Re: the quote from my second Holly and the Wizards novel, Stacy is fifteen years old, in a polycule, bisexual with strong gynophilic leanings, an ADHD recipient, and a wizard -- writing her is fun. And I don't have an issue with defining my characters with delimiters since I created them, and my perspective on identity isn't something I want to dig much into for what is sort of an YA market; plus the books tend to be long -- the first one is 1049 pages, and it has a clean break point so I'll publish it in two parts. This is a series that frustrates me a lot, because the covers are among the simplest I need., but I no longer have the ability to create them since I lost my sight in 2003 thanks to acute hypertension. I've got two done with three more started and in differing levels of page count so far.
Hmm, you strike me as someone who might find interesting things at www.magnetsandladders.org, if you're not already familiar with the site and initiative -- they've used 22 of my creations, including a single work of poetry called "What I Did Last Summer" -- I tend to keep my poetry in the lyrics I write. Oh, and regarding music, I've got a bachelors of music from the University of Texas at Arlington in jazz studies; I'm familiar with the ocean drum you mentioned, since I have two of them -- one that's a 22 inch Remo and the other is goatskin headed and I use it for early music situations. I have enough hand drums that when someone asks how many one I purchased makes I reply with "One more" -- counting them is a bit of a chore. Oh, the other things people often ask about me and music, I play/can perform on 14 different instruments, though some performances won't be well received -- my clarinet ability is not my highest performance level among the instruments I play. My principal instruments for my degree are trombone and voice, the latter the one I passed the vocal barrier in.
Yes, I am very much a supertaster. Sweet turns for me in under a second as it changes with contact with saliva, plus I try to avoid things that affect my blood sugar unless I'm in a crash or precipitous drop condition. Sour also turns, though not as severe. Salty lingers and also, as expected, makes me consume water to deal with it. Savory and I get along okay when we meet.
Oh, regarding your language interest, Sa Sargah Sagu-- hint, ancient Egyptian.
Here's the other thing about having a long list of options that don't fly -- As you might have observed, I'm a possessor of an analytical streak and I'm often told I have a nimble mind, so others can get frustrated when they spool out options and I have reasons why those things won't work -- it's not me being a Yeah But, it's that often they're great ideas that I've already come up with, analyzed, and found issues with them. Oh, and in case you're wondering, I'm not neurodivergent as the APA/DSM-V defines the term, because high cognitive performance and the ability to code switch on a dime means I have a lot of friends with neuro-spiciness. My brother was an early adopter of Bipolarness that manifested a lot as ADHD, so I learned how to navigate flight of ideas situations; it drove his first spouse nuts, because she couldn't follow three conversations happening at the same time.
Scientific American is a recent add to the magazines NLS provides for blind/VI folks; they also give me access to Psychology Today, Smithsonian, and on an occasional basis Popular Science, along with Asimov's, Analog, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
I don't buy lottery tickets unless I get the numbers in my head -- this is rare.
Oh, another piece of the puzzle -- almost two years ago I contracted a pair of fungus strains that a normal immune system would invoke the geddoutahere protocol -- The result? Close to a month in the hospital and a dance that got to the 48 hours from lights out territory. Before that I was less concerned about socializing with all y'all plague rats (because anyone who isn't way aware of not infecting others is that way to me), but since then I've become far more wary.
I'll check into those posts of yours. I've got a shrinking support network thanks to pesky things like life and its converse That's a real problem, and I'm always looking for more safe people. I also have a beta reader pool that's far smaller than I think is productive, so I'm also always looking for readers -- I'm thinking you might have sources and strategies for that issue.
Yeah, I've not seen anything so far about how the optic nerves are way up on the complexity scale for human anatomy, so regenerating optic nerves might gateway to other nerve regeneration protocols, and the big kahuna of the nerve family, spinal cords, might be closer in reach too. And from what I've heard they're getting results with their protocol. Optic nerve damage is close to 100% of my vision barrier, thanks to way acute hypertension back in 2003, so they get that done and I'm a lot further down the road.
Noise cancelling is way problematic for me, though I carry a nice set of earplugs if I need to enjoy the silence -- this is something that frustrates several of my former help sources, they're some level of visio-typical, so their hearing isn't keyed so close to survival and threat assessment. Anything I've tuned out may be able to eat me. I've been moving away from people who have the empathy of Al2O3 or carbon crystal.
