If there were no restrictions other than physics and you could have any body you want. Like four arms, elf ears, snake lower body, double vagina, whatever you want. I’ve been thinking about how I want to change my body a lot lately and it’s got me wondering what people would want if they could really choose. Look like a specific celebrity? Be a real life anime girl? Be an amorphous shifting mass as free-form as thought? Be a giant space station? I just keep wondering what bodes we would choose if we really had the choice.

  • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    A simple fuel/energy exchange system would be nice. Something along the lines of how my car works. Combustible material goes in, is turned into kinetic energy, repeat. So none of this “you consumed too many carbs and didn’t burn enough off so I’m just gonna store that as fat rolls for you” bullshit! If I’m not using the fuel, you keep the fuel there in its raw form until I am using it.

    While we’re at it, if I’ve just put viable fuel in, and I have stuff to do, I expect to feel energetic! The onus should not be on me to precipitate that energy by forcing myself into the activity that feels impossible because of the endless, oppressive lethargy that plagues my every waking minute. No. Fuel in, BING, energy go!

    Yeah I don’t know if this is within the scope of this question but I am SO FED UP with my body being like “naaah, still don’t feel like it” when I am treating it better now than I ever have before in my life.

    • Squished Fly (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      YES! YEESSSS!!! I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS SO OFTEN. It has to be sooo nice to just plug yourself into a wall socket for a few hours to recharge your energy so you wouldn’t have to sleep or eat. Or even better, just swap out batteries. Life would be so much easier but we’re stuck in this mortal shell ;-;

  • Lykorise@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Completely post-human shapeshifting being made of quadrillion nanomachines that can mimic anything they want - from average human or animal, to the lovecraftian-gigerescue biomechanical thing.

  • traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Shape shifting (ghibli/Miyazaki style because why not), no aging, being able to eat as much as you want without it affecting your body would all be 💯. If we’re talking animal like qualities I’d basically want everything cats have. And wings.

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    If I could choose I am not sure I would have a body? Maybe I don’t really know what it would be like to be fully disembodied so it’s easier for me to say that - but since I was a teenager I had persistent desires to be burdened with a body at all (looking back it’s probably from gender dysphoria).

    At the time I figured the best would be for my brain to be kept in a vat or something, and my consciousness could interface with other people through computers. (It’s not a coincidence this is how I feel on the internet - a disembodied consciousness interacting with others with computers. I have long preferred the internet to “reality”.)

    That said, since I’ve transitioned I’ve become more skeptical I actually feel this way - but I really don’t have any strong, clear awareness of what I wish I looked like in a positive fashion, mostly I just know that I don’t like how I look now.

  • Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    More arms, self wiping anus, self healing cartilage

    Maybe a samus blaster too

  • Squished Fly (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    An internal data storage space that is more reliable than my brain. Need to look up some iso standards for screw sizes? No need, I have the wikipedia page in my head, word for word.

  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Give me modular arms and legs. Having someone be able to pop my limbs off as part of a power dynamic would be amazing, and it would be really cool to decide how tall I wanted to be that day.