Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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Joined Dec 2017
Painstuff/Autism Pooptooting
Extremely Moira Voice: "The true war is between trying not to cross your legs due to back pain, and finding it extremely calming because it's a pressure-stim."
I should probably list the kinda stuff I like, that'd probably be handy (Or update my Goodreads profile more than every 3 years jeez, but who has time for social media?) Anyway! I'll list a bunch of books or series I like (and also can remember right now).
Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Culture - Iain M. Banks
The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
The City & The City - China Meiville
Ambergris Cycle - Jeff Vandermeer
Golden Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb
Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf
Imperial Radch - Anne Leckie
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Susannah Clarke
Little, Big - John Crowley
Arcane Ascension - Andrew Rowe
Okay I'm spacing out hard so I'm gonna stop here
But those are all good stuff, and hopefully give a good idea
re: fedi/ discourse meta
@noiob I was gonna post "I have 'meta' filtered out and it's great"
But then I wouldn't have seen this..
(ah, turns out I have 'meta ' filtered, which makes sense for not missing every post with it as a prefix)
re: sour candy experiences
@kitsch ohgosh I forgot how much I love sour candy til I read this
it is such a good sensation
Food +
I made a curry on Tuesday with PA's help!
It was the first time I cooked a like, big recipe meal in.. Uh.. Literally-years. And I had to do the last bit solo because time constraints, but I still managed it, and it was really good!
(Not something I could do on a weekly basis energywise, but something she could, I think)
(recipe: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/saag_aloo_with_roasted_95304 )
ablism
@Brainship I mean
I choose not to take longterm opioids, but that doesn't implicitly mean I'm not in enough pain to warrant it (it just means I value having a colon). It sounds like you're in a similar situation wrt other meds?
I got a bit of overwrought concern when I started using a stick, and then using a chair later.
Abled people seem to look at them as some sort of trap. I think this is because they have a false binary in their heads, of those who Need X All The Time & those who Don't Need X At All
Like, it's less "do you 100%-all-the-time Need it to even scrape by, even at a bare minimum"
and more "Would it be helpful to you in mitigating and managing your disabilities. Would it mean you burn out less. Would it let you have more energy & functionality and better mood as a result of less pain/exhaustion/etc."
Freeing up all the resources pain eats away at is no small boon, but it's one that I know we often internally undervalue
ablism, food companies, performative-ecofriendliness
Ug
Just-Eat have moved from "you can opt-out of single-use plastics" to "don't you even ask for them!!"
Just say 🖕 to ablism, folks
re: Selfie
@ellavescent ahh, you look fantastic! ✨
Food acquisition has been confirmed
Now to spend a quiet evening of historical fantasy shenanigans in TW: Three Kingdoms
I am eager to poke deeper into the Crusader Kings 2-y character bits
"Oh, your best general doesn't like this other general he has to work alongside, and that grated on him so much he eventually defected! But your nephew is his best buddy, so that's a whole thing now"
Giving me emergent character drama to go alongside the OTT battles
CA are cunning devs indeed
Food (+)
Fallafel and hummus and various types of salad and shish chicken and naan (and then more naan) is basically the perfect meal
@masklayer the most beautiful phrase in the English language
re: caps
@theoutrider Counterpoint: Is it truly a game if you cannot tie yourself in a knot around a cloud and decide what to eat/poop at whim
Recommend me some good speculative fiction books, peeps
"Okay, I played *tonnes* of Total Warhammer 2 while I was depressed. Definitely time to play something else now."
*Total War: Three Kingdoms looks really good*
"Well, on the other hand.."
@masklayer ahh, okay! that makes sense. ^^
re: ukpol, misogynist bullshit
@theoutrider @colon_three I.. There are no words.
re: I finished The Craft Sequence and gosh it's so good
I'm struggling to find a decent way to describe them well, which is apparently a not-uncommon issue; https://www.maxgladstone.com/2014/09/1364/
(also: as a transfem person myself, the transwoman who's the main character in Full Fathom Five is well-rounded and well-written, imo)
I finished The Craft Sequence and gosh it's so good
The worldbuilding is fantastic, the cultures don't feel like erzatz proxies. It manages to deal with extremely heavy themes with real world impact without them feeling out of place, because they're each integral to the setting and its own social/political dynamics as well.
So there's no jarring whiplash when you go from characters discussing theology, urban gentrification or free-market capitalism to a necromancer riding in on a zombie dragon. (because, well, how do you think he afforded it in the first place?)
@masklayer Newbie Question: Isn't that just 2:1? (Is that the joke..? >>)
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This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