I've been test-thinking a language that has far less parts of speech -- eschewing prepositions like Finnish does, using suffix and prefix sets to handle adverbs and adjectives, relegating conjunctions to punctuation, dropping articles, taking a different approach to nouns and verbs that's tied to agency and the ability to generate action, and also dropping interjections all the way into punctuation. My recent thinking also includes doubled vowels of the same type to denote character of the sound between hard and soft (though the ashe will need it's own handling), making the schwa into a regular letter, and things like that. I don't have com lang skills, but like so many other arenas I know enough about the structure and infrastructure of the topic to explore it.
I use guide humans a lot, though I have effective cane skills and I did great with The Mighty Guide Beast when he was working and still breathing. I don't get out near enough to justify getting another guide beast, and my current pet dog who I call many things, including The Holy Terrier, isn't up for things like that -- it'd also require an interesting harness, because she's got a lot of JRT in her so she's got short legs. Note: The Seeing Eye is way protective of their trademark, so they try (though it's clear they're less than successful) to get people to not use their brand to describe all guide beasts. Guide [insert critter type] is the preferred term.
Hide the toilet paper, that sounds sick. That's up there with mandatory attendance at Nickelback concerts.
Okay, now the link to the barcode readers has elevated this response into the Attention You directory so I can dig into that. I've got a wonderful app on my phone that reads an RFID, or if you prefer, Arfid, tag on my prescription bottles -- way useful, though not anywhere near universal in execution.
Using a different body part gets into logistical issues and can also weird out the 'danes. The tip of the nose is way sensitive in most people, which is why people doing MLM sex toy sales will suggest that people test out different vibratory devices on the tip of their nose to gauge intensity of effect.
I think I might be familiar with that shrimp fried rice container.
I keep running into recommends for Bone, so I think I'm going to check if it's available through the NLS.
Oh, a filter for recommendations -- vampires are a huge turn-off for me. I've got friends who can't comprehend why I don't find parasites sexy, but I think that tells me more about them than it does me; I get the whole seduction angle, but it takes me nowhere. Regarding fantasy, I'm also resistant to stories where it winds up being all about the magic -- I want the characters to be the crux of the biscuit, not the magic. And I'm also not a fan of transformation stories where the transformation is the destination -- that's the start of a journey, and when it's treated as the primary terminus I feel cheated. I wrote a continuation of a classic fairy tale titled "After Ever After" about that.
I'll explore a bit more here regarding other reading options. I'm not embedded deep here like I was back in the LJ days, so navigating the culs du sac here is not something I'm skilled at so far.
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Re: the quote from my second Holly and the Wizards novel, Stacy is fifteen years old, in a polycule, bisexual with strong gynophilic leanings, an ADHD recipient, and a wizard -- writing her is fun. And I don't have an issue with defining my characters with delimiters since I created them, and my perspective on identity isn't something I want to dig much into for what is sort of an YA market; plus the books tend to be long -- the first one is 1049 pages, and it has a clean break point so I'll publish it in two parts. This is a series that frustrates me a lot, because the covers are among the simplest I need., but I no longer have the ability to create them since I lost my sight in 2003 thanks to acute hypertension. I've got two done with three more started and in differing levels of page count so far.
Hmm, you strike me as someone who might find interesting things at www.magnetsandladders.org, if you're not already familiar with the site and initiative -- they've used 22 of my creations, including a single work of poetry called "What I Did Last Summer" -- I tend to keep my poetry in the lyrics I write. Oh, and regarding music, I've got a bachelors of music from the University of Texas at Arlington in jazz studies; I'm familiar with the ocean drum you mentioned, since I have two of them -- one that's a 22 inch Remo and the other is goatskin headed and I use it for early music situations. I have enough hand drums that when someone asks how many one I purchased makes I reply with "One more" -- counting them is a bit of a chore. Oh, the other things people often ask about me and music, I play/can perform on 14 different instruments, though some performances won't be well received -- my clarinet ability is not my highest performance level among the instruments I play. My principal instruments for my degree are trombone and voice, the latter the one I passed the vocal barrier in.
Yes, I am very much a supertaster. Sweet turns for me in under a second as it changes with contact with saliva, plus I try to avoid things that affect my blood sugar unless I'm in a crash or precipitous drop condition. Sour also turns, though not as severe. Salty lingers and also, as expected, makes me consume water to deal with it. Savory and I get along okay when we meet.
Oh, regarding your language interest, Sa Sargah Sagu-- hint, ancient Egyptian.
Here's the other thing about having a long list of options that don't fly -- As you might have observed, I'm a possessor of an analytical streak and I'm often told I have a nimble mind, so others can get frustrated when they spool out options and I have reasons why those things won't work -- it's not me being a Yeah But, it's that often they're great ideas that I've already come up with, analyzed, and found issues with them. Oh, and in case you're wondering, I'm not neurodivergent as the APA/DSM-V defines the term, because high cognitive performance and the ability to code switch on a dime means I have a lot of friends with neuro-spiciness. My brother was an early adopter of Bipolarness that manifested a lot as ADHD, so I learned how to navigate flight of ideas situations; it drove his first spouse nuts, because she couldn't follow three conversations happening at the same time.
