The Queue: Recovery can be brutal

I don’t want to get too real here, but recently a series of bad things has happened and one of them was potential uterine cancer for my wife. They had a 10 cm tumor extracted, and since then we’re trying to get her through it.

If anyone tells you “oh, it’s a routine surgery, it’ll be fine” just remind them, as gently as you can, that having a 30 cm scar across one’s abdomen that has to be stapled closed is not something you get over quickly. This is the kind of wound that would kill a Viking, and my wife is forced to simply endure it.

I really want y’all to realize that, when you are suffering, when you are wounded, no one should be allowed to dictate to you how long your recovery should take. That goes for mental, physical or spiritual damage — it’s never okay to tell people “it’s routine, it’s fine, you should be over it by now” because everyone is different and feels pain and heals from trauma differently.

Let people heal at their own speed, and that includes yourself. Recovery can be brutal.

I personally think you might be Terrance McKenna then, because I can’t fathom just how many fae spirits of altered perception, machine elves, or ayahuasca fever dreams I would have to indulge in to even do the Mage Tower again.

I was going to do a whole list of places like Pandaria (where you could study with the Shado-Pan as well as from the various August Celestials), with groups like the Sentinels, the Paladins of the Silver Hand, the Stormwind Guard and 7th Legion, the Kor’kron and Shadow Hunters… so many different forces and organizations you could try and learn from.

But then I really thought on it and I realized that what you should do is figure out wherever adventurers hang out — places like the Arenas, various rotgut slinging swill joints, the Brawler’s Guild. Basically, anywhere you can find these completely demented people who routinely get in fights with world destroyers and insane tentacle gods.

You want to learn the weirdest, most exotic, and ultimately most effective combat arts in Azeroth? Learn them from the people who use them to keep the place intact in the face of everything.

You’re of course allowed to fell any way you like about the commercial. I personally was a little annoyed that the Thing was wearing a full uniform instead of trunks. That’s an incredibly minor and unimportant thing to be annoyed by, but I’m kind of the opposite of you in that I generally prefer the comics to the movie and TV adaptations for the most part. I did, however, prefer the TV Invincible to the comics, at least so far.

But part of that is due to my hostility to the idea of the comics as unworthy as art in their own right and watching enormous corporations use them as mines to dig up content to make movies or TV. It’s like one of those giant Chitauri monsters from Avengers that sucks in years of comic books and then poops out pellets of concentrated story. It’s not that the movies or TV are bad, but rather that I can’t help but notice the money flows to people who have not a thing to do with the creation of the ideas making up the films.

And that’s not the movie’s fault, right? There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, not even giant Chitauri space whale dragon whatevers eating our comic books and pooping out movies.

I am literally never going to back down from my contention that once we complete a dungeon or raid we should be able to move in and convert said dungeon or raid into a full on guild base with rooms for every guild member.

Failing that, let me have a garrison on Draenor just because it amuses me to imagine the Garrison making a comeback.

I’ll have a bacon portabella mushroom burger with swish and asiago cheese, large fries, large diet coke and a vanilla frosty, and also, wouldn’t it be cool if you could have a house on one of these island expedition islands after completing them?

It would be.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. Be good, stay safe, and take as long as you need to heal.