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There's a bit of fuss in the Skybound Transformers fandom regarding the new run by Robert Kirkman, on account of he's brought back a bunch of characters who had seemingly been killed off.

Now, I'm not especially interested in all that. I dropped the book for other reasons and so Idk how well or how poorly this was done. But it's raised some interesting questions regarding how death works for Cybertronians. Which, y'know, is something that's always been sort of tenuous. Like, obviously the Sunbow cartoon let the characters take all kinds of abuse without dying, until the movie came along and they decided to clear the shelves. And then over in Marvel, they could be pretty doggone dead by our standards without really dying. Every continuity has its inconsistencies.

But I'm thinking about it now specifically in terms of Skybound.The thing about the Skybound comics is that a lot of people have been dying. And the thing about that is that only a handful of those people have been Cybertronians. Humans in this book have been getting massacred left and right ever since the Autobot-Decepticon war woke up on Earth. And I think that carries some truly incredible potential.

Those aforementioned massacres have given humanity plenty of reason to resent the transformers, even the Autobots, for bringing their business to an uninvolved world. That was a given already. But now. Now. Imagine being one of those humans. Cities destroyed, thousands killed. And it's all got nothing to do with you-- not you personally, your family, not your country, your continent or even your planet. This conflict just appeared one day, literally from space. And then once the dust is cleared, some of these alien robots who were meant to be dead... aren't. They were shot, blown up, rent apart. But they're not dead. It's not that easy to kill a Cybertronian, even for another Cybertronian. You, though. You and your family and friends and your countrymen-- your people. It is so, so easy for these beings who brought their war to your planet to kill you. They hardly have to try. They don't even have to care.

Can you imagine?

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I'm struggling to come up with crochet gifts for my oldest niblings. Aside from the scarves, I mean. The littles are all getting crochet plushes from me and while I know things don't have to be totally balanced between different age groups, it feels weird to not have an "equivalent" for the older two...

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I've not been keeping up with Transformers: Cyberworld. The handful of episodes I did watch were fun and something I could see watching with the niblings but it didn't hold enough of my interest to watch regularly on my own. Which, I mean, it's targeted primarily at little kids, so that's to be expected. I thought about binging once more episodes were out-- they're only five to ten minutes each-- but couldn't be bothered to do that either.

Not because of the target demo or the format, though. Rather, once I thought about it, I realized I wasn't interested in following or supporting a Transformers show that can only bother itself to add one (1) female character to the roster. We should be well beyond that bullcrap by now. Add on the fact that she's tiny for no reason and they spell her name Wrong* and, yeah, I'm good, thanks.

It's too bad, really, because I did enjoy her characterization in what I saw of her. But I think I made the right call, based on what I've been seeing of the fandom chatter. Like Optimus and Bumblebee got some kind of neat upgrades or powerups, apparently, but Elita didn't? And now it seems they've just randomly tossed in a romance plot line for her?? Unless it would actually, literally kill someone if the brand treated their female characters with respect, I'm not sure what we're doing here or why :/

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I recorded another shape note song & posted it on Tumblr. It's even seasonally appropriate!

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One day, I'll learn my lesson. I won't look at a crochet project and assume it'll be quick to finish because it's small. I'll remember before I begin that sometimes small means fiddly and tedious, especially when there are color changes involved.

That day is not today but, y'know. One day.

Anyhow, only mostly got one plush done for Christmas but it's cute enough already that I'm pretty okay with it. I'm less okay with it when I remember the layabout procrastinating I did in between working on it but such is life. Heck, even if I only finish one plush a day, I'll still be done in plenty of time. Just gotta keep on it.

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I mentioned earlier that having only partially done the Orion questionnaire, I was somehow now destined to keep coming back to write in my journal even after NaBloPoMo was over, like the blogging analogue of the siren’s call of the Trevi Fountain.¹

I find myself with a quiet moment here today and only multitasking less than a dozen other things, so why not move it along a little further as well?

