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Quick notes on life happenings:

what started as a weekend getaway turned into “oops, home’s bathroom is unusable, can’t really go home.” We really need shit to stop blowing up. (At least, after three cancellations of increasingly humble anniversary plans, Rogan and Mac finally got a weekend to relax in between disasters? But seriously, I want to go home to my workstation, Madgic won’t finish itself.)
At least most of our big gay packages have come in. We needed that win.
We finally got to find out who translated our plural history essays into Chinese! It was Simplex Systems! Thanks, guys!
we found out the above because Nobody (a median) reached out to us about translating other posts we had made into Chinese! It’s crazy to think our stupid little posts about Anglophone plural slapfights would be of interest to Chinese plurals across the sea, but we could use the win!

We got the opportunity to go to Hawaii for a friend's wedding recently. Unfortunately, the timing was truly, truly bad brain-wise, so we rarely left the vicinity of the hotel (sad side effect of braincrash: we get lost extremely easily and should not wander), but we did take a nice bracing walk every dawn (we didn't even try to reset our body clock, not worth it), got to see the sun rise damn near every day, ate a lot of good food, and saw a rainbow. (Biff snapped a photo of it. He took many photos. He's the group shutterbug.)

The coolest part though was a snorkeling trip we went with our friend. (We bought a mask and snorkel for the occasion. ...I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it.) Biff, we learned, cannot swim and was wigged out even with the life jacket. (Mori: "It's FINE, dudema, we couldn't sink even if we WANTED to!") Rawlin, conversely, chilled the fuck out in the water the way he never does around people. And we all got lucky, because the sea life came out to say hi! There were giant green turtles! They were so old! They had barnacles on them! They were like two and a half feet long!

And there were dolphins, corkscrewing and flipping through the water around us. At one point, they got close enough that we could hear them talking through the water.

That was the part that was most amazing. We were hearing a language no human understood or could reproduce, in real time, and the beings making it were right there. What were they saying? What were they thinking? Were they talking to each other about us humans? Were they trying to talk to us humans??? They were loud! I rarely hear ANYTHING in water, so being able to hear dolphins talking was just... indescribable. Somehow, that was even cooler than SEEING them. Something about the surreal feeling of crystal clear clicking in our ear, instead of just mushy sploosh woosh sounds, made the experience more real.

I regret that the intense brainload meant we didn't get to do very much; I doubt we'll ever get to go to Hawaii again. But that's okay. What matters is, we got through the whole intense trip without a meltdown or dropping any balls. (Or getting lost on Oahu.)

Current Mood: impressed

Sneak: On Wednesday, we took advantage of the cheap rail tickets to go on an adventure (day trip) to Salem, MA with

sinistmer ! We did a lot of fun things, and we visited two old cemeteries. One, which had the memorial to witch hunt victims, was crammed with people and watched like hawks. You couldn't touch anything or leave the officially sanctioned paths. The second graveyard, even though it was only a few blocks away, was totally deserted; only two people wandered in the whole time we were there, and they left pretty quickly. You could go anywhere, touch anything, so us and Sinistmer climbed a really cool tree and had fun looking at all the old epitaphs!

( Silence Hobart and the business of life )

Out of town visiting

storyheight til Monday; no orders will ship till then. See you!

It was, I think, my first time in Canada! (As children, we once went to Niagara Falls, but it was a long time ago and I don't remember if we crossed the border.) I got to visit the Glad Days bookstore, a gay bookstore established in 1970, and I also got to meet Ava Pun, the creator of Academy 118, an adorable science comic about the periodic table as a school and the elements as the students who study there! (She hired me last month to sensitivity read for an upcoming chapter with a multiple character, and I was charmed by the comic's concept and its cuteness. It's also fully alt-texted! Stay tuned!)

I also spent more money than usual, because I wanted Canadian comics without the brutal international shipping. ( Cool Stuff Bought )
( Upcoming projects: Red and Blue, a super-bleak comic about abortion politics, and a happy cheese fun trans omegaverse porno. )

Current Mood: okay

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