Scientific American is a recent add to the magazines NLS provides for blind/VI folks; they also give me access to Psychology Today, Smithsonian, and on an occasional basis Popular Science, along with Asimov's, Analog, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
I don't buy lottery tickets unless I get the numbers in my head -- this is rare.
Oh, another piece of the puzzle -- almost two years ago I contracted a pair of fungus strains that a normal immune system would invoke the geddoutahere protocol -- The result? Close to a month in the hospital and a dance that got to the 48 hours from lights out territory. Before that I was less concerned about socializing with all y'all plague rats (because anyone who isn't way aware of not infecting others is that way to me), but since then I've become far more wary.
I'll check into those posts of yours. I've got a shrinking support network thanks to pesky things like life and its converse That's a real problem, and I'm always looking for more safe people. I also have a beta reader pool that's far smaller than I think is productive, so I'm also always looking for readers -- I'm thinking you might have sources and strategies for that issue.
Yeah, I've not seen anything so far about how the optic nerves are way up on the complexity scale for human anatomy, so regenerating optic nerves might gateway to other nerve regeneration protocols, and the big kahuna of the nerve family, spinal cords, might be closer in reach too. And from what I've heard they're getting results with their protocol. Optic nerve damage is close to 100% of my vision barrier, thanks to way acute hypertension back in 2003, so they get that done and I'm a lot further down the road.
Noise cancelling is way problematic for me, though I carry a nice set of earplugs if I need to enjoy the silence -- this is something that frustrates several of my former help sources, they're some level of visio-typical, so their hearing isn't keyed so close to survival and threat assessment. Anything I've tuned out may be able to eat me. I've been moving away from people who have the empathy of Al2O3 or carbon crystal.
I've been test-thinking a language that has far less parts of speech -- eschewing prepositions like Finnish does, using suffix and prefix sets to handle adverbs and adjectives, relegating conjunctions to punctuation, dropping articles, taking a different approach to nouns and verbs that's tied to agency and the ability to generate action, and also dropping interjections all the way into punctuation. My recent thinking also includes doubled vowels of the same type to denote character of the sound between hard and soft (though the ashe will need it's own handling), making the schwa into a regular letter, and things like that. I don't have com lang skills, but like so many other arenas I know enough about the structure and infrastructure of the topic to explore it.
I use guide humans a lot, though I have effective cane skills and I did great with The Mighty Guide Beast when he was working and still breathing. I don't get out near enough to justify getting another guide beast, and my current pet dog who I call many things, including The Holy Terrier, isn't up for things like that -- it'd also require an interesting harness, because she's got a lot of JRT in her so she's got short legs. Note: The Seeing Eye is way protective of their trademark, so they try (though it's clear they're less than successful) to get people to not use their brand to describe all guide beasts. Guide [insert critter type] is the preferred term.
Hide the toilet paper, that sounds sick. That's up there with mandatory attendance at Nickelback concerts.
Okay, now the link to the barcode readers has elevated this response into the Attention You directory so I can dig into that. I've got a wonderful app on my phone that reads an RFID, or if you prefer, Arfid, tag on my prescription bottles -- way useful, though not anywhere near universal in execution.
Using a different body part gets into logistical issues and can also weird out the 'danes. The tip of the nose is way sensitive in most people, which is why people doing MLM sex toy sales will suggest that people test out different vibratory devices on the tip of their nose to gauge intensity of effect.
I think I might be familiar with that shrimp fried rice container.
I keep running into recommends for Bone, so I think I'm going to check if it's available through the NLS.
Oh, a filter for recommendations -- vampires are a huge turn-off for me. I've got friends who can't comprehend why I don't find parasites sexy, but I think that tells me more about them than it does me; I get the whole seduction angle, but it takes me nowhere. Regarding fantasy, I'm also resistant to stories where it winds up being all about the magic -- I want the characters to be the crux of the biscuit, not the magic. And I'm also not a fan of transformation stories where the transformation is the destination -- that's the start of a journey, and when it's treated as the primary terminus I feel cheated. I wrote a continuation of a classic fairy tale titled "After Ever After" about that.
I'll explore a bit more here regarding other reading options. I'm not embedded deep here like I was back in the LJ days, so navigating the culs du sac here is not something I'm skilled at so far.