If you could make pancakes with anyone living or dead, who would it be?
I’m going to make the assumption that the question is asking about someone I can’t readily do this with today if I wish, so the easy answers of making and sharing breakfast with my spouse and children which would always be my first and everyday desire, or even my own parents, should be stated but for our purposes here set aside for the sake of the deeper “what if…” implied here. I think my grandfather would be my choice. As a young boy I spent many hours with him, learning a lot about his technical expertise and generally looking up to him and spending time with him. It would be nice as an adult to be able to have pancakes (or whatever) with him and be able to share our perspectives now about life and everything looking back on our experiences after all this time.
What are some of your favorite words?
你們 (nǐmen—in Chinese they have a plural form of “you,” distinct from the singular— nǐ 你—which is brilliant to make it clear whether you mean “you” as the one person you’re addressing, or the group of people you’re with; there’s yet another form of “you” when addressing a large audience as well), scrumptious, kerfuffle, ephemeral, gazebo, skullduggery, quux, firebottle, frobnitz.
Who are some of your heroes, heroines, real or fictional?
The previous question revealed one of mine already. My father has always been another of my real-life heroes especially as I was growing up when it seemed to me there was nothing he couldn’t do. Even as I got old enough to realize he was a regular mortal, I started to appreciate the choices he had to make and how he sacrificed to support his family, always putting others first with patience and compassion that was a role model to me to try to aspire to be like.
What is something new you’ve done recently?
Maybe not extremely recently but I’ve been expanding my range a bit on the microcontrollers I’ve been playing with in recent years. Back in the early 2000s I was exclusively using PIC chips but now it’s all Arduinos and Raspberry Pis these days. And I’ve been dabbling a little more in trying to appreciate Anime a bit more.
What’s the wildest thing you’ve experienced or witnessed in nature?
Earthquakes, monsoon season, and a really good tropical thunderstorm with lightning bolts striking way too close for comfort certainly remind one to respect Mother Nature and realize how small we humans are when out in the elements by ourselves.
It’s late afternoon on a summer Saturday, you’re sitting with your feet in a cool creek and someone hands you the perfect beverage. What is it?
Right now, it would typically be a Diet Coke, I’m embarrassed to admit, but I need to cut down on that, so let’s say a lemonade.

I hate giving interviews.
—Bobby Deol

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¹Which I have, actually, tossed a lira coin into a few years ago but that return trip remains on my “to do” list.

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Didn't hit everything on my to-do list today but I did a pretty good job! There's a lot more that I'll want to get done tomorrow in order to call the weekend a success but I'm confident I can do it. Even though it is a little irritating to look around and remember that I'm still in the "trust the process" phase, lol. Ah, well.

One big problem is trying to navigate around things that I'm not going to be keeping in the long run. Those things still need a place in the meantime, obviously. Buuut they're currently taking up space that I need for on a more permanent basis for other things. And it'd be one thing if all these things were stackable but that simply isn't the case.

I hadn't actually planned to set aside time today for Christmas stuff but I did realize partway through the day that I probably should. Of course, I'm still working on handmade gifts, too, but I'd already bought a few things before deciding to do that and I'm trying to make it as fair as possible. In any case, getting those handmade items (mostly) finished is a big goal for tomorrow.

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OKAY, SO.

THE WEEKEND!

Gonna have a better weekend than the last one was, I am, I am. I've got a book to finish reading tonight, then I'm going to bed. Gonna get a good! night's! sleep! Gonna wake up bright! and! early! And then I'm gonna get! stuff! done!!

CAN I GET AN AMEN!!?

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It keeps happening where I want to go to an event but no one is available or wants to go with me, and transit would be more of a pain compared to just staying at home and vegging out. The psychology of imagining myself doing a thing in order to motivate me does not work on me because I get progressively more discouraged by how much energy it will drain from me and how much time it will waste waiting for the connecting bus, especially when the event is all the way in the city. My world feels so small because I've grown too dependent on other people when that's the farthest thing I want out of life, and the people I depend on are all either busy or too disabled to drive and accompany me. I don't want to learn how to drive, own a car, or buy car insurance and the like, but even here in a place with decent transit it still will take me about 1 1/2 hours to go anywhere and another to go back. Suyo still finds it hard to stop what she's doing to pick me up from somewhere, or more often than not Siv takes the car to work so we're stranded at home all day, so that factors into the equation of whether it's worth it if I end up missing the bus. I'm hoping that my wanting to go to the event this weekend (plus my need for novelty being so starved these days) has won out my laziness and I plan to take the bus even on the weekend when the buses are infrequent out here. I just have to be very precise in my planning to shorten my waiting in the rain for the next bus. I also refuse to give any of my shopping money to Lyft or Uber, so this will be the consequence of me not choosing convenience.

Being away from family even for a little while is hard on me during the holidays. I may be struggling with my mother's sudden, erm... spiritual awakening (it's a whole thing), but that hasn't changed her wanting to celebrate and do all the regular rituals we've always done. My nephew has been sick with strep throat lately and got his antibiotics the other day, so I've told her I plan to come over when he's feeling better so we can bake cookies together. I'm really looking forward to it, especially since she lights up when I offer to play cribbage with her since she rarely gets anyone else to play with her. We both really get a kick out of putting on old ragtime saloon music while we play too.

I have some lesbian Hallmark-esque Christmas movies that I want to watch because, shockingly, I found even more that I haven't seen yet. I think the ones I've seen so far have been pretty ridiculous and cringe-worthy, but I think Looking For Her and Christmas on the Ranch were pretty cute. I still haven't seen Happiest Season yet which may have been the catalyst for the direct-to-streaming lesbian Hallmark-esque Christmas movie boom, at least on places like Tubi and Freevee.

Side note, something that bothers me about sapphic media... ( On queer media and smaller gender boxes. )

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I tripped over my own feet at work and I think I jammed my elbow or something when I caught myself. It doesn't hurt enough to be a sprain but it still hurts. At least it's the only thing that does. Even the knee I scraped feels fine now. I just hope I'm not going to wake up to worse, lol.

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