Megan Melody
Hi! 🏳️⚧️ Manifesting my Autistic Bland Self 😑 into my Autistic Trans Self 🤩 as a small act of rebellion😎. I promise my obsessions are not just Sonic The Hedgehog related, but there'll be a lot of Sonic posts coming from me 🔵🔴
- The one thing I've enjoyed about a post Generative A.I. online presence and discussion is that I've learned to really value my own Drawing ability and the drawings of others regardless of skill level. I might be out of practice and I draw very slowly but gosh darn it it's at least MY Drawing!
- I've been working on something on and off since November but I've been motivated to actually get this one drawing done, pushing through my perfectionism and accepting the imperfections just to move forward because "hey, at least those are MY Human mistakes, MY Human inexperiences, and not an A.I.'s"
- It's not about producing content, it's not about getting eyes to see it (though that would be nice) it's about putting the pencil on the paper (or the stylus on screen) and MAKING something that maybe could have have come from someone else's mind but my imperfections could only have come from mine!
- Anyway, please enjoy some Lord of the Rings fanart whenever I finally get it finished ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Last night I had another dream of swinging as Spider-Man but this time my dream was lucid enough that I was actually making decent turns around corners! Something I've never personally achieved in my dreams before (usually it's just a front to back swing where maybe I can shoot a second line).
- The actual tone of the dream was kind of an endgame between me and Kingpin though, where he either had outed me or was threatening to, but it took place in a residential neighborhood where a lit firework was strapped to my back as I was trying to swing away from Kingpin's house party.
- My Left arm was either in some sort of harness or was otherwise impeded but I could feel my arm was unusually tucked to the side and under my chest when I was shooting a web-line from that side and making Left turns. (This was because I was sleeping on top of that arm) Still, I made LEFT Turns!!
- Unrelated to any potential Lord of the Rings Thread: of the 4K Bluray discs I own, the ones most likely to skip/break on me have all been discs manufactured by WB. And some of those discs did not come with a Bluray or Digital Copy as a back up 😡
- This week's Trope Talk does a good job breaking down what is "Filler" and the concept of a "Breather Episode"/"Downtime"/"Episodes that Don't seem to Advance the Plot", the latter being the Heart of a series and a great source of characterization! I 💛 "Filler" youtu.be/aGAJd5_QrtA?...
- Finished my rewatch of Fellowship of the Ring. It's my favorite, it makes me cry every time, I have other things I want to do, I should be able to stop here. Right?
- I don't know if it's the autism in me, my stubborn "sense of justice/fairness" or ego, but I miss the righteousness that came with mask mandates and vaccine passports. It was a socially conscious moment that felt like it had a very easy morality alignment inherently attached to it. Masks = Good
- During the second year of Covid I attended a convention that was Mask Only and ran into one of the organizers who had to deal with the backlash for insisting on the Mask mandates. When I said I appreciated it he wanted me to e-mail the con directly just so the staff could have one positive e-mail 😢
- I admit on my end that I am easily intimidated by the length of a given video BUT if it's a trusted producer and the first -- let's say 20 mins are paced kinda rhythmic and bouncy and flows into the next 2+ hours, I'll definitely try to finish it.
- When I couldn't name 3 to 4 of Donkey Kong's best 3D platformers I tried to prove I was still a bigger fan by singing DK's iconic theme song as sung by Jack Black "Knight of the Wind" in the lobby of the grocery store. We then had a "Last Supper" around the picnic table before I finally woke up.
- Finished my first playthrough of Metroid Prime 4: I get the need to create new characters to add to the roster (given the series habit of reviving old nemeses over and over again) but this guy Sylux just doesn't have the same "wow" factor that Ridley, Dark Samus or heck, newcomer Raven Beak has
- Happy New Year! Normally I wouldn't take too much stock in a "New Year, New Me" sentiment but given that last year was the year I finally started HRT, this year promises to make that sentiment less of a New Years Resolution and more of a New Years Foregone Conclusion. Looking forward to it! -M💛
- My Vice
- Holiday shopping can get overwhelming, but the thing that caught me most off guard was nervously giving my name to someone behind the register and they were INCREDIBLY nice and quickly started calling me Ma'am to accommodate. Wasn't really fishing for it, but love the enthusiasm! Still Year One
