Giant robots and cinnamon buns

[alias_sqbr]

Wow, I feel amazingly terrible. But also bored. If nothing else this post exists to remind me not to get into conversations with people on the internet, for I am not awake enough to be coherent.

Am currently reading "Cryoburn" by Lois McMaster Bujold. I had heard it was pretty mediocre, which makes it suitable for a day when I need something easy to read but am not in the need of cheering up (Even bad LMB is light and moderately interesting) People were right, the (new) planet it's set on is remarkably blah and generic in it's vague Aisan-ness, eg there's a line like "The news was available in a number of languages, but not Barrayaran Russian" rather than "The news was available in Mandarin, English, and several other languages, but not Barrayaran Russian". I'm bored of it now, though, maybe 50 pages in, maybe I'll read the Liaden book I bought instead.

Mass Effect 3 trailer! So totally playing it with my earthborn renegade ruthless Shepard.

I cannot help but think of Real Steel (about a manly man and his manly battle robot) as a live action Angelic Layer (about an adorable little girl and her adorable little battle robot).

Thinking about Angelic Layer and with the latest updates of Homestuck I really wish there were more characters in wheelchairs in fiction who just went on with their lives, being interesting for other reasons, without not being able to walk being this big defining thing, and especially didn't need able bodied people telling them to stop moping about it or whatever. (I'm not sure that sentence makes much sense grammatically)

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[pseudo_tsuga]

I am really glad I wasn't the only once wincing at the latest updates on Homestuck. I'm glad at least Jade called it out but...it still leaves me uneasy. Maybe because it's an able-bodied person who says it?

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah that was my main issue, if Jade also had mobility problems the dynamic would be very different (her narcolepsy isn't framed as a disability in the same way). Everyone else has a better understanding of Tavros's issues than Tavros :/ Which is not directly related to his disability, but combines with it in an unpleasant way.