Post #3682221

2026-07-08 22:36 UTC

three big things happened to me yesterday! firstly, after getting intimately close to this space since early last year but even more so this year, i said my final goodbyes to rewind sound and studios as a know it! unfortunately, due to having put a lot of energy into travel plans in the middle of this month before we had decided to move out of the space, it meant i had decided to skip the rest of the physically and emotionally laborious process of stripping the life out of everything. i will miss my friends, holding each other while we do work we’re basically allergic to, and celebrating the final days together. hopefully i can afford to remember things and celebrate in my own way by contributing to the archival efforts of @bounding_star@adlsolarpunk.net and her army of interested friends that keep on coming out, and mayyybe get a pretty lantern drawing of @fruitsalad@adlsolarpunk.net tattooed on my arm ?!? [1/3]

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@dylandrakos@adlsolarpunk.net 2026-07-08 22:38

second big thing was that i DRIVED for the FIRST TIME since permanently losing much of my vestibular function and gaze stability last september!!!!! what the hellllll people. since becoming disabled and slowly going through a long, and at times, extraordinarily challenging exploratory period of questioning and finding out what things my body can (or should) still do, tackling driving was rad. the quirks of my balance dysfunction are the hardest bit of my disease to explain!! my vision is “bouncier” than normal, like my eyes were encased in jelly or their a crappy ipod camera without proper gyroscopic stabilisation. when an eye or head movement is made, it takes them several milliseconds longer to adjust to a target and stabilise than regular eyes, which means as things get further away from me, they tend to be more blurry. butt 🍑, it’s not toooo extreme while driving!! like when riding my bike or being a passenger now, the main bits i need to worry about are my reaction time to small and fast things far away from me - cars are thankfully fine to see in front of me and over my shoulder. i FUCKING HATEEEE that it was case in a car and not a sexy, speedy bicycle i can call my own, but it felt veryyyyy special to experience more agency in my transport again. [2/3]

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