Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

*wakes up after 2hrs sleep*

*points an accusing finger at a blank bit o' wall*

you don't GET that what you call 'morning' is just a social construct, PAL

*collapses back in bed*

ffnfnnhgh..

The nice thing is that I think (fingers crossed) the new silicone rim-covers aren't gonna fall off all the time like the old ones did

(The downside is this backup set are green, and so they unbalance my carefully-planned purple & green aesthetic too far in that direction. I must rectify this with more purple)

Which reminds me that ughhhhh I need to do a maintenance rundown on my chair, that's way overdue

Nnnnnot today! *flops facedown on bed*

(I'll probably do it on Saturday, it'll give me a chance to teach one of my PAs how to do it/help out)

istg if you've ever tried to hand-brake with just a metal-rimmed wheelchair, on a slope, in the rain

Forget powerballs or grip trainers or whatever; doing that takes the grip strength of a silverback gorilla

That dawning realisation that many other wheelchair users could probably crush my skull with their bare hands

Gone back to Digimon Cybersleuth after taking a long break from it. It's a good kinda.. Chilling out kinda RPG. There's plenty of stuff you can grind but no feeling of it being a necessary step for plot/etc progression.

It's.. Really good? Like, the plot has a lot of wtf, but with plenty of sincere moments, and it's mechanically dense without being overwhelmingly so.

The designs are stiiiiiill very 90s, but that's kinda Digimon's thing, so.. Not a big enough deal to be offputting to me.

Going out reminded me how much I don't go out anymore.. But there's not really anything in Nottingham that interests me enough for all the stress and fatigue to be worth it (mostly, but not exclusively, from travel).

Online community is my preferred type. Outdoors is kinda.. There's nice bits, but the bits with humans in consist of: Shops, roads to shops, and noisy + crowded places where ppl host group events.

Currently listening to The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. They're very good (though frequently very dark), and was interesting to find the author had written one of the articles about the Terra Ignota books I'm reading through on and off atm (https://adapalmer.com/publication/seven-surrenders/terra-ignota-crooked-timber-seminar/)

(If you're on a tight budget and need one, do what I used to: Get an old top you don't need, a friend you trust, and a lotta duct tape. You can make a cast of yr torso that way pretty easily, it's usually called a duct tape dummy, there's tonnes of tutorials online)

It is weird that I have been doing tailoring/sewing/dressmaking for over a decade

And only now am I thinking of buying a dressform (Torso-Onna-Stick).

Part of that's budget, part of it's previous living spaces, clutter stuff, etc. But I should really uh, own one, considering.

Carer is confident in making a curry (that won't be sensorybad) with the ingredients I've got in the apartment

For like, 6 portions or so? Which is yes, good, crisis averted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7UNU9r51I "Utterly Done With This" Vorta Iggy Pop from Star Trek is also good (DS9 Spoilers)

Heck if we go see what like, the corner shop has in terms of curry paste

😬 Probably sensory-gross in greasiness (I struggle with like, oily-texture stuff a lot) but like

Probably better than care person trying to do a curry sauce from scratch.

Pour enough hot sauce in and it'll drown out most things, heh

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDLc-8tW2I)