Ocean-Hearted Monster Truck Girlfriend

Mori: There's a thing that some of us can do, with headmates we're on very close terms with, a sorta New Agey body scan where we can close our eyes and sorta see what's going on beneath each other's skins. Rogan can do it with Mac, Biff, Bob, and Grey--I expect he's better at it since he's blind in the first place and used to using other means of sensing. Rawlin's also good at it; she just closes her haws and sees things as glowing headspace threads.

I can do it with her. And where her chest scar is, I can feel abyssal water pumping away, taking over the functions her heart had.

It feels like good symmetry; she sacrificed her heart to revive and power the headspace, and now the abyssal water that makes UP headspace seems to power her. I would way rather her have the waters pumping away in her than the family god.

Anyway my girlfriend is cute and you should tell her she's cute.( Photographic evidence! )

The Revolutionary Power of Joy

(inspired by a chat with a friend)

So, with all the shit going on in America right now, a lot of people are wondering what the fuck they can do, feeling like whatever they do isn't enough. Our advice: find what you can do in the long-term that recharges and nourishes you, rather than drains you. Then do it.

( The rest is commentary. )