THERE IS WONDER

    Juncture 25 , the poetry group I facilitate, appeared at the Purbeck Literary Festival last night, and in the afternoon I ran a po...

THINGS FALL APART

I’ve nicked this posts title from Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian author, his book is about the destruction of a community in the late nineteen ...

DECONSTRUCTION OF THE HEART

This week I attended a new local spoken word evening. It was an interesting event, although I could have done without the drunken man in the...

SHE MAY SPEAK TO YOU

This is a self portrait by Ofelia Marques, a Portuguese artist. I was recently looking through a catalogue I'd picked up in Lisbon years ...

I RAKED THROUGH THE ASH

  This is another poem that turned up unexpected and wrote itself over the course of a couple of days. I always find it interesting when tha...

ON THE COUGHING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY

  Some poems have long difficult gestation periods. These can last years. I worry that the essence of the poem is not strong enough to make ...

EARLIEST MEMORY

  Another couple of poems that I began on my poetry retreat. The first arose from an exercise that required me to describe my earliest memor...

BRING ORDER TO NATURE

I'm not sure about this poem. It is based on something I saw recently, a woman digging out blades of grass that grew between the paving slab...

Tale of hearts and needles

Tonight‘s tale is about a precious thing.Precious enough to have the witch, the quiet girl, the weird one gather all her courage and say:„We were too good for this world!“Too good to exist within i…

Mistress witch writes

433. How comfortable is your SC in their body? How do they feel about their body type? Is being attractive important to them?

I answer in reverse order in a general approach for the crew.

Not really, they are soldiers first as thus they need to stay fit and halfway trained, of course this is also a personal matter so not everyone looks the same but general fitness is needed.

Regular training changes your mind set (that's why a lot of people with psychological issues give it a try for at least some time and some stick to it).

My characters accept their body's in general as they are, the ones who didn't made changes. Often it's just a minor detail. Thanks to better medical equipment, more knowledge, broader variations of body types, raised emotional intelligence, exposure to alien civilizations etc, a more open approach to all identities, self expression, up to trans* species genetics & modifications, exists.

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