Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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- They/Them/Theirs
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Joined Dec 2017
Total War: Three Kingdoms Pooptooting
News soon spread through China that Guan Yu takes criticism of his air guitar routine rather poorly
Overwatch Pooptooting
Hammond the Hamster is the most subversive Overwatch character cuz he steals and recycles the tools of an oppressive institution to free himself from it
send toot
If I'm trying to be more sociable I should really do an intro post, since my profile's kinda minimal..
But I'm not doing great today (no sleep, among other things x.x), so.. Not now.
*flop*
Game Silliness [Total War: Three Kingdoms]
the "Average spearman solos an entire army every night" factoid is inaccurate. Charging Georg is a statistical outlier who should not be counted
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
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, 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
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
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.."
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?)
I wanna talk on here more
but I dunno what to say
I've lost the knack of social media? Uhh..
Pretend I'm saying something fascinating!
Social Stuff, Autism
I wanna re-engage with stuff socially. Mostly online.. Partially here; I'm fabulously awkward at it, and have been very withdrawn the past few (months, years).
Irl is more.. Complicated. Being around people is exhausting unless it's 1:1 and they're people I know well. And even then, it can vary. Groups are exhausting, and tend to be in crowded, noisy, generally me-hostile spaces.
(They're also mostly people I don't have anything in common with..)
This was okay when I had a few close friends nearby, but that's dwindled as people move about or drift apart, and I haven't been able to create new friendships like that.
I'm mostly fine being on my own irl? But not entirely/exclusively.
Scheduling stuff is going well.
Have adjusted it to be relative to waking time rather than local timezone, so sleep going skewy doesn't throw everything out of whack.
A diverse pantheon, united by the glowing weak spots in their armour and a tendency to drop useful artifacts
Thinking about future archeologists/anthropologists/folklorists trying to work out the mythological figures that continued into prominence in our society
And then running into a wall of videogames that just went
"Word sounds cool, use it for a boss fight"
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Theirs
This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
