#dignitywhatdignity

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Hi, Sam! You mentioned being bad at/nor liking driving, and I was wondering if you'd done much driving since starting medication, and if you've noticed any difference? I'm also a bad, nervous driver, and I'm pretty sure I have ADHD, but I've heard meds can help with the driving part.

Not that I recall -- I've driven at least once since starting medication but it was at night in semi-rural Pennsylvania and I don't think that counts, since no amount of Adderall is going to help me see the road when there are no streetlights. :D

I do have a zipcar membership for emergencies, but it's expensive to use and driving in urban Chicago is a nightmare regardless of medication, so even if medication makes it better I don't think I'd be able to tell. If I were to get behind the wheel for the specific purpose of seeing how it is driving while medicated, I'd probably go deliberately to a suburb and get a car there, so that I wasn't doing urban/highway driving after not having driven for years.

I mean, even if I were to be a better driver, I don't think I'd want to, and I for sure don't want to be a more relaxed one because I don't think most people have internalized just how insanely dangerous cars are. Your ability to kill someone when behind the wheel of a car is absolutely immediate and almost entirely out of your control. I don't mind riding in cars, like it doesn't make me nervous to be a passenger, but I've been in enough accidents (on foot, as a passenger, as a driver -- none my fault but many unavoidable) that I want nothing to do with piloting one. They are large, fast murder machines.

There are a couple of sounds that live rent-free in my head; two of them are a) the sound I made going up onto the hood of a car when I was hit in college and b) the sound a twelve-year-old made running into the passenger door of a car I was driving because he tried to cross a street while looking backwards at his friends.

[avengersacademy-supportgroup]

So where's the Spider-Penguin???

He’s currently fighting off the Green Walrus and then will be around when he’s done.

I do hope they add Spider-Penguin’s in at some point.

[tinyadventureclub]

dignitywhatdignity reblogged your photo and added:

Two guys walk into a bar.The third one ducks.

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2.75yo caught me looking at your vacation photos and insisted on seeing more and running commentary. Most notably, he thought the "dood" was a monkey, he thought the canola/mustard farm was a baseball field, and Hermaphroditus on the bed reminded him that it was naptime and he didn't want to ("Bed! ...No bed me.").

I hope it's okay if I post this publicly because that's fucking adorable :D Now I want a toddler to rate all my art photography!

I think I'm actually done with art museums on the trip at this point -- today I'm adventuring on the coast, and tomorrow I'm gawping at some public art but mostly resting because tomorrow night is the Roma-Milan game and I want to be awake and intelligent for that. Then Sunday I'm going to a museum but it's the Jewish Museum of Rome, and while I'm sure there will be a ton of art (the synagogue is reportedly gorgeous) it's not an art museum, it's a cultural museum. And then Monday I fly home!

But I think there's still some art in the queue, so probably at least a few more works winging their way towards you :D

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dignitywhatdignity

Is the Steampunk Boot still available?

I do still actually have the steamboot around here somewhere, but it’s elderly and not fitted for this particular injury. I’m trying to decide how to trick out this boot. I don’t think I want to do steampunk again although I can’t deny putting brass fittings on the boot really classed it up. I’m thinking maybe woodgrain this time, some embroidery in the Fraktur style perhaps. 

I’ll dig out the steamboot photos and post those later today though because really that was so much fun. 

drgaellon

We really do need to wrap you in bubble wrap, don't we?

I had such a good run of not breaking bones, though! I mean yes okay there was the concussion but between the broken ankle and the concussion there were years and years, and the concussion was two years ago! 

Also I can’t even blame this one on the ADHD. This was pure “you’re getting older and your bones are brittle.” 

I take so much calcium. SO MUCH. 

memprime

So, no Halloween marathons?

I was supposed to do the Crypt 5K AND the Carrera De Los Muertos this month :( I’ll still go, but I absolutely can’t even walk the Crypt Run, and it’s dubious about the Carrera. 

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dignitywhatdignity

So what do you think of Walker? (Husband and I like it for Mindless Procedural purposes, not unlike the Magnum PI reboot)

I can’t lie, I found it pretty unwatchable, BUT there are some factors involved in that. For a start, it feels like whenever I’m here they show the non-procedural episodes. So like the one we watched this time was about the horse race to decide who got the ranch, rather than a crime. So it wasn’t a normal episode and I probably would have been more invested with more attachment to the characters.

Also, I’m not very fond of the actor playing Walker, whichever one of the Js he is, and his acting is really...my mother said “He talks like he’s glitching out every couple of seconds” and that’s the best way I can think of to describe it. He did it as Sam on Supernatural, too, but it’s really ramped up as Walker. But I don’t know that anyone else would be as bothered by that as I am (clearly my parents aren’t!)

I don’t think it’s a particularly bad show, or rather it’s no worse than anything else on the CW, or honestly most of Supernatural. Just not my bag from what I’ve seen. 

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(Reads your Ea-Nasir post)

(Reads your Back to the Future post)

Huh. We're farther from the time of Jesus than Jesus was from the time of Ea-Nasir.

I like to think this makes Jesus feel old and Ea-Nasir feel delighted.

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dignitywhatdignity

See, now I'm looking at Six Harvests, Charitable Getting, Don't Read the Comments, and this quarantine story to all be part of the Copperbadge Cinematic Universe.

It is very exciting to me to be able to give Word Of God on this, which is that absolutely Charitable Getting, Nameless, Don’t Read The Comments, Trace, and Six Harvests are all part of the same universe, which The Year That Was would also occupy. 

There is zero indication of this within the text, but I’ve written almost all of my novels as if they could be part of one contiguous reality, and I consider that, for example, Bill Platter’s novels would be sold in Christopher Dusk’s bookstore, and both Lauren from Don’t Read The Comments and Ian from Charitable Getting absolutely are fans of his work, having bought them from Eighth Rare Books (the urban bookshop in Nameless). Colin Byrne from Trace probably read his books in prison and Mark, one of the protagonists of The Year That Was, probably went to college with Lauren from Don’t Read The Comments.