I’d like to have the ability to switch off menstruation and reproduction until I’m damn well good and ready to reproduce. But, of course, I’d like to keep my libido.
I also want to have the ability to straighten my legs all the way and turn my feet out properly. I would have found ballet so much more enjoyable if I didn’t constantly feel like my body was leaving me in the dust.
I’d be born without asthma and with better knees.
Fix these blasted benzodiazepine receptors and get my GABA ones up-regulated back to normal, and I would gladly take all my other problems.
And Malleus: Is there a reason you can’t dye your hair? (That’s not intended as snark. I’m just curious what reasons someone might have.)
I do not claim to speak for Malleus, but my own reluctance to dye my hair comes from the fact that it would only look smooth and natural until after about a week or so, when the roots would begin showing. Then you’d have keep touching them up forever and…well, for me it’s just not worth it. If I’m going to have a funky hair color, I’d rather have it be my natural color. I think I expressed in another, similar thread that I’d like to have the ability to change my hair color/style at will, without dyes.
Not that I HAVEN’T dyed my hair before. But when I do, it’s usually colors that are close enough to my own so that it doesn’t look so strange when I let it grow out.
After two kids, I have a little “apron” below my belly button that I’d love to get rid of - the kind that will only go away with surgery. I also have a very prominent brow that looks sort of Neanderthalish at certain angles (thans, Dad!). And straight white teeth would be nice.
And please please please fix whatever chemical receptor/production crap is screwed up in my brain (depression, anxiety, ADD, OCPD).
A few more pounds of muscle, and a bit broader in the shoulders. Being forever scrawny is nice in some respects, but I wouldn’t say no to being a bit more buff(not that its that important, as I could fix this in a gym)
Tired of glasses and contacts. I’d like some 20/20 vision, please.
My beard grows in patches, and is really quite nasty. It would be nice if it grew in properly.
Desired changes part one: Repairs.
#1. Fix the teeth. I have English teeth: my bite pattern is like a train wreck. They’ve been hard to care for all my life and I’d really like a new, straight, set.
#2. Lose the baldness. No redeeming qualities there at all.
#3. Lose the face blindness. I’d like to be able to reliably recognize people, even ones I’ve only met once. Maybe then I’d be perceived as being friendlier.
#4. Eliminate my short-sightedness and the other eye problems. Unlike the previous items in the list, short-sightedness has some redeeming qualities: I can look at details very easily by holding things right up to my face. Comes in handy in electronics and printing. This is balanced by the fact that I can’t see anyone when I go swimming, so I miss all the pretty women. I’d also like to return my lenses to their youthful flexibility so that I don’t need reading glasses.
#5. Eliminate my motion sickness. My dad was never seasick, so I don’t know why I should be so sensitive to it.
#6. Fix that left knee that I sprained back in grade nine. While we’re at it, tune up all my other joints and tendons and whatnot.
#7. Lose the belly fat. This can be done now, through exercise, so it’s last on the list.
Part two: capability expansions.
I’d like to see ultraviolet. This could be done by simply making the lens of my eye transparent to ultraviolet; apparently the reception capability is already there in the retina.
On a larger scale, see more ultraviolet and also infrared. Add more types of receptor cells in the retina to pick up more colour rangres, and also polarization. Wasn’t there a crab or shrimp or something that had 18 different types of cells in its eyes?
I’d like the option to photosynthesize. That way I could just stand around in the sun instead of eating, if food was scarce.
Give me better eyesight and and I’d be happy. Everything else is either very minor (hair that never behaves) or that I can/should do more about myself (could stand to tone up a bit).
Your individual genetics will play a greater role. For instance, some people just don’t have the proper structure in their abdomen to get a “six-pack”. The six-pack look is actually caused by the linae transversae, which is a grid of tendinous material that lies over the rectus abdominus muscles. This grid may be uneven or unequal (I’m sure you’ve seen pictures of people with “weird” six-packs).
Once you’ve built up the abdominal muscle, you need to reduce your body fat to the point where the muscle shows under the skin. Depending on your body, this may be very easy or very difficult. But having a six-pack is much more a function of body fat percentage than large musculature (young males often have six-packs, just because they have such little body fat, not because they have huge muscles).
For me, I’d love to get rid of the bags under my eyes. I photoshopped myself without them once, and I looked much better.
I wish I was generally tinier – both skinnier AND shorter, with more delicate bone structure – so that people would take my identity a little more seriously. Hulking 6’2" hairy Scottish galoots make slightly non-traditional effeminate boys.
Is this magic land where I get to wave a wand and have changes with no effort? Because if I have to do anything, the answer is “nothing.” If I don’t have to do anything besides wave my wand, I’d want to have a figure that fits better into sizing charts. As it is now, I’ve completely given up on clothing being even a little figure-flattering. Fuck it, I’m too old to care unless there’s magic involved.
I want laser-beam eyes, and big, chainsaw hands, RZZZZ!!! 
Aside from the “normal” upgrades (thin, 20/20 vision, a bit taller, let’s say 6’ even, hair that doesn’t turn gray or fall out), I’d like…
Slightly pointy upper canine teeth, nothing too “vampire fang-gy”, but just a tad pointier subtly longer
The ability to see in both the Infrared and Ultraviolet spectrums in addition to standard visible light, light-gathering “night vision” abilities as well
Redundant organs (like Klingons, or Time Lords)
physically age at half the speed of normal humans
Actually, I wish I could trade bodies with my partner . . . except that I’d then have to make love with someone who looks like me.:eek:
Off-hand I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t change. I’m going through every feature and appendage and they’re all flawed in some non-trivial way. Maybe I would keep a toe or something, as a memento of sorts.
Wings and a tail.
Not really. I wish I had great hair. I think I would have been a different person if I had had controllable and attractive hair when I was a teen, instead of the absurdity I actually had. And the fact it is rapidly falling out sucks too. So great hair is what I would wish.
As far as mods that can’t really be done surgically, I’d like :
Thicker hair
A smaller ribcage so my boobs will look normal-sized
A shorter torso
Longer legs
I’m happy with my height though. (5’7") That’s taller than the average female but not so tall that it’s hard to shop for clothes. The long torso thing can be a challenge to fit. And with my giant ribcage, tight tops make me look like a female linebacker.
A couple of inches taller.
More even, thicker skin, with consistent color that’s not eggshell pale in white light. Hell, I practically give off white light.
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[li]First, the beer gut and accompanying man-boobies would have to go.[/li][li]Thicker hair. My hair has a nice reddish-blond color, but it’s so thin, it gets frizzy in humid weather.[/li][li]Larger arms, as in more muscle. “Someone once called me ‘the fattest thinnest man alive.’”[/li][li]This mole right next to my nose. The doc said that removing it would leave an even bigger scar than the mole is.[/li][/ul]
I’m relatively young so nothing is falling apart yet so I’ll just go with upgrades.
-Functional dragon wings.
-Gills for swimming.
-Night vision and vision range into the ultraviolet and infrared.
-Adamantium bones.
-Photosynthesis because pooping is highly overrated.
Can’t say I agree. 