Sparrow 🐦 @Sparrow@awoo.space

Tfw you find an old BART ticket in your tarot deck.

So I used a Wheel of Fortune read with your deck to decide if I should adopt my friend's kitten. It's a cool read, where you ask your Y/N Q to the main deck (with wheel card pulled out), pull 7 cards, shuffle them in with the wheel, then arrange them: Clockwise from left it's "Yes- and", "Yes", "No- but", and "No".

I interpreted my reading as "Don't get a kitten now, wait until your home life is stable", which is sensible. It's a useful spread!

Let's talk about this selection of new teen books we just got in at the library. https://awoo.space/media/qj235v05dBFYf--IqRs

Wow vegan cheese is really heavy.

I got it to try it just for fun, and it's not terrible. But damn I should have made a smaller quesadilla.

I'm going to go lie down forever now.

I've been inexplicably grumpy all day. Hoping that having some lunch will help.

Okay this is too cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8XZ6KxE30I

All about that leftover quinoa lifestyle.

Sitting outside my client's house on a hot day with all my food in a bag because my client isn't home yet when he said he'd be here 30 min ago.

Name update:

After some thought, I do prefer the names Sparrow and Danika over Tobi.

Danika works well for formal situations, family, and friends who have known me a long time.

Sparrow is good for casual and/or queer events, online, and as a friendly nickname.

I do strongly prefer they/them pronouns over "she". And I will gently correct folks about this.

Ppl can read gender into my name however they like, but it's my name, my gender, and I know who I am and how I identify.

Time to update my resume. *audible groaning*

Pride was fun and recovering at wicked grounds after is a good time. D&D after this. Busy day!

Also, exciting news: I may be actually moving back to the bay this fall!! 🌈

Pride March looks! https://awoo.space/media/6nll_r4EgRVk4la2faw

Okay so now I'm rewatching the Lord of the Rings trilogy, too. Because I gotta.

It was *really weird* remembering that Sean Bean was in this, too. And he is so unlike Ned. Gah.

Of course this movie has to have the cowardly human man "pretend to be a woman" to escape fighting. Of course his crossdressing is played for a cheap laugh. Jfc this is a fantasy movie, do we have to throw ppl under the bus for a bad (and poorly timed) joke? God damnit.

I would really love to do research into the intersections of queer studies, disability, and science fiction. I'm sure there's a grad program for this, but it would be hard to justify to myself unless I'm also doing activism on the ground to directly benefit people. Ivory tower studying by itself feels self-indulgent.

Watching the third Hobbit. It's not great, but the completionist in me does want to finish watching.

ANYWAY, watching the movie and not yet knowing the full history of Tolkien Orcs, I really like the artistic decision taken by the film to attach weaponry to the orcs' amputated limbs, armor embedded in skin, etc.

Body modification & cyborg imagery in Middle Earth has just as interesting social implications as it does in any sci fi universe.

Made eggs and added vegan cheese because wtf is my life