An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.
As usual for these threads: no trolls, no MRAs, no I’m-not-really-an-MRA-buts, don’t be mean.
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We Hunted The MammothBucking the Backlash
We Hunted The Mammoth
Just left a comment, Luzbelitx!
I love the contrast in those top pics. Plus seeing how much you’re enjoying it!
Thank you kittehserf!
I must give credit to my photographer, he made sure to be respectful and make me feel at ease at all times, and also kept joking and making me laugh 🙂
LBT, so good to see you back! Congratulations on the memory popping, and the good feeling that followed.
@kittehserf, I love that hat!
@ LBT – so often it’s the case that an abused person (especially a child) internalises the abuse and just accepts the hateful message that they’re the bad one, and it’s all their fault, and winds up showing more compassion to the abuser than to themselves. I’m so glad to hear that you are recognising this! It really is the first step to healing.
@ Luzbelitx – amazing! And, if you don’t mind me saying, you look gorgeous both ways!
@ kittehserf – SQUEE!!! Medieval brain bleach! That stuff really never gets old 🙂
kittehserf – Is that an illuminated manuscript version of Fiona and Cake? 🙂
Pennygwins!!!
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-spy-penguin-families-science.html
Brain bleach for SCIENCE!
Ok, yes, I once had a character called Penelope Gwinne. No-one got the referene.
RE: blahlistic
Thanks. The Kid is now setting up her room, and painting it purple with lime green swirls. Her endgame goal still seems to be integrating, but we might as well make her comfortable and happy while she’s here.
RE: Aitch
It’s really helped me to examine my own assumptions about other people – I had some nasty atheist dudebro opinions about denying other people’s description of reality. Reading your experiences helped me realize that. So, many thanks.
Glad we were helpful, then. I’ve always wondered just how useful our talking about our experiences is, whether it actually changes anyone’s mind. It’s good to know that we at least changed yours!
RE: gilshalos
I’m glad. It’s so weird, to be so happy and relieved over something so awful, but still.
RE: Luzbelitx
Left a comment for you!
RE: grumpyoldnurse
so often it’s the case that an abused person (especially a child) internalises the abuse and just accepts the hateful message that they’re the bad one
It was definitely helped along by our family, who consciously chose to support the child-molester over his victims over and over, and then whiplashing hard against us when we finally started coming out and refusing to play their game. It’s not that they BLAMED us, you see; it’s just that we turned into a monster and killed their kid and IT WAS VERY HARD FOR THEM OKAY. *eyeroll*
Luzbelitx, left a comment as well. 🙂
gilshalos, all the best for you and your country, whatever the outcome is. All the hateful rhetoric is eroding my faith in humanity.
Thank you all for your comments and opinions!
My Drag persona turned out to be shyer and more introverted than original me, so I really appreciate your input! <3
Hugs to LBT!
Luzbelitx, I love the make-up with the cheekbones and defined jaws. 😀
Okay, after all my rants about the horrible election result, here’s some fun news from one of our big papers. They made an article about the, well, odd votes that pop up in each election:
Ten people voted for Donald Duck.
Eight people for the Satanist Party (the Satanist Party do have an actual Facebook page, and the slogan “say no to human life”).
The same number of people voted for Jesus.
One person voted for cupcakes (!).
One person voted for “more laws”, although it remains unspecified what kind of laws we should have more of, or how the laws themselves, being abstract concepts and all, could have seats in the parliament.
Two people voted for fantasy super villain Tengil. One person voted against Tengil though, so maybe that cancels out one of the pro Tengil votes.
Two people voted for “mum”.
And finally, one person voted for “the poop party”.
Late, but LBT, I’m glad you’re feeling better! Pardon the medical metaphor, but it sounds like you managed to do an incision & debridement on a particularly nasty mental boil, and now all the nasty infectious pus has been drained out. I think feeling relieved isn’t an odd way to be feeling at all. And seriously, your parents are complete assholes.
Luzbelitx: You look awesome, and I’m a little jealous of your face-shading and -defining skills 🙂
RE: Luzbelitx
*sigh* It looks like my comments are getting filtered out of everyone WP today; check your spam/mod queue for mine, it’s been snagged.
RE: sparky
That’s EXACTLY what it feels like. I often use the metaphor of vomiting up a snake — absolutely terrifying as it’s happening, but way worse if you try and stop midway. And once you’re done, there’s definitely a sense of relief.
Hey LBT, since you’re in a better headspace now, someone’s taking submissions for an anthology of sci-fi about technology and disability. Thought you might be interested.
Ooh, this is of DEEP interest to me, thanks katz!
Also, I GOT INTO GENGHIS CON! Looks like con season ain’t over for me yet!
LBT – Good luck with your submission, looks like an interesting project. If I were capable of writing a cyberpunk story that could amount to something more than “Down with the Megas” I’d be interested in that one myself. And congrats with Genghis Con from what I’ve heard that’s a fun one.
I’m super curious to see what you come up with, so if you like, I will happily edit it for you.
I don’t know what Genghis Con is, but I approve.
@LBT Hey, you’re right! Comment is approved now, thanks a lot 🙂
RE: katz
Actually, I was thinking of writing one of the “Thomas’s adventures in Treehouse” stories. You know, like Carrying the Dead or something. Honestly, cyberpunk seems too obvious for me; I’m more interested in exploring what would be considered ‘disability’ in a nonhuman setting, especially one inhabited by non-mammals. (For example, everyone uses sign language already because the local insects tend to be deaf, and they don’t see it as a disability at all!) There’s often this association of disability with high technology, and I’d be more interested in exploring the cultural and social “low-tech” adaptations.
Conversely, if you think that wouldn’t fly well, I could do another Corporate War story, the one about disabled cyborgs. Your thoughts?
RE: Luzbelitx
Yeah, probably got spammed because I put a link in there or something. Let me be the worried gay uncle, okay, I have lots of friends who got hurt by bad binders.
And I am watching the voting results for Independence. As I said elsewhedre, God I hope we get it
@LBT I’ll be delighted, you’d be my first worried gay uncle!
I actually bind very rarely, but it was art of he bare chest look.
However, I’m thinking it’ll be responsible of me to add a warning about it when I write the full tutorial.
I’d totally want to see something about disability among alien species. And maybe they have their own disabilities that we don’t — inability to see polarity, for instance, or to detect electrical signals.
RE: Luzbelitx
That sounds wise! I know a lot of younger trans folks who don’t have the information on how to bind safely, and it always alarms me. (A friend-of-a-friend broke ribs because of Ace bandages, so yeah. SRS BNS.)