designs

Today I woke up, got breakfast, read the internet, failed to think of something to do, and did nothing until pretty much lunch time.

But then I decided to draw all my potential tattoos on my arms to see how they go together, so now I am blue and orange highlighter because those are the colors I found.

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This is perhaps not the most usefully creative I could be but it beats staying in bed.

Even if these many years experience suggest I'm just going to think 'ow' and not do it again.


Also my mum objects to sword tattoos on the grounds they are aggressive, which seems fair. But they are very pretty.



I tried writing words on the other day, but it seemed weird having stuff just anyone could read. Symbols are better.


It has been ages since I did drawings art. Don't have software for it since several windows ago. Stories come to mind a lot more often.





I was thinking though, this morning, about time travellers who get ink as an early warning system. Like, in Legends of Tomorrow, and Back to the Future, representations of the future change before memories do. Like he wedding ring fading in and out as that probability was interrupted, or a picture of family fading. But stuff, especially shiny stuff, can be taken from you. Ink stays. So a time traveller would keep their important stuff under observation, but need to make it so nobody else could easily read it to mess it up for them. Symbolic ink.


And maybe have one section that they're hoping will go blank, with all the things they'd rather undo. But those would be the things that keep them travelling.



I don't know, I just started thinking time traveller me would have a whole different reason for Richie's sword being there. And then thinking who else I'd time travel for. Every fixit fic ever ensues...


Some of them wouldn't make very satisfying story though. I mean undoing people's reasons makes a nicer world, but then what? (Then what is keep on helping people because pain is never the only reason to do that.)

But I get annoyed when the story only does the guilt grief get over it arc. I mean it's appropriate to move on from what you can't do anything about, but there's genres where you very much still can, and yet the story stops short of showing you why you should give up because the emotional arc is so taken for granted. I know why Booster Gold couldn't save Blue Beetle (yet), or Rose and her father, the consequences were writ large, but most people most times don't get that. And both those times team good guy never did give up, the choice just went back to the person who did something heroic. Cost and consequence and choice.

Three Cs I felt were missing from TV Flashpoint so I can never quite make emotional sense of it and it's kind of unsatisfying.

Anyways. I shall go find something else to do.

Meditation

went out for the evening.
Driver N had a cough and used a whole packet of tissues. I wanted to say they should go be ill at home but I am not assertive so when my first phrasing of concern and 'would you like to go home' did not work I just... went along and hope I not get ill.
N stayed in waiting room instead of meditate. Could still hear.

I have no stillness. Meditate leader guy kept mentioning stillness and I am just a squirmy rocking person. Also today could not find a sitting where nothing ached, could only move it around. Must do my back exercises and move around more.

but! I went! And attempted meditation. And as predicted feel better for it, even though I am not still.

so that was okay.

and the day has been achieved.