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Things what are making me cranky
Mar. 15th, 2014 04:30 pm1) TNG rewatch. Am up to mid season 4, and I am seriously considering skipping the current episode. It's one that I vaguely recall being displeased with back when I was super obsessed with TNG, and I was ... totally clueless about some of the things involved. Now it's just EW DO NOT WANT.
( explanation, with content warnings for skeevy gender-based interactions )
2) TNG rewatch, less specifically but in context of disability representation. TNG is pretty good, as far as things go, about gender balance and race balance -- not perfect by any means, but it is not entirely (straight) white males. There is, for example, a recurring black female transporter chief. With lines, even.
It won't win any awards for being the best at these things -- the command staff is still mostly white male humans -- but it's miles better than, say, Reboot.
But disabilitywise...
There is Geordie, yes. There are things that verge on non-visible disabilities, like Data's lack of emotion or like the time(s) Troi loses her empathic powers or like various forms of PTSD. There is a reference by Picard to an instructor he had at the Academy who used a wheelchair. And ...
...
nothing else, at least not that I've encountered. And I want more, dammit.
3) SW:TOR. I stopped playing for a while, and desubscribed, so I count as a FTP user. (Well, Preferred, but still.) And I've gone back, but as a free user there are so many *restrictions*. Some of it is fine, like having access to stuff at level 10 rather than level 1, or restricted access to PvP stuff I don't care about.
But.
( whine )
There is a part of me that wants to resubscribe to get the game the way I remember it being.
There is a part of me that resents being not-very-subtly maneuvered into it.
And of course I don't know if my interest will *last*.
4) My total lack of interest in GW2. I can't explain it. I should want to play. I just ... don't.
5) The fact that it is too hot. Seriously, 82? In March? The thought of summer scares me.
6) Being almost entirely out of girl scout cookies.
( explanation, with content warnings for skeevy gender-based interactions )
2) TNG rewatch, less specifically but in context of disability representation. TNG is pretty good, as far as things go, about gender balance and race balance -- not perfect by any means, but it is not entirely (straight) white males. There is, for example, a recurring black female transporter chief. With lines, even.
It won't win any awards for being the best at these things -- the command staff is still mostly white male humans -- but it's miles better than, say, Reboot.
But disabilitywise...
There is Geordie, yes. There are things that verge on non-visible disabilities, like Data's lack of emotion or like the time(s) Troi loses her empathic powers or like various forms of PTSD. There is a reference by Picard to an instructor he had at the Academy who used a wheelchair. And ...
...
nothing else, at least not that I've encountered. And I want more, dammit.
3) SW:TOR. I stopped playing for a while, and desubscribed, so I count as a FTP user. (Well, Preferred, but still.) And I've gone back, but as a free user there are so many *restrictions*. Some of it is fine, like having access to stuff at level 10 rather than level 1, or restricted access to PvP stuff I don't care about.
But.
( whine )
There is a part of me that wants to resubscribe to get the game the way I remember it being.
There is a part of me that resents being not-very-subtly maneuvered into it.
And of course I don't know if my interest will *last*.
4) My total lack of interest in GW2. I can't explain it. I should want to play. I just ... don't.
5) The fact that it is too hot. Seriously, 82? In March? The thought of summer scares me.
6) Being almost entirely out of girl scout cookies.
