trixter @trixter@awoo.space

I suppose since I'm returning and there are new people I should do #introductions:

I'm Jen, she/her (but gender non-conforming), lesbian, in my late 30s, cat and ferret mom, huge nerd, WoW player, Transformers podcaster with iaconunderground.net and geek culture writer for the Columbus Free Press and St. Jane Co.

Oh wow, did I happen to come back here at the same time a bunch of new people arrived? Hello new people! (It's because Twitter is just getting worse and worse, isn't it?)

what is all this pineappling

So I will contribute, upon my return here, a photo of my dapper gentleman. https://awoo.space/media/zn2zHNM1Ik6CCcD4IFI

I'm torn between a need to keep up with what's going on in my train wreck of a country and a need to preserve my mental health, because I've wasted too many days feeling depressed over this garbage.

Think it's time to poke at some Mastodon instances again. I used Tweetdeck for Twitter, so it's not like I'm actually viewing the ads they want so badly to sell, but their tolerance and downright support for white nationalists is sickening.

Some people engage in risky impulsive behaviors, I suddenly decide to root my phone and install Linux on my laptop.

awwww yeah it's raid night #wow

Well, that could have been a better night's sleep.

I had a really important agent interested in my novel. She suggested some revisions, and I addressed them, and I sent it back. And I got nothing for a year. Poked her a couple times early, got an "I'm working on it," then my life fell apart. Poked her again recently, she'd asked someone else to look at it and they ended up in the hospital and it had fallen through the cracks.

And, like... I feel like that's me now. That's just my life.

When you're already dealing with derealization/depersonalization, it really doesn't help at all to send writing submissions and job applications out into the ether and never hear so much as a rejection. Am I even here? Am I a silent voice screaming into the void? Is there any point to any of it? I need to make money to support myself and I get so hopeless sometimes, like I have to scream and scream and I'm still never heard...

So here's some thoughts on politics:

The US has a two-party system, and changing that is nearly impossible. But our "left-wing" party is weak. And it's weak because it's run by and full of cishet white men with nothing on the line. They aren't fighting for themselves the way the right is.

And THAT. THAT is what there's a hope of changing.

We need to demand they nominate women, and better, women of color. Gays and lesbians and trans folks and all kinds of queers. Only then will they be strong.

Okay, so I am a long-time player of death knights in #worldofwarcraft. And I just love how unrepentant their new class mount is. Not only is it a skeletal dragon, your seat is a COFFIN and the reins are A PAIR OF RUNESWORDS STUCK INTO A PILE OF SKULLS

http://www.warcraftmounts.com/mounts/deathlordsvilebroodvanquisher.php