@Hannah I’m ok. Surgery went well. I haven’t seen results yet. Been in bed ever since. PT should be here sometimes this morning to help me get up at least briefly.
I feel like Star Trek Discovery was amazing in the first season. The second season was… still okay, I guess?
Then I watched three episodes of the third season and just… drifted off. I kept wondering why. Why did I not want to watch it more? Why did I just stop because I felt… almost… tired?
I finally figured it out while watching TNG. Star Trek is not a show, it's a play.
In Star Trek, the cheesy sets are not a flaw, they are a feature. Almost any episode of Star Trek could be performed on a stage. It's all dialog and interpersonal conflict. It's character driven.
Discovery is like the JJ Abrams movies. Plot driven. It's too glitzy, too refined, and so dramatic that it's tiring. It's a flashy science fiction movie.
I think that's why Patrick Stewart was such a brilliant choice for TNG, and why everyone after took a page from his book. He was trained as a theater actor. He leaned into Star Trek as play instead of show.
@DivineKestrel I couldn’t agree more. My very favorite TNG episode (The Defector) leans into that so hard that it opens on a scene from Henry V on the holodeck and spends the rest of the episode calling back to it.
Trying to work the week before bottom surgery is like trying to pay attention to the teacher the week before Christmas. Who can possibly concentrate like this?
Getting ready for this feels like I’m planning a crime. I half expect the gender police to bust down my front door and haul me away in handcuffs at any moment.
It’s a wild thing to be on the verge of realizing your dreams.
Coming out is hard, and coming out as trans is even harder. As trans folks, we have to do it in a way pretty much nobody else ever does.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're looking at the rhetoric of How To Come Out Anywhere, so you can feel a little more confident when you invite the people you love into a deeper relationship with you.
@Impossible_PhD The matching energy observation is so true. My mother has told me several times that her initial gut reaction to my coming out was based almost entirely off of how happy and excited I was to share it with her. While she didn’t at all understand in detail yet (many conversations would follow) she could tell it was a good thing for me in those first few minutes. She saw joy in my face and instinctively rushed to embrace it.
The end of spring term is a really hard time for me. There's so much to do, and so many different things to do, and the no rest plus constant task switching absolutely obliterates me because of my autism which, since I'm really not out about it, I can't even talk about or get help for.
It leaves me feeling deeply worthless.
And even if/when people tell me otherwise round this time of the year, it doesn't feel believable, because I can barely function for weeks on end.