It occurs to me that if college admissions had allowed me in at 14, back when my brain still functioned at full capacity, I could have at least finished my degree before my everything noped out.

Granted, I’d have still crashed and burned before I was old enough to be hired for the job I was aiming for. But you know, the degree might have made a nice wall decoration.

I got on STO for the first time in ages
holy flying saucer sections
I didn’t know what anything was, or why so many things were flashing at me or what the hell was going on anywhere, and it was overwhelming so I derped around on Nimbus and my crew kicked butt because we were WAY overpowered for that arc and it was awesome. Then I wandered the entire circumference of the Nimbus map just because I could (and I was half-asleep at the time).

They seem to have fixed the bug where you could get your officers into Paradise City 😦 That, or I’m really out of practice.

just lost my shit at the lemon bottle because the FUCKING THING WOULD NOT OPEN despite my using a boxcutter to unseal it

I’m ambulatory but physically disabled, so I thought I’d add a bit about disabled superheroes! For me, since I’m not athletic, I found that a huge appeal in superheros is that your “real” weaknesses don’t matter, or become a strength through resourcefulness. I felt a draw to characters with “mind” powers because although I’m weak, I’m pretty smart, and so I thought manipulating things with mind powers was “me.” Same with “glass cannon” mages! I have to wonder if this is a thing among us…

I think it might be! I, too, tend to see my mental capabilities as a bit like my “superpower” since my body is not exactly equipped for leaping tall buildings. It’s far easier to picture myself in a less physical role, but there’s no reason it should be a weaker role.

Humans as individuals are very adaptable, and I think that’s something that writers tend to forget when they try to make their characters’ problems “relatable” when writing disabled characters. It’s ok for it to be “about” dealing with the disability, to a point, but make the actual character growth be more “this is what I do instead of/because of” rather than “the disability stops me from doing”. I think superheroes and fantasy characters give us a fantastic platform for telling these stories in a way that is accessible to a broader audience than just making “a story about disabled people” for the sake of it. Superhero stories can be outlandish, but I think that at their heart, they’re designed to show us that we each have our own strengths that can be used either for good or evil. That we have hidden “powers” sometimes, and we have a choice and a responsibility as to how we use them.

I AM DOING THE THING. So much work still to be done getting it all smooth and shiny but she’s starting to take shape and I’m excited 😀 Also, her eye is more yellow in person.

UFO spotted in Arlington, TX.

There are so many half-naked people and computers on my dash right now.
I am clearly following the right blogs.

I have plenty of backstory now. When do I get to the part where I’m a supervillain?

will never not be creeped out (in a good way?) that I resemble Caroline from Portal 2.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH MY LIFE, WHY AM I IN A VIDEO GAME

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I haven’t shaved my legs in like weeks (lololol) and I almost got lazy and used the shaving cream my bf left and shaved last night…I mean, I didn’t shave, but I don’t see what the big deal about not using “women’s” or “men’s” products is.

There really isn’t a difference, at least not that I can tell? Actually, I prefer men’s deodorant, it seems to work better. I also prefer men’s clothing when I want shirts made from actual fabric and not someone’s threadbare handkerchief. Stuff is stuff! I use what works.