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I've found a lady who has the same sort of shape as me, who dances the same kind of dance that I would love to dance. She has such precision and confidence-verging-on-arrogance and strength and lyricism and sweetness. I don't know that I can get my creaky old, arthritic person to do some of the things she does (that back bend!) but I love her sense of theatre. I love how she has combined bellydance with inspiration from sci-fi and theatre to make something that is very unique.

Much though I like dancing, I haven't been able to find any genuine love in my heart for the whole 'scantily clad get in touch with your inner goddess who is also a sexy flirt' malarky, chiefly because I don't think I have an inner goddess of any kind, let alone a sexy one. But as a writer I 100% have an inner Evil Galactic Emperor, or an inner hero or villain character of a sort that I can lean into.

So I the new dance I am now wrestling with is inspired by the plot in Stargate Universe in which Chloe - experimented on by aquatic aliens - fears she is losing her humanity, even while she grows stronger and more intelligent.

My question was, why the heck wouldn't you embrace that? Super strength? The ability to do maths? Sign me up.

I've just got to find a way of expressing this in dance.

So what do we think of the Murderbot trailer over here?

I'm absolutely pumped. I can feel myself going into hyperfixation mode as we speak. I've always liked the books, but I seem to need visual media in order to really engage, and I'm engagaged.

Alexander Skarsgard is not what I'd expected MB to look like (or sound like) but as someone pointed out, he is very much what an evil megacorporation would think a 'standard' but threatening human would look like, so I can get behind it.

People have said that he is 'too gender' or 'too masculine' for the agender MB, but being agender has nothing to do with what you look like. I am agender and I look feminine. It's an inside thing not an outside thing.

If you see the short of MB being repaired, you will see that it has no nipples. I think that's a great detail. It also has no bulge - and really props to Skarsgard for not letting that worry him. I really appreciate both of these things.

Ratthi is just delightful (and very handsome, as is only right.)

Sanctuary Moon is just delightful too. I think I'll like it as much as Wormhole Xtreme.

Argh. I'm so excited rn. I can't wait!