Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
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 Partially here; I'm fabulously awkward at it, and have been very withdrawn the past few (months, years).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"
It's harder to take Warframe seriously with the knowledge that "Cetus" is just Ancient Greek for "a really big fish"
Sleep -, some caps
*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..
Gosh the Craft Sequence are such good books
Every time I try to explain them it kinda falls flat though
🤔 I have the same problem trying to describe the Terra Ignota books..
re: Wheelchair Pooptootin'
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)
re: Wheelchair Pooptootin'
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)
Wheelchair Pooptootin'
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
Manual Wheelchair Advice (EDS but not exclusively)
Today was the first day in ages I went out without the silicone rim-covers on my wheelchair and *wow*, I really forgot what a difference they make.
I really highly recommend them. I have real problems with gripping hard enough, doubly so 'for prolonged periods' and 'without hyperflexing my fingers' for me; But just in general, it makes both pushing & braking with yr hands so much easier than a bare metal bar.
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Theirs
This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
