My name is Mars. I go by they/them pronouns but I find it interesting to see how others perceive and refer to me so I don't always announce my preference; I like to let others meet me with their own interpretations.

I am transgender, genderqueer, and nonbinary. When I was younger I used some more obscure labels but over time I've found they don't really matter -- I gain no affirmation from them and they are less potent as personal/political signifiers compared to more well-known and historically rooted terms. It is for this reason I refer to myself as bisexual when asked about my sexuality, though I do feel some affinity with asexuality as well. I am queer above all else.

I'm a leftist (anarchist tendency, though I am also open to socialist ideas, for example). I am involved in trade union activism. I practice magick, and while I don...

• practice patience, gratitude, sincerity, kindness, and composure (and find an acronym/mnemonic?)
• practice mindfulness/meditation; develop a (weekly?) routine
• check in daily with PEWTER (Practice, Exercise, Wash, Treat, Eat, Rest)
• develop a skincare routine and generally maintain good health
• work out; I have a couple of routines I can do daily using dumbbells, or I can aim to do 100 push ups a day (starting with wall push ups) if I don't have dumbbells to hand; I need to find more stretching routines (yoga?) but so far I do touch my toes
• try more foods and recipes
• try new hobbies (archery? weaving?)
• get back into fencing
• get back into geocaching (hide another geocache)

tattoos

• eight pointed star (on left palm?)
• sphinx with a sword (like on the wheel of fortune tarot card)
• dung beetle scarab ie: khepri ?
• tooth ?

piercings

• lobes first (if any)

other

• fangs!! (can be constructed with composite)
• top surgery

decks I own

• The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck (RWS)
• Smith-Waite Tarot Deck: Centennial Edition (RWS)
• Inversion Tarot
• Aquarian Tarot
• Supernova Tarot
• White Numen
• Spheres of Heaven Tarot
• Joe Sparrow's Tarot
• Tarot of the Divine

wishlist

• Unveiled Tarot

• rose quartz
• botswana agate
• garnet
• red jasper
• brecciated jasper
• carnelian
• yellow jasper
• citrine
• jaguar stone
• rainforest rhyolite
• prehnite
• unakite
• aventurine
• moss agate
• seraphinite
• fluorite
• labradorite
• opalite
• chalcedony
• sodalite
• lapis lazuli

• Learning to Labour by Paul Willis
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
• Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
• Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
• The Solutions Are Already Here by Peter Gelderloos
• Something Should Be Done by Peter Good
• Peace By Peace by Ian Brennan
• All About Love by bell hooks
• Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton
• Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
• Land Sickness by Nikolaj Schultz
• Terminal Zones by Gareth Rees
• Scarp by Nick Papadimitriou
• An Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs edited by Owen Hatherley
• We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
• The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka

digital comics I have downloaded and am yet to read

• Asunder
• BAGATTO
• Bobo Has An Offer For You
• Bottoms Up
• Chrysalis
• Come Home Safe
• Dogbody
• Eve in Her Estrangement
• Exo
• Extinction
• Frogocalypse
• Headless
• INJEST
• Leftovers
• Leftstar and the Strange Occurrence
• Meteor
• Miau: Private Affairs
• My Precious Deadly Flower
• Ornithomancy

gundam

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
• Mobile Suit Gundam 00
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (and Endless Waltz?)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (and Destiny?)
• Turn A Gundam
• Gundam: Reconguista in G
• Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91
• Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ?

non-gundam anime/animated series

• Aura Battler Dunbine
• Metal Armor Dragonar
• Gurren Lagann
• Code Geass

• Metropolis
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eraserhead
• House
• The Lord of the Rings
• Alien
• The Secret of NIMH
• The Last Unicorn
• Videodrome
• Nausicaa
• Dune (1984)
• Angel's Egg
• Akira
• Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
• Magnetic Rose
• Perfect Blue
• The Matrix
• Fight Club
• American Psycho
• Paprika

• Media Club Plus
• Taskmaster: The Podcast
• Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever
• A More Civilized Age
• Red Planet
• Once We Were Spacemen
• Eidolon Playtest
• American Medieval
• Worm From Home (on hiatus :/)
• Lifeworlds
• Emergence Magazine
• Ologies
• A Way With Words
• Sad Francisco
• Everything Is Stories
• Root Lock Radio
• Phenomenology Club
• Back From the Borderline
• The Magnus Protocol
• The Emerald
• Blowback

• Sorry (May 2025)
• Destroy Boys (January 2025)
• Dead Pony (December 2024)
• Hatari (July 2021)
• Mother Mother (May 2019)
• Twelve Foot Ninja (April 2017)

upcoming

• My Chemical Romance (July 2026)

UK

• Norwich
• Cambridge and Ely
• Saffron Walden
• King's Lynn
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Bristol
• Bath (combine with a trip to Bristol?)
• Oxford
• Liverpool
• Birmingham
• Lincoln
• Whitby
• Winchester
• Skye
• Lake District
• revisit the Isle of Wight (combine with a trip to Winchester?)
• revisit Dover
• revisit Colchester

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA
• Natural History Museum, London, UK
• Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Giovanni Capellini Museum for Paleontology and Geology, Bologna, Italy
• Палеонтологический музей им. Ю. А. Орлова, Moscow, Russia
• Museo de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina
• Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
• Museo de Paleontología, Mexico City, Mexico

• Herrerasaurus (231.4 mya)
• Plateosaurus (214-204 mya)
• Scelidosaurus (196.5-183 mya)
• Dilophosaurus (193 mya)
• Piatnitzkysaurus (179-177 mya)
• Kulindadromeus (168.3-166.1 mya)
• Caihong (161 mya)
• Limusaurus (161-157 mya)
• Yi (159 mya)
• Allosaurus (155-145 mya)
• Archaeopteryx (150.8-148.5 mya)
• Psittacosaurus (126-101 mya)
• Confuciusornis (125-120 mya)
• Yutyrannus (124.6 mya)
• Sinosauropteryx (124.6-122 mya)
• Ubirajara (120 mya)
• Microraptor (120 mya)
• Tenontosaurus (115-108 mya)
• Spinosaurus (112-93.5 mya)
• Sauropelta (108.5 mya)
• Jakapil (97-94 mya)