Happy Mariner Monday!

Ahhhhh

I keep forgetting how adorned Ferengi ladies are. Love them!

RIP my notifications.

Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.

Lower Decks tattoo: done!

It’s not a refusal to re-enter society. It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance. It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward. Mass death & disability is not normal

Doing a thing...

Insta suggesting I follow Jay Baruchel. Me: Okay. I know we went to Dawson at the same time, in the same program, but come onnnnn! The dude is SO Canadian, though. 😂

Bahahahaha! Love it.

Someone bookmarked the first chapter of my 27K-word fic!!!

You know I'm invested when I write, the rewrite most of, an 8-chapter fanfic (plus epilogue) in about a month. Holy crap. Nearly 27K, 15K of which was already written when I decided to rework the whole thing.

I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys was supposed to have nearly completely different lyrics. And those lyrics made a LOT more sense than the mess we got, lol.

The first Ghostbusters movie. It's still very 80s, but almost in a timeless way.

Strangers complimenting my hair.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The potential to get with someone like my abusive ex.

Don't let your mother's neurosis and overprotectiveness prevent you from living. It's not healthy and you'll still regret letting her do this to you when you're 47 and she's been dead for 3 years.

Hateful rhetoric and behaviour.

Brandy

You meant both, right?

She, by Charles Aznavour, but particularly the Elvis Costello version. Also, it makes me ugly cry every time I hear it.

Ghostbusters (all of them, yes, even the one with the ladies), the LotR trilogy, What Dreams May Come, The Wicker Man (1973) and Novocaine.

Painting. Like with oil on a canvas.

Personal chef. I hate cooking.

Me, on my 44th birthday. No filters, light makeup and perfect, indirect lighting. I still don't have permanent nasolabial fold lines at 47.

Once Facebook started really ramping up.

The 1989 Polytechnique de Montréal mass shooting. There are probably others before, but this one was the most impactful.

10 languages, to communicate with as many people as possible. I speak 2, so 8 more to go, I guess?

BTW, I can hear just fine, if not above average, it's fully neurological. It's the same for a lot of music and songs. I can't understand the lyrics if the music drowns the voice out just enough.

Me? Bawl my eyes out watching Novocaine because I discovered the "voice boost" setting on Prime, circumventing my auditory processing issues, and feeling fucking seen over being able to watch a movie about a disabled man like everyone else can? Yeah, there was sobbing. I'm not crying, you are!

With how things are going on in the Lower Decks fandom in general, I can't wait to get my Beckett figure and pose her in lewd poses with Brad. Then take pics and post that online.

Okay, so, that migraine isn't going anywhere and I start work in an hour...

List 10 horror movies so we can get to know you better! 1. Hereditary 2. Midsommar 3. The Wicker Man (1973) 4. Scream (the first one) 5. Pearl 6. X 7. MaXXXine (ok the last three are a trilogy) 8. The Frighteners 9. Ghostbusters: Afterlife 10. Sinners

And to not be too weird... no wait, I am weird... I also have Mariner on pre-order. Should be here in February at the latest.

I forgot to show *inhale* the package. Or what's in it. Behold, my (future) stuff! /Skurge Lookit his little face!

My Twitter profile (I only keep it for the few friends that haven't migrated) essentially has the same motto in it 🤣:

My package is in Montreal! A few more days and it'll be here!

Me: *writes a 5-chapter plus epilogue fanfic* The fanfic: 5 chapters with a specific tone, the epilogue literally reads like it was written by someone else Me:

Post something random or you'll have an awful November.

How I feel about my day (but I am in a ridiculously good mood, considering):

How I feel right now about the complete cartilage loss in my right knee:

Me, finally watching X-Men '97 and looking up the voice actors. JP Karliak who voices Morph also voiced Fuyutsuki in the new Netflix dub of NGE. Me, who usually watches anime in Japanese with subtitles:

TIL that there is a link between the X-Men and Ed Buczynski, the founder of Edwardian Wicca and the Minoan Brotherhood.

So, my wife is trans. And we're at Montreal Comiccon. Some dude with a Loki headdress gave her a dirty look. Me: Ok, ✨Loki✨.

Saint John's Feast Parade had a whole section of recruitment into the Falun Dafa (WTF?) and the Petit Saint-Jean looks like he's dying (it feels like 100F and he's wearing sheepskin or something.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Not all pollution events are equal, and just because one is reported does not mean a team will go on site. Also, it's condensation trails, not chemical trails. We learn this in elementary school, FFS.

Some reference pictures.

Scheduled my appointments for the tribute tattoo I wanted for my mother. A ruby-throated hummingbird among black hollyhocks. The hummers were my mother's favourite, and the hollyhocks are associated w/ rebirth, prosperity, growth and are associated with Lammas, which is the day before my birthday.

I'm at 15lbs lost, now, from the lack of appetite. It came back in time for dinner, last night, which means I went 7 days without a square meal, just applesauce, crackers and toast. I feel so much better. But back to Pfizer, in December.