[image description: We look slightly up at a penguin standing atop an ice-cliff in a snowstorm. He w

[image description: We look slightly up at a penguin standing atop an ice-cliff in a snowstorm. He wears huge dark goggles and a leather aviator’s helmet on his head. Two complex gold metal and brown leather mechanical wings are strapped to his back and shoulders. Text reads, “193, The Great Waldo Pfeffernüsse, the Small God of Prosthetics”]• • • • •The Great Waldo is not a huge fan of cyberpunk.Oh, the aesthetic, he can get behind.  The idea of rebuilding your body to escape its limitations, to expand its usefulness, he can absolutely support.  The thought that no one should ever feel as if they’re missing anything in a world where joints and hinges and WD40 exist, he’s good with that.  But the idea that replacing a part of yourself that isn’t working the way you want it to with something that suits you better could somehow make you less yourself…he can’t really accept that.You are exactly as much yourself as you desire to be.  Your body is your own, to modify and upgrade and repair as you will.  If glasses don’t make you less of who you are, why should a pacemaker, or a carbon fiber leg, or a set of titanium teeth?  Or wings, that actually work, that a brave explorer can use to soar above the land he loves, to see things from the height he’s always yearned for and dreamed of?Nothing you can choose to do to your own body can lessen you as a person, in his eyes, or in reality, and those are the two things that most matter to this equation.  Everything else can get stuffed.The Great Waldo believes in self-improvement, in building new scaffolds when needed, in replacing what’s broken and improving what has room for improvement.  He wants everyone to feel content inside their skins, to breathe easy and content.  Whether that means modification or acceptance, addition or subtraction, it doesn’t matter to him.It’s not his body that’s under discussion here, after all. • • • • •Join Lee Moyer (Icon) and Seanan McGuire (Story) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many small deities who manage our modern world:Tumblr: https://smallgodseries.tumblr.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/smallgodseriesInstagram: https://instagram.com/smallgodseries/Homepage: http://smallgodseries.com -- source link

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