Opportunity rover feels (long, heavy)
I keep crying about the Opportunity rover today.
It's been a stressful and emotional day otherwise too, but more than once, something about Opportunity has sent me over the edge; I'm writing this out in a little phone-booth room at work to try and... something.
When Opportunity landed, I was still in college. I knew that. But I looked up details. It was a Sunday. I was at a furry convention. I had just met up with Elanna for the first time in meatspace, a day or two before. I went back to school with some degree of clarity about my life. I was going to graduate, and move out there to California, spend more time with the folks I met out there (Elanna included).
Opportunity's mission was supposed to last 90 days. Before I graduated. I remember being in my dorm room hearing all the cool new things from the Mars rovers, hearing about them continuing on past their original missions. It feels so fresh. I wish it wasn't so long ago.
I graduated. I moved to California. It was okay. I met a lot of folks. I finally started missing New Mexico again after a few years, and in 2007, I visited. We went to a space museum, saw a movie about the rover missions, and their already-unprecedented mission success.
In May 2011, we moved to Seattle. It was pretty good. Less than a month later they called the end of the Spirit rover mission. (I didn't notice at the time, I just saw it when I was researching it today.) Opportunity was still going. Had been going all that time, through so many life changes.
I didn't really pay much attention or think much when they last contact with the rover last summer. For some reason it only hit me now. Now, in the midst of winter, with a myriad of life stresses, when I keep having these bouts of "I wish I could go back to when life was simpler." And then this. For some reason it feels like now I can't. I was in college then. I was working out what to do with my life. Trying new things. And now I keep feeling like I just have to to grow up.
I'll miss you, little rover.
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💜 These days I think it needs at least one more axis. Probably several. ;)
re: Analogy for being Non-Binary in 2019 (cw: transphobia)
Hello yes I use internet!
https://medium.com/@indilatrani/early-birds-and-night-owls-afc59712b0b8
@Heffboom_Konijn #PleaseBoost *hugs you all* here is the gofundme link for my car crash if anyone can help me. I am scared to ask and humbled having doing so. thank you all for any and all help yall can provide in my dark days https://www.gofundme.com/name-change-help-for-a-transgender&rcid=r01-153911645645-28178e4c7b4b447f&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_m
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@Oneironott FWIW I like you a loooooot. 💜💜💜💜💜
Contacting Indi, minor MH~
So I'm gonna try and mostly go to "write-only" here; you probably shouldn't expect me to pick up on anything important if it's announced here.
That being said, being reachable and connected is really important to me, so if you wanna talk, please nudge me via DM, or on Telegram (https://t.me/IndiLatrani)
And I'll probably still be here somewhat, just maybe less and I don't want anyone to worry or find me hard to reach. 💜
Contacting Indi, minor MH~
Hey y'all, should probably mention I'm going through a rough anxiety-spike time lately and have worked out that I should pull back a bit on my reading of here (This is not anything anyone is doing wrong, it's largely my anxious-brain's horrid compulsion to read CW-toots that I probably shouldn't, etc)
@CoronaCoreanici @kauko Well, I said it's what humans do. You're a fox. ;)
@kauko i I feel like this is basically what humans do. ;)
Hey, lemme reach out to you all for a second.
The years since the last election has been varying degrees of terror and hell for us all. I can’t pretend to know what the future holds, but i’m glad you’re hanging in there and surviving at very least. Times are allowed to be bad, but keep mind that nothing lasts, but nothing is lose. Keep being you and keep fighting. It’s a dark, hard time, but i am glad you’re here to keep it a bit lighter, okay? :)
Community-member music Kickstarter, plz boost maybe? :)
Hey everyone, I'd like to share a really fun Kickstarter project that my Alpha/owner/mate Elanna is involved with!
It's an album of songs produced via predictive text keyboards by a bunch of very funny folks, whose work you may have seen before producing a Harry Potter chapter the same way.
It's a really fun project, with some very affordable (and some very silly) rewards, and it'd be awesome if you checked it out
@CoronaCoreanici FUCK. That WORD CLOUD. :D
@CoronaCoreanici It's a damn good thing I'm off in a corner with no one looking at me. ;)
@CoronaCoreanici With great difficulty and some strategic covering of my mouth.
@CoronaCoreanici I know right? And then ENTERPRISE PBIS.
Magic stuff update: Things went really really well again! You all are awesome, thank you!
Magic stuff: Another sigil, for a work thing I have to do in 20 mins; good vibes wanted, and view image if you're willing. 💜
@Oneironott *hugs for you* 💜💜💜
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Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