Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

The birch tree in our front yard (they/them) has been dying since we moved into this house. I didn't realize it at first, and by the time we thought to call someone to look at it, it was too late, and may have been too late even when we first moved in.

We've been putting off calling someone to take them down for almost a year, now. Despite the tree's current state, it just seemed too hard, too harsh, to have them cut down. And maybe I still hoped they.d recover somehow.

Guess who just grapple-gunned onto a Tie Fighter, then threw a thermal detonator as they lept off, awesomely landing on a tiny platform above a lava lake!

THIS space otter. ^.^

"Do you not want us to remove the lack of eating utensils from what your meal does not have?" https://awoo.space/media/--_RV48EBr3qhqS5KWk

Their names are Rua (he/him) and Uaine (they/them) and they love each other very much.
https://awoo.space/media/2UlF1OB8nKKnK7b_BSA

Aww yes after wanting him for years I finally got the tyrannosaurus counterpart to my big triceratops plush!

And they're already getting along great!

https://awoo.space/media/bh_7Yr822VtVxIyMv5A

Well that's a new and amusing way for gender-presentation ambiguity to manifest.

Went to get flu shot at work, the form I filled out had a question:

#5: Are you pregnant or suspect you might be pregnant?

So the nurse is going through confirming my answers, like they have to do, and rather than skipping or reading that one, she just goes "And have you read #5 very carefully?"

Rarely have I witnessed such a combination of remarkable tact and remarkable awkwardness. XD

You'd think being plush would make awkward phantom-tail stuff easier since it can just squish against a chair back or something, but it always still feels kinda awkward for me. Not sure why.

Am realizing this morning that I've been feeling really... listless... lately? I think I had a lot of mood whiplash from NM trip and Equinox and then just cold cold cold work chores drudge.

I feel like I should talk about the being-a-synthetic-critter thing more often but I'm kinda not sure how?

Dang it got cold out fast.

I guess it is time to start carrying my hot water thermos everywhere again.

Plush critters like me seem to be bad at temperature regulation. >.<

*gleefully lights lots of Ancient Therian Discourse fires*

https://awoo.space/@indi/2288499

Confession: I think tauntauns are super adorable and I would smooch one a bunch if they were willing.

New plushie, and he is adorable!

And I'll save you all some time; everyone at game night has already made all the standard tauntaun jokes. ;) https://awoo.space/media/4L-7oHzaQ92NHCw3Ngw

LB: This combines with my @reply thoughts about cultural appropriation in some complex way that I can't quite parse right now. Good good thread.

And of course, it was sunny and beautiful all the way DOWN the mesa. We could've turned around again, or stuck it out up there, but gods know how the weather would've changed then. It's weather.

All the other spiritwork I did, the less-flashy stuff, the training connection I cultivated and the meditative night walk, those went fine.

But I walked up that mesa with no planning other than a vague expectation of "stuff happens" and I got slapped down hard. Should've known better by now.

A bunch of stuff just slammed together in my head about my experiences during the NM trip and the conclusion I came to is... challenging.

Consider the weather. Far off inspiring thunderstorms with only occasional light rain reaching us for most of the time... except once we got to the top of the mesa where I was intending to have a "just heck me up" undirected spiritual something-or-other. THERE, it was rumbling thunder right overhead, and rain turned to hail until we gave up early.

In case anyone wants to see (a ton) more Meow Wolf pictures, here is a whole album:

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0dGrq0zwGqGauq

This does include some of the easily-accessible documents, which could be considered spoilery, but what I included here was intended to just give a hint of the weirdness, not give away any of the deeper secrets. ^.^