Ember, Triune 🎶🔆🔥⚡️ @emanate@awoo.space

Not a #fourwordhorrorstories but something I wrote on my Weird Birdsite account recently:

A horror story:
I fall asleep, head cradled in the scanners.
I awake, to still-frail flesh.
"Freedom," says the copy on the screen.
Not me.

(Copied from me, here: https://twitter.com/EMForestry/status/924784416852926464 )

@Oneironott

It bears mention that... I have hope for the future. My future. Our future.

It's such a foreign emotion to me. I wish it wasn't, but... that's been my life so far. *shrug*

One of the loves of my life, who I only finally met in person a week ago, I helped leave from the airport this morning, headed back to another part of the country.

I didn't cry, amazingly. It's... been such a wonderful time this last 9 days or so, having her here. Being able to touch, to kiss.

I'm actually...happy and peaceful. We both know and have reaffirmed that this is only a 'see you later'. She will be moving here for good, soon.

I love you, @Oneironott​. Return home soon.

"Gay Mastodons are the new Gay Bears." #nocontexttheater

But hey, at least he got the store's name right (even if it was right in front of him on the door). Some folks can't even get that when they're /in/ the store.

I can... /almost/ get the thought process of someone who, in a defensive fury, tries to pretend he's a loyal customer that I just kicked out of the store itself, rather than off my front stoop, and loudly yells it to everyone just in case it defames us. But the bit about the Rosicrucians doesn't do him any favors.

I'm pretty sure he's never actually set foot in here, much less bought anything like he claimed.

Guy comes and lays down in front of my store about half-hour before opening.

At 20 minutes till, I head to the store to grab something, and poke him on the way out. "Hey, you need to be gone in like 10 minutes." *noncommital grunt*

Coming back from the store, I prod him again. "You need to leave."

He jumps up, yells at me loudly, "I'll never shop at Phoenix! Rosicrucians will burn in hell!" and other random crap as he storms down the sidewalk. o.O

Well okay then.

So @Oneironott wanted to see the Mountain, and it's a super clear day. We were looking at place to go that weren't the pricey Space Needle, and I...found this.

Columbia Center Skyview Observatory.

A full wrap-around view from the 73rd floor. In the tallest building in Seattle--twice as tall as the Needle. For $15.

The views were astounding.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/zPiB01vK8xoYovrg2

@emanate (I love that little tree in the traffic circle. It's beautiful any time of the day. I've seen it in all seasons, and taken pictures in many. When I walk by it at night, which is often, it's always lit up by the streetlight on the same electric pole on the right of the pic. 💚💚💚 )

It's very foggy today. Which goes beautifully with Fall weather.

"Do corporations genetically modify the local wildlife in order to deal with the pollution in the environment caused by the same?

People Do."

#outofcontexttheater

Thinking of the short story-snippet I wrote recently, where Lai builds himself a new body and tests it out.

The body is a cyborg: a lot of internal machinery but with flesh and fur on top, with a bit of gene-splicing to have better conductivity. Ultimately, Lai went with organic outerware because he wanted to enhance the skin sensitivity, and organic nerves are still more efficient at that than synthetic.

Besides, he didn't have any need to reinvent the feel.

I've been thinking lately, I need to train myself out of something.

Specifically, when someone says "you're a bird" or similar, my response is usually "part of the time, yes," because I still want my other selves to be acknowledged. But that also gives the impression that I'm only one of them at a time.

I am a phoenix, and a kobold, and an otter. At the same time, even if only one /usually/ fronts. All of these are true, without contradiction.

"You're a phoenix." "Yep!"

Terms of endearment for sea critters:

-Gillfriend
-Bouyfriend
-Cuddlefish
-Coral Pal
-Ane-mine
-Datefin'd

Every so often I stumble on bits and pieces of memory from the only two times (thus far) that I've been to Burning Man. 2006 and 2007, specifically.

For example, this artist, who is apparently still doing large-scale installations all over the world: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-passenger

I know of him through this structure, which I got to wander around inside during this particular Burning Man...and also got to watch it burn down, which was nothing short of awe-inspiring. http://arnequinze.com/en/projects/detail/uchronia

Gender PSA:

Some really useful Q+A about medical stuff, that is very hard to otherwise learn on your own!

https://genderqueer.me/2017/10/13/fv-top-5-questions-about-hormones/