ideas. For this reason, I'm pretty much unable to do task of the year, it's all too grim. I'd rip my own heart out though, that's just cool. And I have my negative moments that are fairly entertaining, I'm just fussy 'bout when/where/why and would rather it be spontaneous =)