006. And all the people that you hate will love you just the same because you're beautiful

[drydrown]

Those of you that have received physical changes from Retrospec, how long did it take before they stopped seeming fundamentally wrong - do they ever, or am I just going to be handling being mentally inconvenienced every time I try to do anything that involves mirrors for the foreseeable future? I admit that I don't have much to complain about, in the scheme of things - especially since I'm not opposed to the results - but apparently I'm going to do so anyway, simply just because such is social media.

Then again, this particular identity crisis is brought to you by the realization that I haven't seen certain members of my family in two years, and if they were to see me now they wouldn't recognize me on immediate sight. So I think I have some right to be at least mildly distressed.

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[promisedyou]

I think so, too. But the odds that we'll even get it when we demand for it seems to be low.

[drydrown]

Oh, I doubt we will, but that's what lawsuits are for.

[promisedyou]

Do you honestly think a lawsuit would actually work?

[drydrown]

Oh, I don't think it'll be successful, because that's hardly the point.

I think it will be deeply obnoxious to deal with.

[promisedyou]

I suppose that's true. I'm surprised nobody's tried yet, considering how long this application's existed.

[drydrown]

I know it's been discussed from time to time, but there have been various hangups regarding actually bringing it to court.

[promisedyou]

That's pretty interesting.

I wonder why.

[drydrown]

Well, first of all, there's the matter of getting a judge that's even willing to hear the case in the first case, given that all of the allegations are largely difficult to prove in front of someone that isn't on the app. However, if they are on the app, we run into the problem of bias against the defendant, given that the judge will have been directly and personally affected regardless of whom they are.

So we run into the problem of either looking insane or facing obligatory recusal, depending on how things end up going.

[promisedyou]

That certainly is troublesome. And honestly? It also just really sucks, period. Sounds like there just is no winning.

[drydrown]

So far. Granted, I don't really believe in true no-win situations, so we'll see.

[promisedyou]

Hah.

That's not a bad way of thinking, actually. As long as our odds aren't impossible, then there's got to be a way to push on through.

[drydrown]

Precisely. And there are very few situations where the odds are truly impossible; most just require some creativity.

[promisedyou]

Exactly. That's the best way to say it. ☆