Short nice things

Sparkly got onto the mock trial team ey auditioned for! At first ey thought ey didn’t, but I guess someone else backed out and ey was the alternate? I don’t actually know.

I had a nice dinner with my parents, and also had some medical checkups, which weren’t exactly nice but nothing is wrong, so that’s good. I also got a flu shot, and my arm and sholuder were impressively sore for a while, but they’ve gotten a bit better.

I found the books I promised to lend someone. It’s kind of embarrassing and kind of really nice to know people who are now interested in the things I was interested in at about age 15.

Sparkly visited a synagogue tonight. Ey was raised Catholic and is thinking about converting. Apparently the people ey met were very friendly and ey got to talk to some other people who converted as adults.

It’s really ridiculous what things I have social anxiety over

Checking my Tumblr messages and notifications: fine

Checking my email: depends on the day

Clicking on WordPress’s little bell/star/comment bubble icon thingy: worst thing ever.

It used to do this thing where it would flash/change color repeatedly until you clicked on it. That was awful.

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This is a roundabout way of saying that if you post a comment and it doesn’t get approved for a while, it’s not your fault, I’m just hiding from notifications.

Visiting family for Thanksgiving

Sparkly and I had a Thanksgiving dinner with friends last weekend, and ey is going to Numbers Guy’s family Thanksgiving as well. And a rescheduled Thursday Game Night tonight. And maybe something with one of eir other friends, too? I don’t remember.

I know ey likes having things to do for the holidays, and gets lonely sometimes when I’m gone, so I’m very glad ey has things to do and people to spend time with this year.

I am not cool enough to write this fic but I wish it existed

I recently came across an Honorverse meta post talking about Grayson’s attitude towards women. But this post isn’t about its main point. It included this quote from The Honor of the Queen which I had forgotten about:

[Admiral Yanakov] shook his head sadly, staring down into his brandy.

“Our first generation averaged one live birth in three. Of the babies born living, half were too badly damaged to survive infancy, and our survival was so precarious there was no possible way to divert resources to keep them alive. So we practiced euthanasia, instead, and ‘sent them home to God.’ “

He looked up, his face wrung with pain.

“That haunts us still, and it hasn’t been that many generations since the custom of euthanizing defectives, even those with minor, correctable flaws, stopped.”

Now I really want to read about the Grayson disability rights organizations. How did they start? Was it people who acquired disabilities later in life who first started protesting euthanasia? Was there a small minority of people with congenital disabilities whose parents chose to keep them? What kind of religious and philosophical arguments did the Grayson anti-euthanasia activists use? Where are the present-day Graysons with disabilities who know they’re only alive because of this movement, and how do they feel about that?